Sprucing up high-elevation forests
This landscape shows some of the extent of the damage to the Black Hollow site. Restoration crews are working to transplant seedlings to suitable areas within the fire scar to reduce nutrient runoff to the watershed below. (USDA Forest Service photo by Erika Reiter)
After the intense…
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Record pinecone harvest provides seedlings for Dude Fire burned area
A Forest Service tree climber uses ropes to descend from the crown of a ponderosa pine tree after collecting pinecones for sampling. (USDA Forest Service photo by Connor Massey)
ARIZONA—In 2023, Tonto National Forest Payson Ranger District’s silviculture team collected its largest number of pinecones in…
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Connecting urban nurseries and communities with reforestation pipeline
Indigo plants at a small greenhouse at the Plantation Park Heights Urban farm in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo courtesy Farmer Chippy.
PENNSYLVANIA — Nurseries across the U.S. grow over a billion tree seedlings each year for reforestation following timber sales, wildfire and other disturbances. The USDA Forest…
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Planting an outdoor classroom for the future
Volunteer Patricia Laymon, District Ranger Chad Kirschbaum and Nelson Kirschbaum install fencing to prepare an area where hard wood trees will be planted on Trees for Tomorrow campus in Eagle River, Wisconsin. Hard wood trees are highly sought after by forest animals for the buds they sprout.…
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Learn about the Plant-A-Tree website update
Newly redesigned Plant-A-Tree webpage will make it easier for users to donate to the program.
WASHINGTON, DC—Since 1983, the Forest Service’s Plant-A-Tree program has allowed individuals to make donations to be used for reforestation projects across the National Forest System. The…
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Take a bough: Tree climbing task force addresses reforestation needs
Climbers collect spruce cones in a canvas bucket. These cones were picked at the top of the tree above Potters Ponds on Manti-La Sal National Forest. USDA Forest Service photo by Amber Drysdale.
WASHINGTON, DC—In the Forest Service, good things come in…trees. But, sometimes, those trees…