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Old 25-10-2002, 08:52 PM
Larry Caldwell
 
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In article , writes:

Then what the hell was I doing in the late sixties and early seventies working on
USFS replanting? Bad dream?

They may have bought some seedlings from private nurseries or the State
of Oregon, but I built the cone cleaning mill at the first federal
seedling nursery outside Estecada in 1976. They had some plug
greenhouses in operation at the time, but were just clearing land for
seedling production.

In the late 60s they were still tossing seeds out of airplanes or leaving
a few seed trees on ridge lines, and failing miserably at reestablishing
timber land. It sounds like you were part of their "experimental"
reforestation, based on stuff that private timber companies had been
doing for decades and the state had been doing for a few years.

The state of Oregon didn't even mandate reforestation on state lands
until 1963, and the feds were a decade behind that.

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