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Pikes Peak Reforestation Effort Quietly Gains Support
Colorado forestry officials recount a long effort to replant seven and a half million acres burned near Pikes Peak and across national forests. The program, begun 1907, uses vigorous transplants of yellow pine, Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce, and ponderosa pine to stabilize watersheds and restore viewscapes near Colorado Springs Manitou and the auto highway to the summit. Survival rates range from 60 to 90 percent, with planting costs about $14 per acre and 4,575 acres already stocked along the Pike National Forest slopes.
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Pike's Peak
Pikes Peak
Lieut
Zebulon M. Pike
Edwin James
Major Long
James
Fremont
Alexander Lendrum
Colorado Springs
Council Bluffs
Colorado City
Frederick §. Dellenbaugh
Dr. James
Bolling
Manitou
Milghty
Hecht
American Forestry Association of Washington
Congress
Soharacter
Oronte
Wuch
W. J. Gardner
Big Mountain
Nebraska
Clementine Gulch
Halsey
Monument
Bear Creek
Pike National Forest
Rocky Mountains