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These Nebraska plantations were the pride and joy 

 of the nearby residents who came to them for picnics 

 and various celebrations. Later they supplied fence 

 posts to the adjacent ranchers. An effort to afforest 

 the Kansas sand hills failed and the project was aban 

 doned. 



There were grazing use problems in those days, 

 but I will deal with those later in a general discussion 

 of national forest grazing. 



World War !_ 



When the United States entered World War I, the 

 need soon became evident for lumber for barracks and 

 other structures in France, for trench duck-boards, 

 for dock piling, for firewood, and other items. To 

 conserve precious overseas shipping space and save 

 time, it was decided to obtain as much timber as 

 possible from French forests. The Tenth Forestry 

 Engineer Regiment was organized. Men familiar with 

 the erection and operation of small sawmills and with 

 logging operations were recruited from all parts of the 

 United States. 



