The Jewish National Fund has launched its 1978/9 planting season at sites all over the country. The JNF’s plans for this year call for the planting of more than 2.5 million new trees, on a total area of some 18,000 dunams. This planting work is carried out in addition to the JNF’s year-round projects developing existing forests around the country and landscaping picnic and recreational facilities. Countrywide, there are some 960,000 dunams ### 560,000 pleated by the JNF from scratch.
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