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in buds ready to unravel in the soft colors of spring.
This change is paralleled, though without such drama, in the vast evergreen forests which sweep across northernmost New England and the Midwest, dip deeply into the South, and run in a thick swath down the Pacific coast. These softwoods lose their three-year-old needles in the fall. But some needles plump with heavy resins and sap, drop to the earth year-round and are replaced with fresh ones. And in the spring, new shoots at the end of the limbs add a dash of emerald green to the stately and somber pine, spruce, and fir forests.
Just as trees prepare themselves for spring by putting forth buds, so man prepares for future generations by planting forests. Last year, over three billion tree seedlings were planted, 12 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Today, 62,000 concerned landowners, representing 89 million acres, manage their woodlands as registered Tree Farms.
There are also 191 million acres of National Forests in the U. S., including the George Washington, Jefferson, and Monongahela National
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