Restocking the rotation.
Michigan's state forests replant thousands of acres of red pine every year, as stands reach the end of a 70 to 90 year cycle. Red pine is a keystone conifer across roughly 1.6 million acres of the state and underpins the rural economies built around these forests. Seedlings go in across April and May at around 2,250 per hectare. Survival is tracked at cohort level through Veritree's monitoring platform, currently estimated at 90%.