[pbs] Fwd: Establishing taxa as "present"
J.E. Shields
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Thu Aug 28 21:28:29 EDT 2008
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>Subject: Establishing taxa as "present"
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:20:37 -0400
>
>
>To the members of IHSEA -
>
>Once the latest standard from NAPPO (RSPM No. 32) is published in October,
>it will require that the participating countries of Canada, Mexico, and
>the United States establish a screening process for all new plant taxa,
>which will effectively act as an import barrier into those countries.
>Eventually, this RSPM will be the basis of a similar international
>standard, under the IPPC and will affect all countries (or at least those
>that are signatories to the IPPC, close to 200 nations).
>The standard demands that countries enact new regulations/legislation
>requiring screening on all future introductions for potential
>invasiveness. The screening process would be a form of Weed Risk
>Assessment which would have to be completed on any taxon that is not
>already present in the country before it will be permitted to enter (be
>imported).
>
>If horticultural societies are to continue to operate seed exchanges, they
>must be capable of importing seeds from donors in other countries, as well
>as distributing their seeds to members in other countries. Therefore, it
>is crucial that we make certain that each country has the largest possible
>database of plants as already existing within its borders. Every
>specialist plant society must work to see that all its taxa are considered
>to be "already present" in its own, and possibly other,
>countries. National governmental plant protection organizations (like
>APHIS in the US, DEFRA in the UK, CFIA in Canada.....) must be persuaded
>that although these plants are not present in commercial Big Box
>quantities, they are being grown in both private and public gardens and
>offered by the endless array of small specialist nurseries.
>(Handling the proposed screening of new items will be another problem, for
>another day)
>
>In the United States, a new project to write a comprehensive "Flora of
>Cultivated Plants" is beginning, headed by Dr. Tom Elias, Director of the
>National Arboretum. Fortunately, he sees the point of including plants
>listed in seed exchanges. He is interested in the seed database that NARGS
>currently operates, and my guess is that he would also include the taxa
>from other organizations' databases, so that as many genera could be
>covered in as great a depth as possible.
>-> If other US-based societies would be interested in having the plants in
>their seed exchange databases included in the Flora, please contact me.
>
>My personal feeling is also that, since so many societies based in other
>countries have US members, there is a fair chance that the taxa listed in
>their exchanges have made their way into US gardens and nurseries.
>Therefore, taxa listed on almost any seedlist should be considered as
>being cultivated in the US.
>-> If I can move the Flora's committee to this way of thinking about the
>globalness of horticulture, would other societies, in other countries
>(especially Canada and the UK), be interested in having their databases
>included?
>
>I am on the contact list for this project and will attend its next meeting
>(not yet scheduled). It would ultimately be helpful to everyone if I can
>take a complete record of ALL the plants that we assume are being grown
>in the US.....from all sources. Let me hear your thoughts on this
>issue. Please contact me with questions - and, especially offers - either
>through this list or privately.
>
>Thank you -
>Joyce
>
>
>Joyce Fingerut
>
>Government Liaison,
>
>North American Rock Garden Society
>
><http://www.nargs.org>http://www.nargs.org
>
>Member organization:
>
>International Horticultural Seed Exchange Advocacy (IHSEA)
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