Tree Planters' Notes, fall 2024

This biannual publication provides information about nurseries and nursery production, including seed sourcing, seedling care, and transplanting seedlings for reforestation and related activities. The fall 2024 issue includes a look at a black walnut tree farm in Vermont 30 years after planting, cold storage effects on big sagebrush, how color-coating seeds improves nursery productions, and using Ellepots instead of Styroblocks at Pacific Northwest Nurseries. Finally, it includes the annual nursery seedling production report.
#NationalSeedLaboratory, #Reforestation
Tree Planters' Notes, spring 2024

This biannual publication provides information about nurseries and nursery production, including seed sourcing, seedling care, and transplanting seedlings for reforestation and related activities. The spring 2024 issue includes articles about zinc deficiencies, seed transfer (loblolly pine, red spruce, and black cherry), increasing the scale of nursery production, and the impacts of climate change on nurseries.
#Reforestation, Nurseries, Genetic Resources
Reforestation project to restore Mexican spotted owl habitat, support tribal landscape initiative
#Reforestation, #HabitatRestoration
Now accepting reforestation proposals: Through July 20
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Seed-Transfer Guidelines for Important Tree Species in the Eastern United States

As the climate warms, suitable habitat for many tree species is shifting northward. Assisted migration is a process that helps establish native trees in areas that are or will be suitable habitat in the future. This handbook compiles guidance for transferring seeds and seedlings to improve nurseries' efforts in restoration, reforestation, and afforestation.