Forest Service Rare Plant Partnerships 2024 Awardees Announced

  • Country

    United States of America

  • Region

    North America

  • Programme

    BGCI

  • Workstream

    Addressing Global Challenges

  • Topic

    Services for Botanic Gardens

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    News

  • Source

    BGCI
News Published: 15 February 2024
Funds to support rare plant species on USDA Forest Service Land awarded

BGCI-US is pleased to announce the awardees for the 2024 Forest Service Rare Plant Partnerships which support conservation action by botanic gardens for rare plant species that occur on USDA Forest Service land, in the U.S. and U.S. territories. 

 This is the second round of these partnership awards, which are made possible through a cooperative agreement between the Forest Service and BGCI-US. BGCI-US would like to acknowledge the wonderful collaboration of The Center for Plant Conservation and the Chicago Botanic Garden in helping to facilitate this initiative. 

 Awardees have one year to complete the projects and are awarded between $5,000 and $10,000. Conservation action ranges from seed and DNA tissue collection and banking to the development of propagation protocols. Congratulations to the partnership recipients! 

 

The recipients of the 2024 Partnerships are:

 

Institution  Project Title
San Diego Botanic Garden, California Enhancing the integrated conservation of three plant taxa of conservation concern occurring in Cleveland National Forest 
California Botanic Garden, California Ex-situ conservation strategies for rare alpine plants in California and Nevada 
Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia Seed banking endemic orchids in the El Yunque National Forest
Southeastern Grasslands Institute, Virginia Seed banking globally rare grassland plants of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests 
Chicago Botanic Garden, Illinois Preservation of seed and mycorrhizae of Wisconsin’s orchids 
Eye on the Rainforest, Puerto Rico Conservation of Ravenia urbani, a rare endemic 

San Diego Botanic Garden_Thermopsis californica var. semota

Chicago Botanic Garden_ Wisconsin's orchids

California Botanic Garden_Polemonium

Atlanta Botanical Garden_Lepanthes rupestris (Photo Jason Ligon)

Eye on the Rainforest_Ravenia Flower

Southeastern Grasslands Institute_Clematis viticaulis (photocredit Bert Harris)

The Forest Service Rare Plant Partnership grants are part of the Global Botanic Garden Fund which drives plant conservation across the globe.

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