Arizona Native Plant Society

 Desert Botanical Garden Phoenix, Arizona 

 21st Annual Arizona Botany Meeting

 1-2 March 2025 

The Desert Botanical Garden 

1201 N. Galvin Parkway Phoenix, Arizona 

Theme: Exploring the Botanical Diversity, Ecology, and History of Arizona’s Native Flora See AZ Native Plant Society 

Website for Details and Registration: www.aznps.com or 

Native Plant Society Monthly Meeting

 

May 21, 7pm

Melissa Sevigny - Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa Sevigny will present her new book, Brave the Wild River, the remarkable story of an evocative and beautifully written chronicle of botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter’s history-making journey through the Grand Canyon in the summer of 1938. Before Clover and Jotter, no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon’s secret nooks and crannies. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.

Following the presentation will be a book signing. Purchase your books ahead of time at Bright Side Bookshop. Books will not be available at the event.

Melissa L. Sevigny is a science journalist at KNAU (Arizona Public Radio). She has worked in water policy, sustainable agriculture, and space exploration, and is the author of Under Desert Skies and Mythical River. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

 The meetings are now being held at Highgate Senior Living Center at 1831 N Jasper Dr. on McMillan Mesa at 7 PM. Park anywhere in the parking lot or on the street. Buzz to be let in if the door is locked and come upstairs to the second floor.

If attending virtually, register in advance for this meeting at:
https://bit.ly/FlagAZNPS

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.

From Susan Holiday Flagstaff Native Plant Society

Native Plant Society Meeting on Zoom

 

Don't miss our first meeting, Jammie Yazzie speaking on Forest Change and Climate Sensitivity across the Chuska Mountains and Defiance Plateau.  This year is a little different as you have to register with the below link to get into the zoom room.  

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Mar 15, 2022 07:00 PM Arizona

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdumqqTksEt2gipiyQmY2snLGiVifo_Hs

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  The process is easy as they ask only for your name and email to send you the zoom number.  I registered and received the information via my email.  If you have any questions you can contact me (naris 123@cs.com) or Kirstin Philips (kphillips@musnaz.org). Please register ahead of time.

Meeting Info:

Forest Change and Climate Sensitivity across the Chuska Mountains and Defiance Plateau

The Navajo forest landscape is experiencing an increasing likelihood of extreme climate conditions, including warming temperatures and drought stress. The forest plays a vital role in Diné livelihoods through social, cultural, spiritual, subsistence, and economic aspects. Jaime Yazzie will discuss lessons learned and reflections on climate change projects focused on forests of the Navajo (Diné) Nation.

Jaime Yazzie is Diné (Navajo) and resides in Northern Arizona. She is Tséníjíkiní (Cliff-Dwellers/Honey Combed Rock People), born for Lók’aa’ Dine’é (Reed People Clan), maternal grandfathers are Honágháahnii, (One-walks-around clan) and paternal grandfathers are Chishí Diné’é (Chiricahua Apache). Jaime received her Bachelors from the University of Washington and Master of Science in Forestry from Northern Arizona University. She currently works as a forestry consultant with the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, leading two fieldwork seasons and supporting project analysis.

AZ Native Plant Society Meeting

 

The Arizona Native Plant Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Flagstaff AZNPS Talk: Liza Holeski - Plant defenses against herbivores

Time: Sep 21, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

Liza Holeski will give a general overview of plant defenses against herbivory, describing the forms of defense as well as highlighting some particularly interesting examples. She will also talk a bit about her research in plant defense in monkeyflowers, as she works with a number of natural populations of monkeyflowers in Arizona.

Liza Holeski is an Associate Professor in Biology at NAU. Her research focuses on plant evolutionary ecology and genetics. She is interested in plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic environmental factors, plant-herbivore interactions, and the evolutionary genetics of plant defense traits. Much of her work is in monkeyflowers, but she also works with Populus species.

Arizona Native Plant Society talks are free and open to the public.

