With these challenging times, it seems appropriate for our annual Year End Appeal to dig a little deeper into the mindset that is the underpinning of Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy. For those of us who love nature and the plants that clothe it, it can be hard not to doom spiral into the seemingly daily twin escalating threats of climate change and unfettered resource exploitation. In the last two years, we have personally observed the impacts of this to alpine areas in Andean Patagonia, the Himalaya in Sikkim, the Tian Shan in Kyrgyzstan, and above tree line in our nearby Olympic Mountains. -> read more
The mission of the Conservancy is to facilitate the acquisition and introduction to North America of threatened and vulnerable ornamental plants of known wild provenance as well as from cultivated sources. These plants will be maintained as a living reference collection for public educational and scientific purposes with the goal of conservation through cultivation via distribution to botanic and public gardens, botanists and researchers plus professional and amateur gardeners and horticulturists.