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Reasons to be hopeful: Lessons from the symposium “The True Green Infrastructure: Model to Develop Native Plant Materials from Wildland Seed to Restoration” in the U.S.

Reasons to be hopeful: Lessons from the symposium “The True Green Infrastructure: Model to Develop Native Plant Materials from Wildland Seed to Restoration” in the U.S.

This symposium covered a national U.S. approach to developing commercially available, locally adapted native seed for restoring resilient ecosystems. Five speakers contributed talks highlighting attributes of using and developing native seed, from wildland seed collection, to monitoring after restoration, to the history of native seed development by U.S. federal agencies.

Seeds of Restoration Success: Fort Belknap Indian Community/BLM/SER Native Seed and Grassland Restoration Program

Seeds of Restoration Success: Fort Belknap Indian Community/BLM/SER Native Seed and Grassland Restoration Program

In fall 2019, the Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC) launched a promising 5-year partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) to implement the Seeds of Success (SOS) Native Seed and Grassland Restoration Program. Our program focuses on the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in ecological restoration, working in close partnership with FBIC on BLM and adjacent tribal lands on Montana’s Northern Great Plains.