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December 2020 Newsletter
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Please join us in supporting advocacy to save plants, the habitats on which they depend, and the benefits they provide for humankind!
It has been the Year of Resilience. And, for CPC, it’s been an amazing Year of Innovation and Opportunity. We gracefully accepted change. We dug in and successfully implemented new ways to connect with our network. Learn about how our network adapted to the challenges of 2020 in this month’s issue of Save Plants.
Photo: Leedy’s Roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. leedyi) is a Federally threatened species that the Botanic Gardens’ are working to conserve through seedbanking and reintroduction projects.
Photo credit: F. Robert Wesley, courtesy of Cornell Botanic Gardens.
December 2020 Newsletter
Dig In, Sign Up, Save Plants
Please join us in supporting advocacy to save plants, the habitats on which they depend, and the benefits they provide for humankind!
It has been the Year of Resilience. And, for CPC, it’s been an amazing Year of Innovation and Opportunity. We gracefully accepted change. We dug in and successfully implemented new ways to connect with our network. Learn about how our network adapted to the challenges of 2020 in this month’s issue of Save Plants.
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CPC Rare Plant Academy
CPC Rare Plant Academy is a hub of learning, sharing, and discovery for the plant conservation community. CPC Rare Plant Academy brings the Center for Plant Conservation Best Practices to life by integrating instructional videos and community discourse with web-based interactive guidelines for plant conservation methods. This platform seeks to answer plant conservation’s most challenging “how to’s” by capturing the knowledge of Center for Plant Conservation’s network of expert botanists in modern, learning-friendly formats. As such, CPC Rare Plant Academy will be a training ground for the next generation of plant conservation scientists, who will be the first line of defense against plant extinction.
The Center for Plant Conservation is pleased to announce the publication of CPC Best Plant Conservation Practices to Support Species Survival in the Wild. For the first time we have consolidated our guidelines to cover plant conservation practice from soup to nuts. We urge practitioners to review the new guidelines that reflect updated knowledge about best scientific practice.
2020 Center for Plant Conservation National Meeting
Dear CPC Colleagues,
After careful consideration, we have decided to postpone the CPC National Meeting until October 8-9, 2020. We are especially grateful to Denver Botanic Gardens, who have agreed to be our host as was planned for May and are accommodating this change. We are awaiting word from the National Seed Lab (NLGRP) in Fort Collins, but anticipate that we will have a pre-conference field trip on October 7 to NLGRP.
If you have already registered and plan to attend the October meeting, you don’t need to take action. If you registered, but need a refund, please contact Jackie Tondreau (jtondreau@saveplants.org) and we will arrange to refund your money.
Our understanding is that airlines are being very reasonable to accommodate changes. We suggest contacting carriers and discussing the situation.
We are currently working with the hotel in Denver to shift the reserved rooms from May to October. It may be possible for reservations to shift, but please stay tuned for an update about that.
We will announce new deadlines for abstracts and new deadlines for registration as soon as we have worked out details.
Thank you for your understanding about this change in plans. Your health and safety is our highest priority. We hope to see you in Denver in October. Hey, maybe the aspens will be turning!
Best regards,
Joyce and the CPC National Office Team
CPC Rare Plant Academy
CPC Rare Plant Academy is a hub of learning, sharing, and discovery for the plant conservation community. CPC Rare Plant Academy brings the Center for Plant Conservation Best Practices to life by integrating instructional videos and community discourse with web-based interactive guidelines for plant conservation methods. This platform seeks to answer plant conservation’s most challenging “how to’s” by capturing the knowledge of Center for Plant Conservation’s network of expert botanists in modern, learning-friendly formats. As such, CPC Rare Plant Academy will be a training ground for the next generation of plant conservation scientists, who will be the first line of defense against plant extinction.
The Center for Plant Conservation is pleased to announce the publication of CPC Best Plant Conservation Practices to Support Species Survival in the Wild. For the first time we have consolidated our guidelines to cover plant conservation practice from soup to nuts. We urge practitioners to review the new guidelines that reflect updated knowledge about best scientific practice.
News from our Save Plants Digest
December 2020 News
In this December issue of Save Plants, we look back on 2020. It has been the Year of Resilience. And for CPC, it’s been an amazing Year of Innovation and Opportunity.
Adaptive, Sustainable Options for Waterwise Utahans
Red Butte Garden's Water Conservation Garden opened to the public in May 2017, but planning for the project began years before. Because Utah is the second driest state in the nation, a major focus of the Water Conservation Garden from the beginning was to provide a living showcase of beautiful and dense plantings while using less water than more traditional gardens. Read about how this project took shape.
November 2020 News
In this November issue of Save Plants, we feature CPC network conservation partners, who have incorporated lessons from nature to design intentional, sustainable, water-wise, healthy gardens and public landscapes, and those who have designed experiments in natural areas to help interpret and use nature’s lessons about resilience.
Featured Plants from our National Collection
America’s flora is at risk, but it can be saved.
Today nearly 30% of the native flora in the United States is considered to be of conservation concern. Without human intervention, many of these plants may be gone within our lifetime. 80% of at-risk species are closely related to plants with economic value and more than 50% are related to crop species.
Plants in Peril.
CPC’s National Collection of Endangered Plants is composed of the most imperiled plants in the country. An important conservation resource, the Collection is a backup in case a species becomes extinct or no longer reproduces in the wild. Live plant material is collected from nature under controlled conditions and then carefully maintained as seed, rooted cuttings or mature plants.
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