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Uncompahgre Partnership Native Plant Program
Landscape Scale Collaboration & Restoration in Western Colorado
Why Are We Here?
What is the Uncompahgre Partnership?
• A landscape collaborative consisting of many partners
• Assists in coordinating, funding, and facilitating restoration activities across jurisdictional boundaries
UP Mission StatementTo develop a collaborative approach to
improve the ecosystem health and natural functions of the landscape, using best
available science, community input and adaptive management.
NATIVE PLANT PROGRAM
To facilitate the collection and propagation of species native to the Colorado Plateau for
use in the restoration of native plant communities on public and private lands.
Goal of the UP Native Plant Program
Expansion of the Program
2002 2005
Uncompahgre Plateau Upper Colorado Plateau Region
2009
Colorado Plateau Native Plant Initiative
Uncompahgre PlateauProject
Pueblo
Montrose
GrandJunction
Durango
Denver
ColoradoSprings
UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU PROJECT
PUBLIC LANDSPARTNERSHIP
BLM Wilderness
FS Wilderness
NPS Wilderness
BLM
CDOW
Forest Service
NPS
Private
StateNo warranty is made on the accuracy, reliability and completeness of these data for individual use or
aggregate use with other data.
0 50
Miles
Wildland Collection
From 2003 – 2008, 387 separate wildland seed collections were made of over 50 species on and around the Uncompahgre Plateau, western Colorado, and in eastern Utah.
Native Plant Process
• Collected 50 species• Cultivation Studies
– 18 species
• Life History– 11 species
• Foundation Fields– 15 species
• Seed Increaser Plots– 31 species
Studies & Propagation
Native Plant Program Cooperators • Bureau of Land Management, UT
and CO• US Forest Service, Region 2 and 4• Utah Div. of Wildlife Resources• Colorado Div. of Wildlife• Snow College, UT• Brigham Young Univ., UT• Utah State Univ., UT• USFS Lone Peak Nursery, UT• USFS Lucky Peak Nursery, ID• Colorado State Univ.-Rogers Mesa
and Yellow Jacket Research Facilities
• Upper Colorado Env. Plant Materials Center – Meeker, CO
• Great Basin Research Center, UT• Commercial Growers
Native Plant Video
• To educate land managers/staff on the benefits of using natives
• To encourage advanced planning and consolidated purchases
• I’d love your ideas: see me at a break or dinner
Grasses Released to Commercial Growers
Poa secunda
Forbs Released to Commercial Growers
Sim’s Mesa
• Upper CO Plant Center did a comparison study at Sim’s Mesa
• Field Trip: look at results• Possibly June: if you’re interested, give
Jim Free or Leigh your email
Awards
• 2012 Forest Service Chief’s Award• Regional Forester’s Partner Appreciation Award
for Sustaining Forests and Grasslands• 2011 Colorado Weed Management Association
Partnership of the Year Award • 2006 US Forest Service Regional Honor Caring
for the Land Stewardship Award• CO Chapter of Wildlife Society Outstanding
Achievement Award• National Fire Plan Award• Secretary of the Interior’s Four C’s Award
