By 1973, the U.S. Forest Service was storing millions of seedlings in mountain snow; its snow-cache system averaged 88% first-year survival

Picture the Rocky Mountains in early spring: snow still piled deep, roads half-buried, and delivery trucks unable to get through. Yet thousands of young pine and fir seedlings, grown hundreds of miles away in a nursery, need to reach the ground before the spring thaw ends.

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