Learnings so far:

- Regional Roads staff are great tree planters - 95% of sheoaks survived!!!
- The site needs a mixture of stages of planting to get them through what can be a very dry summer.
- The need for seed orchards to support community revegetation is high and gets higher every time a drought, a wildfire, a bad grazing practice, or a period of extreme heat blasts out and kills the old trees hanging on in roadsides around the region.
- Landholders want to learn and they want to grow what grows well where they are. The seed orchard is part of telling that story and providing that info to several generations of land managers. Its very very positive.