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In addition to timber sales we had quite a 

 reforestation program going. We had good-sized tree 

 nurseries at Monument, Colorado, Halsey, Nebraska, 

 Gass Lake, Minnesofci and East Tawas, Michigan, and, 

 I believe, a small one at Garden City, Kansas. Our 

 Colorado planting was mostly on the Pike National 

 Forest, using ponderosa pine, Douglas fir and Engleman 

 spruce. In Minnesota we had reforestation programs 

 on the Chippewa and Superior National Forests in 

 Minnesota. The job on the Nebraska National Forest 

 involved the initial establishment of a forest in the 

 sand hills. This enterprise was difficult but it 

 resulted in a substantial new forest which is under 

 sustained yield management. 



One of the problems relating to the Nebraska 

 project was the difficulty of getting traction for auto 

 mobiles on the sandy roads. We spread straw on them 

 and found that occasionally the exhaust from Model T 

 Fords would set the straw afire. Since the sand hills 

 are covered with a dence growth of grass, they are 

 highly inflammable at certain times of the year and 

 a prairie fire could wipe out the forest as well. 

 As one means of protection we kept plowed fire lines 

 around its plantations. 



