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Refuge Contributions to Reforestation

The National Wildlife Refuge system of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, consisting of some 504 units scattered throughout the country, contains several thousand acres of bottomland forests in the Lower Mississippi River Valley. Many of these refuges contain extensive stands of forests that have historically contributed acorns to nurseries for seedling production. Since the heavy commercialization of hardwood seedlings brought on by the Wetlands Reserve Program and Conservation Reserve Program of USDA in the mid-1980s there has been a restriction on commercial pick up of acorns on national wildlife refuges.


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Author(s): Ray Aycock

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1998

Event: Southern Forest Nursery Association Meeting
1998 - Lafayette, LA