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Technical Notes
Major Publications
Plant Fact Sheets
Plant Guides
Information Brochures and Flyers
Plant Materials Progress Report of Activities
Newsletters
Miscellaneous Popular Articles
Progress Report
Refereed Journal Articles
Published Abstracts
Poster
Published Symposium Proceedings
Release Notices
Field Office Technical Guide

Major Publications

Trees and shrubs for the Red River Valley. (PDF; 721KB) Michael Knudson. 2005. Bismarck, ND. August 2005. 31p. (ID# 6151)

Seed and Plant Vendors of Conservation Plants - 2002 edition. (PDF; 227 KB) Grabowski, J. and J. Douglas. 2002. USDA-NRCS Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center, Coffeeville, MS. Nov. 2002. 19p. (ID# 4281)

Plant Fact Sheets

Plant Fact Sheet: Anatone Bluebunch Wheatgrass. (PDF; 273 KB) Tilley, D. 2004. USDA- NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. July 2004. 2p. (ID# 5630)

Plant Fact Sheet: Appar Blue Flax. (PDF; 98 KB) Tilley, D.J. 2004. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. July 2004. 2p. (ID# 5632)

Plant Fact Sheet: Maple Grove Germplasm Lewis Flax. (PDF; 56 KB) Tilley, D.J. 2004. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. July 2004. 2p. (ID# 5634)

Plant Fact Sheet: Nezpar Indian Ricegrass. (PDF; 102 KB) Tilley, D.J. 2004. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. July 2004. 2p. (ID# 5635)

Plant Fact Sheet: Regar Meadow Brome. (PDF; 148 KB) Tilley, D.J. 2004. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. July 2004. 2p. (ID# 5637)

Plant Fact Sheet: Ephraim Crested Wheatgrass. (PDF; 102 KB) Tilley, D.J. 2003. USDA- NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. Jul. 2004. 2p. (ID# 5633)

Reseeding Methods of Arrowleaf Clover. (PDF; 268 KB) Edwards, S. 2003. Jamie L. Whitten PMC, Coffeeville, MS. Number 4, December 5, 2001. 2p. (ID# 5042)

Stiff Sunflower (Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt.). (PDF; 327 KB) Tober, Dwight; Knudson, Mike. 2002. USDA NRCS, Bismarck, ND. February 2002. 2p. (ID# 7597)

Plant Guides

Silver Buffaloberry planting guide. (PDF; 54KB) Bismarck PMC. 2006. USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Center, Bismarck. January 2006. 3p. (ID# 6805)

'Van Horn' Green Sprangletop Plant Guide Brochure. (PDF; 80KB) Morris J Houck. 2006. Knox City PMC, Knox City, TX. January 2006. 2p. (ID# 6521)

PLANT SHEET Special Conservation Uses For Native Warm Season Grasses Special Edition:For Farm Bill Implementation. (PDF; 937KB) Don Surrency, Mike Owsley, Malcome Kirkland. 2005. Jimmy Carter PMC Homepage--USDA NRCS Georgia, Athens, Georgia. September 2005. 9p. (ID# 6096)

Handling Tips for Improving Tree and Shrub Plantings. (PDF; 184 KB) Douglas, J.L., J. Grabowski, A. Holditch, and L. Ellison. 2003. Jamie L. Whitten PMC, Coffeeville, MS. Plant Note No. 4 December 2002. 3p. (ID# 5038)

Planting Guide for Antelope Germplasm white prairieclover, Bismarck Germplasm purple prairieclover, Bismarck Germplasm stiff sunflower, Medicine Creek Germplasm Maximilian sunflower, and Bismarck Germplasm narrow-leaved purple coneflower. (PDF; 248 KB) Bismarck Plant Materials Center and Bridger Plant Materials Center. 2001. USDA-NRCS Bismarck Plant Materials Center, Bismarck, ND. Mar. 2001. 2p. (ID# 209)

Information Brochures and Flyers

Seed and Woody Growers of Elsberry Releases (2008). (PDF; 118 KB) Kaiser Jerry. 2008. 6p. (ID# 7818)

Aberdeen PMC Grass Display Nursery, 2007. (PDF; 148 KB) Tilley, D.J., Ogle, D.G., and L. St. John. 2007. Aberdeen PMC, Aberdeen, ID. 10/01/2007. 10p. (ID# 7663)

Seed and Woody Growers of Elsberry Releases (2007). (PDF; 31 KB) Kaiser Jerry. 2007. 6p. (ID# 7449)

Five Keys to Successful Grass Seeding. (PDF; 216 KB) Bismarck Plant Materials Center. 2003. USDA-NRCS, Plant Materials Center, Bismarck, ND. April 2003. 6p. (ID# 4959)

Plant Materials Progress Report of Activities

Lockeford PMC 2006 Progress Report of Activities. (PDF; 396 KB) D.Dyer. 2008. Lockeford PMC, Lockeford CA. 07. 4p. (ID# 7719)

Newsletters

Plant Materials Center Offers Tips for Fall Planting of Native Shrubs. (PDF; 2854KB) Greg Fenchel, David Dreesen, and Barbara Garrett. 2006. natural resources Reporter, Albuquerque, NM. Fall 2006. 1p. (ID# 6809)

Plant Chat, Summer 2005. (PDF; 117KB) Bismarck Plant Materials Center. 2005. USDA NRCS, Bismarck, ND. Volume 5, Issue 3. 1p. (ID# 6146)

Mid-South Plant News - February 2004. (PDF; 524 KB) Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center. 2004. Jamie L. Whitten PMC, Coffeeville, MS. Vol. 11, Issue 1. 4p. (ID# 5477)

