BLM

Native

and

Issues

BLM Wyoming:

in

Seed

Development

2012

3,

Pilmanis, Collection

Native

Workshop April Success”

Seed

of Materials

Adrienne Wyoming Plant “Seeds Promoting BLM &

date

Success”?

to

for Program Presentation:

SOS

“Seeds outlook is BLM

Today’s Partners 1. What 2. WY 3. projects Current 4. Accomplishments 5. Future BLM

public is:

breadth native (NPMD)

research Arboreta,

restoring (PMCs), for across

develop and Agricultural

from

Agencies, Program

and Centers

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ranges; Materials

to Facilities curation of

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term 2001: Plant ‐

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ecological

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species’

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collectors

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Species list;

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Identify,

Scout, BLM Curate

& Clean

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project

seed

photos, or

volunteers

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SOS

data, Universities, contractors,

site (USDA storage

make

to BLM to development,

agreements, staff, priorities

information

WY ecotypes, storage location,

seeds WY

partner

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resources & stakeholders

or

collection

collection

cleaned

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Buffalo Newcastle Worland

Pinedale Casper

Lander

Rawlins Rock Springs Kemmerer State University of Office Wyoming (2) Worland Field Office

Thermopsis rhombifolia Prairie Thermopsis

Eve Warren Wind River/ Big Horn Basin District Natural Resource Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis Specialist Wyoming Big Sagebrush

Calochortus nuttallii Sego Lily Rawlins SOS Interns Taking Herbarium Vouchers

Frank Blomquist, Achillea millefolium Rawlins Wildlife Biologist Common Yarrow

Rawlins Symphoricarpos oreophilus Field Office Mountain Snowberry

Viola nuttallii Nuttall’s Violet Not Pictured: Rock Springs Botanist, Jim Glennon

Penstemon nitidus Wax‐leafed Penstemon

Rock Springs Field Office

Allium textile Textile Onion 2011 Interns

Newcastle Field Office: Andrew Buijs

Rock Springs Field Office: Marie Dematatis

Pinedale Field Office: Matt Candeias Brian Josey

Not Pictured: Susan Anderson Sammi Bray Other Interns that helped part‐time Kemmerer Field Office: Dan Brown, Seasonal Wyoming State Office: Carson Hughes, Volunteer Jeannine Strenk, WYSO Emma Stewart, WYNDD 2011 Conservation Crews

Utah Conservation Crew Lander Field Office Montana Conservation Crew July 2011 Cody Field Office July 2011 MTCC Leaders Crew Cody Field Office October 2011

WYCC Casper & Buffalo Field Office July 2011

Rocky Mountain Youth Crew Rock Springs Field Office September 2011

Wind River Youth Crew Casper Field Office August 2011 BLM

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collections

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Pilmanis, Lead Coordinator Thank Cheyenne 307 ‐ 775 6035 [email protected] Botany Adrienne BLM

increase more Seed

Network with

TNC)

Seed Native

for (e.g. wind

come growers

Native

potential to gas,

Departments. Contract

Partners: – oil, and

Wyoming

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Companies, Agriculture

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Program

Energy of

BLM

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