March Speaker Series: Wyoming Native Seed Partnership - Potentials of Wyoming Native Seed
Thu, Mar 26
|Zoom
The Wyoming Native Seed Partnership will share their research into native seed in conservation and reclamation efforts, and their pilot program to recruit and compensate growers for their participation in native seed reclamation programs.
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2026, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM MDT
Zoom
Guests
About the event
Our March Speaker Series will feature Wyoming Native Seed Partnership (A Nature Conservancy in Wyoming project) and the Wyoming Native Plant Nursery, represented by plant scientist Michaela Owens and Nursery Manager Shannon Kelly.
A lack of native seed availability in Wyoming limits restoration and reclamation projects’ ability to successfully provide quality habitat and forage for wildlife. There are many well-known challenges to improving native seed supply, including critical knowledge gaps from seed collection to field establishment. The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming is working to address these knowledge gaps through a holistic approach.
The Wyoming Native Seed Partnership begins by collecting wild seed from high priority species with unknown seed dormancy. In the lab, they evaluate dormancy status and develop dormancy break protocols for each collection. Next, we move the seeds into the field where we sow them at reclamation sites in Wyoming to test their establishment success in significantly disturbed…