Plant Chat, Spring 2001. (PDF; 134 KB) Bismarck Plant Materials Center. 2001. Bismarck, ND. Volume 1, Issue 2. 1p. (ID# 4657)

Miscellaneous Popular Articles

Establishing native shrubs. (PDF; 11 KB) St. John, L. 1997. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. 1p. (ID# 2804)

Progress Report

Stratification requirements for sulphurflower and whorled buckwheat. (PDF; 21KB) Tilley, D.J. 2006. Aberdeen PMC, Aberdeen, ID. August 3, 2006. 3p. (ID# 6716)

2004 Cumberland Gap NHP Annual Summary Report. (PDF; 716 KB) Ugiansky, R.J. 2004. USDA, National Plant Materials Center, Beltsville, MD. 2/4/05. 1p. (ID# 5847)

Converting Pastureland in Mississippi to Loblolly Pine. (PDF; 226 KB) J. Grabowski, J. Douglas, L. Ellison, and A. Holditch. 2004. Jamie L. Whitten PMC, Coffeeville, MS. Plant Note 6, September 2004. 2p. (ID# 5681)

USDA Forest Service, Region 1 Native Grass and Forb Initial Evaluation (Preliminary Report). (PDF; 32 KB) Tilley, D.J. and L. St. John. 2004. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. July 2004. 13p. (ID# 5631)

Aberdeen Plant Materials Center 2001 Progress Summary Report. (PDF; 646 KB) St. John, L., J.C. Hoag, and D.G. Ogle. 2002. USDA-NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, Aberdeen, ID. 19p. (ID# 2889)

Native Prairie Restoration Study Annual Report - 2001. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Bismarck Plant Materials Center. 2002. USDA, NRCS, Plant Materials Center, Bismarck, North Dakota, Bismarck, ND. March 2002. 41p. (ID# 4666)

Development of Seed Sources and Establishment Methods for Native Upland Reclamation. (PDF; 69 KB) Pfaff, S. . 1997. USDA-NRCS Brooksville Plant Materials Center, Brooksville, FL. Nov. 1997. 22p. (ID# 2433)

Shrub Performance on Organic Soils. (PDF; 201 KB) MacMaster, B. 1992. USDA-NRCS Rose Lake Plant Materials Center, East Lansing, MI. 612(5). 2p. (ID# 1704)

Refereed Journal Articles

Environmental Influences on Seed Quality of Windmillgrass Ecotypes in South Texas. (PDF; 687 KB) F. Herrera-C., W.R. Ocumpaugh, J.A. Ortega-S., J. Lloyd-Reilley, G.A. Rasmussen, and S. Maher. 2008. Agronomy Journal, Vol. 100, Issue 4, 2008. 6p. (ID# 7951)

Published Abstracts

Revegetation trials on Express Pipeline Right-of-Way. (PDF; 10 KB) Winslow, S.R. and M. Majerus. 2000. Abstracts: Society for Range Management annual meeting, Feb. 2000. 1p. (ID# 3208)

Establishing herbaceous wetland plants on a Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) site. (PDF; 7 KB) Grabowski, J.M. and P. Rodrigue. 1999. Soil and Water Conservation Society National Meeting, Biloxi, MS, Aug. 1999. 1p. (ID# 910)

Treatments to Overcome Dormancy of Eastern Gamagrass Seed. (PDF; 9 KB) Grabowski, J. M. and J.L. Douglas. 1999. Eastern Native Grass Symposium, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD. November 1999. 1p. (ID# 5567)

Dormant seeding of selected native warm-season grasses. (PDF; 8 KB) Tober, D.A., R.J. Haas, and M.J. Knudson. 1994. Abstracts, Soc. Range Manage. 47th Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, 1p. (ID# 3047)

Poster

Great Basin Plant Materials Center - 2006 Studies. (PDF; 5 MB) Steven Perkins, Kari Emm. 2007. Workshop on Collaborative Watershed Management and Research in the Great Basin, Reno, NV. 11/30/2006. (ID# 7109)

Native Shrubs for Conservation-II. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Michael J. Knudson, Wayne L. Duckwitz, Rachel H. Bergsagel, Nancy K. Jen, K. Jensen, and Dwight A. Tober. 2002. USDA NRCS, Plant Materials Center, 12th Wildland Shrub Symposium, Laramie, WY, Bismarck, ND 58504. Aug., 2002. 1p. (ID# 3895)

Prairie Cordgrass Spartina pectinata establishment. (PDF; 273 KB) Jensen, N. 2002. USDA, NRCS Plant Materials Center, 3308 University Drive, Bismarck, ND 58504, 18th North American Prairie Conference, Kirksville, MO. 1p. (ID# 3589)

Published Symposium Proceedings

Establishment Methods for Alamo Switchgrass. (PDF; 135 KB) Edwards, S. 2003. Third Eastern Native Grass Symposium Reprinted as MSPMC Tech Note Vol. 16 No. 2, Chapel Hill, NC. 4p. (ID# 5554)

Release Notices

Release Notice of Westwater Germplasm. (PDF; 18KB) Gregory A. Fenchel, Dr. L. M. English, David R. Dreesen, Danny G. Goodson. 2006. Los Lunas Plant Materials, Los Lunas, New Mexico. 2/2006. 2p. (ID# 6602)

Field Office Technical Guide

Conservation Practice Standard Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment, Code 380. (PDF; 64KB) M.J. Williams. 2006. Florida FOTG, Gainesville, FL. 4p. (ID# 6683)

Consevation Practice Standard Windbreak/Shelterbel Establishment, Code 380, Guidance. (PDF; 151KB) M.J. Williams. 2006. Florida FOTG, Gainesville, FL. 10p. (ID# 6684)

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