{"id":1348,"date":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-534\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:43","slug":"innovation-anthology-534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2013\/02\/14\/innovation-anthology-534\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #534:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 534.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAfter 30 years, a dream has come true for plant specialist <b>Ann Smreciu <\/b>of Wild Rose Consulting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s a <b>boreal seed banking<\/b> program called the <b>Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Ann explains, six oil sands companies have joined forces to harvest seeds from native plants for future reclamation.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nANN SMRECIU: <\/b><em>As the oil sands development grows up in northeastern part of the province, larger and larger tracts of land are being disturbed. In order to reclaim these, we&#8217;re going to need many of the native plants that exist in the boreal forest now.  And we would like to ensure that not only do we save the individual species, but that we save some of the genetic diversity. That\u2019s what makes a species resilient to being preserved over time. As the area of disturbance increases, certainly there are fewer and fewer natural areas in which to harvest the seed.   And one of the things that we try and do is not create problems by over-harvesting natural areas. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeeds collected by Ann Smreciu and her colleagues will be cleaned and then stored for up to 30 years at a special provincial seed bank in Smoky Lake, Alberta.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02013-02-14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 30 years, a dream has come true for plant specialist<b> Ann Smreciu<\/b> of Wild Rose Consulting.  That\u2019s a <b>boreal seed banking<\/b> program  called the <b>Oil Sands Vegetation  Cooperative.<\/b>  As Ann explains, six oil sands companies have joined forces to harvest seeds from native plants for future reclamation. <em>(Syncrude Canada Ltd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,59,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forests","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/534Ann_Smreciu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}