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OUR IMPACT
The Native Plant Materials Program has propagated 50,000 plants spanning 200 native species for retail sales and restoration projects.
BRN Seed Lab currently house over 800 collections of seed that represent over 130 species, from public and private lands.
Over 2,400 individual native seed collections have been made and used in restoration projects on public and private land.
Borderlands Earth Care Youth (BECY) has graduated 133 youth over the life of the program.
The Watershed Restoration Program has restored roughly 500 acres of public and private land across the southwest, planting over 2,500 native plants, retaining an estimated 1140 tons of sediment, improving hydrologic and soil conditions to enhance wildlife habitat, and recharging shallow groundwater sources.
BRN employs 15 full-time employees, 7 part-time employees averaging between 18-24 employees in total through the year.
BRN has worked and continues to work with over 60 program partners to cary out our mission.
The Native Plant Program has worked with over 400 species of native plants throughout our program history.
RESTORATIVE ECONOMY:
A restorative economy creates a synergy between human economic activity and natural systems to build a more prosperous and socially-just local economy. Standing in contrast to an extractive economy, which depletes resources, degrades ecological processes and decreases biodiversity. A restorative economy works to regenerate resources, enhance processes and increase biodiversity.