Council for Watershed Health

The Council for Watershed Health proposes to establish a cooperative program to provide watershed-specific native propagules for use in restoration and revitalization projects within the watersheds of Southern California. The program will promote both the protection and the ecological restoration of native plant communities within Southern California watersheds. Beneficiaries of this program include: nursery owners, who will have a reliable source of propagules for growing under contract; landscape professionals, contractors, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies, who will be assured that the locally-native plants they need for restoration work will be available; water agencies, who will benefit from locally-adapted, naturally drought-tolerant native plants for new landscapes; and the public, who will see beautiful spaces bloom once again across the region. We hope the project will serve as a model for propagule collection projects throughout the state.