Hoo-Hoo Forest Sef Aside

Cttor Dcrcrqmenlo Club lO9

Hoo-Hoo Club 109 conducted a tree-planting expedition this spring to the Placerville area for the purpose of establishing a "Hoo-Hoo Forest" in an area that lvas devoid of young trees as the result of an old forest fire' The club project was conducted with the cooperation of the State Division of Forestry, the IJ. S. F'orest Service, and the lunrber company foresters of the area.

Early Saturday morning, March 31, a busload of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo departed for the area. First stop was the Michigan-California Lumber Company at Camino, where the group toured the company's modern pins mill. Following this, the party had lunch, at the Mt. Danaher Ranger Station of the State Division of Forestry. Fred Dunow, state deputy forester, and Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of the Eldorado National Forest, both spoke to the group, emphasizing the importance of fire protection in our forests and the benefits of sound forestry.

The brustr-covered area which comprises the new "HooHoo Forest" had been prepared in advance for the planting. A bulldozer had cleared a network of strips to make growing room {or the new seedlings. Work parties, under the direction of Bill McGuire, state farm forester, were quickly organized and approximately 1500 ponderosa pine seedlings r,vere planted.

Chairman of the event was Hoo-Hoo member George Craig of The Timberman. Trip Captain was Walt Lott, Diamond Match Company. Both C. D. LeMaster, Seer of the House of Ancients, and Jack Berry, Sacramento club president, participated.

Following the planting, Guerdon Ellis offered to set aside this area as a "Hoo-Hoo Forest" for the continuing use of Club 109 in planting and managing the new forest. The offer was accepted on behalf of the club by President Berry.

In accordance with this offer, the Sacramento lloo-I{oo Club 109 filed an application May 3 for a special use permit covering ten acres to be set aside for the club to continuously plant and manage for forest improvement.