Greenhouse production in western nurseries
Containerized seedlings are a relatively new phase of nursery production all over the United States. Our greenhouse facilities at Mt. Sopris Nursery are only 1% years old although the nursery has operated over 15 years. We are therefore still learning the culture of container stock but I feel that our facility is representative of many western greenhouse operations. Our greenhouse was built in response to the current effort to eliminate the "reforestation backlog" in the Western States. The Central Rocky Mountain Region has over 325,000 acres of national Forest land to be aforested or reforested based on a recent inventory. This translates to over 130 million seedlings using planting density of 400 trees per acre. We have been given 10 years to alleviate this backlog ending in 1984. Considering that our bareroot seedling production require-', from 2-3 years and that our annual production at Mt . Sopris Nursery was around 4 million trees, you can appreciate our dilemma. So the decision was made to build a greenhouse to supplement the bareroot program and provide a rapid means of producing stock for the reforestation backlog.
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Author(s): Tom Landis
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Southern Nursery Conference: Western Session
1978 - Hot Springs, AR
