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The Virginia Department of Forestry recently released its 1994-95 seedling catalog, just in time to meet the varied needs of Rappahannock County landowners.
Titled, “Virginia Trees for Virginia’s Forests,” the catalog includes more than 40 species of evergreen and hardwood seedling that have been grown at one of our three State Forestry Centers.
At the core of this program are the loblolly pine and white pine seedlings. Most of these trees are grown for the purpose of reforestation of cut-over timberlands. Over 85,000 acres will be planted across the state of Virginia.
An equally common reason for large scale planting piojects is the conversion of old, abandoned farmland to timberland. Rappahannock County could be doing much more of this as a large number of these fields exist across the county. If left to mother nature, abandoned fields tend
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