The Council for Watershed Health proposes to establish a cooperative program to privude watershed-specific native propagules for use in restoration and revitalization projects within the watersheds of southern California. The program will promote both the protection and the ecological restoration of native plant communities within southern California watersheds. Beneficiaries of this program include; landscape professionals, contracts, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies, who will assured that the locally-native plants they need for restoration work will be available; water agencies, who will benefit from locally-adapted, naturally drought tolerant native plants for new landscapes; and the public, who will see beautiful spaces bloom once again along the rivers. We hope the project will serve as a model for propagule collection projects throughout the state.

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 from 10:00AM to 12:00PM at the Metropolitan Water District Building.