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Show Forest areas being planted A record 4,355,000 trees will be planted this spring over 10, 000 acres within the US Forest Service Intermountain Region, Regional Forester Floyd Iver-son Iver-son disclosed today. Mr. Iverson's announcement indicated that seedlings from two to three years old would be planted on 13 of the Region's Re-gion's 18 National Forests. Species will include ponderosa, lodgepole and Jeffery pine, En-glemann En-glemann spruce and Douglas fir. Ponderosa pine will account ac-count for more than three million mil-lion of the total. The Intermountain Region is working hard to reforest all of its denuded commercial forest for-est areas within the next 10 years according to Joel Fryk-man, Fryk-man, Chief of the Region's Division Di-vision of Timber Management. |