Foresting the Sandhills (excerpt, c.1929)

ID: 675 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society ~ Date: c. 1929
This file appears in: Village of Halsey
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This film by the U.S. Department of Agriculture documents the planting and maintenance of the Nebraska National Forest near Halsey, Nebraska -- the only hand-planted national forest in the United States. This excerpt shows the seedlings being grown, harvested and replanted.

This file appears in: Village of Halsey

By The Explore Nebraska History team
In 1885 surveyors designated a route through the Sand Hills for a Burlington Railroad branch line. The rails reached this point on the Blaine-Thomas county line in 1887, and a town was laid out. It was named Halsey after Halsey E. Yates, the son of…