About Native Plants
The BLM conserves, maintains, and restores native plant communities through its land use planning and land management activities.
Under its “multiple-use” and “sustained yield” mandate, the BLM manages specific attributes of many native plant communities through its Weed Management, Healthy Landscapes, Forest, Range, Riparian, Wildlife, Threatened and Endangered Species, Soil, Water and Air Management Programs.
Why Native Plants are Important
Native plant diversity provides essential ecosystem services including the regulation of carbon, energy, and water cycles. Native plant species help to buffer the impacts of climate change and are essential for future responses. Actions to conserve and restore native plant diversity, including having appropriate seed resources readily available, are important strategic components of climate change adaptation.
Importance of Partnerships
The Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA) is a public-private partnership of organizations that share the same goal: to protect native plants by ensuring that native plant populations and their communities are maintained, enhanced, and restored.
PCA is a collaborative partnership among 12 federal agency Members and over 300 non-federal Cooperators. PCA Members and Cooperators work collaboratively to solve the problems of native plant conservation and native habitat restoration, ensuring the sustainability of our ecosystems. The depth and strength of PCA is in the scientific expertise, networking, and the ability to pool resources to protect, conserve, and restore our national plant heritage for generations to come.
To accomplish its goals, PCA has a framework that is carried out by a Federal Committee, a Non-Federal Cooperators Committee and five working groups.