Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Underground" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Underground</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeedBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeedBanks</span></a> hold promise for ecological <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>restoration</span></a>: <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> science is using natural regeneration to restore western ecosystems <a href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/underground-seed-banks-hold-promise-for-ecological-restoration/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hcn.org/issues/56-3/undergroun</span><span class="invisible">d-seed-banks-hold-promise-for-ecological-restoration/</span></a> </p><p>"At <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/LakeLabish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LakeLabish</span></a>, cattails, tule, willows and wapato grew over thousands of years. Farmers erased evidence of the lake above ground, but belowground, decomposed vegetation that extends some 19 feet back in time preserved <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/seeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seeds</span></a> and roots, retaining both ecological memory and a possible future."</p>