Events

Thursday, May 14, 7:00 PM. Linda Kennedy and Dan Robinett: A Beginner’s Guide to Grasses This program will cover techniques for identifying grasses without a microscope.

Sign up for this zoom talk to hear stories about plants in the American Southwest! Drawing on four decades of field work as a plant ecologist, Dr. Julie Stromberg discusses how and why the local flora is changing. Sharing tales from her recent book, she challenges us to form deeper relationships with the plant communities […]

Tuesday, May 19, 7:00 PM. Emily Palmquist and James Holderer: Let’s Talk About Phragmites australis: Changing Distributions of Native, Nonnative, and Gulf Coast Common Reed in Arizona Emily Palmquist and James Holderer will each discuss their research into common reed (Phragmites australis) and whether the subspecies that are encroaching into the Colorado River in the […]

Invasive Plant Pulls Please save these dates for Invasive Plant Pulls in Flagstaff. Watch for more details or contact PlantRestorationProject@gmail.com Saturday, April 18, 8:00 - 10:00 AM, in collaboration with the City's Earth Day events Saturday, May 2, 9:00 AM - noon Saturday, May 30, 9:00 AM - noon Meet at the east entrance to […]

Join us in a hike in the Piestewa mountain preserve! We'll be hiking the Phoenix Mountain Nature Trail 304 which is a 1.5 mile hike rated as moderate. Meet at the Piestewa Peak Trails parking lot at 7:30AM. We will begin with a short presentation on plant heat adaptions and plant pollinators. Please be sure […]

Our monthly members only meeting where we do a quick review of past events, an overview of the next month's events and discuss any topics of interest by members and volunteers. This is a virtual event done through Zoom, please contact phoenixaznps@gmail.com if you have any questions.

June 5, 9:00 AM: Native Plant Walk at Show Low Creek. We will explore and help you to identify some of the many native species that grow on this small, popular trail in town.

We will be helping the Maricopa Native Seed Library in building seed packets and then packing native seeds. These packets will be added to their stock of seeds that are given out to the community for free. Learn more about the seed library here: https://libguides.maricopa.edu/seed This event is open to members and non-members.

June 12, 9:00 AM: Join us at Woodland Lake Park for another sketch and photo walk hosted by Jess Rollar, Karen Suedmeier, and Bob Rollar. Participants will have the option of joining either the sketching or photography groups.