The Flagstaff Chapter offers in-person meetings with the option to watch from home via Zoom. The meetings take place on the third Tuesday of the month, March through October, at 7:00 PM and are held at the Northern Arizona University Biology Sciences Building, Room 328. Street parking is available nearby.
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. Register in advance once in order to attend any of the meetings virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gWhRf79ZSEuoMH8rpAf91g
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Use the link Zoom sends or the passcode Flagstaff! to join the meeting.
Field Trips
Field trips generally leave from south end of the Walmart parking lot on Woodlands Boulevard on Saturday following the talk, April-October. Carpooling is usually available. Please watch for specific details.
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Usually the most up-do-date information about upcoming chapter events can be found on our Facebook page.
* Photos above by Sue Carnahan.
Chapter Leadership
Name
Role
Contact
Kirstin Phillips
President
flagstaffAZNPS@gmail.com
Melissa Amberson
Chapter Contact
azmelissa@yahoo.com
Sue Holiday
Email Distribution
naris123@cs.com
Barbara Phillips
Hike Information
bagphillips@yahoo.com
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Chapter News
Tuesday, April 21: Ellie Becklund
Posted on Mar 11, 2020
In just a few pockets along the LCR, the imperiled Errazurizia rotundata quietly sits in sandstone outcroppings. It is one of four legumes in the genus Errazurizia, which has a disjunct distribution across the New World tropics. The other errazurizias live in narrow ranges in the deserts of Chile, Baja California, and northern Mexico.
This talk will outline the historical focus on this genus and its evolutionary relationships, and the presentday work that clarified generic boundaries of this group. Ellie Becklund is a master’s student in Dr. Tina Ayers’ lab at NAU studying plant systematics and evolution.
The meeting will be at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church , 1601 N San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Photo: Daniella Roth
CANCELLED due to COVID-19 Concerns: (Tuesday, March 24: Nicholas Wilhelmi. Common Pathogens of Arizona’s Forests)
Posted on Mar 11, 2020
This meeting has been cancelled due to safety concerns about the Corona virus.
There are a variety of pathogens that influence forest health in Arizona, ranging from fungi to parasitic plants, both native and introduced. This presentation will focus on some of the common pathogens which affect Arizona’s forests. Topics covered will include basic biology, effects on host tree species, as well as management.
Nicholas Wilhelmi studied forestry at the University of Missouri and Forest Pathology at Oregon State University. He has worked as a forest pathologist with Forest Health Protection, Arizona Zone since 2017.
For this meeting only, because of NAU’s spring break, we will be having the meeting at the Murdoch Center, 203 E Brannen Ave, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Photo: Max Licher
Tuesday, October 15: Tina Ayers. Namibia and Namaqualand
Posted on Sep 03, 2019
In August, Tina made the trip of a lifetime with Randy Scott and Vera Markgraf to visit the Namib Desert. Tina’s presentation will chronicle their two-week adventure to find the desert in bloom and to visit one of the more bizarre plants on earth, Welwitschia mirabilis. Surreal landscapes and succulents will be the emphasis of this presentation. There will also be a seed exchange of NATIVE ARIZONA plants. Tina is Director and Curator of Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
