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Tree Gene Conservation Ad_1.24.2020.indd 1 1/27/2020 1:07:11 PM GARDEN ENTRANCE GETTING TO THE GARDEN FROM W HOTEL - MIDTOWN MEETING & TRAVEL INFORMATION ATLANTA Meeting Location Contact information: For any BOTANICAL GARDEN Atlanta Botanical Garden questions or assistance at any time SAGE PARKING 1345 Piedmont Ave, Atlanta, GA 30309 during the meeting, please contact: FACILITY PIEDMONT AVENUE Hotel Carrie Radcliffe 706-247-6866 W Hotel - Midtown [email protected] W HOTEL - MIDTOWN 188 14th Street, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30361 Emily Coffey 314-600-1210 404-892-6000 [email protected] Located 0.6 miles from the Garden 14TH STREET Laurie Blackmore 404-509-6061 [email protected] 4 SePPCon 2020 Abstracts: atlantabg.org/seppconabstracts SePPCon 2020 Abstracts: atlantabg.org/seppconabstracts 5 MONDAY, MARCH 2 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS AND RECEPTION DAY 1 | PLENARY ACTIVITIES HELD IN DAY HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED TUESDAY, MARCH 3 THREAT ASSESSMENT: IUCN RED LIST & REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN BREAK 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. NATURESERVE RANKING WORKSHOP* 7:45 a.m. – 4 p.m. | Hardin Visitor Center 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Magnolia Room | $60 COFFEE & NETWORKING BUILD YOUR SKILLS, SHARE YOUR SKILLS Sponsored by Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens 7:45 am – 8:15 a.m. |Mershon Hall BREAKOUT SESSIONS Christina Carrero, Tree Conservation Research Assistant, The Morton Arboretum 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Dr. Anne Frances, Lead Botanist, NatureServe WELCOME FROM HOSTS AND STEERING PARTNERS Interactive sessions to empower and build relationships – 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. providing opportunities for an exchange of ideas, successes, CONSERVATION HORTICULTURE TRAINING WORKSHOP* lessons learned, and potential to identify additional needs. 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Georgia-Pacific Classroom| $70 Mary Pat Matheson Sponsored by American Public Gardens Association ROADSIDE DEFENDERS MEETING* The Anna & Hays Mershon President and CEO, Atlanta Botanical Garden Concurrent breakout session choices John Evans, Conservation Horticulture Coordinator, Atlanta Botanical Garden 1 – 4 p.m. | Turner Theater Rusty Garrison selected during online registration: Director, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division SEEDBANKING & MICROPROPAGATION REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN Facing the Fundraising Challenge: TRAINING WORKSHOP* 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Hardin Visitor Center Catherine Phillips Getting Creative with Plant Conservation Funding 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Orchid Room| $70 Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Gardenhouse Gallery, Magnolia Room Sponsored by American Public Gardens Association OPENING RECEPTION* U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Southeast Region Jason Ligon, Micropropagation & Seed Bank Coordinator, Atlanta Botanical Garden 5 - 8 p.m. | Mershon Hall Margrett Boley, Director of Biological and Physical Resources Making Communications Count: Raising Awareness & Sponsored by the Atlanta Botanical Garden USDA Forest Service Southern Region Making the Case for Plant Conservation REGIONAL AGENCY MEETINGS (ORGANIZED BY AGENCIES) Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar Day Hall 1 – 4 p.m. | Hardin Visitor Center Conference Room and KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Gardenhouse Boardroom * Pre-registration required Identifying & Empowering Volunteer ANTHROPOCENE ERA & THE 6TH EXTINCTION: Networks to Support Projects OUR REALITY Gardenhouse Gallery, Orchid Room 8:30 – 9:10 a.m. Dr. Pamela S. Soltis Seeking & Building Collaborative Processes: Founding Director of University of Florida Biodiversity Institute, We are Better Together Georgia Department of Natural Resources is a Distinguished Professor and Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History Gardenhouse Gallery proud partner in plant and habitat conservation. CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT PLANTS LUNCH 12 – 1 p.m. in Mershon Hall 9:10 – 9:30 a.m. For more, check out Georgia’s State Wildlife Action Plan Lunch choices selected during online registration Matt Candeias, In Defense of Plants www.georgiawildlife.com/WildlifeActionPlan CONSERVING MEDICINALLY AND CULTURALLY KEYNOTE