Saving Micronesian Cycad with Vital Collections Micronesian cycad (Cycas micronesica), or fadang as it is sometimes called on Guam, is a large tree-...
March News 2020 Today we have the pleasure of sharing good news about the rediscovery of plants once thought to be e...
Conservation Champion: Wes Knapp Wes Knapp is leading an important effort to assess plant extinction in North America north of Mexico...
Recovering Bradshaw’s Desert Parsley Bradshaw’s desert parsley (Lomatium bradshawii) is a lovely member of the carrot family that may s...
Clovers on the Rebound Not long ago, running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) was thought by many to be extinct. Yet...
Hanging on the Edge and Flying High While dangling from ropes on a cliffside in Kaua’i, Research Biologist Ken Wood made an exciting d...
Aware, Ready, and Constantly Working to Protect Biodiversity It is by no means unusual for special projects to get funding directly through line items in a budge...
Conservation Champion: Polly Pierce Native plant enthusiast only begins to capture the essence of Polly Pierce. Undaunted by hurricanes ...
Native Plant Gardens Don’t Need Rare Treasure to Have Real Value When learning about the plight of native plants – especially rare plants – and the animals and h...
How native is that native? Monarch butterflies are perhaps the most well-known butterflies in North America, with their eye-cat...
Connect to Protect Network for Pine Rocklands When asked to picture the habitats of Florida, a non-Floridian will likely think of sandy beaches or...
Save Plants: February 2020 Newsletter One of the important reasons for saving rare plants from extinction is that a healthy natural world ...
Conservation Champion: Daniel Gluesenkamp, Ph.D. If you have a chance to be in Dan Gluesenkamp’s orbit, you will experience someone with a stunning...
Importance of Partnerships The institutions of California Plant Rescue (CaPR) have made great progress in conserving the rare f...
Connecting People to People to Save Plants In early May of 2019, the UN released a report with grim news for biodiversity on earth: over 1 mill...
Unique Funding Opportunity to Bank California’s Flora Seed banking is a powerful tool against extinction. Living individuals are kept as insurance against...
January 2020 News I like to think of 2020 as the Year of Clear Vision. This month’s newsletter exemplifies that visi...
Welcome to the Academy In applying to the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grant two years a...
