Saving Endangered Plants
J.E. Shields (Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:06:24 PDT)

I gave a lick-and-a-promise summary of conservation concerns, somewhat
reflecting those expressed in this forum recently, in my blog today:
http://shieldsgardens.com/Blogs/Garden/…
It is obviously slanted to my own particular interests.

I did not deal with one notion of conservation of rare and endangered
plants (or at least bulbs) that we talked about, namely conservation by
propagation and distribution. I think this is an idea that needs to be
seriously developed. Dynamic preservation as opposed to static
conservation. Active vs. passive. I'm not prepared to deal with this
idea adequately on my own, but I think someone, somewhere, needs to
promulgate this approach and it needs to be introduced into the serious
conservation discussions.

Jim Shields

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