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Nationwide Program Helping Restore and Sustain Healthy Natural Ecosystems

Dan Environment, This Land of Ours, USDA-NRCS

The nationwide program helping restore and sustain healthy natural ecosystems.  That’s coming up on This Land of Ours.

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Photo of mixed specie cover crop in bloom.
Jimmy Carter Plant Materials Center (GAPMC)
Serving areas in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
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Lockeford Plant Materials Center (CAPMC)
Serving the State of California
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Brooksville Plant Materials Center (FLPMC)
Serving states in the Southeast and the Territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
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Warm Season Cover Crop Field Day held at the Lockeford Plant Materials Center in August 2018. There were 60 attendees including Service center staff, who brought producers to the event.

The National Resources Conservation Service – or NRCS – operates 25 Plant Materials Centers, each based in ecologically distinct areas.  The purpose of the Plant Materials Center is to assemble, evaluate, and release new plant materials for conservation use.  As well as determining techniques for their successful use, providing for their commercial increase, and promoting the use of plant materials needed to meet the objectives of the National Conservation Program.

Every year an annual report is published with new plant materials developments, studies, and the results of activities or studies. As a whole, the reports can serve as a gauge of what resource needs are predominant in a particular area of the country and/or provide an illustration of the breadth of activities that occur at Plant Materials Centers.

More information can often be found at NRCS.USDA.gov.

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Nationwide Program Helping Restore and Sustain Healthy Natural Ecosystems