Nursery manager Tammy Parsons thins aspen seedlings at a greenhouse in Santa Fe, N.M. Parsons and her colleagues evacuated an invaluable collection of seeds and tens of thousands of seedlings from the New Mexico State University’s Forestry Research Center in Mora, New Mexico, as the largest fire burning in the U.S. approached the facility. AP
By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press A New Mexico facility where researchers work to restore forests devastated by fires faced an almost cruelly ironic threat:…