Register-Guard
Last year s wildfires created a shortage of seedlings available for replanting burned and logged trees, a situation that could put smaller landowners especially into a bind.
Much of the land scorched by wildfires like the Holiday Farm Fire in the McKenzie River Valley left private and industrial timberland with damaged and destroyed trees, leading to a great deal of logging and a West Coast-wide demand for seedling to replace them.
Industrial logging has, in some cases, shifted to harvesting burned trees in an attempt to salvage marketable timber. Private landowners are harvesting, too, but often lack the resources and forward-planning for replacement seedlings larger timber producers have.