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. (…
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New boom design improves nursery irrigation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Forest Service manages six nurseries nationwide, each contributing vital seedlings to national forests for replanting after wildfires, forest management and restoration treatments or other disturbances. Managing, caring for and ensuring the growth and survival of these seedlings is a critical job, one where technology can ensure that process goes more smoothly for our…
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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…
#Reforestation, #Seedlings, #Seeds, #Silviculture, #InfrastructureInvestmentAndJobsAct
Fighting non-native invasive plants with missing natives
White pine, red oak, witch hazel, buttonbush, red elderberry, silky dogwood, ninebark, a sycamore and a smattering of alder were planted along the Batten Kill River. Photo courtesy Hildene Marketing.
VERMONT—Green Mountain & Finger Lakes National Forest staff joined partners on the Batten…
#Restoration, #Plants, #Seedlings, invasive plants, #NativePlants
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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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…