Lodholz North Star Acres, Inc.

Owners Don Lodholz and Rich Lodholz are graduate foresters with 87 years experience in the field of
forestry.

We are consulting foresters and have signed a consulting Forester Cooperative Agreement with the
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Some of the consulting forestry services we offer are:

• aerial photo mapping and interpretation
• land, timber, damage, and trespass appraisals
• Christmas tree management
• forest inventory and cruising
• general forest management planning
• litigation and expert testimony
• timber sales preparation and administration
• timber stand improvement

We are Certified Plan Writers for the Managed Forest Law Program.

History 

We have been in the wholesale nursery business since 1980, with our initial emphasis on transplant stock for Christmas tree growers.

Since then we have built four greenhouses capable of growing 800-900,000 trees per year, and have fourteen acres under irrigation for growing Hybrid Poplar cuttings, Hybrid Poplar rooted seedlings, bareroot conifer seedlings and transplants, and deciduous seedlings and transplants.

We have gone into an intensive program of growing trees from genetically improved seed sources, acclimated seed sources and hybrid seeds to obtain pure strains of tree species featuring growth, color and size.

We Specialize in Bare-Root Transplants

Advantages of transplants are stockier trees, with better root to top ratio; shortens age for timber production; ideal for windbreaks and shelterbelts; withstands competition better than seedlings; better survival in difficult planting sites, and better results in underplanting and filling in misses on previous plantings.

We have transplants from accelerated seedlings grown in the greenhouses. The accelerated seedlings have superior compact root systems that make them very plantable by hand planting or machine planting.

Virtual Tour

We recently had a virtual tour created overviewing our nursery. Click the link below to view. 

Virtual Tour