The Oregon Department of Forestry says Lava Nursery in Parkdale is one of 10 tree nurseries across the state receiving a total of over $4.4 million this year to help them increase their ability to produce badly needed seedlings.  The seedlings are needed to help reforest millions of acres deforested in recent years by wildfire, disease and pests.  The money was given to ODF after passage by the Oregon Legislature in 2021 of a bill was a response to the devastating 2020 wildfires which burned a million acres of forest.  Lava Nursery received $458,000.  Nurseries are using the funds to invest in everything from adding irrigation to building new greenhouses and seedbed space as well as storage facilities for storing seedling trees.  To qualify for a grant, a nursery had to have experience growing high-quality commercial conifer trees for reforestation in Oregon, including Douglas-fir, grand fir, noble fir, western red cedar, ponderosa pine and others.