An adjacent facility holds young oaks and other hardwood species. The center's goal is to help private landowners restore their charred landscapes rebuilding forests too badly burned to regrow naturally.
After decades of forest mismanagement that created an era of megafires, there's a critical shortage in quality seed stock, trained personnel, storage and growing space for tiny seedlings.
Three-quarters of requests to the center go unfilled. A recent analysis found that 4 million acres of public and private lands in the Sierra Nevada burned from 2018 to 2021.
Dead trees don't produce seeds, and the high-heat burn patches are too large and far away from live seed sources.
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