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Airdrop Delivery of Planting Stock

Widely separated planting sites at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains Colorado have presented serious storage and transportation problems. Planting stock grown at low elevation nurseries for high elevation planting must be stored periods of up to ninety days, because of the difference in growing seasons between the planting site and the nursery. Efforts to grow nursery stock near he planting sites at various locations in the Rocky Mountains between 7,300 and 11,000 feet elevation have been disappointing.


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Author(s): Milton D. Andrews

Event: Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Western Forest Nursery Council Meeting
1966 - Placerville, California