{"id":6206,"date":"2017-12-08T19:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2023-05-20T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T09:12:41","slug":"seeds-will-trees-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/seeds-will-trees-someday\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a Forest From a Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDo you realize, my children, that the man whose mind is made up can no longer advance scientifically?\u201d<\/p>\n

This is what Charles Bessey, botanist and dreamer, once said. He believed possibility had no bounds.<\/p>\n

Bessey created something no one could have imagined \u2013 a 20,000-acre pine forest in the middle of a \u2018wasteland\u2019 of Nebraska. And yet, today, this lush sanctuary \u2013 now the Nebraska National Forest \u2013 is a fixture of the state\u2019s landscape and something that hikers and hunters enjoy together.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I mean when you look across it like this, it is kind of astounding that people planted all of it,\u201d Julie Bain \u2013 supervisor of the forest \u2013 told Net Nebraska.<\/p>\n

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Within the forest is a nursery Bessey founded in 1902, fittingly called Bessey Nursery. Now, it is an enormous project managed by the feds, Mexican immigrants, and Richard Gilbert. Together they provide about three million seedlings to the nearby U.S. Forest Service in efforts to replant huge areas of land.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they have a natural catastrophe such as a wildfire, huge blowdown event, bark beetle, we are that backup,\u201d nursery manager Richard Gilbert told Net Nebraska.<\/p>\n

The seeds of Bessey\u2019s ideas live on today in the little pines that the team nurtures into existence. This evolution of ideas and purposes is exactly the thing that would have excited him.<\/p>\n

Feature photo: Ariana Brocious \/ NET News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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