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As climate change, wildfires and other extreme weather events intensify, the demand for native seeds is surging in order to help preserve plant biodiversity. Scientists say regions recovering from wildfires, drought and floods need more native seed plants, but there's a national shortage of seeds. Scientists are now collecting and sharing them.

Researchers are conducting the largest-ever study on greater prairie chickens that spans across Nebraska and Kansas. The study is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Services Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the Kansas Department of Wildfire and Parks.

Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a bill designating the entire Duck River and some of its tributaries as a Class II Pastoral State Scenic River. The new law prohibits mining, commercial logging and landfills within 2 miles of the river and helps protect the animals and plants living in North America’s most biologically diverse river.

World-renowned botanist Peter Raven who turned a minor botanical garden in the U.S. heartland into an international research and conservation powerhouse, died at 89 years old on April 25. As president and director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Raven raised the arboretum to the status of a world-class institution, using it as a base for plant research.

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