Utah
COLORADO PLATEAU NATIVE PLANT PROGRAM
Spring 2011 Meeting
March 8-10, 2011
Below is a list of presentations from the 2011 Annual Meeting for the Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program which was held in Moab. Links are provided for those that included a slide presentation and that have been approved by the speaker(s). In addition, flip chart notes provided by each working group that met on March 9 have been typed up and are available as well.
Topic | Speaker(s) |
Welcome to Moab | Kate Juenger, Assistant District Manager, BLM, Moab, UT |
State Perspective | Don Banks, Deputy State Director, Natural Resources, BLM - Utah State Office, Salt Lake City, UT |
Peggy Olwell, National Plant Conservation Program Lead, BLM , Washington, DC | |
Wayne Padgett, Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program Coordinator, BLM – Utah State Office, Salt Lake City, UT |
Seeds of Success Updates | |
Seeds of Success (SOS) Stories from 2010 Field Season | Patty West, Northern Arizona University Landsward Institute & Northern Arizona Native Seed Alliance, Flagstaff, AZ |
Seeds of Success (SOS) Stories from 2010 Field Season | Sheila Williams, Botanist, BLM Field Office, Farmington, NM |
Seeds of Success (SOS) Stories from 2010 Field Season | Scott Jensen, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Provo Shrub Lab, Provo, UT |
Federal and State Agency Updates | |
Verlin Smith, Resources Branch Chief, BLM - Utah State Office, Salt Lake City, UT | |
Mark Miller, National Park Service Southeast Utah Group, Moab, UT | |
Expanded Ephraim, Utah Seed Storage Facility | Danny Summers, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources |
Aaron Wilkerson, Forester, BLM - Utah State Office | |
Wayne Padgett, Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program Coordinator, BLM – Utah State Office, Salt Lake City, UT | |
2011 Draft CPNPP Operational Plan Discussion | |
An Industry View: Seed Production by Private Growers | |
Bill Agnew - Granite Seed, Lehi, UT | |
Private Industry Update – Progress, Issues, and Suggestions for Moving Forward | Walter & Robby Henes – Owner, Operations Manager, Southwest Seed, Inc., Dolores, CO |
Paul Herrman, President, L&H Seed, Connell, WA | |
Mike Shoemaker, Environmental Specialist Williams Production RMT Company LLC, Parachute, CO | |
Colorado Plateau Research | |
Troy Wood, Research Geneticist, USGS Colorado Plateau Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ | |
Kelly Memmott, Research Scientist, Dixie and Fishlake National Forests, Provo, UT | |
Southern Utah University, Intergovernmental Internship Cooperative – An Overview | Steve McCarthy, IIC Agency Coordinator, for Ron Martin, Department Chair, Department of Biology/College of Science, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT |
Scott Jensen, Research Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Provo Shrub Lab, Provo, UT | |
Shannon Hatch, Restoration Coordinator, Tamarisk Coalition, Grand Junction, CO | |
Pioneering Plants: A potential role for early seral species in restoration. | Cara MacMillan, Ecologist, San Juan Public Lands Center, San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO |
Dustin Rooks, Colorado Plateau Botanist, BLM Field Office, Richfield, UT | |
Reports From Partners | |
Jim Free, Uncompahgre Partnership, Montrose, CO | |
Rob Fiegener, Native Seed Network, Corvallis, OR | |
Sylvia Torti, Manager, Rio Mesa Center, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT | |
Barry Baker, Director, Canyonlands Research Center, The Nature Conservancy, Moab, UT | |
2011 Draft CPNPP Operational Plan Discussion | |
Stanford Young, Utah Crop Improvement Association, Utah State University, Logan, UT | |
Reports from the Agency Working Groups | |
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