Planting new hope in the Umpqua River basin
A sugar pine seedling grows within the Archie Creek Fire scar. Seedlings are planted in the early spring so they are not damaged by hot and dry summer weather. Forest Service photo by Adrienne Barcas
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service recently announced a 10-year strategy to confront the…
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Predicting acorn crop size
USDA Forest Service field technicians collected acorns and visually surveyed 477 oak trees of five common species, including Quercus velutina, or black oak. Photo courtesy bugwood.org/T.Davis Sydnor, OSU.
NORTH CAROLINA—Land managers can now estimate the number of acorns in their forest each fall with methods devised by Southern Research…