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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Why Are Tamarack Trees Dying in Northern Wisconsin?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:20
	Publish Date:		2019-06-03 05:00:00
	Description:		Tamarack trees, like many of us, could live anywhere in Wisconsin but prefer the Northwoods. Recently a listener from Harshaw submitted this question to our Curious North series: What's up with the tamarack trees? They seem to be dying. Is it the rising water levels, or something else? In today’s Wildlife Matters the Masked Biologist sheds some light on what might be causing tamarack tree mortality. One of the questions that came in to Curious North caught my interest, so I thought I would try to provide an answer. There has been a fair amount of tamarack dying off in the last year or two, and the question was about the cause. Tamarack is a rather unique tree. Native to Wisconsin, it can be found across the state. It is a member of the larch family, which is known for being a deciduous conifer. That means it is a cone-bearing tree that sheds its needles every fall. If you have driven any direction in or out of Rhinelander, Minocqua, Park Falls, pretty much every population center in
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