We have monthly programs on the 3rd Friday of each month from September through May at 5:00 p.m. in the Cochise County Community Development Office conference room, 4001 Foothills Dr. (corner of Highway 92 and Foothills), Sierra Vista. The Chapter has established a Facebook website where much useful information about the chapter and its members is posted.
Chapter Leadership
Name
Role
Contact
Doug Ripley
President
jdougripley@gmail.com
Elliott Hendricks
Vice President
emhndrks@yahoo.com
Deanna Sanner
Secretary
longeyes1@msn.com
Pat Sullivan
Treasurer
patolisa@cox.net
Volunteering Opportunities
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Chapter News
Cochise Chapter: Sue Carnahan Presents “Diversity in a Grassland: Flora of the Salero Ranch” (YouTube)
Posted on Jan 23, 2021
Sue Carnahan’s presentation at the January 15, 2021 meeting of the Cochise Chapter is now available on YouTube. She discusses about the Salero Ranch, located in Santa Cruz County in southeastern Arizona, and her efforts to catalog nearly 800 plant species in the area.
Join us for these upcoming meetings via Zoom!
Posted on Jan 13, 2021
We will continue our remote meetings at least into early 2021 on the third Friday of each month at 7:00 PM. To attend a meeting please send an email to Doug Ripley (jdougripley@gmail.com) requesting an attendance link which he will email to you.
Friday, January 15, 2021: Sue Carnahan, University of Arizona Herbarium, Arizona Native Plant Society. Diversity in a Grassland: Flora of the Salero Ranch, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Sue Carnaghan, Arizona botanist extraordinaire, will present the results of her comprehensive floristic study of the Salero Ranch, Santa Cruz County. Her presentation will include a description of the physical features of the 16,163 acre ranch such as the geology and climate as well as the individual plant communities. Sue documented the presence of 788 vascular plant taxa in her study, many of which she will illustrate with her superb photographs.
Salero Ranch, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Friday, February 19, 2020. Dr. Jacqueline Soule, Tucson, Arizona. Herbs of Father Kino and the Old Missions
When founding missions in the frontier land of the Pimaria Alta, Father Kino, his priests, and his soldiers brought along the plants they were used to. But! due to Father Kino’s influence, these newcomers also actively sought the herb lore of the Natives. Dr. Soule will discuss this blend of native and introduced plants that were grown in the Mission Gardens – with a focus on the ones that can be grown in your Cochise County landscape.
Jacqueline Soule is a long-time Southwest gardener and award-winning garden writer. Of her thirteen books, nine are on gardening in the unique Southwestern climate. She has been a popular columnist for many years with weekly and monthly columns in a number of national, regional and local publications, including Angie’s List Magazine, and Southwest Trees & Turf.
Jacqueline Soule
yerba mansa
Poliomintha incana
Cochise Chapter: Linda Kennedy Presents “A Ranch without Cows” – Now On YouTube
Posted on Jan 08, 2021
Here is the link to Linda Kennedy’s presentation to the Cochise Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society on December 18, 2020.