CPC National Office Welcome & Conference Orientation 2024

CPC is thrilled to celebrate 40 years of plant-saving collaborations with our boots-on-the-ground botanists and skilled collection curators who prevent plant extinction everyday. In this talk, I reflect on how technology, politics, and emerging threats have dramatically changed many aspects of our conservation research and collaboration, as well as the importance of the CPC community as a training ground for a new generation of conservationists and as a source of support and camaraderie within a passion-filled but challenging profession. CPC’s National Office is ready to help our network meet the challenges that face rare plants in our next 40 years through the expansion of our regional seed banking and integration of new faces into the field through our online course. We also remain committed to the sustained support of our network through our 40th anniversary campaign which promotes the plant sponsorship program that has been in effect since CPC’s infancy.