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News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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December 5, 2005
FREE PINE SEEDLINGS AVAILABLE FOR PLANTING
IN OHIO'S 49 SOUTHERN COUNTIES
Contact your service forester
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| Marietta State Nursery sells more than 2 million trees each year. See the online order form. |
COLUMBUS, OH - Landowners in the state's 49 southern counties, who agree to plant at least five acres of white pine, can obtain the seedlings at no charge, thanks to the cooperative effort of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Forestry and the Ohio operations NewPage Corporation.
"NewPage has purchased thousands of seedlings for this program,” said John Dorka, chief of the ODNR Division of Forestry. “A 5-acre planting represents more than $500 worth of trees."
State service foresters can assist landowners in qualifying for the free seedlings as well as provide technical advice about how and where to plant the pine trees. Contact information for specific state foresters is available at ohiodnr.com. Seedlings purchased may not be used on strip-mined land.
ODNR is the largest producer of bare root tree seedlings in the state, selling more than 2,000,000 trees each year at the Marietta State Nursery for reforestation efforts. ODNR foresters have planted more than a half-billion trees in the past 80 years.
NewPage Corporation, headquartered in Dayton, is a leading producer coated papers in North America. Their paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio employs close to 1,700 people and produces more than 300,000 tons of paper each year.
The following is a list of counties eligible for free pine seedlings: Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Coshocton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Gallia, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Lawrence, Licking, Logan, Madison, Meigs, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Preble, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Tuscarawas, Union, Vinton, Washington, Warren.
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For additional news online, check out the ODNR Press Room at Ohiodnr.com
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For Further Information Contact:
Jerry Hopkins, ODNR Division of Forestry
(877) 691-8733
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Andrea Strle, ODNR Media Relations
614-265-6882
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