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Vol. 21, No. 153
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Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant employees Krissy Olick, left, and Ashley Schoomaker carry saplings Friday to an area where they will be planted at Steamboat Lake. They were two of about 100 people planting trees in a campground that had been cleared of beetle-killed lodgepole pine trees.
Rebuilding the forest Volunteers help plant 2,000 trees at Steamboat Lake State Park Blythe Terrell
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Hundreds of flashy pink flags marked the future homes of baby trees Friday at Steamboat Lake State Park. More than 100 volunteers planted lodgepole pine, aspen and spruce trees alongside the flags, hacking aside wet dirt in the rain. The Bark Beetle Information Task Force led the
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Friday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 1-5-6-16-28 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
planting Friday morning and afternoon. Children, parks and forest service employees and volunteers helped out. Sara Ferris works in marketing at Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. She participated with several people from Ski Corp. “This is where I used to come when I was a kid and did dads and kids camping,” Ferris said. “So I wanted to give back.” The U.S. Forest Service
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and the Colorado State Forest Service donated about 2,000 trees, Oscar Martinez said. Martinez, the U.S. Forest Service district ranger in Yampa, helped plant and provided information to participants. He said he discussed changes in the forest. Mountain pine beetles are killing lots of lodgepole pine, Martinez said, but they aren’t ruining the woods. They’re just changing it. “I was just trying to leave
(participants) with a positive message,” he said. “Even though we’ve lost a lot, there’s still a lot of forest there.” Tara Mehall, a forester for the state forest service, coordinated the clearing of other trees before Friday’s planting. The agencies opted for a mix of native trees, Mehall said. The lodgepoles grow the fastest. After they establish roots See Trees, page 14
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