plants & maps
Current Work: Homer Soil & Water Conservation District, Native Plants Program
Ongoing Projects:
- Creating a Native Willow Nursery for Habitat Restoration [ongoing]
- Funded by: ADF&G Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund
- Funded by: ADF&G Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund
- Native Plant Production for Southcentral Alaska [ongoing]
- Funded by: Chugach National Forest Cooperative Agreement,
BLM Plant Conservation and Restoration Management Program
- Funded by: Chugach National Forest Cooperative Agreement,
- Improving Farms with Dual Purpose Native Plant Crops [awarded]
- Funded by: AK DivAg Specialty Crop Block Grant
- Funded by: AK DivAg Specialty Crop Block Grant
- Native Plant Propagation for Streambank Restoration
- Funded by: ConocoPhilips Community Grants Program
Static Resources:
- Reports:
- “Growing Alaska’s Native Plant Sector” [PDF]
- “Growing Alaska’s Native Plant Sector” [PDF]
- Grower Guides:
- “Starting a Native Plant Business in Southcentral Alaska” [PDF]
- Propagation Profiles (updated annually in Q2) [PDF]
Previous Work:
- Kenai Watershed Forum, Restoration Program
- Alaska Center for Conservation Science, Vegetation Program
- Chicago Botanic Garden, Conservation & Land Mgmt Program






Recent and Emerging Methodological Approaches to High-Latitude Vegetation Mapping: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled in Fall 2025 by Bonnie Bernard forGEOG 560: Introduction to Geographic Information Science Photo credit: Bonnie Bernard, all images. Review Papers 1. Stow, D. A., Hope, A., McGuire, D., Verbyla, D., Gamon, J., Huemmrich, F., … & Myneni, R. (2004). Remote sensing… Continue reading