Time

Presenter

Organization

Title

9am

Cathy King

UNPS Board

Welcome & announcements

9:10

Bill King

UNPS Board

UNPS accomplishments & grants

9:20

Mindy Wheeler

Utah Rare Plant Program

Update from the Utah Rare Plant Team

9:40

Rita Reisor

US Fish and Wildlife Service

USFWS update on T&E activities

10:00

Aaron Roe

BLM

BLM Updates

Break

10:40

Susan Meyer

Southern Utah University

Population Genetics of Welsh's Milkweed at Coral Pink Sand Dunes

11:00

Ava Brinkley

Northern Arizona University

Species boundaries in Astragalus subsect. newberryani

11:20

Shanon Lencioni

Northern Arizona University

The Cost of Self-Defense: Browsing Impacts on Arizona Willow (Salix arizonica)

11:40

Cindy Newlander

Denver Botanic Gardens

Scouting and Collecting Quercus welshii for use in ex situ collections

Noon

Ron Bolander

UNPS Board

Award presentation

Lunch

Time

Presenter

Organization

Title

1:20pm

Announcements

1:25

Zach Coury

Utah Rare Plant Program

Exciting Rare Plants in Desolation Canyon

1:45

Bill Gray

Utah Museum of Natural History

In search of the Grandmother Tree: old-growth Utah Junipers

2:05

Mitch Power

Utah Museum of Natural History

Fish Lake area history of aspen and role of disturbance

Break

2:40

Carl Rothfels

Intermountain Herbarium, Utah State University

Utah's rare and unusual fern diversity

3:00

Steve Leavitt

Brigham Young University

Utah's vulnerable lichen communities

3:20

Thomas Meinzen

Project Eleven Hundred

Pollinator Dependency of a Rare Alpine Plant, Senecio fremontii var. inexpectatus, in the La Sal Mountains

3:40

Carrie Cannon

Hualapai Department of Cultural Resources

Mojave desert plants of southwest Utah with significant Tribal uses