BLM Botanist Plants New Tree of Knowledge at Little Big Horn College : 無料・フリー素材/写真
BLM Botanist Plants New Tree of Knowledge at Little Big Horn College / mypubliclands
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| 説明 | “Rosehips are a fruit that come from a different type of flower called a hypanthium,” explains BLM Montana/Dakota State Office Botanist Wendy Velman to a group of students who are leaning in to inspect the small berry Wendy holds in her hand. Sitting along a small tree line, Wendy and about ten students gather to learn what a botanist’s life is like in the field. Wendy closely examines a sample and explains the painstaking process of properly identifying and cataloging plants.Not only will this be the first sample collection for many of these students, it also is the very first time any student at the Crow Reservation’s Little Big Horn College has collected samples that will stay with the school.“We collected field data and we went through and collected the actual seeds, so we got about three or four thousand seeds collected in about 20 minutes,” said Velman. “Some of these seeds will actually become property of the college and used in their program we’re trying to get started about native plant growth of culturally significant species.”The chokecherries and Woods Wild Rose seeds collected near the college are also important to Sage-Grouse habitat, another benefit for partners like the BLM and Natural Resource Conservation Service. “This is also a ‘Seeds for Success’ collection,” explains Wendy. “That means that some of the seeds will stay here to help train the next generation of conservationists. The rest will be deposited into the national repository for the ‘Seeds of Success’ program. Herbarium specimens collected will be sent to the Smithsonian Institute, the BLM herbarium in Billings, and the closet land grant university, which in this case is Montana State.” Eventually, Wendy would like to return to the Crow Reservation and replant native species to help keep the cultural heritage alive and restore habitats for species like the Sage-Grouse. As for today, it’s all about the science and education.“We are literally using this as the seed to plant the interest in students to start a conservation education.”You can learn more about Little Big Horn College at www.lbhc.edu and the Seeds of Success Program at www.blm.gov/SOSStory and photo by Brad Purdy, BLM Montana/ Dakotas State Office Public Affairs. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-09-24 02:58:33 |
| 撮影者 | mypubliclands |
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| カメラ | NIKON D5200 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/2000) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 18 mm |