After massive winter downpours, conservationists in California are eager to gather desert seeds as an insurance policy against a hotter and drier future.
1 of 18Madena Asbell, director of plant conservation programs at the Mojave Desert Land Trust, collects seeds to preserve desert plants after the winter’s historic rains, Wednesday, June 12, 2023, in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree, Calif. Volunteer and resident Thomas Rottman stands behind Asbell. Previously, years of drought damped the prospect of collection.
Joshua Trees burn in the York Fire, Sunday, July 30, 2023, in the Mojave National Preserve, Calif. Crews battled “fire whirls” in California’s Mojave National Preserve as a massive wildfire crossed into Nevada amid dangerously high temperatures and raging winds. Seeds long have been banked throughout the United States in a wide range of habitats.
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