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Dr. Christopher Dunn, courtesy of Jay Potter, Cornell Botanic Gardens.
Conservation Champion: Christopher Dunn, Ph.D.

Though his Scottish origins may leave him partial to thistles (both Scottish and otherwise), Christo...

Dr. McDade at La Selva Biological Field Station in Costa Rica, early 2000s, in front of a Ceiba pentandra with huge buttresses.
Conservation Champion: Lucinda McDade, Ph.D.

Dr. McDade has always liked plants – although she will admit to having bad experiences with a few ...

Save Plants: October 2018 Newsletter

The Center for Plant Conservation is overseen by a generous and effective group of dedicated volunte...

Dr. Peter Raven, courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Conservation Champion: Peter H. Raven, Ph.D.

Peter Raven, Ph.D., is a world-renowned plant biologist and advocate for biodiversity and plants. It...

Ferguson fire rages over the top of a ridge near El Portal. Photo from the US Forest Service.
Timing is Everything

On July 11th this year, three staff from UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley pulled to the side of Highw...

View of Jesusita Fire from Santa Barbara Botanic Garden meadow.
Adapting to the Recurring Threat of Wildfire

On the night of May 7, 2009, the Jesusita Fire swept through the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (SBBG)...

Wet pine savanna. Photos by Johnny Randall, courtesy of the North Carolina Botanical Garden.
Built to Burn

Southeastern US forests were once described as so extensive and dense that a squirrel could travel f...

Save Plants: September 2018 Newsletter

Fire can bring great destruction, as we know all too well. As I write this introduction to our newsl...

Wandering Washington with Rare Care Volunteers

This July, the Tiffany Springs Campground in the Okanogan National Forest was briefly invaded by vol...

25 Years of Survey and Discovery

Last month, Doug McGrady, a Plant Conservation Volunteer with the New England Wild Flower Society (N...

The creamy flower of Ben Lombard’s buckwheat (Eriogonum nudum var. decurrens)
The Hunt is On: Searching for Rare Plants in the Golden State

Amy Patten, the California Native Plant Society’s new Rare Plant Treasure Hunt (RPTH) coordinator ...

August 2018 News

Volunteers are really the lifeblood of many non-profit organizations. These dedicated individuals se...

Overlooking Trunk Bay a beautiful location on St. John and part of Virgin Island National Park. Photo credit: Joyce Maschinski, Center for Plant Conservation.
Virgin Islands National Park Endemic Plant Gets Urgent Habitat Management Assistance from Park Officials

Virgin Islands National Park (VINP) covers nearly 60% of the island of St. John and offers miles of...

Pittosporum halophilum by Kenneth R. Wood, National Tropical Botanical Garden.
Beyond the Islet – Integrated Conservation in Hawaii

On a small rocky island, or more accurately, an islet, jutting up off the shore of Moloka’I, eight...

From atop the Panamint Range one can see both the Sierra Nevada Mountains, including Mt. Whitney, and Badwater Basin.
July 2018 News

The U.S. National Parks Service was officially established in 1916 by the U.S. Government. Encompass...

Meads milkweed
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden is conducting a research project with the Center for Plant Conservation (C...

Sandsage Perkins
Lauritzen Botanic Gardens

Lauritzen Gardens has focused on the Central Grassland of North America and has been engaged in prai...

Cypripedium candidum
University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (MLA)

The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum safeguards nine species in the CPC National Collec...

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