*** AL LAND STEWARDSHIP TRAIL - WITCHES’ BROOM***
This is one of 8 new caches placed to Introduce Geocaching, on March 28, 2015, to potentially new cachers here at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in cooperation with the Cable Natural History Museum and sponsored by the Friends of the Center.
Park at one of 2 locations: The County Hwy G parking lot is not plowed in the winter. The cache is winter friendly but not the parking area. All Season Parking at the NGLVC is from 9 am to 5 pm daily. The main gate closes at 5 pm.
WITCHES’ BROOM is a symptom of plant disease that occurs as an abnormal brushlike cluster of dwarfed weak shoots arising at or near the same point; twigs and branches of woody plants may die back.
Witch's broom can be caused by cytokinin, a phytohormone, interfering with an auxin-regulated bud. In normal plant function, an auxin would keep the secondary, tertiary, and so on apices from overgrowing, but cytokinin can sometimes interfere with this control, causing these apices to grow into witch's brooms.
Witch's broom may be caused by many different types of organisms, including fungi, oomycetes, insects, mistletoe, dwarf mistletoes, mites, nematodes, phytoplasmas, or viruses. The broom growths may last for many years, typically for the life of the host plant. Human activity is sometimes behind the introduction of these organisms, for example, by failing to observe hygienic practice and thereby infecting the tree with the causative organism, or by pruning a tree improperly, and thereby weakening it. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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This cache is placed on US Forest Service land with permission from the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center manager, Jason Maloney and in coordination with Rose Haveri, Rooms Coordinator, State of Wisconsin partnership.