[BSW] Coming events and other botanical news
Kathy Bilton
kathy at fred.net
Fri Mar 3 07:23:54 PST 2017
The next Botanical Society of Washington meeting is coming up next
Tuesday, March 7 at 7pm. Steven Lonker will be speaking about: The
Persian Garden: 2,500 Years of Producing Earthly Paradie in Extreme
Climate Through Innovations in Sustainable Landscape Design Location and
dinner detais are on the webpage:
http://botsoc.org
Flier for posting: http://botsoc.org/mar17.pdf
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See Alice T. and Larry D.....
Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take
its pulse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/dead-plants-evolutionary-secrets-might-save-the-planet-or-at-least-take-its-pulse/2017/02/28/2c86a84e-f938-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.3bfb0fcccd72
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This is how you photograph a million dead plants without losing your mind
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/02/08/this-is-how-you-photograph-a-million-dead-plants-without-losing-your-mind/?utm_term=.daec85b9a87c
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Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30pm at the USBG
Lecture: The Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership
Free, but pre-registration is required
Speaker:Jennifer M. Cruse-Sanders, State Botanical Garden of Georgia,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Global pollinator populations are in decline for many reasons including
habitat loss and overuse of pesticides. The Greater Atlanta Pollinator
Partnership (GAPP) was initiated in 2009 due to the housing boom of the
1990s and early 2000s. Over a 20 year period, approximately 162,000 ha of
pollinator-friendly native green space/ tree canopy were lost with an
increase of 81,000 ha of impervious surface. Join Jennifer as she
discusses the goals of the GAPP, including encouraging restoration,
development, and registration of pollinator habitat at an ecologically
significant landscape scale, restoring pollinator-friendly habitat, and
educating the public through formal and informal programs.
https://www.usbg.gov/events/2017/02/17/lecture-greater-atlanta-pollinator-partnership
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BOTANICAL SCIENCES BILL TO SUPPORT BIODIVERSITY & SUSTAINABILITY OF
AMERICA’S ECOSYSTEMS
Bipartisan support for this bill, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), who
co-introduced the bill with U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05)
https://quigley.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/quigley-introduces-botanical-sciences-bill-support-biodiversity
The Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration
and Promotion Act aims to increase the botanical science capacity of the
federal government. It allows federal agencies to act with the expertise
required to preserve unique American landscapes and emphasizes the
importance of protecting native plants and plant ecosystems.
Additionally, the bill:
Creates a new program of botanical science research within the Department
of the Interior to help increase federal botanic expertise and allows DOI
to hire new, additional personnel
Creates a student loan repayment program for botanical scientists to
encourage more students to make the decision to enter the field and to
support them once they’ve graduated
Declares a federal policy that the Departments of Interior, Agriculture,
and Defense preference the use of locally-adapted native plant materials
in their land management activities
Requires states to utilize native plant species where possible and
practical
Establishes a new program to support collaborative grants to prevent rare
plant species from becoming endangered and to remediate already endangered
populations
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