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' i-~~ lh!1~j n,a(7 <br />of 900 tree seedlings chased From the Coloradoaate Forest.~Service, <br />including such species as golden willow, sand chexry,~c, ragana ~ honey- <br />.Locust,~-r~ian olio green ash, ponderosa pine, and juniper. $esides ~ <br />their aesthetic value, the trees will serve as windbreaks, and as food <br />and shelter for wildlife. Other plants common the Vlains, and purchased <br />from nurseries, are river birch, forestiera, and tamar` i.sl <br />1Jorkiug with the tree planting crew on April 2~, John Waldo, forester <br />and environmental specialist for the Cooley and Shiely com~~anies, picked <br />up a stone glowing redly in the sunlight along the shore, and discovered <br />that it had been fashioned into a javelin point by a prehistoric Indian, <br />chipped from a colorful splinter of petrified wood. (See ~,hoto ~G~ <br />Following completion of the irrigation system, 250 2-2 transplant <br />swamp white oaks, bur oaks, and Austrian pines will be planted parellel <br />to the ditches along the north and i:est pond slopes for watering. <br />After the harvest of winter wheat in late July on the new Cenco-Grant <br />lease, a twenty-foot strip adjacent to the boundary will be disced, and <br />twenty lowland trees (Sargent cottonwood, honeylocust, green ash will <br />be established here, also watered by an irrigation ditch, and serving as <br />windbreak and visi„n screen for the mining taking place behind. <br />At least six pairs of Canada geese from the thousand-plus that gather <br />at the Cooley Gravel ponds and mining area during spring and fall migra- <br />tion remained this summer to nest among the sand stockpile islands between <br />the Platte River and Nevada Ditch, Any operating or reclamation work here <br />will be performed late in the year to avoid disturbing the nesting geese. <br />(See photo 1~ <br />John Waldo ' <br />June 16, 1977 <br /> <br />