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: Propagation Protocols & Programs Developing horticultural protocols for threatened Varronia species in Puerto Rico M.A. Hamilton* (1,2), M. Dani Sanchez (1,3), J. Rosario Santana (4), A Marrero (4), J.A. Duran Baez (4), E. Lopez (4), B. Sanchez Santana (5), O.A. Monsegur-Rivera (6) (1) South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, […]
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Carol Denhof, Longleaf Alliance The Longleaf Pine was once the dominant tree species in the south, covering over 90 million acres from Virginia to Texas. Over the last 400 years, the abundance of this species has decreased due to non-sustainable timber harvest, clearing of land for agriculture and development and exclusion of fire. As this […]
Margi Hunter, Tennessee Naturalist Program, Cooper Breeden, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee Plant Conservation Alliance The lack of funding and resources necessary to conserve many of our most imperiled species and communities is a ubiquitous problem. In the absence of traditional support, more grassroots and citizen-led efforts are essential to ensure the survival […]
Christina Carrero, The Morton Arboretum, Emily Coffey, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Patrick Griffith, Montgomery Botanical Center A 2019 study by Griffith, et al. showed that gardens must collaborate to conserve genetic diversity, especially for exceptional species whose seeds cannot be properly seed banked. This process of capturing the genetic diversity of exceptional species in ex situ […]
From the SePPCon 2020 conference, three inspiring videos: The Southeastern Grasslands Initiative Dr. Dwayne Estes, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative Featuring Dwayne Estes, SGI Director, and Theo Witsell, SGI Chief Ecologist. Filmed and edited by Pamela Pasco. This 15-minute video takes you on a journey across the Southeast and through time, to learn more about the habitats […]
Jennifer Possley, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden For over a decade, Fairchild’s Connect to Protect Network (CTPN) has inspired South Florida residents to plant native pine rockland plants in order to help connect the few remaining isolated fragments of pine rockland—a globally critically imperiled (G1S1) plant community. CTPN members include more than 700 individuals and approximately […]
Kim McCue, Shannon Felberg and Steve Blackwell Desert Botanic Garden […]