Plant Conservation Resources on the Internet - The Diigo Meta page

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  • Eastern Native Seed Conservancy
     http://www.enscseeds.org/
     

    The Eastern Native Seed Conservancy is a non-profit organization involved  in the preservation of rare, heirloom, and endangered seeds. Two projects  are currently in progress: Conservation and Regional Exchange by Seed Savers  (CRESS) and the Native Seeds Project. The goal of CRESS is to collect and  preserve seeds of Eastern food plants. The Native Seeds Project seeks to collect  and preserve seeds from traditionally cultivated plants and distribute these  seeds to Native Americans. Anyone can order a limited number of seeds from  the catalog or become a participant grower, maintaining one or more varieties.
  • Native Plant Network
     http://nativeplants.for.uidaho.edu/
     

    The Native Plants Network is a partnership of government agencies, universities,  and private companies. The network produces Native Plants Journal,  an open access journal focused on practical information about the cultivation  of North American native plants. Issues from 2000 onward are available in  PDF format. Also available is the Propagation Protocol Database, which contains  propagation information on a variety of native North American species. Anyone  involved in propagation can contribute entries after registering. An assortment  of private, state, federal, and tribal nurseries have contributed thus far.  The database can be searched or browsed by fields such as scientific name,  family, state/province, or nursery. Each entry provides detailed instructions  on how to propagate the plant. There are approximately 2,300 plants in the  database.  

      

    Native Seeds Search
     http://www.nativeseeds.org/
      

    Native Seeds Search preserves and distributes the seeds of more than 2,000  varieties of arid adapted agriculture crops. The organization is involved  in recording cultural and historical information about the crops they are  preserving. The project enlists students from the Navajo and Tohono O'odham  Nations who interview elders about traditional plants. Native Seeds Search  has an online store which sells seeds, books, and foods produced from traditional  plants.
  • Smithsonian Institution Botany & Horticulture Library
     http://www.sil.si.edu/libraries/botany-hp.htm

     

    There are 20 branch libraries in the Smithsonian library system. The Botany  Branch Library houses over 50,000 volumes, and the Horticulture Library houses  more than 5,000 books, 2,700 volumes of periodicals, 10,000 trade catalogs,  and 40 running feet of subject files. These libraries are housed together  and are open to the public. Holdings can be searched using SIRIS  the union catalog of the Smithsonian Libraries. Only staff may borrow materials;  however non-affiliated users may borrow materials through interlibrary loan.
  • United States National Agriculture Library
     http://www.nal.usda.gov/

     

    With more than 3.3 million volumes, the U.S. National Agriculture Library  (NAL) is one of the largest agricultural libraries in the world. The library's  holdings can be searched using the online catalog. NAL materials may be ordered  through the interlibrary loan system. Other NAL resources include more than  a dozen specialized information centers, such as the Food Safety Information  Center and the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center. These centers  contain a variety of resources such as fact sheets, bibliographies, and links.  Agricola is a bibliographic database  of citations to articles, book chapters, short reports, and reprints in a  variety of fields related to agriculture, including plant conservation. Coverage  is from 1970 onward, international in scope, and includes such diverse fields  as nutrition, zoology, population studies, geography and horticulture. Both  Library of Congress and NAL subject headings are used, and can be browsed  using the subject browse feature.

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