SeppCon 2024: Conservation & Safeguarding Safeguarding Trees Along an Altitudinal Gradient in Southern Costa Rica through Global Collaborations Rodrigo De Sousa*, Rodrigo Benavides, José Rojas, Osa Conservation How can rare tree conservation and landscape restoration efforts be effectively merged for a regional-scale connectivity project? Our project in southwest Costa Rica, called the Ridge to […]
SePPCon 2024: Management, Planning, & Reintroduction The Grassland Connection: Plant and Pollinator Biodiversity Under Tennessee Valley Authority Powerlines on the Cumberland Plateau Theo Witsell* (1), Adam Dattilo (2), JoVonn Hill (3), Dwayne Estes (1), Ashley Bennett (4), Christine Fortuin (5), Zach Irick (1), and Brittney Georgic (1) (1) Southeastern Grasslands Institute, Austin Peay State […]
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Cooper Breeden and Dwayne Estes, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative / TPCA In Fall 2019, conservation partners from across the southeast began to convene on a monthly call to discuss how to tackle the complex problem of improperly managed roadsides—roadsides that are either being sprayed or mowed to death to the detriment of rare and unique plant […]
Tara Littlefield and Tony Romano, Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves Roadsides are increasingly recognized for their potential importance in conservation planning. Roadsides are generally less threatened by development than surrounding areas and are maintained in an open condition. Because of these factors, roadsides in Kentucky are one of the few areas that contain remnant native […]
Dr. Dwayne Estes, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative Plant Conservation Issues on Roadsides and Right of Ways in Alabama Patrick Thompson, Coordinator Alabama Plant Conservation Alliance Alfred Schotz, Botanist Alabama Natural Heritage Program Michelle Reynolds, Administrator Southeastern Roadside Defenders Patrick Daniel, Collaborator Southeastern Roadside Defenders Alabama has a diversity of habitats, species, ideologies and challenges. Private lands […]