Serendipity versus Strategy: National Seed Strategy

Land managers need a strategy so they can respond quickly and with appropriate restoration resources to landscape-scale ecological changes. The National Seed Strategy fits the bill, providing a coordinated approach to stabilize, rehabilitate, and restore public and private lands in response to severe weather events such as Hurricanes Matthew and Sandy, the serious drought conditions and altered fire regimes across the country, and the fast spread of invasive species nationwide. Peggy Olwell will describe The National Seed Strategy and its framework for actively working between land managers and private industry to respond to disturbances and other stressors that threaten important native plant communities and ecosystem services in the US.

Peggy Olwell, Plant Conservation Program Lead, Bureau of Land Management