Mast Reforestation
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Seed-to-site land restoration and nursery services. We restore working lands and resilient forests after devastating wildfires.
After the 2020 Beachie Creek Fire, natural recovery at Henry Creek was unlikely.
That’s why Mast partnered with EFM and to restore the land by drone and by hand.
Carbon finance support from , , and other buyers helped fund the work.
Today, we’re celebrating the project’s first successful credit verification and delivery. 🌲
Welcome to Silvaseed!
Today is our first day on Instagram but we’ve actually been around for 155 years. We’re the largest privately run conifer seed bank west of the Mississippi. Our team has been collecting cones, processing seeds, and growing seedlings to conserve the West’s iconic conifers.
We serve customers in our backyard around Roy, WA and as far as away as Germany.
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05/14/2026
Great to bring Dr. Tony Hartshorn and his students from Montana State University-Bozeman for a visit to our MT1 site in eastern Montana.
We talked about local ecology, the Poverty Flats Fire, biomass burial, and how carbon removal is taking shape on the ground.
Thanks to Rebecca and Velma Gentry for their warm welcome and for sharing their story with the group. 🌲
05/06/2026
After a wildfire, it can be hard to know where to start.
For Rebecca and Velma Gentry, recovery began with finding a better path than burning the dead trees left behind by the 2021 Poverty Flats Fire.
Uneconomical for timber, but that wood still contained valuable carbon. Mast buried more than enough to fill 171 logging trucks, to store that carbon for the long-term, which funded planting on the same land.
Now, 6,500 seedlings are taking root in eastern Montana, to help the land recover faster than it would have on its own. Beyond this project, we have also collected ~500,000 ponderosa seeds from this property to ensure we are ready for the next fire and the next landowners in this area.
Thank you to Justin Dubail and KULR8 News gs for sharing the Gentry family’s story.
If your land has been impacted by wildfire, Mast can help you restore it.
Learn more: https://www.mastreforest.com/landowners
Watch the full story below:
https://www.kulr8.com/news/how-burying-burned-trees-underground-helps-land-recover-from-poverty-flats-fire/article_7ff7bbb6-5eeb-4b22-bfa9-ec4415b771ca.html
Wildfire recovery doesn’t have to take decades.
At our MT1 project in eastern Montana, it took less than a year.
Here’s how we worked with a private landowner to turn a tough situation into a path forward.
It started with a challenge many landowners face after devastating wildfire: fire-killed trees with no viable end use.
At MT1, we partnered with the landowners last summer to clear and bury ~5,000 tons of unusable logs, enough to have filled more than 170 logging trucks.
Too far from mills and with limited alternatives, this material was set to be pile-burned. Instead, it was buried in a low-oxygen environment, storing carbon long-term and generating funding for restoration.
In less than a year, that work funded the planting of ~6,500 new seedlings on the same land, at no cost to the landowner. 🌲
If your property has been impacted by wildfire, we’d love to help.
Reach out to start building your recovery plan:
www.mastreforest.com/landowners
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