 It's magic. It's that quick little solution that creates huge benefits. It's magnificent. It's awesome. It has such creativity because of our people, because of the knowledge that they have. We are inquisitive, steadfast and innovative. The plant materials program is beneficial. We do rely on that base of expertise. The Plant Materials Center started during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and the entire six, seven decades since. So they've been involved with developing plant materials to solve conservation problems, whether it's soil erosion from wind or water, or restoring disturbed lands. The NRCS Plant Materials program really has its roots in the beginnings of the agency, the old soil conservation service. There was a lot of wisdom that went into the architecture of that agency, based primarily on soil surveys, snow surveys, plant materials and conservation planning. Plant materials being one of the basic programs that was originally authorized looked at the fact that if we were going to do conservation in this country, we had to try to mirror what the good Lord did when he made this world, and that is put a cover on the soil. The Plant Materials program evaluates conservation plant performance in real-world situations. A superfund site in the east, a dairy farm in the upper Midwest, a native landscaping project in the Rocky Mountains. Each plant materials center finds plant solutions for their region of the country. For example, the Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center in Louisiana is studying the ongoing disappearance of marshlands along the Gulf Coast. The current project, called the Maritime Forest Ridge, will be 8 feet in elevation and 400 feet wide. It will provide the port with much-needed protection from the rough seas. To ensure the ridge's success, Augu has called in the experts from the Golden Meadow Plant Center. We bring plants from the wild and we bring them here to look at them and see how to grow them and then take them back out to the wild. Gary Fine, director of the Golden Meadow Center and his staff, search for native coastal plants that are well adapted and able to survive in the harsh wetland environment. Our facility exists on 90 acres. We have 26 constructed ponds that we do much of our work in for evaluation of plant materials. Probably at the present we have about in the range of 60,000 containerized plant materials that we're growing out for studies throughout the coastal region. The plant material program helped me do my job by taking the guesswork out of what will work out there or not. They provide me the information, the tools that basically, so when I meet with the landowner, the confidence that I can share with him that these plants will grow well out there. Nurseries and commercial seed growers rely on the Plant Materials program to provide conservation plant releases not found anywhere else and the guidance on how to successfully grow them. The program works through a network of 26 plant material centers serving all 50 states and U.S. territories. From the conservation programs of the Farm Bill to community responses to natural disasters, the Plant Materials program provides plants and conservation technology to heal the landscape after droughts and floods, hurricanes and wildfire. Roughly a third of our ranch was taken, the grazing area was burned off and it couldn't have come up better. I don't think there was a grain of seed that didn't hatch. Planting grasses along the New Jersey coastline, improving grasses for livestock grazing in Georgia and biofuel production in Mississippi, establishing native wildflowers along Iowa highways, restoring upland bird habitat in Texas, preventing invasive species in Glacier National Park in Montana and in Yosemite National Park in California. All across the landscape you can see the first 70 years of the Plant Materials program's success. What about the next 70 years? In the future for the Plant Materials program, we need to emphasize on the concerns that are happening now. For example, carbon sequestration, air quality is a big issue. We need to do a good job of recruiting new individuals with new ideas. Thank you.