Ephraim • Utah and federal officials are wrapping their busiest reseeding seasons in years, tapping a nondescript warehouse in Ephraim where seeds for native grasses and forbs are stored and mixed by the ton.
Wildfires took a heavy toll last summer on the state’s forests and rangelands, which land managers hope to quickly rehabilitate with the help of seed stores at the Ephraim-based Great Basin Research Center, operated by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Airplane pilots dropped 173,000 pounds of seed last week on some of the most severely scorched ground in the Brian Head fire that burned for six weeks last summer on the Dixie National Forest, according to Gary Bezzant, DWR’s southern regional habitat program manager.