Feature Articles & Multimedia

• Feature Articles
• In the News
• Multimedia, YouTube Videos, and Presentations

Feature Articles

• Addressing Critical Areas With Molokai Land Trust
• Native Seed Production Manual for the Pacific Northwest
• For the Love of Grass
• After the Fire, Fire Recovery Resources
• 2014 Plant Materials Program Awards
• Improved Conservation Plants Released by NRCS and Cooperators Through 2014
• Amethyst Germplasm hoary tansyaster (Machaeranthera canescens)
• ‘Windbreaker’ Big Sacaton – A Vegetative Tool for Wind Erosion Protection
• Chitimacha Indian River Cane Evaluation
• Corvallis PMC Joins Fight Against Hunger
• Native Soft Mast of East Texas and the Western Coastal Plain
• Michigan Agricultural Environmental Assurance Program Verifies Rose Lake PMC
• The Cape May Plant Materials Center, One year after Superstorm Sandy
• Rare Plants of Washington State
• Cooperative Studies and Outreach
• Build it and they will come
• People's Gardens at Plant Materials Centers
• Improving Lesser Prairie Chicken Habitat
• Common Weeds in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands/
• Malezas Comunes en Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes Americanas
• Culturally Significant Plants
• Historic Trail of Tears "White Eagle" Corn
• Native Understory Forbs and Grasses for Pollinator and Insect Utilization in Southeastern Longleaf Pine Ecosystems
• Plant Solutions for Conservation DVD
• Our Tropic Sun Shines
• Vegetating with Native Grasses in Northeastern North America

In the News

2016

• Some Grasses are OK for Tucson - By Peter L. Warren Special to the Arizona Daily Star, 11/28/16
• Aberdeen Center Studying Milkweed to Benefit Butterflies, John O/Connell, Capital Press, 11/18/16
• Big Stone County Cover Crop Tour - The Farm Forum, 08/30/16
• Climate-Smart Practices Keep the Land Covered, USDA Blog, 05/10/16
• Aberdeen Plant Materials Center to start cover crop research, John O'Connell, Capital Press, 04/13/16
• Tips For Growing Native Plants From Seed, Gail Oberst, Capital Press, 03/10/16

2015

• Plant center devises new wildflower seed harvest method, John O’Connell, Capital Press, 10/26/15
• Soil Health at the Lockeford PMC - YouTube, 10/15/15
• Warm-Season Grasses Limit Odors at Livestock Barns, The Farmer's Exchange, 05/15/15
• Missouri NRCS group recognized as 2015 Plant Materials Outstanding Team, Elsberry Democrat, 05/08/15
• Lockeford Researchers Boost Conservation Efforts, Reed Fujii, Record Staff Writer, 04/21/15
• Where have all the bees gone?, Jan Sluizer, VOA Voice of America, 04/19/15
• Center Shifts Focus to Sage Grouse, John O'Connell, Capital Press, 03/29/15
• Cover Crops Long Term Benefit, Reed Fujii, Record Staff Writer, 03/14/15
• Plant Diversity a Boon for Declining Bees - Jan Sluizer, VOA Voice of America, 02/19/15

2014

• Bee Buffer Project - Farmers Sought to Provide Bee Habitat, Record, 12/04/14
• Farm Research Fights Drought, Researches in Lockeford show innovative ways to save water, Record, 04/06/14
• Program Looks to Give a Leg (or Six) Up, New York Times, 04/02/14

Multimedia

• Benefits of Pollinator Seed Mixes - YouTube, Lockeford Plant Materials Center
   
• University of Arizona, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  2016 Dust Assessment, Management & Mitigation - Presentations - 01/20/2016
  • Mitigation: Use of Plant Materials - Heather Dial, Manager, Tucson Plant Materials Center, USDA NRCS

• Soil Health at the Lockeford PMC - YouTube
   
• Planting Specifications for Native Hawaiian Akiaki grass - This Youtube video was created in partnership with the Hoolehua Plant Materials Center and the University of Hawaii's Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences Department.
   
• Presentations from the Intermountain Native Plant Summit VII held at Boise State University, March 26-27, 2013
  Below are presentations by Derek Tilley & Loren St. John, Aberdeen Plant Materials Center and Steve Parr, Upper Colorado Environmental Plant Center.
  • Direct seeding methods to establish wetlands - Derek Tilley
  • Pollinator planting demonstration - Loren St. John
  • Options for native plant material development - Steve Parr
  • Great Basin Fire Science Delivery Workshops:  Intermountain Native Plant Summit VII Video Presentations
• Plant Materials Long Distance Learning Module