Collection holders
James Waddick (Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:34:19 PDT)

Dear Boyce,
As you know plant conservation - or precisely BULB
conservation - is a topic very close to the core of PBS.

We've had some very tempered, yet expansive discussions
showing widely divergent understanding of the problems. I am sure
this is a topic that will go under discussion of the PBS Board of
Directors. I suspect we will form a committee and review exactly
what we can or should do. I must say that PBS is physically a very
small organization and this is a very large subject to pursue.
Establishing a central clearing house for specialty/ conservation
bulb collections will require quite a bit of work, always a difficult
attribute among volunteers.

I assure you the topic will come to the board and soon.

Meanwhile, I'd like to get a call from members of both this
elist and the paid PBS membership asking for volunteers who might
have some special organizational skills, computer data management and
related abilities. I'd appreciate any related suggestions, but will
mostly keep these in a single 'electronic file' until we have some
discussion among the board if this is project we should agree to use
our limited energies on pursuing.

Please drop me a SHORTnote at jwaddick@kc.rr.com indicating
your specific interests, related abilities and willingness to assist.
We may even call for some increased funding to support the
establishment of a major effort.

Personally I think it is great if we could all work together,
meaning both among the PBS Family and with other agencies such as
NAPCC or the CPC to actually conserve bulbs in cultivation.

Encouragingly Jim W.
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