News and Blog Items
Here are some recent and interesting items. Click the link for the full article.
- 6 AGAVES DOMESTICATED BY SOUTHWESTERN INDIGENOUS PEOPLEDBG Garden researchers Wendy Hodgson, Andrew Salywon and volunteer Jane Rosenthal describe six rare domesticated agave species whose clones remarkably can still be found living in ancient agricultural fields in Arizona that have not been tended for hundreds of years.
- Browse the Index of “Plant Press Arizona”All current and back issues of “Plant Press Arizona” have been professionally indexed. A google-like search function is also available on our “Plant Press Arizona” page.
- Bisbee Earns National Wildlife Federation RecognitionSee what a group of Volunteers can accomplish.
- This amazing book is free to download as a PDF“Recognizing Plant Families of the West”. The goal of this 216 page field guide is to enable readers to identify 54 flowering plant families. The focus is on illustrating the field recognition characters with photographs.
- FILM RELEASE – Native Seeds: Supplying RestorationThe International Network for Seed-based Restoration (INSR) is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of “Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration,” a nine-part video series about the native seed supply chain in the Western United States. Episodes will… Read more: FILM RELEASE – Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration