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Forest Tree Improvement--First the Seed

Recognizing these facts and the need for immediate action to insure that our future forests will be of the best genetic quality possible, the Genetics Department of the University of Wisconsin in 1952 recommended to the Wisconsin Conservation Department that a program for the Certification of Forest Tree Seed be established. This proposal was not acted upon until 1956 when, in November, the Wisconsin Conservation Department in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin undertook a program for the Verification of Forest Tree Seed in Wisconsin . I would like to discuss briefly with you this general plan. The program was set up under the following three general objectives: (1.) An adequate number of forest stands and plantations should be selected, reserved, and managed as seed production arced, (2) Seed derived from these seed tree reservations should be separately collected, extracted, and grown in nurseries, and the resulting stock distributed for planting. (3) An adequate system of seed. orchards of the more important forest tree species should be established to provide seed of proven genetic value for future reforestation.


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Author(s): Robert G. Hitt

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1957