Hey Guys:

We just logged 7 acres and need to replant at a rate of 300 trees per acre.
So how far apart do we plants the plugs?

The forester who's administering the program is the same guy who is selling
us the seedlings. I didn't think that was allowed. Is it? He's a state
forester,
who co-owns the tree nursery. He says we're "required" to buy trees from
him. WTF, over?

Anyway, all of the neighbors who have bought his trees say they've had a
60-90% death rate on trees. What's the normal loss on white spruce? On
lodgepole pine? On larch?

Any/all advice is welcome. We have a neighbor who ran planting crews in
Oregon. He's going to line his kids out as our planters, but we want to do this
right. We can't afford to buy 2100 trees that are all going to die. Our cows
winter and calve in that woodlot. They need a "woodlot" for winter protection.
(We're building "cow condos" out of some of the sawlogs we salvaged from the
logging for the girls, until we can get trees growing in there again.)

TIA,
Jan in southcentral Alaska (59 N., 149W. I think)