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Our program tonight was by Minnette Marr, Conservation Program Manager at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Minnette presented Seeds for Education and Outreach sharing information on collecting and saving seeds.
Minnette has an interesting background being involved with wetland restoration at Aquarena Springs on the San Marcos River in San Marcos and the Regional Seed bank. Now she is involved with Education and Outreach at LBJWC.
She taught us how to save native seeds, how to store them and how to use them in sensitive areas. We learned to determine a plant’s conservation status by looking at www.NatureServe.org. She went on to tell us how to collect a variety of seeds from the same species to get the most diversity and how to collect seeds from Threatened (S2) or Endangered (S1) species.
Minnette is obviously passionate about her work and gives many others a desire to save seeds important to the biodiversity of our environment. You can contact her through the LBJWC or on iNaturalist (www.inaturalist.org/people/beeblossomseeds).
View Minnette’s presentation below.
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You can see the November 14, 2019 business presentation slides here.
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