Gathering Seeds from Across the Land to Save Them for Potential Future MIgration (via @nytimes)

Botanists Debate the Benefits of Assisted Migration: A Hunt for Seeds to Save Species, Perhaps by Helping Them Move

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/earth/10plant.html

"...scientists from the botanic garden are sending teams out across the Midwest and West to the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin to collect seeds from different populations of 1,500 prairie species by 2010, and from 3,000 species by 2020. The goal is to preserve the species and, depending on changes in climate, perhaps even help species that generally grow near one another to migrate to a new range..."

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