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Conservation Conference

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2020

Sponsored by the Montana Native Plant Society &
the Montana Natural Heritage Program

Due to responses to the Corona Virus Pandemic, the conference was cancelled.

In the interest of protecting public health and safety, conference organizers decided to cancel the Montana Plant Conservation Conference.

Given that Monitoring the Effects of Climate Change is another important topic, we considered re-scheduling the conference, possibly for November.  November is no longer under consideration and it is unlikely there can be another Conference until  2022. Updates will be posted here.

We hope that you can join us later and apologize for any inconvenience.

We encourage people to become familiar with the current CDC Prevention Guidance:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

 


This is a biennial project of the Montana Native Plant Society. The 10th Conference was held in 2018 in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service & the Montana Natural Heritage Program, Montana’s biennial Plant Conservation Conference treats emerging issues in applied botany for managers, scientists, students, and plant enthusiasts. The first day of the meeting was a symposium on Montana’s threatened plants, including the potential ESA listing of whitebark pine and the delisting of water Howelia. Abstracts for the presentations are available in the 2018 Conference Proceedings.

For information about threat rankings and a taxonomial update, see the threat assignment page

Links to Proceedings: 2016 Conference Proceedings; 2014 Conference Proceedings; and here for the 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012 conferences.

KELSEYA, the MNPS newsletter,

is published four times a year and is included with your membership.
 Kelseya contains timely articles about Montana plants and their communities, listings of chapter and state meetings and field trips, and updates on native plant issues.

For general questions,

including becoming a member or chapter policies or programs, contact our Vice-President, Ryan Quire.




We appreciate your support and wish to acknowledge your donation in our newsletter!

If you have questions

about activities in your area, or seek information about plants or resources in your area, please contact the chapter closest to you (click on Chapters Drop Down Menu at the top of this page): Calypso (Dillon, Butte, Southwest Montana; Clark Fork, (Missoula, West Central Montana); Kelsey (greater Helena area); Flathead (Northwest Montana, Glacier Park); Maka Flora (Eastern Montana); Valley of Flowers (greater Bozeman area), or check out the Eastern- or Western-at-Large Areas on the same menu.

MT Native Plants Society Contact

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Montana Native Plant Society
P.O. Box 8783
Missoula, MT 59807-8783

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 Bob Person

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