Restoration and conservation across Colorado Plateau

Restoration and conservation across Colorado Plateau drylands: concerted

activities of the Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program and partners

Title TextSupporting Text

10 years of the Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program: successes and

future direction

byEveryone ever involved in the CPNPP and

Adrienne Pilmanis, BLM, CPNPP Coordinator15th Biennial Conference on Science & Management

September 12, 2019


• All today’s speakers, esp. Rob Massatti for leading symposium organization & coordination with Jackie Grant & Daniel Winkler supporting, Rhianna James.

• Everyone who has ever worked on plant materials for wildland restoration/ reclamation

• NRCS PMCs, ARS, USFS, BLM, Congress, GBNPP, RMRS/ PSSL, Uncompahgre Partnership, State natural resources agencies, NGOs & universities (e.g. Chicago Botanic Garden, NAU), seed companies and nurseries, Peggy Olwell, Nancy Shaw, Wayne Padgett, Troy Wood, Brad Butterfield, Kyle Doherty, John Bradshaw, Rob Massatti, All USGS SBRC, Steve Parr & UCEPC, Steve Monson, Scott Jensen, Stan Young, Andrea Kramer & lab, Krissa Skogen, Patty West, Kelly Memmot, Kayla Harriman, Megan Haidet, Olivia Kwong, Rita Reisor, Cat Cort, Bruce Pavlik, Sarah Barlow, Mindy Wheeler, Zach Lundeen, Kevin Gunnell & GBRC, Kathy See, Jim & Jim, Chris Warner & Great Basin Institute, Danielle Johnston, Ashley Camhi, Charles Perrings, CiniBrown, Matt Bowker, Mike Duniway, Sasha Reed, Lori Scott & NatureServe, Lila Leatherman, Rachel Hosna, Avery Uslaner, Jenny Shostrand, Carla Roybal, Kate Watters, Molly McCormick, Mark Grover, Jasmine Anenberg, Jessica Hartsell, Rhianna James, Melanie Beckstead, Sheila Murray, Kris Haskins, Barb Phillips, Kevin Grady, Akasha Faist, Jeff Conn, Sheila Davidson, Christine Cimiluca, Jessi Brunson, Dustin Rooks, Amber Hughes, Terry Tolbert, Kara Dohrenwend, Cara Gildar, Leslie Gunn, Vicki Meier, Tiffany Martinez, Pam Riddle, Maria Ulloa Bustos, Verlin Smith, Carol Dawson, Ron Bolander, Marcia Wineteer, Janna Simonsen, Beth Leger, Scott Lambert, John Proctor, Jim Cane, Nora Talkington, Owen Baughman, Kristina Hufford, Dana Blumenthal, Dan LeCain, Bryce Richardson, David Hoover, Ken Holsinger, Barb Phillips, Jan Busco, Benson family, Robby & Walter Henes, Tom Glass, Bill Agnew, The Stevensons, Curt Brown, April Blodgett, Kirsten Quinones, Shannon, Katie, All the Interns, undergrads, techs, volunteers!!

Thanks to:

CPNPP Background: www.landscope.org/cpnpp

MISSION - To facilitate the increased availability of native plant materials for use in restoring native plant communities and ecosystems of the Colorado Plateau region.


High demand for more seed

• 1-10 million lbs seed purchased annually by BLM alone • More native species requested; often limited and expensive

• Seed Transfer Zones (STZs) accepted as useful guidelines for sourcing seeds

• How many seed sources needed in CP region alone?• WRI seed mix planning species list: ~84 natives, 32 non-natives • 18 PSTZs in CP region. • Current CPNPP-origin sources: 8 grass, 7 forb. 15 total• But all species don’t occur in all PSTZs • (84 native species * ~6 STZs per species) -15 =• 399 new seed sources needed to meet CP region demand

Economical & logistical probability of this happening? Even if only $100,000 per new source (NRCS) = $414,000,000

CPNPP Extent & Collections

Originally: Collecting & Research in three Level III Ecoregions.Currently: Collecting & Research in two Level III Ecoregions

