Trees purchased from Soil and Water Conservation District during annual spring sale. 
Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), native of eastern North America.
Back fill material of composted soil material, with biodegradable protective netting.
What is a Conservation
District
Conservation districts are
local governmental subdivisions established under state law to carry out a
program for the conservation, use and development of soil, water and related
resources. Districts are resource management agencies, coordinating and
implementing resource and environmental programs at the local level in
cooperation with federal and state agencies.
History
Conservation districts had
their beginning in the 1930s when Congress, in response to national concern over
mounting erosion, floods and sky-blackening dust storms that swept across the
country, enacted the Soil Conservation Act of 1935. The act stated for the
first time a national policy to provide a permanent program for the control and
prevention of soil erosion, and directed the Secretary of Agriculture to
establish the Soil Conservation Service to implement this policy. The
conservation district concept was developed to enlist the cooperation of
landowners and occupiers in carrying out the programs authorized by the act.
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