ANPC Workshop & AGM 2016
RARE PLANT CONSERVATION
Speaker Highlights
- Dayle Soppet – Introduction to “rare” plants – what is a rare plant?
- Robin Gutsell – Rare plant “lists” and challenges in assessing their status
- Lorna Allen – Rank updates
- Jessica Stolar – Impacts of climate change on rare plants
- Laurie Hamilton – Understanding bias when using spatial data to support rare plant conservation initiatives
- Varina Crisfield – Ecology of impoverished pinweed (rare Athabasca sand dune endemic)
- Cathy Linowski – Rare plants in disturbed or ephemeral habitats
- Heather Sinton – Landuse Planning Framework
- Jodie Krakowski – Recovery Planning for Whitebark and Limber Pine
- Elisabeth Beaubien – Plant phenology and biodiversity research
- Kristen Beechey – Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta book update
- Kristen Foreman – Case study in rare plant conservation
Banquet Speaker – Derek Johnson will talk about “Long Term Monitoring of Rare Plants in the Clyde Fen”
PLUS…
- Exhibitors Displays
- ANPC Seed Exchange
- Sunday Botany trip to NCC property Rachael Agnes Hayes (2) on the east shore of Buffalo Lake
Early Bird Registration Deadline: April 8
Reduced motel rates at Super 8 if booked before April 22