| Summary: | Tree Planting Project Is Big: White Pines and Spruce by Thousands Will Go Into Idaho Soil. TREE PLANTING PROJECT IS BIG White Pines and Spruce by Thousands Will Go Into Idaho Soil. OROFINO, Idaho, May 12.—A truckload of 145,000 white pine trees from the forest service nursery at Savenac, Mont., arrived here tonight and will be taken to Upper Beaver creek, where tomorrow 60 CCC enrollees from Camp Bungalow will start planting 400 acres which was slashed and burned in 1936, ready for planting. In addition to the pine 160,000 spruce trees also will be planted on the area, C. K. Spaulding, assistant forester on the Clearwater, said. He left last night for the area to supervise the work. The trees are two and three years old. A period of about three weeks will be required for this work. Supervisor R. A. Coster said the forest organization is now arranging the placement of five 66-man camps for white pine blister rust control work, to start as soon as snow has left the areas to be treated. Men for this work will be drawn from Idaho relief rolls. Within 10 days, Coster said, enrollees from CCC camp Northfork will resume construction of Black Canyon road project, of which a five-mile segment remains to connect a forest road system extending from Pierce, Idaho, to Superior, Mont. This segment is the most difficult on the entire project. It traverses precipitous rock bluffs in Black canyon.
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