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AZ Native Plant Society Monthly Meeting

 The Arizona Native Plant Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Flagstaff AZNPS Talk: Kate Watters - Building Pollinator Habitats

Time: Aug 17, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

Kate is a farmer, floral designer, writer and visual artist who is wild about plants. She makes her livelihood from Wild Heart Farm, a one-acre oasis in Rimrock, next to Beaver Creek. She grows flowers, medicinal herbs, and pollinator habitat and hosts plant gatherings. She worked in service to wild plant communities for 20 years in the Grand Canyon and across the Colorado Plateau, always aware and curious about plant/pollinator interactions. Kate has developed land-based artist residencies and workshops and co-curated exhibits with scientists and artists to advocate for pollinators and public lands.  To follow her entrepreneurial and artistic adventures arising from the soil visit: www.wildheartfarmaz.com and www.katewattersart.com 

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AZ Native Plant Society Meeting

 Jesse Mike presents Dine Native Plants Program: Restoring ecologically and culturally important native plants to the Navajo Nation 

Jesse Mike will discuss an overview of accomplishments, current, and future projects of the Dine Native Plants Program; including greenhouse production, seed collecting, riparian restoration, and incorporating traditional knowledge.  

 

Jesse Mike is originally from Tsaile, AZ and currently lives in Fort Defiance, AZ where he coordinates the Dine Native Plants Program. He is an NAU alumni and has a background in botany and ecology.  

The Arizona Native Plant Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Flagstaff AZNPS Talk: Jesse Mike - Dine Native Plant Program

Time: May 18, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

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Coconino County Parks & Recreation Master Plan

Hello colleague,

 

The Coconino County Parks and Recreation Department is conducting a county-wide parks and recreation master plan.  The purpose of the master plan is to:

 

1. Identify existing conditions relative to parks and recreation throughout the County.
2. Understand the County’s parks and recreation related needs.
3. Identify existing and future resources throughout the County that may address parks and recreation needs.
4. Identify how Coconino County Parks and Recreation can help facilitate the fulfillment of County parks and recreation needs.

 

Our goal is to reach every community in order to understand their unique conditions and needs.  To this end, we have several public input meetings scheduled in Flagstaff (see attached flyer for dates, times and locations) and we hope you are able to attend one of them.  We also ask that you share this information and the flyer with individuals or distribution lists of people you think would be interested in providing input into the master plan.

 

Thanking you in advance for your participation and support. 

 

Cynthia Nemeth-Briehn, CPRP

Coconino County Parks & Recreation Director

2446 Fort Tuthill Loop

Flagstaff, AZ  86005

Phone:  928.679.8004

Fax:  928.774.2572

www.coconino.az.gov

Follow this Link for a flyer on times and dates for the meetings

Conservation Study Forum Meeting

Reconciliation Ecology

The Science of inventing, establishing and maintaining new habitats to conserve species diversity in places where people live, work and play.

This I see as the over-arching concept. It might apply to the landscaping around a commercial business in town, but also to a national park or wilderness area. As Rosenzweig points out, there is now virtually no place on earth that has not been affected by human activity. We may have to be active in parks and wilderness areas as climate change, invasive species and other human impacts take their toll.

CMGA Meeting Agenda February

Coconino Master Gardener Agenda
Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 6:30pm
Viola's Flower Garden
610 S. State Route 89a

6:30-6:50pm    Welcome-Sherline Alexander   

6:50-6:55pm    Introduction of Speakers—Gilli Thomas
6:55-7:45pm    Education:  Steve Alston, Starting with Seed

(15 minute break with refreshments)

8:00-8:25pm    Business Meeting—Sherline Alexander 
  Need a volunteer for fundraising chair/committee
  Meeting Venue – CMGA will move back to Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church/Benson Hall 
starting on March 8

        MG Coordinator Happenings—Hattie Braun
Fall into Gardening 2018
MG Class in Page (8wk class), canceled
MG Class in Flagstaff 2/6-58, 9am-1230pm, Coconino Public Health Bldg. 
  Committee Sign-ups:
Flagstaff Garden Tours
Fall 2018 conference committee
                   

        Financial Report—Molly Larsen

        Committee Progress Reports:

Fundraising—Open…WE NEED A VOLUNTEER TO CHAIR. –SIGN UP SHEET ON TABLE

MG Projects—Jackee Alston, Grant applications/Seed Library

Gardening Workshop – Merion Sharp

Summer Garden Sale – Judy Springer       

Continuing Education—Gilli Thomas
April 12 Carol Chicci - Selecting and Growing Roses in Flagstaff 
May 10 Jim Mast - Growing Tomatoes in Flagstaff

Social – Liz George       

Volunteer Support—Tim Ellsworth-Bowers /Crys Wells

        Historian—Tammy Valdovino

8:25-8:30    Gardening Questions?

Next meeting:    March 8 –Season extenders/Jackee Alston

Colorado Native Plant Program

Greetings All!
For those interested in native plants/seeds this program is happening in Page, AZ on March 22-23. Check it out!

