Arizona Magnificient Tree Measuring Workshop

 From Susan Holiday

id you know that Arizona has a program honoring Magnificent Trees? The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management sponsors the Arizona Magnificent Tree Program designed to honor the largest trees of their species (Champion Trees); those with cultural significance (Heritage Trees); and those proven to be in place since Arizona Statehood in 1912 (Witness Trees).

Want to become a big tree hunter and volunteer for our program? Join us for a workshop on September 30th at the Arboretum at Flagstaff with Madeline Burton, the Urban Forestry Specialist from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. Madeline and her team facilitate the Magnificent Tree Program and seek volunteers interested in learning HOW to use forestry tools to measure the height, circumference, and crown width - the three variables required to calculate the tree scores for the Arizona Magnificent Tree Program. Afterwards we hope several participants will sign up for our Magnificent Tree Program "Measurement Verification Committee" to help us measure some of the trees needing to be reverified all across Arizona. 

Register here!

Madeline Burton (she/her)
Urban Forestry Specialist

Urban and Community Forestry

ISA Certified Arborist No. TX-4718A

Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management

1110 W. Washington St. | Suite 500 | Phoenix, AZ 85007
Ph: 480-769-4184 | mburton@dffm.az.gov

  

AZ Native Plant Society Meeting

 

We will be having our next meeting Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 PM. You need to register in advance using the zoom registration sight below. 

Andrew Salywon - Using trained dogs to detect endangered Spiranthes delitescens and related orchid taxa

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.

Andrew Salywon is an herbarium curator and research botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Salywon came to the Desert Botanical Garden after completing his Ph.D. in Plant Biology and conducting postdoctoral research on developing Lesquerella as a new industrial oilseed crop at the United States Department of Agriculture, Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center. His research interests are in conservation, endemic, rare and endangered plants in Arizona and the Sonoran Desert, floristics, new crop development, and systematics using both traditional and molecular data. On-going projects include the Flora of Agua Fria National Monument, evolution and inheritance of hydroxy fatty acids in Lesquerella (Brassicaceae – the mustard family), systematics of native and cultivated Agave (Agaveaceae - the Agave family) in Arizona, Cylindropuntia (Cactaceae –the cactus family) and Mosiera (Myrtaceae – the myrtle family).

Register in advance for this meeting at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZMuc...

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

Arizona Native Plant Society talks are free and open to the public. See aznps.com to become a member.