Kyllo tree planting enhances Selbu

The summer of 1993 was the hottest and driest on record for Whitman County.

That didn't stop Bruce Kyllo from taking care of 1,100 trees that had been planted across the road from Selbu Lutheran Church south of LaCrosse. The area recorded only eight and a quarter inches of rainfall that year.

Fifteen varieties of trees just six inches high were planted by two men who worked for the Soil Conservation Service on the barren hillside that had bunchgrass growing on it and not much else.

Kyllo invested $350 for the trees. The varieties included Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, Scotch pine, juniper, Sibe...