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About the NRCS
Plant Materials Program
Updated
07/10/2008
The NRCS Plant Materials Program selects conservation plants and develops
innovative planting technology to solve the nation's most important resource
concerns. The Program includes a network of 27 Plant Materials Centers (PMCs) and associated
Plant Materials Specialists serving all 50 states and territories. To
date, the program has released over 600 conservation plants, most being grown by
commercial growers.
For over 70 years, PMCs and Specialists have provide
essential and effective plant solutions for critical habitats, environmental
concerns, management practices, and key farm and ranch programs.
The Plant Materials Program:
- Focuses on using plants as a natural way to solve conservation
issues and re-establish ecosystem function.
- Collects, selects and releases grasses, legumes, wildflowers, trees
and shrubs.
- Cooperates with public, private, commercial and tribal partners and
land managers to apply new conservation methods using plants.
- Provides plant materials and new applied technologies for national
initiatives, like the Farm Bill.
- Offers plant solutions to battle invasive species, heal lands
damaged by natural disasters, reduce the effects of drought,
promote air
and water quality, and produce alternative energy.
- Assists Native American tribes with projects to protect and produce
culturally significant plants.
The following document requires
Acrobat Reader.
Implementing the Farm Bill (PDF; 197 KB) June 2008
Plant
Materials Program Brochure (PDF; 768 KB) March 2007
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