Great Basin Reseach Center and Seed Warehouse: Providing Seed for Restoration and Beyond
Kevin Gunnell1
1Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Great Basin Research Center and Seed Warehouse, Ephraim, UT, USA; kevingunnell@utah.gov
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) Great Basin Research Center and Seed Warehouse (GBRC) is a unique facility to the western U.S. Built in 2004 in collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service and State of Utah, the GBRC is managed by the UDWR as a ‘one stop shop’ to provide seed, equipment, technical expertise, and research to support restoration efforts throughout the state of Utah. The GBRC plays a central role in Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI). Initiated in 2006, the WRI is a large scale partnership based program to improve high priority watersheds throughout the State of Utah through on the ground, grassroots designed and driven projects. This presentation will provide an overview of the WRI, how the operations of the GBRC seed warehouse are incorporated within that initiative, and the various other projects at the GBRC that influence how seed is procured and provided to restoration projects throughout the intermountain west.