3  Seed Banking - Jill Wagner
Channel: ISTF-Global
Date: 2022-08-09

3. Seed banking for scaling restoration
Jill Wagner, Hawaii Island Seed Bank and Future Forests, USA

Seed banking is a conservation tool that can help restoration projects all over the world to scale.  Seed availability is a bottleneck for projects and the way to solve it is for land managers and nursery managers to collect seed regularly and bring it into a seed lab for near and long term restoration, as well as banking for the future.  Proper handling of seed ensures viability and is a powerful tool that increases options and opportunity for land managers.
The criticisms of seed banking from some land managers is that they say they need the seed now, and bring It directly to the nursery for propagation.  They also say that seed banking is expensive and don’t have the staffing, expertise or equipment to do the work.  Ms. Wagner will address these topics in her presentation.