MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota’s black spruce seed supply is low, prompting the state Department of Natural Resources to offer more money to people to collect them to meet spring orders for reforesting. T
The state is paying $85 a bushel, up from $70 last year. Black spruce is a peat-loving workhorse tree across northern Minnesota, and those black spruce peatlands are very good at storing carbon, a key greenhouse gas.
The DNR uses the seeds to reforest about 6,000 acres of black spruce forest every year.
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