敢叫荒山换新颜今年70岁的马芳槐,是临洮县新添镇一位已有48年党龄的老共产党员,他生性耿直,刚毅乐观,被当地人称为“犟老头”。1988年,已经56岁的马芳槐征得村上的同意,承包了门前的荒山——护林洼,并用自家的3亩水浇地兑换了10亩山荒地。面对儿女们的极力反对和乡邻们的百般嘲笑,他毅然背着被褥、锅灶上了山,开始了他的“拓荒战”。每天天不亮,他就起床整地、垒堰。每年他要购一定数量的苗木,没钱买时,就向别人讨,在护林洼的四周栽植了杨树、柳树、槐树、桃、杏、梨等20多种树木。开始两年,马芳槐栽植的树木成活还不到一半,但他没有气馁。为了改变土壤结构,他 The courage to call the barren mountain for a new face The 70-year-old Ma Fanghuai is a member of Xintiao Town, Linqu County, a 48-year-old Communist Party member who has been straightforward and resolute in his optimism and is known locally as the “old man.” In 1988, 56-year-old Ma Fang-hui obtained the consent of Murakami, contracting the barren hills in front of him, protecting the forest depression and redeveloping 10 acres of mountain wasteland with 3 acres of irrigated land. In the face of the children’s strong opposition and the ridicule of the neighbors, he resolutely carried the bedding and the stove onto the hill and started his “pioneering war.” Every day before dawn, he would get up and set foot on weir. Every year he buys a certain amount of seedlings and when he has no money to buy, he asks others to plant more than 20 kinds of trees such as poplar, willow, acacia, peach, apricot and pear around the forest. The first two years, Ma Fanghuai trees planted less than half of the survival, but he did not give up. In order to change the soil structure, he