Ed Kleiner, founder of Comstock Seed (https://www.comstockseed.com/), which collects native plant seed, will talk about wildland seed collecting. He has been working in El Dorado County since last year and is now working in the Georgetown to Union Valley area. Topics he will cover include importance and increased use of local seed to preserve local genetic diversity, importance of seed collection post-fire and role of plants that are fire-followers, and seed collection tools and techniques.