Kim Lamb/LVN photos Left: Liz Warner, right, with the Natural Resources Conservation Service places one of 67 varieties of poplar starts into the ground at the Great Basin Plant Materials Center that will eventually yield 1,072 trees. Also pictured are Steve Perkins, left, Great Basin Plant Materials Center manager and Jay Davison, area plant and soil specialist from the University of Nevada, Reno Cooperative Extension. Below: The poplar starts soak in water before planting.