Garden in the Woods

To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Society's seed collection and then develop a model for selection of populations of regionally rare species for seed banking. This model will be applied to the New England region, and a gap analysis will be performed to identify which taxa and which populations should be collected to complete the collection, to be followed by distribution of the model to seedbanks throughout the United States to assist in defining their seedbank collections. Applicant Match: $22,108.