Step 1: Selection of Species List

A group of botanists, ecologists and scientists familiar with the species on the Plateau developed a priority list of species that were to be collected.  Species for initial development were screened and field examined to determine that they were the primary plants that occur within the plant communities that have been most altered and would require the most extensive restoration efforts.   These species are also the plants in which seed can be most easily and successfully propagated and reliably reestablished in wildland settings through seeding efforts.