BOISE, Idaho (RFD-TV) — The U.S. Forest Service is helping replenish America’s forests by growing millions of new trees each year.
The U.S. Forest Service is offering a look inside Lucky Peak Nursery in Idaho, where millions of young trees are raised each year for planting in national forests across the West.
Workers oversee the process from storing seeds at low temperatures to growing seedlings in greenhouses before sending them out for planting.
The Forest Service estimates that 765 million acres of the United States are covered by forests, an area equivalent to roughly 580 million football fields.
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