[SRM] FW: Herbarium Lunch Seminar this week - Th 4/13

[Gornish, Elise - (egornish)]

Please join us for this week's presentation

Perin McNelis

A Case for Expanded Production of Farmed Native Seed to Fill Growing Regional Seed Needs for Landscape Scale Restoration

Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN) is a 501c3 based in Patagonia, AZ, that is dedicated to ecological restoration in the US/Mexico Borderlands.The Native Plant Program at BRN has steadily expanded its wild seed collection and seed banking efforts over the last seven years to supply genetically appropriate seed stock for regional revegetation projects. However, as the southwestern United States has become increasingly vulnerable to numerous climate change related impacts, there is an urgent and growing need for larger quantities of plant materials with local genotypes for landscape scale restoration that has proven difficult and expensive to meet with wild seed collection. Non-mechanized wild seed collection has proven to have limitations related to unpredictable weather conditions that affect seed set and harvestability, and it is very expensive for a relatively small quantity of seed compared to the amount needed for effective revegetation. Furthermore, collecting wild seed may put added pressure on wild populations already facing numerous challenges. BRN has begun to expand an experimental seed increase plot over the last couple of years with success and seeks to further expand farmed native seed production with the existing infrastructure of active nursery and greenhouse facilities as well as access to a large amount of arable acreage. In this presentation, Native Seed Program Manager, Perin McNelis, will outline the pros and cons of wild seed collection versus farmed native seed production and discuss the successes and expansion objectives of BRN's seed production work in order to meet regional seed goals.

Perin McNelis is the Native Plant Program Manager at Borderlands Restoration Network, https://borderlandsrestoration.org.

Thursday, 4/13, 12 noon, UA Herbarium (Herring Hall). As always, feel free to bring your lunch if you are comfortable doing so.

We will also live-stream the event; if you would like to participate by zoom, please join us here:



https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88651466335

For our full schedule, please visit this page<https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks>, and please feel free to contact us about any aspect of plant biodiversity!
herbarium at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:herbarium at cals.arizona.edu>

Best,
Shelley
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Shelley McMahon
Associate Professor of Practice,
School of Plant Sciences<https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home>
Director, UA Herbarium<https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/>
Director, Desert Legume Program<https://cals.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/>
Faculty Fellow, Graduate College
University of Arizona
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