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Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society Aquilegia Workshops & Chapter Programs 2015 Photo Contest Winners Annual Conference Summary Rare Plant Symposium Report Volume 39 No. 4 Fall 2015 Biographies of Award Winners Aquilegia Volume 39, No. 4 Fall 2015 1 Second Place Photo Contest Winners The winners on each page are identified clockwise from upper left: Front Cover: First place winners (clockwise from upper left): Dave Elin (Native Plants) Penstemon grahamii, Rio Blanco County; Dave Elin (Native Plant Landscape) Populus tremuloides, San Juan Mountains; Audrey Boag (Artistic) Fern un- furling early in the morning; Lenore Mitchell (Native Plants and Wildlife) Asclepias speciosa & Bumblebee This page: Second Place Winners (clockwise from upper left): Sally Guthart (Artistic) Fallugia paradoxa, Gardens on Spring Creek, Fort Collins; Tami Kochen (Native Plant) Cirsium scopulorum, La Plata Peak; Dave Elin (Native Plant & Wildllife) Gaillardia aristata and Sweat Bee, Reynolds Park; Nicole Ellison (Native Plant Landscape) Old man of the Ute Mountain, Hymenoxys grandiflora, Ute trail RMNP 2 Aquilegia Volume 39, No. 4 Fall 2015 Colorado Native Plant Society AQUILEGIA: Newsletter of the Colorado Dedicated to furthering the knowledge, appreciation, and conservation of native plants and habitats of Colorado Native Plant Society through education, stewardship, and advocacy Inside this issue Board of Directors OFFICERS News & Announcements......................4 President(Co-) Charlie Turner [email protected] Board Meeting Summary.....................9 President(Co-) Jan L. Turner [email protected] Vice-President Irene Shonle [email protected] Workshops & Fall Programs................10 Treasurer Mo Ewing [email protected] Secretary Denise Wilson [email protected] Articles MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Report on the 2015 Colorado Rare Plant Symposium................13 Jenny Ramp Neale [email protected] Bob Powell [email protected] Summaries of the 2015 CoNPS Annual Conference Lectures..16 Lenore Mitchell [email protected] Steve Olson [email protected] Field Trip Photos.......................................................................................22 Jessica Smith [email protected] Jan L. Turner [email protected] Award Winners Jack & Martha Carter................................................24 Cecily Mui [email protected] Amy Yarger [email protected] Award Winner Vickey Trammell..........................................................25 Award Winner Mo Ewing......................................................................26 CHAPTER PRESIDENTS Boulder Erica Cooper [email protected] Holiday Shopping at the CoNPS Bookstore....................................29 Gore Range Nanette Kuich [email protected] Metro Denver Sam Clark [email protected] Calendar.......................................................................................Back Cover Northern Ronda Koski [email protected] Plateau Stephen Stern [email protected] Southeast Richard Bunn [email protected] COMMITTEE CHAIRS Conservation Mo Ewing [email protected] Botanicum absurdum by Rob Pudim Education & Outreach Sara Copp [email protected] Field Studies Steve Popovich Finance Mo Ewing [email protected] Horticulture & Rest. Jim Tolstrup [email protected] Media Jan Turner [email protected] Membership Jen Bousselot [email protected] Research Grants Catherine Kleier [email protected] Sales Linda Smith [email protected] Workshops Ronda Koski [email protected] Staff Administrative Coordinator Linda Smith [email protected] 970-663-4085 Membership & Marketing Coordinator Jennifer Bousselot [email protected] Workshop Coordinator Ronda Koski [email protected] AQUILEGIA: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society Volume 39 Number 4 Fall 2015 ISSN 2161-7317 (Online) - ISSN 2162-0865 (Print) Copyright © 2015 Aquilegia is the newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society. Members receive four regular issues per year (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) plus a special issue for the Society Annual Conference held in the Fall. All contributions are subject to editing for brevity, grammar, and consistency, with final approval of substantive changes by the author. Articles from Aquilegia may be used by other native plant societies or non-profit groups, if fully cited to the author and attributed to Aquilegia. The deadline for the Winter issue is January 10th. Announcements, news, articles, book reviews, poems, botanical illustrations, photographs, and other contributions should be sent to the editor. Editor Jan Turner [email protected] Cartoonist Rob Pudim Columnists Mo Ewing, Jim Borland Proofreaders Linda Smith, Nan Daniels, John Vickery Layout & Design Jan Turner Technical