The Flagstaff Chapter will offer in-person meetings this year with the option to watch from home via Zoom. The meetings will still take place on the third Tuesday of the month, March through October, at 7:00 PM. We have a new location for 2025! The meetings are now being held at the Northern Arizona University Biology Sciences Building, Room 328. Street parking is available nearby. The doors will be locked in the evening, so please meet at the southern
door (the end with the NAU herbarium) to be let in.
The meetings will be held at 7 PM on the third floor of the NAU Biology Building on North Campus. Come to the door nearest the bus stop on 617 S. South Beaver Street at the corner of Beaver and Franklin. For a map of campus, access below:
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.
Use the link Zoom sends or the passcode 242464 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
Volunteering Opportunities
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Chapter News
Tuesday, May 19: Sheila Murray and Kirstin Phillips. Citizen Science Rare Plant Monitoring Program
Posted on Mar 11, 2020
Come learn about 10 rare plants growing on the San Francisco Peaks and Mt. Elden that haven’t been collected in decades. The Museum of Northern Arizona and The Arboretum at Flagstaff are starting a program to train citizen scientists to search for and monitor rare plants that haven’t been found in years. You can help land managers safeguard these rare plants by finding them in the wild and checking on their condition.
Sheila Murray is the Research Botanist at The Arboretum at Flagstaff. Kirstin Olmon Phillips is the Botany Collections Manager at the Museum of Northern Arizona. Both are avid professional and recreational botanists with an interest in rare and endangered plants who enjoy hiking and spending time outdoors.
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.
Salvia dorrii ssp mearnsii Photo: Frankie Coburn
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.
