Learn about the work being done to save thousands of threatened plants via ex situ conservation at FRBC in Port Townsend.  This is a means of conserving plants outside of their native habitat in public and botanical gardens as well as home gardens. 

 

The focus is on vulnerable plants new or rare in North America from foreign and domestic wild collections including key introductions from cultivation in other countries. 

 

Of course there will be some plant hunting vignettes!  Without plants, humans would not exist and to lose a species with its irreplaceable genetics is simply an egregious folly.