{"id":956,"date":"2022-05-25T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/2022\/05\/25\/hear-about-the-akwesasne-native-plant-nursery-addressing-the-tree-stock-shortage\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:49:12","slug":"hear-about-the-akwesasne-native-plant-nursery-addressing-the-tree-stock-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/2022\/05\/25\/hear-about-the-akwesasne-native-plant-nursery-addressing-the-tree-stock-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear About the Akwesasne Native Plant Nursery: Addressing the Tree Stock Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tEnjoy the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/watershed-forestry-partnership\/restoration-roundup-podcast\/addressing-native-tree-stock-shortage\">May\u00a0episode of the \u201cRestoration Roundup\u201d podcast<\/a>\u00a0which addresses a topic first introduced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/watershed-forestry-partnership\/restoration-roundup-podcast\/vermonts-native-tree-stock-shortage\">October episode<\/a>\u2014the shortage of native stock available for restoration plantings in Vermont, the surrounding region, and beyond. In order to support future forest restoration projects along our waterways, more nurseries are essential to provide the necessary tree and shrub species for planting.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the ninth episode of Restoration Roundup, Alison Adams and Liz Woodhull, \u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/outreach\/watershed-forestry-partnership\">Watershed Forestry Partnership<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\">Lake Champlain Sea Grant<\/a>, speak with Jessica Raspitha and McKay Burley of the new Akwesasne Native Plant Nursery in St. Regis, New York. Jessica manages the Land Resources Program of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe\u2019s Environment Division and is a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. McKay is the newest addition to St. Regis Mohawk Tribe&#8217;s Land Resources Program as the plant nursery technician.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLearn about how they got the nursery up and running, their goals for the nursery, and how they maintain support from community members. Also, hear about the important role the nursery will play in preserving culturally-important species, like sweetgrass and black ash, a tree seriously threatened by the arrival of emerald ash borer in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tListen to this podcast and many others on Lake Champlain Sea Grant&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/watershed-forestry-partnership\/restoration-roundup-podcast\">Watershed Forestry Partnership Restoration Roundup Podcast webpage<\/a>\u00a0or find the episode on most podcast streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Restoration Roundup podcast, released on the last Wednesday of each month, is supported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neiwpcc.org\/\">NEIWPCC<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcbp.org\/\">Lake Champlain Basin Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy the\u00a0May\u00a0episode of the \u201cRestoration Roundup\u201d podcast\u00a0which addresses a topic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}