Cove’s Plantworks Tree Nursery Receives $276,000 in ODF Grants

COVE, OR – (Information from the Oregon Department of Forestry) ODF has announced The Plantworks tree nursery in Cove has been awarded $276,000 dollars in grant funding to help increase seedling capacity and invest in new equipment. This is part of a larger, 4.4-million-dollar grant being distributed to ten treen nurseries statewide in response to damages caused by the 2020 wildfire season. In their official press release the ODF stated:

“The money was given to ODF after passage by the Oregon Legislature in 2021 of House Bill 5006. The bill was a response to the devastating 2020 wildfires which burned a million acres of forest. In the wake of those fires, there were many barriers to reforesting, including shortages of money, labor, and for some smaller landowners appropriate tree seedlings. 

ODF Small Forestland Owner Assistance Unit Manager Nate Agalzoff said, “These grants are helping nurseries make strategic investments to increase their ability to grow more seedlings, which will enable them to better support reforestation needs in the future.”

Nurseries are using the funds to invest in everything from adding irrigation to building new greenhouses and seedbed space as well as storage facilities for storing seedling trees. Funds can also go toward:

• equipment
• the cost of collecting or purchasing tree seeds,
• buying land on which to expand nursery facilities

To qualify for a grant, a nursery had to have experience growing high-quality commercial conifer trees for reforestation in Oregon, including Douglas-fir, grand fir, noble fir, western redcedar, ponderosa pine and others.”

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