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Aug
20
2015

The Palmer Lake Historical Society invites the public to a presentation by Eric Swab on the history of the Monument Tree Nursery. In 1907 men from the Bureau of Forestry recognized this area would be an ideal spot to create a tree nursery to produce seedlings for National Forests in the five-state Rocky Mountain Region. Their mission was to conduct reforesting efforts in areas that had been heavily logged or destroyed by large wildfires. The Mt. Herman Planting Station was born, soon to be
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FREE
LOCATION
Palmer Lake Town Hall
66 Lower Glenway Street, Palmer Lake, CO 80133