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Burned Area Rehabilitation at Whiskeytown
Transcript
Join us as we take a look at two ways. That Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is continuing to work to restore the ecosystem after significant impacts from the car fire across the park. This recovery work is made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-Burned Area Rehabilitation Program. We work for the Great Basin Institute as contractors for the park service. And it's a whole lot of fun because we go on hikes to survey Native plants and invasive plants. And it just feels really rewarding to do all this hard work and be able to actually see the results for all this effort you put in and see such beautiful, like scenery and landscapes while you do it. So today we are doing cut and paint treatments for scotch broom. And the way we're doing it is we cut them as close to the ground as possible. And next, we apply an herbicide mixture to the cut areas. This will make the roots die back, and hopefully the plant will not grow back. So in 2024 Bill Barr allocated funding as part of the California seed strategy to whiskeytown to facilitate container growing and also what's called seed amplification. Over the past few years, we've been growing out our seed collection, protocol and also program where we go and collect native seed sourced from Whiskeytown. And we've acquired enough seed at this point that we're beginning to divert some of our seed resources to our partner, heritage growers, that's in the central valley. And what they do is they take our native collected seed and they will grow it out. Based on our protocols, we only collect about 20% of a population at a time. So that we don't deplete the population of the native stock. And what we do is we collect over the years, and then we send it to heritage growers, and they will grow out that seed for a period of one to five years and then they send us that seed back. And because they're actually farming it and creating ideal conditions for growing those species, they get a lot more seed than they would in wild populations. And we get to use this in post fire restoration in different areas around the park to help combat invasive species, but also help facilitate native plant habitat. This is our collection of stipa lemmonii, which is a type of native grass. This is what they look like pre processed to try to get some of the excess material off so that we can send it off to get a amplified and we can reseed out some areas that have either been affected by fire or other disturbances. Learn more about our Burned Area Rehabilitation projects at nps.gov/whis
Descriptive Transcript
Four national park service crew members walk down a hill holding weeding equipment. Video cuts to two of these crew members stacking invasive plants that have been cut down, followed by a panoramic shot of the area they have just cut these weeds from. The words, “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – Burned Area Rehabilitation program (BIL-BAR)” overlay the landscape of plants and dead trees. The text “Invasive Plant Managment” is animated over a green background. A crew member stands in front of tall green grass and trees, animated text “Kaylie, Great Basin Institute Intern” appears briefly in the lower third of the screen. She describes her job while looking at the camera and referencing to the environment around her with her hands. Video cuts to another crew member, surrounded by lots of plants and trees, witch mountains in the background. He is holding a long sturdy green plant, which he explains is an invasive plant called scotch broom. Animated text reading, “Steven, Great Basin Institute Crew Lead” appears briefly in the lower third of the screen. the video cuts to a different crew member cutting the scotch broom at the base of the plant using loppers. The cut area in then shown up close up. A crew member wearing rubber gloves, uses a syringe to apply a blue liquid herbicide to the stump of the plant. The video cuts again to multiple stumps that have had this herbicide applied to them.
The text “Seed Amplification” is animated over a green background. Video cuts to a National Park Service employee standing in front of golden brush and green trees. Animated text reading, “Chris, Vegetation Ecologist” appears briefly in the lower third of the screen. He remains in this spot while explaining the seed amplification process. Video cuts to a crew member holding unprocessed seeds from a plant called stipa lemmonii. A singular seed is them shown up close, so that you can see the excess material they are going to remove from the seed. The next shot is zoomed out so that you can see the crew member sitting down while taking seed out from the bag. Animated text reading, “Celeste, Great Basin Institute Intern” appears briefly in the lower third of the screen as she begins to explain how they remove the material from the seed. A Montague of clips then plays of the seeds going through a seed process, close-ups include loading the seeds into machine, access material being discarded, and the finished seed. Overtop of the sorted seed, an animated arrowhead logo pops up, and then slides to the side to reveal the text,” Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Visit nps.gov/whis.” The logo then slides back over the text and disappears. The screen goes black as the video ends.
Description
Our team has been working hard to restore the ecosystem after significant impacts from the Carr Fire across the park. This recovery work is made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – Burned Area Rehabilitation program (BIL-BAR).
Check out our video to see first had some of the work being done and hear from the crew behind this progress.
Duration
2 minutes, 52 seconds
Credit
Terese Glasgow
Date Created
10/04/2024
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