1 Development of the Forest Nursery Manual: A Synthesis of Current Practices and Research.- Developing a Forest-Tree Nursery.- 2 Nursery-Site Selection, Layout, and Development.- 3 Equipment for Forest Nurseries.- Starting the Bareroot Seedling.- 4 Assuring Seed Quality for Seedling Production: Cone Collection and Seed Processing, Testing, Storage, and Stratification.- 5 Establishing a Vigorous Nursery Crop: Bed Preparation, Seed Sowing, and Early Seedling Growth.- Managing the Soil and Water.- 6 Physical Properties of Forest-Nursery Soils: Relation to Seedling Growth.- 7 Soil Fertility in Forest Nurseries.- 8 Soil and Tissue Analysis: Tools for Maintaining Soil Fertility.- Managing the Soil and Water (continued).- 9 Nursery Soil Organic Matter: Management and Importance.- 10 Cover and Green Manure Crops for Northwest Nurseries.- 11 Water Management.- 12 Irrigation in Forest-Tree Nurseries: Monitoring and Effects on Seedling Growth.- 13 Land Drainage.- Culturing the Bareroot Seedling.- 14 Plant Physiology and Nursery Environment: Interactions Affecting Seedling Growth.- 15 Nursery Cultural Practices: Impacts on Seedling Quality.- 16 Plug+ 1 Seedling Production.- 17 Genetic Implications of Nursery Practices.- 18 Weed Management in Forest Nurseries.- 19 Pest Management in Northwest Bareroot Nurseries.- 20 Mycorrhiza Management in Bareroot Nurseries.- Harvesting and Outplanting the Bareroot Seedling.- 21 Lifting, Grading, Packaging, and Storing.- 22 Nursery Storage to Planting Hole: A Seedling's Hazardous Journey.- 23 Assessing Seedling Quality.- 24 Planting-Stock Selection: Meeting Biological Needs and Operational Realities.- Improving Nursery-Management Style: Selected Topics.- 25 Sales and Customer Relations.- 26 Improving Productivity in Forest Nurseries.- 27 NurseryRecord Systems and Computers.- Upgrading Nursery Practices.- 28 Designing Nursery Experiments.- 29 Problem Solving in Forest-Tree Nurseries with Emphasis on Site Problems.- 30 Nurseries in the Northwest: A Unique Opportunity for Improving Forest Yield.- Appendix A: Questionnaire #1.- Appendix B: Questionnaire #2.- Appendix C: Conversion Tables.- Appendix D: Glossary.