Early Products• Five-Year Strategic Plan & Operation Plan• Exec. Committee, Working Groups, MOU considered• Priority Species for development

• Bouteloua gracilis, Pleuraphis jamesii, Elymus elymoides, Koeleria macranthera, Achnatherum hymenoides, Sporobolus cryptandrus

• Astragalus lonchocarpus, Cleome serrulata, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, Heliomerismultiflora, Machaeranthera canescens

• Interagency agreement to support USGS genetics work• Seed Collections

• ~3,300 regional by 2013 , including from pre-CPNPP partners (Uncompahgre Partnership, RMRS PSSL), small amounts

• Annual Meetings most years• Science Retreats at Bonderman Rio Mesa

• Annual Reports• Online Conservation Registry of projects, protocols• Rio Mesa CP plant community demonstration and research

gardens• Evaluation trials and seed increase at UCEPC, LLPMC,

Southwest Seed, Inc., BFI Seed.

Recent Products (2014 +)• Collections now ~4,400, ~700 accessions curated at USGS (>50 lbs)• CPNPP inventory Database - tracks amounts, viability, storage

locations, site info

• Climate-Based Seed Transfer Zones - 11 priority species, gis data online, Instr. videos

• Online tools: Seed Selector, Climpart Apps – Doherty et al, on RAMPS site

• Publications on roles of “Prestoration” and Biological crust moss BSC in restoration – NAU, USGS

• National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Monarch Conservation Grant• Meta analysis of restoration seeding success (CPROD, etc.) – CBG,

USGS, NAU• New partnerships & interagency agreements

• Publications: CSZs & tools, seed market analysis, monsoonal influence on PLJA, BOGR genetics

• More SOS teams, demonstration sites, seed & seedling propagation, restoration projects, education & outreach products


Recent Products cont.• External Website – NatureServe’s Landscope• 5-Year Research Strategy – USGS• Germplasm release compilation; maps online• Five new materials out for commercial increase; UCEPC, ARS-FRRL, Granite• Identification of several new forb materials suitable for production - UCEPC• Establishment of galleta grass and globemallow common gardens - UCEPC• Trait and Plant Performance Database (TAPPD) – NAU• Field Trial Network/ RAMPS RestoreNet – NAU, USGS• Well pad reclamation seed demand estimate• “Good Neighbor” small lot seed increase contract – UDWR’s GBRC• Publications on Salt desert restoration, Seed bank & soil texture

interactions, Influence of native soil and native microbial community • 27 publications listed on website, any missing?• GRIN seed used by 36 countries, 49 states, universities, biotech, farmers &

horticulturists, agencies, botanic gardens (>28,000 items, >500 species)


Collection Direction


Peer-Reviewed Pubs

27 listed on website. Others?


Leadership Priorities


Trait & Plant Perform. DB

Estimating seed demand

“Good Neighbor” contract


Current Activities• Seed & tissue collection for priority species:

• BLM, USGS, GBI, SUU, The Arboretum – 109 2019 collections & counting• Genetic and trait research – presentations today

• USGS, NAU, CSU, SUU, RMRS, ARS• Cultural trials (sowing, growing, harvesting)

• UCEPC, Utah GBRC, Rim to Rim Restoration• Small and large lot increase/ production

• BLM Contracts, Utah GBRC, UCEPC, Rim to Rim Restoration• Seed testing and Certification for increase

• USFS Bend, State Seed labs, State Crop Improvement Assns.• Techology transfer, education & outreach

• USGS, NatureServe, NAU, SUU, GBI, UCEPC, CCDC, The Arboretum, Friends of Verde River, Uncompahgre Partnership, BLM

• 2018 Reporting on CPNPP support for leadership priorities and National Seed Strategy progress (>50 discrete NSS4R&R activities).

