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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

For More Information:

www.UPartnership.org info@UPartnership.org