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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1A4523">Choosing a post-fire seed mixture can be challenging</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1A1A1A">Seeding an area after a fire has long been used to</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1A1A1A">grasses like cheatgrass. But for managers, choosing the right seed mix to use can be tricky. Seed mixes containing only native species are ideal for areas where natural
vegetation recovery is a long-term objective, but there is a question of both cost and whether native species will be as effective as nonnatives in outcompeting invasive species.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A1A1A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3B2815">Seed Mix Matters!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B2815">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#3B2815">Post-fire Seed Mixes Affect Long-term Vegetation Recovery and Suppression of Invasive Annuals at Dryland Sites in the Great Basin,
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1A1A1A">Presented by Francis Kilkenny and Jeff Ott, RMRS research biologists</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B2815">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1A1A1A">*</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1A1A1A">Summarize results of a study reporting long-term outcomes of seed mixes applied
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is also a potential tool for restoring pre-fire vegetation by assisting successional processes. Non-native perennial plants have been widely seeded on account of their establishment ability, competitiveness and forage value, but may pose barriers to natural
vegetation recovery. Seeding native species is a more sensible choice if restoration is a long-term objective, but there is a question of both cost and whether native species will be as effective as non-natives in outcompeting invasive annuals. We consider
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