To answer some questions on where cyps are coming from: 1. All are being produced as seedlings from capsules collected in National Forest lands. 2. No mature plants will be transplanted. 3. Timber companies who expressed interest proposed to have transplanted seedlings placed or restored to their property as a reintroduction and not as recovered or rescued plants. 4. Despite lengthy time from seed to flowering in situ in forests, the purpose is to increase or reestablish populations which will enable future natural viable groups over some 675,000 acres. 5. We expect reasonable survival rates once plants are transplanted; seeds are local produced and should not require lengthy adaptation as would more northern sourced plants. 6. A botanist from Forest Service has complete control on capsule gathering, choice of flask labs, disposition of seedlings produced, etc. He will survey and select suitable sites. 7. No "free" seedlings will be given to volunteers, nor will seedlings be sold since the whole concept is not to compete with private labs or vendors, but rather, the idea is to insure numbers in National Forest sites are sufficient to allow survival of the species in Texas.
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