Caribbean Area Plant Materials Initiative Priority Issues

Updated June 27, 2008

Conservation Needs For Which Plant Materials and Technology Are Being Developed:

• Plant establishment techniques and vegetative systems to improve surface and ground water quality.
• Cover crops for highly erodible cropland.
• Vegetative barriers and windbreaks for wind erosion control on cropland.
• Plants and establishment techniques to provide wildlife habitat; stabilize the waterline and upper slopes of ditches, channels, ponds, reservoirs, and small perennial and intermittent streams; and improve water quality with filter strips, buffer strips, and bioengineering.
• Native and introduced plants to improve pasturelands, control noxious weeds, and to stabilize critically eroding areas such as construction sites, road slopes, mine spoils, timber harvest areas, and recreational areas.
• Improved seed mixes and techniques for use after natural disasters in both rural and urban interface areas to control soil erosion.

For additional information related to plants, please contact: Félix Latorres

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