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Forest Nursery Seedling Production in the United States—Fiscal Year 2023

Forest nurseries produced more than 1.27 billion tree seedlings for the 2023 planting season, including more than 38 million container seedlings imported from Canada. Approximately 68 percent of seedlings were produced as bareroot stock. Over 96 percent of the total stock grown was conifer seedlings; only a small portion (3.5 percent) of seedlings were hardwood species. Based on this total number of seedlings and estimated planting densities in each State, more than 3.7 million ac (1.5 million ha) were planted. Approximately 80 percent of production and planting occurred in the Southern States, while 14 and 6 percent were planted in the Western and Eastern States, respectively. In 2023, number of tree seedlings planted decreased in the Western and Southern States and increased in the Eastern States compared with the previous year. This decline is likely attributable to a lower-than-normal response rate to the annual data request.


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Author(s): Carolyn C. Pike, Nabil Khadduri, Emily Overton Rhoades, Annakay Abrahams, Elizabeth Bowersock, Lori Mackey, Zhao Ma, Jim Warren

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 67, Number 2 (2024)

Volume: 67

Number: 2