[PCA] Center For Biological Diversity NPCC News: Park Service policy on use of natives

[Emily Roberson]

Center for Biological Diversity

**NATIVE PLANT CONSERVATION CAMPAIGN NEWS **

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A National Park Service ecologist was kind enough to send in a correction to
the alert regarding federal policies on use of native plants in revegetation
projects. The Forest Service is not the first federal agency to have a
national native plant policy. The National Park Service already has one. See
below.

 

The Park Service guidance regarding "appropriate" plant materials for
reveg/rehabitation projects is very interesting and might make a useful part
of Forest Service definition of "genetically appropriate" 

 

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Forwarded Correction: 

A small correction on your statement that USFS is the first agency to have

a native plant policy.  It has been the nationwide policy of the National

Park Service to use native plants/ genetic material for many years.

 

National Park Service Management Policies (2001, the current policy) is

very clear on this issue in many places, but the most concise reference is:

4.4.2.4.....



"Landscape revegetation efforts will use seeds, cuttings, or

transplants representing species and gene pools native to the ecological

portion of the park in which the restoration project is occurring".

Other places in the policies support this in discussions of management of

exotics, cultural landscape restoration, and genetic resource management

principles."

 

NOTE: NPCC welcomes corrections, comments and criticisms of our positions
and alerts. Thanks to all who have helped out in this way! Keep them coming!

 

Emily

 

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Emily B. Roberson, Ph.D.

Director

Native Plant Conservation Campaign

A Program of the Center for Biological Diversity

 

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Phone: 415 970 0394 

 

Email:  eroberson at biologicaldiversity.org 

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The mission of the NPCC is to promote appreciation and conservation of
native plant species and communities through collaboration, education, law,
policy, land use and management.

 

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