Celebrate National Public Lands Day by collecting seeds for wildfire rehabilitation
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WORLAND, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office will partner with the community on Saturday, Sept. 30, for a public land conservation project in celebration of National Public Lands Day.
Volunteers are invited to spend a couple hours collecting native plant seeds. The collected seeds will be planted during next year’s NPLD event to rehabilitate public land burned in August by the Banjo Fire.
“Because of local adaptation, these seeds have a higher chance of survival than seeds grown or collected in a different geographic region under different environmental conditions,” said BLM Outdoor Recreation Planner Hannah Fortney.
Participants will meet at the BLM Worland Field Office parking lot at 8:30 a.m. to carpool and caravan to the seed collection site off the Nowater Trail Road south of Worland. Wear closed-toe shoes and bring water and gloves.
Volunteers will receive a free brown bag lunch, a National Public Lands Day Volunteer shirt and a hat.
NPLD began in 1994 with three sites and 700 volunteers. Since then, the event has grown by leaps and bounds and is now the nation's largest, single-day volunteer effort for the care of public lands. In 2013, the 20th anniversary of NPLD, about 175,000 volunteers worked at 2,237 sites in every state, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico.
“Events like this are valuable and I hope volunteers join us and take this morning to enjoy the great outdoors,” said Fortney.
For more information, contact Fortney at 307-347-5100 or hfortney@blm.gov. For more information about NPLD visit www.publiclandsday.org or www.facebook.com/nationalpubliclandsday. Tweet about your NPLD experience on Twitter with the hashtag #NPLD or @PublicLandsDay.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.