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6 Cooperative Partnerships for Native Seed Development, Supply, and Usage
6 Cooperative Partnerships for Native Seed Development, Supply, and Usage
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The newest, the Nevada Seed Strategy, was established in 2020. Some of the partnerships are focused on collection and seed banking, others include plant development, while still others are research-oriented activities to better understand seed zones, soil, and genetics, technologies to improve seed survival, and tools to anticipate how climate change will affect plant communities.
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She added that applied research is needed to refine methods and tools for practitioners and managers. Texas Native Seeds Program2 The Texas Native Seeds Program is a not-for-profit native plant seed development program that began as South Texas Natives in 2001, when the revegetation activities associated with the construction of the Interstate 69 highway project attracted the attention of local landowners concerned about non-native invasive plants.
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. Greenbelt Native Plant Center and Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank8 The Greenbelt Native Plant Center (GNPC)
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This points to the importance of public-sector production of native plant materials as part of the supply chain, in concert with the commercial sector. The GNPC created the Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank (MARSB)
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As the science agency for the Department of the Interior, the USGS scientist plays an active role in uncovering the interactions of plant genetics and biophysical aspects of ecological systems, in the context, for example, of the need to identify native plant materials for restoration in the dryland environment of the Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program (Massatti et al., 2022)
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NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Seeds of Success The BLM Seeds of Success (SOS) program, which collects and banks seed to preserve the genetic diversity of native plant populations for future use in restoration, was developed in 2001 as a partnership with the Kew Gardens Millennium Seed Bank project.
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Seed banking of wild seed, both for conservation purposes and to meet restoration and other land-management needs, can be effectively managed at regional seed banks that have appropriate storage capacity for wild collections and appropriate technical staff to curate wild collections and ensure their long-term quality and viability. Seed warehousing is an extension of seed banking, but particularly focused on large quantities of increased seed typically held for relatively short periods of time because seeds are short-lived in ambient warehouse conditions.
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Since 2018 BLM has used its Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity to contract for the increase of SOS seed of different species collected from across numerous seed zones. As of 2021, BLM had contracted for over 94,000 pounds of seed expected to arrive between now and 2025, which will be put into the BLM seed warehouses for use by BLM emergency stabilization, wildlife habitat, pollinator, oil and gas, and other programs.
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There are different practices for which landowners can subscribe, some using native plants and some using non-native plant species. In a presentation to the committee, Rich Iovanna of the NRCS and Bryan Pratt, Economic Research Service, estimated that 10 to 13 million acres of the CRP's current 21 million acres are planted with native species, although some non-natives are included in some "native" mixes.
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The large, regional native plant materials development and restoration programs initiated in the West by BLM and USFS are broadly cooperative, and involve government at all levels, the tribes, colleges, nongovernmental organizations, and native seed producers. BLM established a national native seed collection program, in partnership with six nonfederal seed banks as the stewards of those collections.
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Conclusion 6-5: The ready availability of cooperative seed-cleaning facilities is important to encourage smallerscale producers to enter the native seed supply chain, especially in areas where commercial facilities do not exist, or are unwilling to clean native seed. Conclusion 6-6: Although the Conservation Reserve Program is not an ecosystem restoration program, the use of native seeds on private lands contributes to functioning ecosystems and plays a role in supporting the native seed supply.
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2022. Seed Menus: An integrated decision-support framework for native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert.
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