The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

MARCH 4, 1998

Three of every four trees on town property in Whitehall are in good to fair condition. Mark Lennon, a Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation community forester conducted the first-ever tree inventory of Whtiehall’s 369 public trees and presented his findings to the Vision 2010 Committee. His findings included: Whitehall has 14 species totaling 369 trees. Of the 369, 179 (49 percent) were in good condition, 99 (27 percent) were in fair condition, 85 (23 percent) were in poor condition and six trees were dead or dying. Of the 14 species of trees on public lan...