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Conserving the Heritage of Native PlantsNRCS Plant Materials ProgramThe NRCS Plant Materials Program selects conservation plants and develops innovative planting technology to solve the nation’s critical resource concerns. The program includes a network of 26 Plant Materials Centers (PMCs) and associated Plant Material Specialists serving all 50 states and territories. The program maintains and distributes foundation seed for the commercial production of certified seed, which is commonly used in conservation plantings on private and public lands. Over the past 70 years, the program has cooperatively selected over 500 conservation plants for use in conservation applications and release to the seed industry.
Text description of distribution area. Includes a larger image of the map. Native PlantsTraditional use of native plants is important to tribal people, especially plants for rituals and customs. Native plants were essential in the everyday life of early indigenous people and were used for food, medicine, religion, tools, manufacturing, and commercial trade. Since the 1950s, Plant Materials Centers in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have evaluated the performance of hundreds of plant species that played an important role in the historic culture of the American Indian. Plant Materials and Tribal AssistanceThe program cooperates with tribal partners to assist in the identification, propagation, and establishment of culturally significant plants. Other means of assistance is provided through the development of propagation protocols, informational brochures and planting guides, and PMC tours to transfer technology on the conservation of cultural plants. The program makes recommendations to numerous tribal groups on activities such as greenhouse construction, roadside revegetation, streambank stabilization, field and hothouse plant establishment, pasture and crop production systems, erosion control methods, and noxious weed control. Featured PlantsAberdeen, Idaho PMC
Bismarck, North Dakota PMC
Bridger, Montana PMC
Manhattan, Kansas PMC
Upper Colorado Environmental Plant Center (Meeker, Colorado)
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