Los Lunas Plant Materials Center

Updated 12/08/2008

Los Lunas, New Mexico

Established 1937

The Los Lunas Plant Materials Center has provided the semiarid and arid Southwest region with plant solutions for over 60 years. The Center also has developed new vegetative methods for improving rangeland, native landscaping, streambank stabilization, wildlife habitat enhancement, native shrub transplanting and mine reclamation. The Center has released over 30 improved conservation plants including varieties of cane bluestem, blue grama, desert willow, bottlebrush squirreltail, and Rocky Mountain and narrowleaf penstemon.
 

Special Features

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Year 2007 Report of Activities, Los Lunas Plant Materials Center. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Dreesen, Fenchel, Goodson, and Sandoval. 2008. Los Lunas Plant Material Center, Los Lunas, NM. FY- 2007. 8p. (ID# 7940)

Basic Guidelines for Seeding Native Grasses in Arid and Semi-arid Ecoregions. (PDF; 160 KB) David Dreesen. 2008. available at LLPMC website, Los Lunas, NM. July 2008. 4p. (ID# 8174)

Being Kind is Not Always the Answer (PDF; 528 KB)
Being too kind is not the answer sometimes – as the NRCS Los Lunas Plant Materials Center learned in its efforts to produce vine mesquite for riparian restoration uses. After two years with no success, the Center shifted tactics and replaced kindness with stress.

Tribes, Pueblos Explore Native Plants (PDF; 776 KB)
NRCS New Mexico’s Plant Materials Center in Los Lunas is an incubator for native plant technology for a wide variety of farmers, ranchers, and industries. And, recently it had the opportunity to showcase some of its work to the Intertribal Nursery Council.

Contact

1036 Miller St., SW
Los Lunas, NM 87031

Telephone: 505.865.4684
FAX: 505.865.5163
Email: Gregory.Fenchel@nm.usda.gov