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Native Seedlings to Return to Reforest Burned Areas

January 09, 2014 Ann Bond, San Juan National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

Decades ago, ripe cones were plucked from the tops of conifer trees in the San Juan National Forest and sent to Nebraska for storage in a U.S. Forest Service nursery. This winter, tiny seeds from those cones have been sown in the nursery with the big mission of returning home to create new forests...

Forestry

‘Tis the Season for Cut Christmas Trees

December 14, 2010 Michael Jacobsen, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. With the holiday season upon us, many people across the United States are out and about shopping for the perfect Christmas...

Research and Science
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