Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding & Protecting Jolon Clarkia

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Heather Schneider, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Jolon Clarkia (Clarkia jolonensis) is an annual wildflower that is endemic to Monterey County, CA. In 2016, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden initiated a multi-year endeavor to help understand, protect and restore Jolon Clarkia. Field surveys of all documented occurrences revealed that the plant is rarer than previously known and […]

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Innovating technological solutions to improve rare plant mapping: a case study with the endangered Santa Cruz Island Dudleya

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Heather E. Schneider, Sean A. Carson, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Documenting the abundance and distribution of rare plants is a critical first step in the the conservation of wild populations. The methods used to map plants on the landscape have changed dramatically over time. Biologists have progressed from providing locality descriptions and marking plant locations […]

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Using Ex-Situ Living Collections to Inform In-Situ Conservation Actions

Heather Schneider, Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens There are times when drying and storing seeds is not an option for the conservation of a plant species. This might be because the seeds cannot survive the freezing process, or maybe because the species no longer produces seeds in the wild. Researchers at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden have […]

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Banking the Diversity of the Golden State

Rare 1B species, San Diego gumplant (Grindellia hallii)

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Lessons Learned from the Kew MSB Seed Conservation Techniques Training Course

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Heather Schneider, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden In the fall of 2017, Dr. Heather Schneider from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden attended the Kew Millennium Seed Bank Partnership’s three-week Seed Conservation Techniques Training Course. The course brought together conservationists from all over the world to improve conservation seed banking practices used by MSB partners. The course […]

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