April 8, 2006
Rare Plant Monitoring Workshop and Field Work
The Arboretum has been awarded a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant. The main goals are to provide training workshops to Arizona Native Plant Society members and others who would like to volunteer for plant inventories and monitoring. The focus this year is to set up and survey monitoring plots on seven threatened and sensitive plants in Arizona that may be incurring effects from long-term drought.
This workshop will be held Friday, April 21 from 9am to 5pm (please pack a lunch). Our first day in the field to re-survey monitoring plots near Cameron will be the following Monday,April 24.
Topics to be covered are:
-How plant conservation is different from animal conservation
-Various legislation relevant to plant conservation and what agencies do
-Rarity in plants
-Species concepts, taxonomic issues
-Threats to plants
-Population evaluation
-Demography, population viability
-Seed collecting and storage techniques and guidelines
-Specific information on each of the 7 species
The workshop is free, and trainees should anticipate assisting in some field monitoring during the summer and fall.
If you are interested in attending please e-mail Sheila.Murray@nau.edu or call the Arboretum at 774-1442 .
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