[PCA] PCA Cooperator Ed Toth Awarded NYC Sloan Public Service Award

[Leah Prescott]

 Honoring extraordinary New York City public servants since 1973.
<https://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/about/>

For over 38 years, the Fund has recognized City employees at all ranks and
levels of government through its *Sloan Public Service Awards*, widely
regarded as the Nobel Prizes of City government. This program annually
honors six outstanding civil servants whose work performance and commitment
to the public transcend not merely the ordinary but the extraordinary-- day
after day and year after year. In honoring these winners, the Fund also
acknowledges the contributions of the many thousands of dedicated public
servants who, with integrity and devotion, perform the work that keeps this
complex city running.

Since 1985, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has generously supported this
program.
EDWARD TOTH <https://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2018/#E_Toth>Director,
Greenbelt Native Plant Center and Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank NYC
Department of Parks and Recreation

On 13 acres on Staten Island, Ed Toth directs the Greenbelt Native Plant
Center (GNPC) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank (MARSB). Over 25
years, GNPC has grown more than 12.5 million native plants for restoration
and conservation projects in NYC ecosystems. After Hurricane Sandy, GNPC
replaced hundreds of thousands of plants on destroyed wetland and dunes.
While working in Prospect Park Brooklyn in the 1990s, Mr. Toth helped lead
the native plant movement in park restorations, but a key obstacle was that
native plants were not available. By helping to create and then run GNPC,
Mr. Toth created the first and largest municipal native plant nursery and
seed bank anywhere in the U.S. In 2011, Mr. Toth founded MARSB, recognizing
that to effectively respond to climate change and plant conservation
challenges, a regional response was essential. Says a colleague, "He has
made a huge difference in our world. He looks out for New Yorkers and the
planet."
Read more on the PCA webpages
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy/pca>
and
congratulations to Ed!

-- 
Leah Prescott
Bureau of Land Management
Plant Conservation & Restoration Program
Data Coordinator
202-912-7232

National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy>
Plant Conservation Alliance <http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/>
Seeds of Success
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection>
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