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<b>Subject:</b> Friday's Findings - National Seed Strategy Progress Report 2015-2020<br>
<b>When:</b> Friday, September 24, 2021 11:00 AM-11:30 AM.<br>
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<span style="font-size:14pt; line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:normal">Summary:</b></span><span style="font-size:14pt; line-height:normal"> To restore and enhance healthy plant communities and sustainable ecosystems across America’s lands and waterways
in the face of fires, floods, and other impacts from climate change, Federal agencies, Tribes, and non-federal partners are building the supply of native seeds for restoration and rehabilitation for the benefit of Americans and the plant and animal species
that depend on them. Native plants are nature-based solutions and the true green infrastructure that support water, wildlife, and our quality of life. Native plants are key to a restoration economy that engages our next generation of farmers, conservation
professionals, scientists, and land managers. Like timber, native plants and our Nation’s native seed resources are critical natural resources to be recognized, valued, protected, and managed. The National Seed Strategy, created in 2015 by the Plant Conservation
Alliance, is a public-private collaboration whose mission is to increase the supply of native seeds for restoration projects to ensure ecosystem resilience and the health and prosperity of future generations. As America builds back better, the National Seed
Strategy is needed now more than ever.</span><span style="font-size:14pt; line-height:normal">
</span><span style="font-size:14pt; line-height:normal">The progress made implementing the National Seed Strategy is helping to meet an increasing demand for seed to restore plant communities altered by natural or human-caused events on both public and private
lands. In the past 5 years of implementing the National Seed Strategy, the scientific knowledge gained has worked to reduce erosion, reduce the spread of non-native invasive plants, and promoted productivity and biodiversity of plant and animal communities.
Through increased coordination and communication between the private and public sector, the pace and scale of restoration will be accelerated. This presentation will describe the National Seed Strategy and present the 2015-2020 Progress Report, including highlighting
USGS science that has been instrumental in meeting The Seed Strategy’s vision of getting the right seed in the right place at the right time.</span><span style="font-size:14pt; line-height:normal"> </span></p>
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