| | Bridger Plant Materials CenterBridger, Montana Established 1959
The Bridger Plant Materials Center (MTPMC) provides plant solutions for the diverse ecosystems of Montana and Wyoming. The topography ranges from the mountains in western Montana and Wyoming, to rolling flat plains, desert basins, and plateaus in the remaining areas. Mining, agriculture, tourism, and forest products continue to be the basic industries, utilizing the vast majority of the land in Montana and Wyoming. The Center focuses on the need to reduce soil erosion from cropland, improve cropland soil quality, extend the grazing periods, provide species diversity in reclaiming and reseeding rangeland, reduce erosion and noxious weed invasion after timber harvest and forest fires, assist Native Americans with identification and establishment of culturally significant plants, develop propagation and production techniques for threatened and endangered species, increase forage production, revegetate heavy-metal contaminated soils and acid soils, and reclaim saline seeps and salinized irrigated cropland. New plant solutions have been developed for extending livestock grazing periods, low-water landscaping, restoring woody plants to native range, propagating threatened species and culturally significant plants, and reclaiming disturbed areas from mining, wildfire, and road construction. The Bridger Plant Materials Center has selected and released over 30 conservation grasses, forbs, and shrubs extensively used throughout the northern plains. Contact98 South River Rd
Bridger, MT 59014-9718 Telephone: 406.662.3579
FAX: 406.662.3428
Email: Joseph.Scianna@mt.usda.gov | | |
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