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Pioneer Nurseryman Retires

Vern E. McDaniel, forest nursery super-intendent, Oregon State Forestry Department, retired September 5, 1964, after nearly 40 years of growing tree seedlings for Oregon's forests and farms (fig. 1). He had administered the 76-acre Oregon forest nursery north of Corvallis in the Willamette Valley from its beginning as a stump ranch until it became a $175,000 annual operation.


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Author(s): C. Ralph Voris

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 67 (1964)