Seed trays hold red spruce trees cultivated inside the nursery at the Southern Highlands Reserve in Lake Toxaway, North Carolina on Friday, November 4, 2022.
"Trees are this amazing natural solution to a lot of our challenges, including climate change," said Tony D’Amato, a University of Vermont scientist who co-led the new research. "We urgently need to plant many millions of them." D’Amato, project co-lead UVM post-doctoral scientist Peter Clark and their team studied 605 plant nurseries located in 20 states in the northern
Of the tree species offered in many areas, none were adapted for the local environment. Because of this, seedlings for one geographic zone may have to be brought in from a different zone, decreasing the chances of the trees’ survival.