Seed Zones & Population Movement Guidelines: Concepts & Tools
Webinar Details
When:
May 24, 2017 12:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 00:47 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Brad St. Clair, Research Geneticist, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
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The third of the Eastern Seed Zone Forum's online lecture and discussion hours aimed at providing both information about the creation of seed zones in general and a forum in which professionals, experts, and interested parties discuss the possibility of drafting seed zone guidelines for the eastern United States.
Please join the USDA Forest Service Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetics Resources team for its third discussion about what it will take to create seed zone guidelines to serve as tools for improved collaborations and partnership in the region. Dr. Brad St. Clair, Research Geneticist with the Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, presents a general background on approaches to population movement options including fixed-boundary seed zones and floating-point seed movement guidelines. The second part of his lecture will introduce the Seedlot Selection Tool (SST), a web-based mapping application designed to help natural resource managers match seedlots (seed collections from a known origin) with planting sites based on climatic information. The SST is an option for determining how to bulk seed collections for processing, storage and grow-out, and Dr. St. Clair will demonstrate how to use it to determine where to deploy seedlots including considering options for responding to concerns about climate change. After the lecture, participants will share their own expertise and have further opportunities to get involved in the effort.
About Dr. Brad St. Clair
Dr. Brad St. Clair's research is primarily aimed at understanding the genetic basis of how plants are adapted to their environments. He is currently focused on exploring responses of Douglas-fir populations from a wide range of source environments planted in a reciprocal transplant study using a wide range of test site environments. Dr. St. Clair received his PhD in Forest Genetics from Oregon State University.
About the ESZF
The National Forest System needs your help to develop seed zones for the eastern United States! With the input of forestry and natural resource professionals like you, these seed zones have the potential to provide a common frame of reference for nurseries, arboreta, state and federal agencies, and other natural resource organizations to address sustainable forest management and ecosystem restoration challenges across regional and political boundaries.
* Please note: our objective is NOT to create recommendations for moving seed across the landscape, also known as "seed transfer guidelines." The science of seed transfer is not within the scope of this project. Instead, our primary goal is to develop a common lexicon for discussing locality across administrative barriers. This work will aid land managers who wish to move seed in the future for assisted migration.
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