Flagstaff Chapter Meetings you can view

Posted on Dec 05, 2024

Recordings of Past Meetings
The following presentations were recorded in 2024 and can be viewed the Flagstaff Chapter’s Facebook
page or at The Arizona Native Plant Society website.
Megan Swan, Hannah Andrascik, Christopher Calvo, NPS Southern Colorado Plateau Network: Taking the Pulse of Vegetation Communities in National Parks on the Colorado Plateau
Mariola Barrera: Plant Demography and Fecundity Traits for Mutton Bluegrass (Poa fendleriana)
Zane Robertson: The Genetic Identity and Range of Rumex orthoneurus (Polygonaceae)
Jesse Duff-Woodruff: A Day in the Life of an Agency Botanist
Wendy McBride: Conserving Rare Plants and Their Pollinators
Janice Busco: The Life and Seasons of the Living Roof
Catherine Young: The Efficacy of Using Terminal and Axillary Bud Cuttings as a Means of Propagation for the Endemic Alpine Species San Francisco Peaks Ragwort (Packera franciscana

Tuesday, October 15, 7:00 PM: National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring

Posted on Sep 03, 2024

Don’t miss our last meeting of 2024!

Megan Swan, Christopher Calvo, and Hannah Andrascik will be presenting  “Taking the Pulse of Vegetation Communities in National Parks on the Colorado Plateau ” .  The Southern Colorado Plateau Network is one of 32 Inventory and Monitoring Networks across the U.S. The National Park Service established these networks to inventory natural resources in parks and track their condition. This information helps park managers to make decisions about the natural resources in their parks. One of the important things we monitor are plant communities, where we have over 17 years worth of data. Come learn about our group, our techniques, and our science, as we explore long-term vegetation trends within our regional habitats.  Megan Swan is a Plant Ecologist who has worked monitoring upland ecosystems for the National Park Service for over 15 years. Hannah Andrascik is the Upland Vegetation Field Crew Lead and has been with the National Park Service for over 11 years. Christopher Calvo is a Biologist and Science Communicator and has been doing science in the southwest US for 19 years.

The meetings are now being held at Highgate Senior Living Center at 1831 N Jasper Dr. on McMillan Mesa. Park anywhere in the parking lot or on the street. Buzz to be let in if the door is locked and come upstairs to the second floor. The meeting is the 3rd Tuesday, October 15 at 7 PM.If attending virtually, register in advance for this meeting at: https://bit.ly/FlagAZNPS

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Fall 2023 Chapter Meetings

Posted on Aug 24, 2023

Regular evening programs are presented on the third Tuesday of the month, March through October, at 7:00 PM via Zoom. Some of the meetings have been recorded and can be viewed the Flagstaff Chapter’s Facebook or at The Arizona Native Plant Society. For details about upcoming meetings, please see our email distribution list (naris123@cs.com), Facebook page, or AZNPS.com. Field trips are typically held the weekend following the evening presentation. Watch the email distribution list for information about upcoming field trips.

Tuesday, September 19, 7:00 PM: Andrew Salywon. Using Trained Dogs to Detect Endangered Spiranthes delitescens
The objective of this work is to determine the ability of detection dogs to identify the presence of Spiranthes delitescens. If successful, the use of detection dogs would be a powerful tool to aid future surveys to relocate historical populations or discover previously undocumented populations of Canelo Hills ladies’ tresses. Utilizing trained dogs and their powerful sense of smell can greatly aid conservationists by making plant surveying much more efficient, thus requiring less human effort and resources. Spiranthes delitescens have recently been observed in small numbers at only one of four historically documented sites.

Tuesday, October 17, 7:00 PM:

Lane Butler. Assessment and Status of Rumex orthoneurus, a Rare and Vulnerable Forest Service Conservation Agreement Species on the Tonto National Forest

This talk will tell the story of Rumex orthoneurus on the Tonto National Forest from the late seventies to the present. How have populations changed? How has management changed? What actions have been taken to conserve the species under Conservation Agreements? What is the species status today and what does its future look like? Lane will address these questions and more.
Lane Butler is currently working on several rare and endangered plant conservation grants at the Desert
Botanical Garden. She enjoys hunting for (and finding!) rare plants, especially flowering Arizona hedgehog cacti on the Tonto National Forest. In 2015, she earned her Master of Science at ASU in Plant Conservation Biology in the riparian plant community ecology lab. Her project emphasized the relationships of plant and butterfly abundance and diversity to stream-flow permanence along Sonoran Desert streams.