Trees to be thinned at rec area

GERING, Neb. (AP) — State officials are taking precautions against damage from forest fires at the Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area in Nebraska’s Panhandle.

Workers will be cutting trees for 12 acres around the nature center, reducing their number by half.

Some of the trees are infested with the mountain pine beetle and are all but doomed.

Officials say the thinning will return the area to a more natural state, with fewer trees per acre.

The felled trees will be piled for burning.

Weather permitting, the work will begin in the next couple weeks.

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