Q&A 9:30 – 9:45 a.m. SIGNIFICANT SOUTHEASTERN PLANTS and DNR Wildlife Conservation Section’s annual report 1 – 2:15 p.m. www.georgiawildlife.com/Conservation/AnnualReport REGIONAL CONSERVATION INITIATIVES VIDEO SCREENING & PANEL Introduction and overview 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Dr. Anne Frances, Lead Botanist, NatureServe To support this work, buy or renew Sponsored by Southeastern Grasslands Initiative Kentucky’s Forest Biodiversity Assessment Program: a wildlife license plate, including The Southeastern Grasslands Initiative A Model for Capturing Trends and Distribution of the new pollinator tag! Dr. Dwayne Estes, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative Forest Medicinals and More Tara Littlefield, Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves Longleaf for the Long Run Carol Denhof, President, Longleaf Alliance The Culturally Significant Plant Species Initiative (CSPSI): A Piedmont Prairie Initiative Collaboration of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Rua Mordicai, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Science Applications Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere Cooperative Tommy Cabe and Maria Dunlavey, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians 6 SePPCon 2020 Abstracts: atlantabg.org/seppconabstracts SePPCon 2020 Abstracts: atlantabg.org/seppconabstracts 7 TUESDAY, MARCH 3 DAY 1 | PLENARY ACTIVITIES HELD IN DAY HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED DAY 2 | PLENARY ACTIVITIES HELD IN DAY HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 The Ethical Forager: A Review of Harvesting Regulations and BREAK 3 - 3:15 p.m. REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN Ecology and Conservation of the Federally-Listed Coastal Practices for Threatened Medicinal Plants on Public and 7:45 a.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Hardin Visitor Center Cactus Harrisia aboriginum in SW Florida Private Lands in the Southeast STATE PLANT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE Dr. Shawn McCourt, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens COFFEE & NETWORKING Laramie Smith, University of Georgia LIGHTNING PRESENTATIONS & PANEL 7:45 am – 8:15 a.m. |Mershon Hall Examining Morphological and Habitat Variation within 3:15 - 4:20 p.m. Stenanthium gramineum (Eastern Featherbells, Melanthiaceae) Developing Genetic Tools to Safeguard Harvested Species in RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE Hannah Cook, Western Carolina University the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ALABAMA: Patrick Thompson Sponsored by Tennessee Department Dr. Matt Estep, Appalachian State University Auburn University Davis Arboretum Assessment of Science Needs for Rare Plants of Conservation of Environment and Conservation Concern in Southeastern Grasslands MID-ATLANTIC: Amy Highland, Mt. Cuba Center 8 – 8:30 a.m. Three petals, three partners, three genera: Results of an in- Dr. Reed Noss, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative novative partnership for Trillium conservation FLORIDA: Houston Snead, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW Science in Recovery Q&A Clayton Meredith, ABQ Bio-Park GEORGIA: Jennifer Ceska, State Botanical Garden of Georgia Kelly Bibb, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service KENTUCKY: Tara Littlefield, Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves BREAK 10 - 10: 15 a.m. Kentucky’s American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) Geoff Call, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service MISSISSIPPI: Dr. Toby Gray, Mississippi State University Management Program David Lincicome and Andrea Bishop (retired), CONSERVATION GENETICS 10:15 - 11 a.m. Anna Lucio, Kentucky Department of Agriculture NORTH CAROLINA: Michael Kunz Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Sponsored by the Atlanta Botanical Garden North Carolina Botanical Garden, PLANT CONSERVATION ALLIANCES WORKSHOP University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SCIENCE IN RECOVERY Introduction and overview 2:15 - 5:15 p.m. PENNSYLVANIA: Kristi Allen, Pennsylvania Department of 8:30 - 10 a.m. Dr. Lauren Eserman, Atlanta Botanical Garden Sponsored by The State Botanical Garden of Georgia Conservation and Natural Resources Sponsored by the Atlanta Botanical Garden How Genomic Data Can Help Land Managers; SOUTH CAROLINA: April Punsalan, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Life History of Euphorbia telephioides, a Threatened Species Meet your Agency & Natural