Save the Date!
Idaho Native Plant Society Conference (scaled down Rare Plant Conference)
When: October 19 –20, 2011
Where: BLM Idaho State Office—Sagebrush Room
What: Rare Plant List Update and Boise Front Field Trip
To all INPS members:
Before our conference, we need a list of plant species to discuss and rank (using the NatureServe Rank Calculator) as a group. Criteria for species to rank include the following (in order of priority):
1. Plants for which there is significant new information (including species to be newly added to the INPS list).
2. Plants with considerable information stored in "gray matter'' (i.e. the
brains) of people who are on the verge of retiring, changing jobs, or otherwise becoming less available for dialogue.
3. Plants currently ranked G1-G2/S1-S2 and for which Idaho has the lead.
For each species to rank, substantial information will need to be compiled before the October 19th meeting, so a Species Lead will be assigned to each. The species nominator may well be the Species Lead, but does not have to be. When we see the list of nominated species, we'll pare it down(if needed) to 10-20 species we can tackle, and figure out regional groups for the meeting.
Please send nominations to me (ecorbin@blm.gov) by September 16, with a brief description of why each is a priority.
Thanks much!
Beth