| Summary: | To Get Nursery: Forest Service Will Establish Unit Near Orofino: Start Germination Soon: Will Produce 1,000,000 Yellow and White Pine and Spruce Seedlings Per Year. TO GET NURSERY Forest Service Will Establish Unit Near Orofino START GERMINATION SOON Will Produce 1,000,000 Yellow and White Pine and Spruce Seedlings Per Year. Orofino, July 23.--Supervisor W. W. Coleman of the Clearwater national forest announced today that the forest service would establish a nursery here for the purpose of producing about 1,000,000 seedlings per year which will be available for planting in the forest. The nursery will be located about one mile down the Clearwater river from Orofino, and occupy approximately four acres. It is estimated that employment will be furnished from three to 10 persons about eight months of the year. It will probably be necessary to install an electric pumping plant and a sprinkler system, Supervisor Coleman said. It is planned to start germination this fall and trees will be ready for transplanting in the fall of 1938. White pine, yellow pine and spruce will comprise the species and it is estimated that sufficient seedlings will be produced to plant from 600 to 1,000 acres per year. Make Survey Now. A planting survey party is now in the field in the vicinity of Fish butte on the Lochsa ranger district for the purpose of preparing complete planting survey maps of all plantable areas within the 1934 Selway burn and such other areas on the Clearwater forest as offer promise of planting, such as Hemlock creek drainage and others. It is also proposed to plant on donated lands such as Upper Beaver creek and much of the land is now being made ready for planting. In the course of time, under management and protection from fire, planted areas on donated lands and recent burned areas such as the Selway burn, will bear another crop of timber, the harvest of which will provide employment for men in the forests and industries dependent upon them. On forest lands the harvest will be on a sustained annual yield basis to stabilize the employment. One of the chief benefits derived from planting will be the restoration and protection of important watersheds for the benefit of the communities dependent upon streams and rivers for water supply. Orofino News Notes. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Johnson, Mrs. Viola Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Walrath entertained with a lawn party at the Walrath home in honor of the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Portfors last night. Those present were Mrs. Roy German and daughters, Donna Marie and Fern, Ruby and Beryl Portfors, and Mrs. Alice Saunders, all of Canada. The city council last night passed a resolution to proceed with oiling work on Michigan avenue. A distance of about six blocks will be surfaced.
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