Thursday, April 4, 2019

Michigan DNR forest health specialist to appear live on WNMU-TV13’s ‘Ask the DNR’

Simeon Wright, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources forest health specialist from the Sault Ste. Marie field office, will be among the panelists answering viewer questions live on the April 11 broadcast of “Ask the DNR.”

Wright will be available to discuss a variety of issues, from oak wilt to the hemlock wooly adelgid. Additional DNR panelists scheduled to appear include fisheries biologist Cory Kovacs from Newberry, wildlife biologist Karen Sexton from Escanaba and Sgt. Mark Pomroy, a conservation officer from Houghton County.

The hour-long program will be broadcast at 8 p.m. EST, Thursday, April 11 on WNMU-TV13, the Public Broadcasting System station in Marquette.

Questions can be called in to the show at 1-800-227-9668 or submitted prior to the broadcast via email to pepinj@michigan.gov.