Attached is the agenda for the Colorado Native Plant Program for those who are interested.

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Susan Holiday, Northern Arizona Native Plant Society

Registration:
Please send your name, affiliation and contact information to Adrienne Pilmanis, CPNPP Coordinator, apilmani@blm.gov; 801-539-4076

13th Annual AZ Botany Meeting

AZ Native Plant Society Planning Meeting

Greetings, All on this lovely, snowy day!!

 

Please join us for the first AZNPS (Flagstaff Chapter) get-together and planning meeting of 2016!!

Which speakers would you like to hear at our monthly meetings?

Where would you like to go on our monthly hikes?

The planning group will meet Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 6:30pm. Please join us.

 

Contact Sue Holiday at naris123@cs.com for all the details, including the location. 

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Planning Group

by D. Lamm

12th Annual AZ Botany Meeting

Attached you will find the list of speakers and a registration form for the Native Plant Society's 12th Annual AZ Botany Meeting which will be held at MNA on April 25-26. The talks are the 25th, the field trips are the 26th. Contact Susan Holiday (naris123@cs.com), a local member of the AZ Native Plant Society for any questions you might have.

Speakers
Registration

Native Plant Society

Greetings, All, 
On Monday evening, January 12 from 6:30 until 8:00, the planning group of the Flagstaff Chapter of the AZ Native Plant Society will meet at 526 N. Bertrand on Cherry Hill to plan walks, talks, and other activities for 2015. 

We'd love to have you join us, and your input, ideas and help would be much appreciated.   

Please RSVP to this invitation, if you will be coming, and I'll forward directions to the meeting location.  As an alternative, if you can't attend, but have something to share or suggest, please email it to me. 

We hope to see or hear from you. 

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for Susan Lamb Bean
      Susan Holiday
      Barbara Phillips
      Tina Ayers
       Kirstin Olmon 

Native Plant Society Flagstaff Chapter Monthly Meeting and Walk

Evening Program

Tuesday, October 14*, 7:00 p.m.: Dr. Wendy C. Hodgson, “Pre-Columbian Agaves in

Southwestern United States: A New Way of Looking at Species and Their Cultural Landscapes”

at the Shepherd of the Hills Church, 1601 North San Francisco.  Easy to find! Easy to park! This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Hodgson is Research Botanist and Herbarium Curator at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix,

Arizona. She is interested in the flora of the Southwest, particularly the Grand Canyon region, rare and endemic plants, and systematics of Agave and Yucca, including pre-Columbian agave cultivars.

 

Wendy coordinated the Cactus family treatment for Intermountain Flora and is head of the Cactaceae of Western U.S.project by Garden research staff and research associates. She is an avid plant collector who strives toward making high quality herbarium specimens.

The talk will focus on how the importance of agaves to Mesoamerica’s cultures has distorted the plants’ role for cultures north of the U.S.–Mexico border. Pre-Columbian farmers cultivated several species of agave in Arizona dating to at least A.D. 600 that have persisted in the landscape to the present. Most probably they  originated in northern Mexico and were traded as far north as the Grand Canyon. Verde Valley is a region of intense agave cultivation, having at least four of the five known domesticates. Landscapes and plants should be viewed from a cultural, rather than “natural” perspective that helps discern cryptic species and requires interdisciplinary collaboration.

*Note:  This is the second Tuesday of the month, not the third, which is our usual meeting date. 

 

Native Plant Society Monthly Meeting and Walk

Tuesday, July 15, 2014: Vera Markgraf, “Botanical Assessment of Springs in Coconino County

Dr. Vera Markgraf earned advanced degrees at universities in Switzerland and Germany. She has done extensive field work on riparian ecosystems in Latin America and contributed to many articles and books on paleo-environments and climate change. Now adjunct faculty at NAU, she has held research and teaching positions in Switzerland, France, Australia, Colorado, and the University of Arizona. Vera generously volunteered her expertise in plant identification, geomorphology, and the vegetation dynamics of wetlands during a recent, multiyear inventory of 200 springs on the Coconino and Kaibab national forests.
Vera will present on the botanical assessments of springs in Coconino County. 
Saturday, July 19, 2014: Field Trip to Hoxworth SpringThis beautiful restored complex of springs and wetlands promises to be lush, green, and flowery in July. The springs are a quarter-mile walk from the parking area on Forest Road 296, 10 miles southeast of Flagstaff.
Carpooling is strongly recommended. Meet at the Credit Union at 8:30 a.m., as described above. The hike should not last beyond noon.

