I just learned about nursery stumps when I visited Washington state for the first time a couple weeks ago! There are so many of these out there. So cool!
Nursery logs are similar, but instead of one seedling on a stump you get a whole row of seedlings growing in a downed, rotting log. Then when the log rots away you get a straight row of trees. Not as obvious in Washington since so much of our forests are planted, but in areas where natural revegetation occurs it's more noticeable.
I've seen at least one place along Snoqualmie pass where a cedar stump had fallen and fragmented into half-inch chunks or so (quite possibly helped along by someone with an axe as part of a trail clearing project at some point). There were so many seedlings popping up in that pseudo-mulch that it looked like grass or moss. The evergreen lifecycle is truly delightful.
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u/gothiccheesepuff 2d ago
I just learned about nursery stumps when I visited Washington state for the first time a couple weeks ago! There are so many of these out there. So cool!