• Literature reviews, data & information compilation – NAU, USGS• Demonstration & Pollinator Gardens (NFWF Monarch & Pollinator)

• SUU, R2RR, CCDC, Verde, The Arb, Ft. Uncompahgre


CPNPP Inventory by STZ


Contract Seed Increase


Future DirectionAs per DOI and BLM leadership priorities:• Continue collecting to support R&D efforts and seed increase

• Fill gaps in source availability using best available information & demand• Coordinate with partners and neighboring NPMDPs

• Continue implementation of USGS 5-year Research Strategy: • landscape genetics, common garden establishment, GRID aridity impacts,

genetic impact of agronomic increase, impacts of restoration materials on local plants

• Continue technology transfer, education & outreach to aid practitioners’ restoration & reclamation efforts

• seed menus, integration with seed warehouses, long-term seeding trials

• Procurement 2020 –• New Partnership agreements using Funding Opportunity Announcement• New Regional (UT, CO, WY) Plant Materials Center Services IDIQ contract, • New CPNPP Sseed increase contracts

• 2020 Annual meeting tentatively February 25 – 27, Kanab or Vernal


USGS Project IV: detect impact of seed increase on the genetic identity of restoration materials


• All today’s speakers, esp. Rob Massatti for leading symposium organization & coordination with Jackie Grant & Daniel Winkler supporting, Rhianna James.

• Everyone who has ever worked on plant materials for wildland restoration/ reclamation

• NRCS PMCs, ARS, USFS, BLM, Congress, GBNPP, RMRS/ PSSL, Uncompahgre Partnership, State natural resources agencies, NGOs & universities (e.g. Chicago Botanic Garden, NAU), seed companies and nurseries, Peggy Olwell, Nancy Shaw, Wayne Padgett, Troy Wood, Brad Butterfield, Kyle Doherty, John Bradshaw, Rob Massatti, All USGS SBRC, Steve Parr & UCEPC, Steve Monson, Scott Jensen, Stan Young, Andrea Kramer & lab, Krissa Skogen, Patty West, Kelly Memmot, Kayla Harriman, Megan Haidet, Olivia Kwong, Rita Reisor, Cat Cort, Bruce Pavlik, Sarah Barlow, Mindy Wheeler, Zach Lundeen, Kevin Gunnell & GBRC, Kathy See, Jim & Jim, Chris Warner & Great Basin Institute, Danielle Johnston, Ashley Camhi, Charles Perrings, CiniBrown, Matt Bowker, Mike Duniway, Sasha Reed, Lori Scott & NatureServe, Lila Leatherman, Rachel Hosna, Avery Uslaner, Jenny Shostrand, Carla Roybal, Kate Watters, Molly McCormick, Mark Grover, Jasmine Anenberg, Jessica Hartsell, Rhianna James, Melanie Beckstead, Sheila Murray, Kris Haskins, Barb Phillips, Kevin Grady, Akasha Faist, Jeff Conn, Sheila Davidson, Christine Cimiluca, Jessi Brunson, Dustin Rooks, Amber Hughes, Terry Tolbert, Kara Dohrenwend, Cara Gildar, Leslie Gunn, Vicki Meier, Tiffany Martinez, Pam Riddle, Maria Ulloa Bustos, Verlin Smith, Carol Dawson, Ron Bolander, Marcia Wineteer, Janna Simonsen, Beth Leger, Scott Lambert, John Proctor, Jim Cane, Nora Talkington, Owen Baughman, Kristina Hufford, Dana Blumenthal, Dan LeCain, Bryce Richardson, David Hoover, Ken Holsinger, Barb Phillips, Jan Busco, Benson family, Robby & Walter Henes, Tom Glass, Bill Agnew, The Stevensons, Curt Brown, April Blodgett, Kirsten Quinones, Shannon, Katie, All the Interns, undergrads, techs, volunteers!!

Thanks to:

Colora

do P

latea

u N

ative P

lant P

rogram

BLM

Map: Jenny Shostrand

SDMs Butterfield at al;CSZs Doherty et al 2016

BLM Seed Buy Native Seed Procured (‘09-’13) – CP

14%

14%

42%

11%

1%

18%Bottlebrushsquirreltail - WapitiMuttongrass

Sandberg Bluegrass

Indian Ricegrass -WRWild four o'clock

Sand dropseedMontezuma Co

Source: Paul Krabacher

Documents

Restoration and conservation across Colorado Plateau