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Mast Reforestation Services

Growing your forest back one woods-run seed at a time.

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Services

Seed and seedlings

Mast and its two nurseries are the West's reforestation hub, serving public, private, and indigenous landowners in need of native conifer seed and seedlings.  

Seed

  • Seed

    Woods-run conifer seed bank native to the PNW. Orchard retail includes a wide range beyond. Call for current inventory

  • Cone CollectionHelp stock our seed bank for northwestern forests! We process conifer cones from anywhere in North America, and welcome opportunities in the PNW to send our scouting and collection teams. Contact us if you have potential cone supply and land we can access
  • Seed Bank (storage for customers)We have long-term seed storage and inventory management in our freezer as well as seed testing services

Seedling

  • Bare Root SeedlingsP+1
  • Container Seedlings - Styroblocks Sizes 2,4,6,8,10, 15
  • Container Seedlings - paper potsSize roughly equivalent to a Styro 6/8

Reforestation

  • Comprehensive Reforestation Services Helping landowners mitigate and recover from severe wildfire:
    • Removal of burned trees from the landscape and site preparation
    • Site appropriate seed sourcing
    • Funding through carbon removal credits (burned biomass burial)
    • Reforestation prescriptions
    • Site operations
    • Can be done in conjunction with many grants, Mast finances all project costs

Plan your order

Order Deadlines

To source seed at the right time of year and give your seedlings the best start, please contact us by the following deadlines.

Seed

Seed orders accepted year round Seed sourcing orders: June 30

Seedlings

Seedling orders accepted year round Sow order deadline: November 15

MEET THE TEAM

Our nursery team

Mast manages and operates two of the largest and longest running nursery operations in the west. Silvaseed, in Roy, WA and Cal Forest, in Etna, CA.

Kea Woodruff
Kea Woodruff
General Manager, Silvaseed
Visit Silvaseed
Nik Larum
Nik Larum
General Manager, Cal Forest
Visit Cal Forest

Our forestry team

We’re on the ground, up in the trees, wherever our projects take us. Here’s the team that you would meet in the field.

Bill Layton
Bill Layton
Director, Forester Operations
Julian Yuh Coleman
Julian Yuh Coleman
Sr. Specialist, Operations
Richard Schonenberg
Richard Schonenberg
Operations Forester

MAST AND ITS NURSERIES

More than 200 Years of Combined Forestry Experience

2015

Mast was founded

1871

Silvaseed was founded

1978

Cal Forest was founded

OUR NURSERIES

Silvaseed

As the largest privately held tree seed bank in the western US and more than 150 years in forestry, Silvaseed offers seedling production, cone collection and processing, seed sales, and seed storage.

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From left: Future forests growing in the shadow of Mount Rainier; Cone collection June 1959, back before the world was in color.

Cal Forest

Cal Forest Nurseries is the largest independent container reforestation nursery in the Pacific Northwest; producing between 20-25 million conifer seedlings per year for private timber companies, non-industrial private landowners, and public agencies.

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From left: Aerial shot of Cal Forest greenhouses, seedlings being diligently checked with a caliper

How can we help?

Choose one of the following:

Nursery Inquiries

Team members at Cal Forest and Silvaseed will review your request and the most appropriate nursery for your need will reply.

Landowner Inquiries

Carbon Inquiries

    Team members at Cal Forest and Silvaseed will review your request and the most appropriate nursery for your need will reply.

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