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Seed-to-site land restoration and nursery services. We restore working lands and resilient forests after devastating wildfires.
06/05/2026
Even with sleet in the air and 30 mph winds whipping across the ranch, we still got our “family” photo.
This spring, MT1 landowners Velma (center) and Rebecca Gentry (left center) helped welcome ponderosa pine seedlings home to land burned by the 2021 Poverty Flats Fire.
6,500 seedlings planted in two days. A new generation of ponderosa pine taking root. 🌲
Read more in the recent blog linked in our bio.
06/02/2026
At Mast’s MT1 project in eastern Montana, Mast forester, Julian, helped guide MT1 landowner as she planted a few ponderosa pine seedlings by hand.
He looked for the right mix of shade, soil, and competing vegetation, the small field decisions that can help give each seedling its best chance.
Read more about Mast’s reforestation work and Julian in our blog linked in our bio.
📷 Julian at MT1
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. 🌲
This April, we joined Rebecca and her family on their property to plant 6,500 new seedlings across land impacted by the 2021 Poverty Flats Fire.
For years, the Gentrys have been working to recover this land, putting in time and effort wherever they could. But like many landowners, limited resources made it difficult to fully restore the property at scale.
These seedlings were funded by Mast’s biomass burial project on the same property, MT1.
After wildfire left burned, waste wood across the Gentry property, Rebecca partnered with Mast to put that material to work in a new way. Instead of pile-burning it, Mast buried more than 5,000 tons of fire-killed trees—enough to fill more than 170 logging trucks—in a 1.1-acre site that blends into the landscape.
That long-term storage is keeping carbon out of the atmosphere—and creating value in the process. This project generated enough funding to reforest 125 acres at no cost to the Gentry family.
We’re grateful for the Gentry family’s trust and partnership, and honored to be part of their land’s comeback story.
Impacted by wildfire?
Connect with our team to learn how Mast can help restore it:
https://www.mastreforest.com/landowners
05/08/2026
What makes Silvaseed Nursery's seed extractory unique? Well, many things, but for starters, the buildings were designed and built around the extractor machines, not the other way around.
Pictured here is Tammy, Nursery Operations Specialist, unloading bushels of cones onto trays on the cone “hopper”. These cones are rolled into the heated kiln, which opens the cones up so the seed is accessible.
As seen in the photo from the 1950s, not much has changed at the cone elevator. As the saying goes, “why fix what ain't broken?”
Silvaseed continues to be the largest conifer seed extractor in the West, protecting the genetic diversity of our forests.
Need seedlings for a project? Place your order here: https://silvaseed.com/order -orders
From burned forest to new seedlings in the ground 🌲
If you’re a landowner dealing with wildfire impact or looking to restore your property, we’d love to connect.
Learn more about how our reforestation works:
https://www.mastreforest.com/services
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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