Each tree in a young forest often can produce more than 7,500 seeds annually.

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A 2 1/2-acre forest can yield as many as 113 million seeds for pine, birch, spruce and beech trees, according to Georgia-Pacific Corp., a forest products firm.It says it will plant about 50 million seedlings this year.

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