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Reforestation takes root

A well-planted seedling takes root on the Mount Shasta landscape, as part of the Lava Fire Restoration Project in Northern California, April 2026. In just over three planting seasons, Forest Service crews and partners have planted 1.47 million seeds across 2,769 acres of burned landscape. (…

#Reforestation, #Seedlings, #Planting, #PlantingTrees, #Trees, #EcologicalRestoration, #Restoration, #Conservation

Integrating Watershed Restoration in Wildfire Management: Opportunities, Approaches, and Examples

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This publication summarizes new techniques in watershed restoration, known as process-based restoration, that improve wildfire management and support the Active Forest Management Strategy, the Executive Order 14225, and the agency's multiple-use mandate.

#Water, #Watershed, #Wildfire, #WildfireRecovery, #Restoration, #Reforestation

Vegetation Management

Successful vegetation management ensures that our National Forests are conserved, restored, and made more resilient to climate change while enhancing our water resources. Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) is a component of the forest management program that utilizes silvicultural practice overseeing the genetics, growing of seedlings in nurseries, reforestation, and restoration of our…

#LandManagement, #PublicLands, #ForestRestoration, #Reforestation, #Vegetation, #VegetationManagement

Community roots, lasting impact

A person sitting on a fallen tree in a forest behind purple wildflowers, with a clipboard recording data.

The Salmon-Challis National Forest is no stranger to wildfire. Its rugged terrain spans 4.3 million acres across Central Idaho with much of the land affected by fires over the past few decades.The need to accelerate reforestation has only grown. The small yet dedicated forest silviculture crew took on the main responsibility for that work. But that changed three years ago when the Salmon-Challis…

#SalmonChallisNationalForest, #Wildfire, #Idaho, #Silviculture, #SharedStewardship, #PostFireRecovery, #Timber, #Reforestation, #WildfireRecovery, #ForestRestoration, #Partnerships, #ForestHealth, #NaturalResourceManagement

Tree Planters' Notes, 2025 anniversary

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Tree Planters' Notes celebrates its 75th anniversary with some retrospectives from retired Forest Service nursery specialists. It also includes articles on restoring landscapes for private landowners through partnerships, how trees in the Pacific Northwest respond to different stock type sizes, creating an in-school nursery program for technical education, using social media to generate interest in planting and nurseries, and a simple strategy to protect seedlings from inclement weather.

#Reforestation, #Nurseries, #GeneticResources, #Partnerships, #Genetics, #Education

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.