Policy on Transplanting
Adopted December 1989
Native plants, plant communities and their habitats on public
and private lands are subject to increasing development and use
pressures. Little scientific information is available on the
long-term success of transplanting to mitigate impacts on the
plants. The preponderance of evidence to date demonstrates that
transplanting naturally occurring wild plants does not represent a
successful method of long-term conservation.
Therefore --The California Native Plant Society requests all
responsible agencies and persons involved with the maintenance of
biological diversity and rare plant protection to:
- Develop and implement alternate strategies of plant and
plant community protection that are realistic, well documented
through long term monitoring, and aimed at the continued
success of establishing and enhancing viable populations of
rare plants, plant communities, and their habitats, and
- Use transplanting of such plants only as a mitigation method
of last recourse.
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