Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries - Volume 1: Nursery management

Abstract

In 2001, the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), through its Virtual Center for Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetics Resources (RNGR), invited Native Americans from across the United States to attend the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association annual meeting. About 25 tribal members, representing 20 tribes, attended the meeting at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The following year, a similar meeting was held in Olympia,Washington, and tribal members initiated a Tribal Nursery Council and requested that RNGR facilitate the organization. During 2003, RNGR requested information from 560 tribes across the United States, seeking specific information on tribes' needs for native plants, facilities, training, and so on. Results from the responding 77 tribes were incorporated into the Tribal Nursery Needs Assessment. Based on the results of that questionnaire, and input from tribal members attending the 2003 Intertribal Nursery Council meeting in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, it was agreed that a nursery handbook was needed. That fall, planning began for writing the manual, loosely based on Agriculture Handbook 674, The Container Tree Nursery Manual, but with special attention to the uniqueness of Native American cultures.

Titles contained within Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries - Volume 1: Nursery management

• Planning a native plant nursery [Chapter 1]
• The Target Plant Concept [Chapter 2]
• Planning crops and developing propagation protocols [Chapter 3]
• Propagation environments [Chapter 4]
• Growing media [Chapter 5]
• Containers [Chapter 6]
• Collecting, processing, and storing seeds [Chapter 7]
• Seed germination and sowing options [Chapter 8]
• Vegetative propagation [Chapter 9]
• Water quality and irrigation [Chapter 10]
• Fertilization [Chapter 11]
• Hardening [Chapter 12]
• Harvesting, storing, and shipping [Chapter 13]
• Beneficial microorganisms [Chapter 14]
• Holistic pest management [Chapter 15]
• Nursery management [Chapter 16]
• Discovering ways to improve crop production and plant quality [Chapter 17]

Citation

Dumroese, R. Kasten; Luna, Tara; Landis, Thomas D., editors. 2009. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries - Volume 1: Nursery management. Agriculture Handbook 730. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 302 p.