Native Plant Society Monthly Meeting & Walk

Tuesday, June 17, 2014: Kirstin Olmon and Susan Lamb, “Nature’s Notebook”

Kirstin and Susan will introduce Nature’s Notebook, a national program in which amateur and professional naturalists track local phenology: the emergence and blooming of plants and the behavior of birds and other animals, including insects. The program engages individuals, educators, and community groups in learning about local plants and animals and contributing to science. These long-term observations of plants and animals generate data for scientific discovery and decision-making.

Kirstin Olmon is a botany research assistant at the Museum of Northern Arizona. She is the manager of the McDougall Herbarium and curator of the living roof atop the Easton Collect Center.  She is a recent graduate of the botany master’s program at Northern Arizona University and has worked as a field botanist for the Diablo Trust’s Integrated Monitoring for Sustainability Program and the Grand Canyon Trust. 

Susan Lamb is the local author of over two dozen books on natural history. She originally came to northern Arizona to serve as Desert View District naturalist at Grand Canyon National Park, where she acquired a lasting curiosity and affection for regional plant communities. Susan keeps a yearly almanac of over two hundred native plant species in the Flagstaff area.

CMGA Monthly Meeting Agenda 3/13/14

Master Gardener Meeting Agenda 3/13/2014

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church

1601 N. San Francisco

6:30pm-6:35pm           Welcome – Agenda – Hunter Kemmet

                                                Brief review of agenda for the evening

6:35pm-6:40pm           Raffle – $1 each or 6 for $5

                                                Must be present to win

                                                Drawing will be held after refreshments and before the business meeting.  Bird feeder provided by Laura Parker

               

6:40pm – 6:45pm        Introduction of speaker – Ed Skiba

6:45pm-7:30pm           Continuing Education

                                                Growing Healthy and Local Food at Flagstaff ECO Ranch

                                                Jeff Meilander

First Coconino Master Gardener Association talk of 2013 - Start your year off right!

Start the new year right by attending the upcoming Coconino Master Gardener Association talk followed by a business meeting.  Don’t forget, attending both will earn you one continuing education hour and one volunteer hour.

Gardening without Pesticides

Learn how you can use non-toxic alternatives to keep your landscape looking great. Paul Gazda will share what he has discovered in his personal experience and as leader of the Sustainable Landscape Maintenance project at Northern Arizona University. Stay after the talk for refreshments and for the Master Gardener Association meeting. Non-members welcome.

Coconino Master Gardener Association Meeting

Thursday, January 10

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church

1601 N. San Francisco St.

Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Northern AZ Native Plant Society Happenings

Hi, Everyone, 

Here is the final information about the last AZNPS talk and walk of 2012.  Please note that the walk is on SATURDAY, not Sunday, and it will start 1 1/2 hours earlier than usual.   

Tuesday, October 16 Laura Moser, Botanist & Invasive Plant Specialist and Pesticide-use Coordinator, Coconino National Forest,will be giving a talk on some of the invasive species introduced to the Verde Valley, the impacts they have on our native species and watershed health and what the Forest Service and the Verde Watershed Restoration Coalition is doing.  This meeting will be in Room 328 of the Biology Building at NAU at 7:00 pm.

Saturday, October 20 Laura Moser will be guiding a hike to the Sycamore Creek confluence with the Verde River and the Packard Ranch, a historic ranch at this site.  The hike will focus on identifying non-native species in this area and applying a quick risk-rating system to determine their potential invasiveness.  The area can still be warm at this time of year so bring plenty of water, sack lunch, hat, sunscreen, and sturdy walking shoes. 

We will be meeting in Flagstaff at 8:30 in the AZ Credit Union parking lot on Beaver St. and Butler Ave, OR  at 10:00 at the Sycamore Rd. just past the Tuzigoot Bridge near Clarkdale. This secondary meeting location is to meet up with other AZNPS members from Verde Valley and perhaps Prescott.  There is a pull off on Sycamore Canyon Road just after you turn off of Tuzigoot road. Depending on how many of us there are, we'll then carpool or take our own vehicles down a graded, although sometimes bumpy, dirt road for approximately 10 miles to the Sycamore Canyon trailhead.

Contact info for  Laura Moser:

lmoser@fs.fed.us
office: 928-527-3423

Cell 928-607-6040)

Posted by Dorothy Lamm - Hope to see you.