Cariboo Carbon Solutions actively plans and manages a seed collection program every year, for the purpose of growing seedlings. Wild seed plays a vital role in ensuring adaptation of forests to changed climate conditions.
Sometimes we collect seed specifically for forest licensees for species and provenances that are projected to be in high demand. We also collect seed to fulfill the requirements of our own projects. Our seed collection division provides an exceptional degree of adaptability in that we can collect seed specifically to fulfill the requirements of our long-term planting work.
In 2022 we collected enough seed to grow the equivalent of 35 million trees. We have experience collecting seed for Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, black cottonwood, and aspen. We are also industry leaders in the development of sowing methods and creating plug stock for deciduous seedlings.
