In the early 1900s there was a nation wide movement of forming tree growing clubs to sustain a future supply. Of course, certain regions were in more dire need of trees than others. For a brief movement, there was an attempt to organize the farmers of the Honey Lake Valley for an co-operative effort to do the same. It never went anywhere.
However, the federal government was involved in such matters. In 1889, George Winters planted a fifteen acre grove of cottonwood trees on the Shinn Ranch in northeastern Lassen County. By doing so in 1893 he was issued a 160-acre government land patent that he filed under a section of the Timber Culture Act “to encourage growth of timber on the Western Prairie.”
In 1924, after the devastating forest fire on Antelope Moutain near Eagle Lake, prompted Fruit Growers Supply to establish a tree nursery near their Susanville plant.