Catawba River Cane Restoration and Conservation

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USET is hosting a webinar featuring Catawba Indian Nation’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to will share progress and lessons learned from initiatives focused on restoring culturally and ecologically significant plants, including Giant Rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea), Schweinitz’s Sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii), Georgia Aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum) and Sacred Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica). Together, these efforts aim to strengthen the Nation’s stewardship of natural and cultural resources, ensuring that traditional practices can be sustained for generations to come. The webinar will provide participants with an overview of how rivercane restoration improves riparian buffers, enhances water quality, and preserves a resource long used by the Catawba people for cultural and craft traditions. It will also showcase the Nation’s work monitoring culturally significant plants, including those tied to the recovery of Schweinitz’s Sunflower, a federally endangered species in the Carolina Piedmont.

Courtney Skeldon, Wildlife & Habitat Stewardship Program Manager for the Catawba Nation, will…