ghostsofevolution | Free-Planting Climate-Endangered Florida Torreya - 2018 Update @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded December 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Given governmental budgetary constraints, it is unlikely that full recovery and delisting of the endangered Torreya taxifolia tree can be accomplished in labor-intensive and costly ways (e.g., producing potted seedlings and later transporting them to and planting them in ultimate destinations northward of their peak glacial refuge in Florida).
Accordingly, it is vital to ascertain best practices for safely, yet inexpensively, introducing seeds directly into forest habitats — without first germinating them in protected settings (such as wire-protected soil beds or pots in botanical gardens).
Since 2013, a growing number of Torreya Guardians have been legally experimenting (beyond the constraints of the governmentally sanctioned recovery plan, which will be updated in 2019) with techniques for skipping the potted seedling step in Torreya propagation. Instead, harvested seeds are being put directly into forest habitats as their ultimate destinations. Torreya Guardians founder Connie Barlow has been the chief proponent of "free-planting" experiments and has been photo- and video-documenting ongoing results. Visit the Torreya Guardians Free-Planting webpage: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/freep...
Access all VIDEOS in the Torreya Guardians series: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...
Two WIKIPEDIA pages put the citizen efforts of Torreya Guardians in context of the overall need for "assisted migration" poleward of native trees:
"Assisted Migration of Forests in North America" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration_of_forests_in_North_America
"Torreya Guardians" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya_Guardians
Given governmental budgetary constraints, it is unlikely that full recovery and delisting of the endangered Torreya taxifolia tree can be accomplished in labor-intensive and costly ways (e.g., producing potted seedlings and later transporting them to and planting them in ultimate destinations northward of their peak glacial refuge in Florida).
Accordingly, it is vital to ascertain best practices for safely, yet inexpensively, introducing seeds directly into forest habitats — without first germinating them in protected settings (such as wire-protected soil beds or pots in botanical gardens).
Since 2013, a growing number of Torreya Guardians have been legally experimenting (beyond the constraints of the governmentally sanctioned recovery plan, which will be updated in 2019) with techniques for skipping the potted seedling step in Torreya propagation. Instead, harvested seeds are being put directly into forest habitats as their ultimate destinations. Torreya Guardians founder Connie Barlow has been the chief proponent of "free-planting" experiments and has been photo- and video-documenting ongoing results. Visit the Torreya Guardians Free-Planting webpage: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/freep...
Access all VIDEOS in the Torreya Guardians series: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...
Two WIKIPEDIA pages put the citizen efforts of Torreya Guardians in context of the overall need for "assisted migration" poleward of native trees:
"Assisted Migration of Forests in North America" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration_of_forests_in_North_America
"Torreya Guardians" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreya_Guardians
