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Rare plant monitoring and seed collecting
Location: Statewide |
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| Rare Plant Monitor |
Rare Plant Seed Collector |
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Volunteers are the core of the rare plant monitoring program – a multi-year effort to visit known populations of rare plants around the state. Rare plant monitors visit some of the most beautiful ecosystems in Washington State to collect data on rare plant populations.
Program introduction
Volunteer position description
1-day training session (required)
Application deadline
Download an application. |
Trained volunteers contribute to the seed bank by collecting seeds from wild populations of rare native plants. Seed collecting provides an opportunity to deepen your understanding of plant ecology and observe how variations in weather can drastically affect seed maturation rates and timing.
Prerequisite: Training and participation as a rare plant monitor
Volunteer position description
Qualified rare plant monitors must attend a 1-day training session to become rare seed collectors. |
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Also check out the Seeds of Success seed collecting opportunity – no monitoring training necessary! |
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Mountaineers
Instructor Peter McCormick (right)
accompanies Rare Care volunteers as they
follow
a course around the Center for Urban Horticulture
grounds using a handheld GPS unit.
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Mountaineers Instructor James Fairchild
(second
from left) teaches Rare Care volunteers
a technique
for estimating distances that is particularly
handy
when the distance can't be measured directly.
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Training for rare plant monitors and seed collectors
Rare Care offers Rare Plant Monitoring Training
and Seed Collecting Training each spring, as well as occasional other opportunities (such as group monitoring trips) that help strengthen volunteers' skills. Please watch this space for updates:
- July 24-26, 2009: 3rd Annual Monitoring Weekend, Wenatchee Mountains
- February 27, 2010: Rare Plant
Monitoring, Seattle (application deadline
Feb. 5, 2010)
- TBA, 2010 : Navigation training*, Seattle (for Rare Care monitors and seed collectors)
- TBA, 2010 : Rare Seed Collecting, Seattle (prerequisite: rare plant monitoring training)
- TBA, 2010: Rare Plant Monitoring and Rare Seed Collecting, Eastern Cascades Region
*Navigation
Training was offered for the first time in April
2005. Headed by James Fairchild and Lynn Graf, volunteers
from The Mountaineers taught this one-day course.
It has been offered to Rare Care monitors and seed
collectors every spring since then. |
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