Ice storm recovery: Seeing the forest for the trees amid disease, timber markets

State park recovery The DNR’s immediate ice storm response focused on three top priorities: restoring road access, clearing trails, and assessing the storm’s damage. Over 1,400 miles of state roads are now open on the state forest plus others that are partially open. This is out of 3,400 miles affected, that’s the distance from Mackinac City to Miami, Florida and back, Kerry Heckman, head public information officer on the storm response, said. Only one State Forest campground was closed for the July 4 holiday, an equestrian facility that did not have any reservations, making it a low priority, she said. The DNR initially focused on clearing State Forest roads that were main transportation corridors that the public uses regularly and those that provide access to areas that are prone to wild