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Level, come in about three inches, go all the way down, push the bottom in first, cause
what you're doing there is your pushing the air out of the bottom.
and then you rock forward and you're pressing all that air out of there.I like to give it
a stomp when I'm done with it. So that's basically it.
We've been doing these projects for, gosh, six, seven maybe eight years already, and
it's a major effort to try to rehabilitate mule deer winter range that did get burned.
We've done plantings like this in other places like the South Hills, Bennett Hills, and the
Sublett Mountains. Deer have got to have good winter range, and
these places that have been burned over, we're trying to rehabilitate them. We've been getting
hundreds, if not thousands of volunteers over the years from Magic Valley
Schools, from volunteer groups, people with Sportsmen Organizations like the Mule Deer
Foundation and other smaller sporting groups.
Well, we got these seedlings from a contractor last fall, he had grown a few extra and we
were able to have him maintain the quality of the seedling over the winter
which is a little difficult sometimes because of temperature and moisture, but he was able
to to do that for us. We have about almost 9,000 between this truck and the other vehicle
that has seedlings in it.
It's good to get out and see all the kids planting, we were actually driving out here
through the sagebrush on a dirt road, and we were saying look at all this! Looking at
the burn and actually we drove past and then back past
to get back up here and could see how much this actually burned. It's good to help replenish
the land, put it back together again.
Folks just want to come out and do something good on the ground for wildlife.