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Conservation Champion: Sheila Murray

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Helenium arizonicum growing in an ephemeral stream […]
Helenium arizonicum in flower […]
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Sheila Murray, The Arboretum At Flagstaff Despite our best laid plans, conserving rare plants in their natural context produces many unforeseen challenges. This session shares the challenges associated with three rare plant reintroduction efforts in drastically different ecosystems: Florida, Arizona, and coastal California. […]
Kristin E. Haskins and Sheila Murray (The Arboretum at Flagstaff), and Andrea Hazelton (Desert Butte Botany) Acquisition of a long-term dataset is truly rare and can represent decades of hard work and thousands of dollars or more in exhausted resources. The standard model of monitoring year after year is unsustainable for most organizations and begs […]
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