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Moon Trees Are Out of this World!

The US Forest Service partnered with NASA to send tree seeds into space on board the Artemis 1 mission this past year. Now the seeds are back and being grown into trees that will be planted across the country. Learn all about it at this fascinating talk.

Kas Dumroese

R. Kasten Dumroese is a Senior Scientist (Research Plant Physiologist) with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station located in Moscow, Idaho. He also serves as the National Nursery Specialist as part of the Forest Service National Center for Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources. Dumroese earned his MSc and PhD in Forestry from the University of Idaho, and his BSc from Michigan Technological University. His 35+ year research career has mostly focused on nursery production of native plants, with specific attention on improving nursery efficiencies, reducing environmental impacts associated with production, and enhancing plant quality toward achieving higher outplanting survival and growth. More recent research has centered on ecosystem restoration with an aim of holistically integrating plant propagation with their landscape deployment to simultaneously achieve multiple restoration objectives. Dumroese has served on a variety of national initiatives, including the White House Pollinator Task Force, the Forest Service monarch butterfly strategy, Greater Sage-grouse habitat restoration, and the National Reforestation Strategy. He has nearly 300 science delivery publications and has been honored by the Chiefs of the Forest Service and the National Resources Conservation Service, and the Society of American Foresters.

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