Troubleshooter Charlie Turner Facebook Carol English E-News, Twitter Jen Bousselot Webmaster Mo Ewing Web Editor Linda Smith © 2015 Rob Pudim For subscriptions and memberships contact Linda Smith [email protected] or 970-663-4085. Aquilegia Volume 39, No. 4 Fall 2015 3 News & Announcements 2015 CoNPS Photo Contest Winners Welcome New CoNPS Board Members! Selected by Vote at Annual Meeting Cecily Mui Cecily Mui is the daughter of hardworking immigrant parents This year, the CoNPS photo contest took on a different form. and grew up in the hustle and bustle of the California Bay Contestants submitted their photos as 8” x 10” prints that Area. Fortunately, she was inspired were posted on one of the walls of the Conference Room. The on an elementary school field trip to photos were numbered and the photographers’ names were an Audubon Center and Sanctuary not included with the photos; the photographers’ identities where she looked through a scope remained anonymous to eliminate bias. and discovered that herons and egrets nested in trees. From that Conference participants voted for their favorite photographs in moment, it became clear to her that four categories: Native Plant, Native Plant Landscape, Artistic, she would pursue that bond with and Native Plants & Wildlife/Pollinators. First place winners nature and the outdoors for the rest were Dave Elin (Native Plants), Dave Elin (Native Plant Land- of her life. scape), Audrey Boag (Artistic), and Lenore Mitchell (Native Upon high school graduation, Cecily Plants and Wildlife). First place winners each received $50 for left the Bay Area for the University of their winning photos. Wisconsin-Madison to obtain Bache- lor degrees in both Wildlife Ecology and Agricultural Education. The winners are listed below by category. There she discovered a passion for restoration while taking classes and volunteering at the Arboretum where Aldo Leop- Native Plants old led an effort to re-establish native plant communities and 1st place Dave Elin - Penstemon grahamii, Rio Blanco County introduced the concept of ecological restoration. After com- 2nd place Tami Kochen - Cirsium scopulorum, La Plata Peak pleting her Master’s degree in Wildlife Biology at Colorado State 3rd place - (3-way tie; all received the same number of votes): University, she went on to environmental consulting, restora- tion projects, and natural areas land management. Currently, 3rd place Audrey Boag - Tradescantia occidentalis, Western she is a Noxious Weed Specialist with the Colorado Department spiderwort of Agriculture’s Noxious Weed Program. Through service on 3rd place Carla DeMasters - Dyssodia aurea, Pueblo, CO the CoNPS Board, she hopes to promote dialogue and actions 3rd place Margarete Steinhauer - Oil Shale Columbine, Aquile- for responsible land management that enhances native plant gia barnebyi; Hanging Lake, Glenwood Canyon communities and educate people on noxious weed manage- ment. Cecily comes with a passion for outreach and educa- Native Plant Landscape tion because she wants to share with others the riches she has 1st place Dave Elin - Populus tremuloides, San Juan Mountains discovered in the outdoors. 2nd place Nicole Ellison - Old man of the Ute Mountain, Amy Yarger Hymenoxys grandiflora, Ute trail, RMNP Amy Yarger has worked in the public horticulture field since 3rd place Marlene Borneman - Rydbergia grandiflora featured, 1996. She received a bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolu- also Polemonium viscosum and Trifolium dasyphyllum tionary biology at the University of California, Irvine and then went on to study plant-animal interactions at the University of Artistic Michigan. Her master’s thesis con- cerned the effects of noxious weeds 1st place Audrey Boag - Fern unfurling early in the morning on pollinator-plant relationships. Her 2nd place Sally Guthart - Fallugia paradoxa, Gardens on Spring work at Butterfly Pavilion, where she Creek, Fort Collins has been a horticulturist since 2000, 3rd place Tami Kochen - Frasera speciosa, Maroon Bells-Snow- touches on many of her passions: mass Wilderness plants, insects and conservation. As Horticulture Director, a position she Native Plants & Wildlife (including Pollinators) has held since 2006, she is responsible 1st place Lenore Mitchell - Asclepias speciosa & Bumblebee for leading local habitat restoration 2nd place Dave Elin - Gaillardia aristata and Sweat Bee, projects, citizen science projects and educational programs throughout the community. Reynolds Park, JCOS Amy has been an active CoNPS member, serving on the Native 3rd place Audrey Boag - Bombus ternarius foraging in Astragalus Plant Gardening Guides committee. She has given a workshop drummondii on insects and was a speaker at the 2015 CoNPS Annual Confer-
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