Phoenix Chapter Meeting: Budding Botanist Training
via ZoomThe Desert Botanical Garden is offering a virtual Budding Botanist Training course to AZNPS Chapters and other organizations. Registration details coming soon!
The Desert Botanical Garden is offering a virtual Budding Botanist Training course to AZNPS Chapters and other organizations. Registration details coming soon!
Dr. Soule will discuss the 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.
The release of treated wastewater into portions of the Santa Cruz river basin in Downtown Tucson have initiated a renaissance for this historic river, as native species recolonize the riparian habitat.
Botany Collections Manager Kirstin Olmon Phillips will discuss some of the interesting findings after recently completing a project to process the herbarium backlog at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
For link to the Zoom event, please email jdougripley@gmail.com
During our March Chapter meeting, we will discuss the fantastic book Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy. While the book primarily focuses on the East, the overall theme is the importance and need for native plants in home landscapes across the country to support healthy ecosystems. […]
Native medicinal plants play a prominent role in the biological and cultural worlds we inhabit everyday. As iconic landscapes of the Southwest evolve, observing plant interactions with their environment can inform our understanding of botanical medicine and illustrate the impacts of economic land use and climate change. Observing plants’ ecological relationships provides insights about how […]
For a link to this Zoom event, please email jdougripley@gmail.com
April's Chapter meeting will take place on Sunday, April 18th at 3:00 PM. Register at this link to join us in our virtual meeting room. Our guest speaker will be Jeny Davis, coordinator of the Desert Botanical Garden’s Metro Phoenix EcoFlora. Jeny will share details about the City Nature Challenge, a global competition which takes […]
Ashley Hall Yellow Bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum) is a perennial grass introduced to the United States from Europe and Asia in the early 1900s as a way to control erosion and as a forage species. In the past several years, this species has become an emerging invasive in Arizona, negatively affecting the habitats it invades in […]
sponsored by Audubon Southwest featuring Dara Saville an herbalist, geographer, writer, mother, and native plant advocate out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The webinar will be held Thursday April 29th at 5 pm AZ time. There is a small donation requested. Find out more at Webinar Registration | Audubon New Mexico.
City Nature Challenge - April & May 2021 Join the Phoenix Chapter in participating in the City Nature Challenge 2021! At April's Chapter meeting, our guest speaker was Jeny Davis, coordinator of the Desert Botanical Garden’s Metro Phoenix EcoFlora. We invite you to watch the recording of her presentation to learn about the City Nature […]
Are you ready and willing to get out in the desert and kill? Yuma Chapter has again been asked by Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and partners to join other volunteers in a buffelgrass removal effort the morning of May 2nd. We will convene at 7:30 am at the Foothills Library parking lot and caravan […]
This presentation will explore climate model projections for Arizona and what they mean in terms of potential changes in temperatures and precipitation patterns in coming decades.
Jesse Mike - Dine Native Plant Program
Please email jdougripley@gmail.com for a link to this Zoom meeting.
Email FlagstaffAZNPS@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and password for this presentation.
Our Summer meeting will focus on how the desert springs back to life when the rains come! We’ll begin with Chapter announcements and business. Next, we'll have a guided discussion on a book chosen by members to read (see below). Also, our Vice-President will give a short presentation on the plants she has seen greening […]
Email FlagstaffAZNPS@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and password for this presentation.
A Starving Man Does Not Sniff his Food: Plants Used as Famine Foods Contact nativeplantstucson@gmail.com for the Zoom link for this meeting.
Email FlagstaffAZNPS@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and password for this presentation.
Fall is the perfect time to plant wildflower seeds. So, join us to learn more about a local, FREE source for seeds! Also, hear what it's like to take a seed library from dream to reality.
The Phoenix Chapter is collaborating with the Metro Phoenix EcoFlora on this month's EcoQuest. During October, use iNaturalist to observe and identify Fountain grass as well as native grasses. If you find fountain grass, follow through with one of the suggested calls to action to help prevent the spread of this noxious weed!
Elfin Saddles, Wolf’s Milk and Witch’s Butter: The Fungi and Slime Molds of Southern Arizona Contact nativeplantstucson@gmail for the link to the Zoom Meeting.
Email FlagstaffAZNPS@gmail.com to get the Zoom link and password for this presentation.
We are teaming up with the Arizona Master Naturalists - Maricopa County Parks Chapter for their October book club meeting! We will discuss Aldo Leopold's classic book A Sand County Almanac. To participate in our discussion, please locate and read the book in the coming weeks. This event will take place via Zoom, hosted by […]
Watch for registration via Eventbrite in October.
Native Orchids of Arizona Contact nativeplantstucson@gmail.com for link to the Zoom meeting.
