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Beltrami County SVCD outlines tree sales, ash reuse, restoration and watershed work
Summary
The Beltrami County Soil and Water Conservation District gave its annual update at a county work session, reviewing tree sales, wood-ash land application, watershed planning, shoreland restoration projects and several grant-funded programs.
Brent, a representative of the Soil and Water Conservation District, told the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners that the district’s work goes well beyond its well-known tree program and includes wood-ash reuse, rain gauge volunteer networks, watershed planning and grant-funded conservation projects.
The SVCD sells conservation trees each spring and typically purchases about 20,000 seedlings in the October–December ordering window; annual sales in recent years have ranged from about 20,000 to roughly 24,000 trees, the presenter said. The district also runs a wood-ash land application program in partnership with West Fraser and…
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