IUCN SSC North American Red List Authority

2018 Report

Anne Frances Margaret (Peggy) Olwell

Co-Chairs Mission statement International (BGCI) to continue US portion of Anne Frances (1) The mission of the North American Plant Red Global Tree Assessment; further develop ability Margaret (Peggy) Olwell (2) List Authority is to conduct conservation status to port data from NatureServe’s database into assessments of native to North America the IUCN SIS database using SIS Connect; use a Red List Authority Coordinator in order to increase conservation efforts. number of common US trees to pilot the Least Concern pipeline; (7) co-lead training session Amanda Treher (1) on Red List assessment and Global Ranking at Projected impact for the 2017-2020 American Public Gardens Association (APGA), Location/Affiliation quadrennium with BGCI and Morton Arboretum. (1) NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, US By the end of 2020, we envision an expanded Plan (2) Bureau of Land Management, presence for the North American Plant Red List Planning: conduct monitoring for the CITES- Washington D.C., US Authority. Specifically, we will develop a website listed medicinal plant American Ginseng (Panax and expand our membership to increase diver- quinquefolius) in and . Number of members sity. We will continue seeking collaborations to 6 leverage resources among those conducting Network conservation status assessments, particularly Capacity building: (1) two members of the botanical gardens. Through these collabora- RLA to attend a “Train the Trainer” workshop tions, we hope to increase the number of Red in Arizona in 2017; (2) co-lead training session List assessments for priority species in North on Red List assessment and Global Ranking at America, including trees, medicinal plants and APGA. rare species. We will continue working with the Membership: expansion of membership to IUCN Red List Unit on ways to streamline the increase diversity (gender, age, and organisa- conversion of NatureServe’s Global Ranks to tional representation). draft Red List assessments. Synergy: form official collaboration with multiple institutions to advance Red List assessments Targets for the 2017-2020 quadrennium and Global Ranking of US trees. Assess Communicate Red List: (1) publication of Hydrastis canadensis Scientific meetings: (1) co-present session at (Goldenseal) on the IUCN Red List; (2) review Gene Conservation of Trees meeting in Chicago, and submission of furcata (Forked in 2016, and publish proceedings; (2) attend and Aster) assessment; (3) contribution of Nature- present at Ginseng Symposium in 2017, publish Serve data and expertise to Red List assess- proceedings. ment of oaks; (4) publish Red List assess- ments; (5) begin collaboration with Medicinal Plant Working Group and Albuquerque BioPark to complete assessments of North American medicinal plants; (6) collaboration with Morton Arboretum and Botanic Gardens Conservation Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Least Concern Photo: Amanda Treher

Activities and results 2018 Network Summary of activities 2018

Assess Membership Species Conservation Cycle ratio: 2/5 Red List i. Unofficial membership outreach to increase Assess 4 |||| diversity. i. Assessment of Eurybia furcata published. Network 2 || Synergy (KSR #1) Main KSRs addressed: 1, 29 ii. Formed strategic partnerships to publish i. Partnership with multiple institutions to KSR: Key Species Result more Red List assessments by 2020. (KSR #1) advance Red List assessments and Global Ranking of US trees ongoing and work iii. In fall 2018, a partnership began with the continued in 2018. (KSR #29) Medicinal Plant Working Group and Albu- querque BioPark to complete assessments of North American medicinal plants; NatureServe Acknowledgements shared information on species and is providing We thank the Bureau of Land Management, US some training on assessing rare plants. (KSR #1) Botanic Garden, Morton Arboretum, Botanic iv. Extensive work completed on a definitive Gardens Conservation International US, Albu- list of trees in the US, including Puerto Rico querque BioPark, US Forest Service, Nature- and the Virgin Islands; taxonomic reconcilia- Serve, and others for their support of this work. tion and defining “tree” worked out; some draft assessments completed by Morton Arboretum; NatureServe completed Global Ranks of rare trees to be shared with Morton Arboretum to use as basis for Red List assessments. (KSR #1)