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