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Tree-Raising Succeeds on Barren Sand Tracts

Promising leads on how to plant difficult sites, such as mined-out lands of the Humphrey's Gold Corporation east of Jacksonville, Fla., have come to light as a result of experimental plantings made on the corporation's lands. After many attempts with grasses and bare-rooted trees had failed, foresters from the Lake City Research Center were asked to help bring trees back to these mined-out lands. Their preliminary tests indicate that, if trees are to survive and grow at all, the dunelike sands must be stabilized with muck, and seedlings must be planted in pots or plant bands.


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Author(s): P. E. Hoekstra

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 48 (1961)