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Conservation Champion: Jim Locklear

Posted on February 6, 2023 (February 7, 2023) by Shannon Fowler

Image of sandsage prairie in Lipscomb County, Texas.

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October News 2021

Posted on September 29, 2021 (October 1, 2021) by Center for Plant Conservation

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The Conservation Garden of the Great Plains | Lauritzen Gardens

Posted on September 28, 2021 (October 1, 2021) by Center for Plant Conservation

Image of Lauritzen Gardens Visitor and Education Center and the Marjorie K. Daugherty Conservatory

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Conservation on the Home Front

Jim Locklear, Lauritzen Gardens Lauritzen Gardens is dedicated to the conservation of plants and the biological diversity they support. Seed banking projects and rare plant surveys are major elements of our conservation program, but the subjects of this work are mostly obscure species growing in remote settings in faraway places. Having an on-site component to our […]

Adopting a Cinderella Ecosystem: A Tale from the Great Plains

While our plant conservation work is primarily focused on individual at-risk species, Lauritzen Gardens has taken on an unanticipated role as authority and advocate for one of our region’s most biodiverse but underappreciated ecological systems. Sandsage prairie is a shrub-steppe community dominated by sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia). Sandsage prairie occupies an estimated 5 million hectares […]