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Below The Root Collar- The Key To Planting Success

Site preparation and seedling planting are expensive operations. While their costs are usually justifiable when plantations are successfully established, reforestation is not financially attractive when low seedling survival leads to understocked forest lands. Understocking may result from poor overall seedling survival, or from a poor distribution of surviving seedlings. The biological and financial feasibility of interplanting or replanting have been repeatedly shown to be low.


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Author(s): Peter P. Feret

Event: Northeastern Area Nurserymen's Conference
1986 - State College, Pennsylvania