North American Botanic Garden Strategy for Alpine Plant Conservation Archives

Tumultuous Treeline: Creating a Better Alpine Map

Broadly defined, the alpine zone is the area above treeline and below permanent snow. However, the alpine in practice is more difficult to pin down. While temperature is understood to be the leading factor in the transition to treelessness, the alpine paradoxically resists traditional mapping efforts, with many classification attempts excluding smaller alpine areas, such […]

Using technology to engage our community of alpine plant enthusiasts

Betty Ford Alpine Gardens leads the implementation of the North American Botanic Garden Strategy for Alpine Plant Conservation, a blueprint for the protection of alpine plants in the US, Mexico, Canada, and Greenland. The Alpine Strategy has several conservation goals, both in-situ and ex-situ. It focuses on understanding and documenting alpine plants, as well as […]

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