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The Hanson-Lowther Tree Planter

To date managers of forest lands have concentrated their efforts in putting into production old fields and similar easy planting areas. In many parts of the country the more difficult areas remain to be reforested or converted to more desirable species. For the most part attempts to plant these more difficult areas by common planting machine have not proved to be successful. There is now available and in use a tree planting machine that, combined with the use of herbicides where necessary, has planted some of these more difficult areas in the Lake States (fig. 1). Examples of some of the more difficult areas that have been successfully planted are (1) dense stands of hazel and alder brush, (2) hillsides planted on the contour, (3) poor and medium stocked sapling and pole stands, (4) harvest cut areas with light to medium slash cover.


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Author(s): Daniel L. Ricker

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 46 (1961)