BY AMANDA HARRISON
Federal Funding is available for landowners affected by the Duck Lake fire that swept through the UP earlier this summer.
Landowners are eligible for funding through the DNR and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency to restore damaged forests. More than 21-thousand acres were destroyed in the fire.
Shawna Meyer is the forest stewardship coordinator with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
She said property owners have until October 9 to enroll.
"Landowners can contact me or the Farm Services Agency to enroll. They directly enroll through Farm Service Agency and it's the Sault office of the Farm Service Agency. And the contact person they would call to start the process is Kaye Hillock-Vining."
After the application is turned in a DNR forester will visit the property to assess the damage.
Meyer said she thinks a total of 140 landowners are eligible.