New Mexico Building a Greenhouse Large Enough to Increase Forest Seedling Production

New Mexico Building a Greenhouse Large Enough to Increase Forest Seedling Production
Courtesy New Mexico Reforestation Center / Josh Sloan

New Mexico’s wildfire burn scars need hundreds of millions of replacement trees, but the state produces only around 250,000 seedlings per year — a pace far too slow to keep up. A new multi-university greenhouse facility aims to more than triple that capacity while developing climate-resilient planting strategies for the future.

Posted: May 15, 2026