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Show 1000 Bristlecone Seedlings await Visitors Life Science Laboratory during dedication-appreciation dedication-appreciation activities April 28 at SUSC. "The Bristlecone pine is SUSC's symbol," B. Al Tait, chairman of the SUSC Department of Life Sciences, Scien-ces, said. "We believe that a most fitting memento of the official opening of our Life Sciences Laboratory will be one of these trees." Tait said that part of the seedlings have been set aside for the public with others earmarked for SUSC students and college personnel. per-sonnel. They will be given away during an 1:30-5 p.m. open house. Instructions on the care of the potential ancients will be included with each seedling. irsj , A sv r v--i3 CHECK STARTS. Al Tait, Chairman of the SUSC Life Sciences Department, and Brad Meinert, greenhouse attendant, check progress of bristlecone seedlings in the SUSC greenhouse. Nearly 1,000 of the tiny bristlecones will be given to visitors to the Life Science Laboratory April 28. The little fellows are only a year old and two or three inches high, real babes in arms compared to their 4,000 year-old siblings. But with lots of tender loving care for the first few years, they could grow up to i be just as old and just as gnarled. Nearly 1,000 bristlecone seedlings are being carefully tended in the Southern Utah State College greenhouse. All of them will be given to visitors to the |