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Archive Home > 2004 > November > 08 > Researchers experimenting with poplars as a cash crop

Researchers experimenting with poplars as a cash crop

By Jeanene Harlick / The Bulletin
November 8, 2004

MADRAS - They rise like mirages amid miles of arid desert: small patches of quaint, leaf-carpeted forests that whistle in the wind.

For the past eight years, these pale, hybrid poplar groves have sprung up out of the flatlands of Central and Eastern Oregon. Now numbering nearly 2,000 acres....

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