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•Selective thinning and clean-up along the State’s primary and secondary highways.

•The planting of pine seedlings in someareas where it is desirable to eliminate mowing.

•The collecting and transplanting of native plants and materials along certain roadsides. » At present, Virginia has two Green Thumb crews at work on plant maintenance on Interstate 81 in Washington County and also two crews working on general roadside maintenance in Lee County. Turner adds that plans are being considered to begin Proje^tj^GretMj^Thunib in the*

?cotHM|es*of ertyfeon.'^hester^ fiekl^atid Westmoreland \nd also in Seashore State Park.. Each crew consists of a foreman and five to six crewmen, and they work under the supervision of a state director appointed by the National farmers Union. The Highway Department simply advises either the state director, a regional coordinator or a crew foreman as to projects within

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