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Show FARMER-SPORTSMAN PLAN TO PLANT TREES WORKS OUT UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MoscowTree Mos-cowTree plantings by farmers and sportsmen for wildlife winter feed and shelter may open up an important new profUess market for the University of Idaho cooperative forest nursery. - The first large order of this kind, 4,000 young Russian olive, was shipped this week to the Bannock County; Sportsmen's association. Cooperating farmers have agreed to plant the stock furnished by the sportsmen in gullies and odd pieces of unused land. Farmers in turn will receive government conservation conserva-tion payments if they protect the young trees from fire and grazing and cultivate them in accordance with "ood tree culture and wildlife praci.e. Russian olive is by far the best trees for wildlife plantings in Idaho, Ida-ho, according to R. K. Pierson, extension ex-tension forester. It is hardy, draught resistant, tolerant to alkali al-kali and produces, a crop of nutritious, nutri-tious, large-seeded berries which cling to the branches all winter. A few such trees in a neighborhood would go a long way toward pulling pull-ing upland game birds through critical periods of deep snow, Mr. Pierson said. Sportsmen's organization in several sev-eral counties are planning similar sim-ilar cooperative planting projects with farmers, he added. |