The Roles of Soil Conservation Service Plant Materials Centers in Promoting Biodiversity


The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) Plant Materials Centers (PMC) are expanding the plant development concept to include wider user groups. Through the PMC program, over 220 native species have been developed and are now being produced by the commercial trade. However, there is a shifting emphasis on the use of native species. As a result of increased interest in local native ecotypes, SCS PMC’s are developing procedures for ecotype (ecovar) releases. SCS and the National Park Service (NPS) are cooperating in a plant materials program in the development. testing, and establishment of native species for disturbed sites within NPS units. Some of the materials being tested and technology developed will have application to areas outside of park lands. An estimated 330-350 new park indigenous ecotypes have been collected. These native species are now in the testing process or reproduction phase for use by parks and on other disturbed sites.
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Publication Forest Nursery Proceedings
Event Fallen Leaf Lake, CA - 1992
Author Wendell G. Hassell
Published 1992/09/14
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