<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">Bonnie and Tony make good points: 1)
There isn't enough to go around and 2) Maybe there's an alternative to
full re-seeding (even in cases where the seed banks get destroyed by fire).</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">The Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA)
held a workshop with the American Seed Trade Association in March 2007,
which provided an excellent synthesis of the types of research and questions
that are being looked at across PCA member agencies when it comes to using
native plants in restoration work. The problem of not having sufficient
seed to restore the large amounts of land was variously addressed by each
of the presenters. The agenda and presentations are available at:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/meetings/bimonthly/mar2007/index.htm</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">I was particularly excited about Vicky
Erickson's presentation (http://www.nps.gov/plants/meetings/bimonthly/mar2007/erickson/index.htm),
which discussed new planting methodologies to make best use of the limited
resources. Unfortunately, the presentation on the web does not include
some of the information that she provided in her oral presentation (and
my notes are on my home computer). </font>
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<br><font size=4 face="sans-serif"><b><i>So, I will cc: Vicky here to see
if she could recap a bit about that research, including the size of the
burn area, the size of the plantings, the amount of seed used, and the
outcome of that work.</i></b></font>
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<br><font size=3 face="sans-serif">-Patricia</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.<br>
Botanist - Division of Scientific Authority<br>
Chair - Plant Conservation Alliance - Medicinal Plant Working Group<br>
US Fish & Wildlife Service<br>
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 750<br>
Arlington, VA 22203<br>
703-358-1708 x1753<br>
FAX: 703-358-2276<br>
Working for the conservation and sustainable use of our green natural resources.<br>
<www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal><br>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Roger is likely correct.<br>
I think we need to stop wasting precious native seed on burned areas,<br>
and put down a weed free mulch or annual grass at most as a cover crop.<br>
The seed bank will recover with some protection. This would save<br>
taxpayer dollars, save valuable native seed, and most likely get just a<br>
good of a revegetation result after a fire.<br>
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Bonnie<br>
Restoration Ecologist<br>
Wetlands and Ecosystems Team<br>
FHWA USDOT, HEPN-30<br>
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE<br>
Washington D.C. 20590<br>
(651) 291-6104<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
[mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of<br>
Addsum-Tony Frates<br>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:21 PM<br>
To: native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
Subject: Re: [PCA] NEWS: BLM plants 'Seeds of Success'<br>
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<br>
Olivia - thank you for the post. If this quote is true from the other<br>
article you also just posted:<br>
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"Roger Banner, a range specialist at Utah State University in Logan,<br>
says native plants can't reclaim burned range on their own. "There's
not<br>
enough native plant seed to re-seed 2% of the areas that burned,"
<br>
he says."<br>
<br>
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2007-08-29-cheatgrass_N.<br>
htm<br>
<br>
then the importance and need for programs like "Seeds of Success"
<br>
seems to be stunningly understated and unappreciated (and I suspect <br>
poorly funded). Will it even scratch the surface of the problem?
<br>
The program seems to fall far short of what is needed.<br>
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Tony Frates<br>
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Date sent:
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:29:37 -0500 (CDT)<br>
From:
Olivia Kwong <plant@plantconservation.org><br>
To:
native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org,<br>
sos@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
Subject:
[PCA] NEWS: BLM plants 'Seeds of Success'<br>
<br>
> http://www.elynews.com/articles/2007/08/29/news/news11.txt<br>
> <br>
> BLM plants 'Seeds of Success'<br>
> The Ely Times<br>
> <br>
> In its ongoing effort to improve the health and productivity of the
<br>
> public lands, including those recently affected by wildfire, the <br>
> Bureau of Land Management has initiated a native seed collection <br>
> effort that is part of an interagency "Seeds of Success"
program.<br>
> <br>
> See the link above for the full article text.<br>
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