Hauling Trees a Big Task. 



The hauling of the trees to the place of planting was a 

 monumental task. The entire lot was taken in by canoe. 

 The trees were first hauled to Burntside lake from Ely, Minn. 

 They were loaded into canoes and taken across the lake. 

 They were then unpacked from boxes and repacked into pack 

 sacks. They were then carried over a portage one and a 

 quarter miles in length to Crab lake. At Crab lake they 

 were again put into canoes and taken down the lake two 

 miles. Another portage of one-half mile was made to Clark 

 lake. From Clark lake there was a portage to Little Tango 

 lake and from Little Tango a portage was made to Big Tango. 

 From a point on Big Tango, they were hauled three-quarters 

 of a mile to camp. Food had to be taken to the camp in the 

 same manner. 



The region is one in which the white pine grew naturally. 

 Of the 160,000 trees planted, 150,000 were white pine and 

 10,000 Norway pine. 



An Important Work. 



This is but one of the reforestration plans being pushed to 

 completion. A magnificent forest will stand in Burntside in 

 a short time, where only rocks have graced the land. Three 

 other crews were engaged in planting, one at Itasca State 

 Park, one at Pillsbury State Park, and one at the Cloquet 

 Forest Experiment Station. A total of 1,000,000 seedlings were 

 planted this year on 1;000 acres of state lands. Surely this is 

 a work that ought to be pushed with vigor on all of the non- 

 agricultural land that the state owns. It will yield a big 

 return. It will net the state profit. As it is, the non-agricul- 

 tural land now owned by the state will never be of value. It 

 cannot be sold for the specified five dollars an acre. It 

 should be reforested. A vote for the state forest amendment, 

 which provides for the use of state lands unfit for tillage 

 for state forests, will be the first step towards the desired end. 



More than 858,000 young trees are being set out this spring on 

 national forests in Utah and southern Idaho, and the season is 

 reported as particularly favorable to their successful growth. 



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