In 1948, Maine loaded white-pine seeds into a Navy plane and scattered them across 2,200 burned acres; some produced 2,475 seedlings per acre

Imagine a small Navy trainer biplane flying just above the treetops of a scorched Maine forest, dropping a seed-and-sawdust mix from a hopper onto the frozen snow below. That's what happened in February 1948.

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