Travis Huxman to Speak November 9th on Climate Change and Desert Plants

Dr. Travis E. Huxman, UC Irvine

Travis E. Huxman, Ph.D. will speak at the November meeting of the ABDSP Botany Society on the projected effects of climate change on desert plants. Dr. Huxman studies plant evolution, plant physiology, ecohydrology, and the ecosystem consequences of climate change. Much of his recent work focuses on how drought structures plant communities and how vegetation change in water-limited regions influences the goods and services provided by natural ecosystems. 

He is a product of California’s higher education system, attending Chaffey Community College and CSU San Bernardino prior to earning his PhD in Biology from University of Nevada Las Vegas. Since 2012 he is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine and the Director of the Center for Environmental Biology. In addition, Dr. Huxman oversees the Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center and the expanding campus-wide Sustainability Initiative. 

Who: Travis Huxman, Ph.D., Professor, UC Irvine
What: Botany Lecture Program
When: Monday, November 9, 2015; 10 AM
Where: Discovery Lab, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park® Visitor Center
Cost: Free to the public

 

October-November Newsletter Has Been Posted

The ABDSP BOTANY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER for October-November 2015 has been published. This issue features information on the 2015-16 Botany Lecture Series, Fall Festival & Plant Sale, and the schedule for the Botany Study Group. 

All Botany Society newsletters are now published electronically on the ezine (electronic magazine) Web site Issuu. Publishing on Issuu gives the Botany Society the ability to publish instantly and make the newsletters available to any reader worldwide. The newsletters can be read in a professional magazine-like format. Coincidentally, the Anza Borrego Foundation also publishes its newsletters on Issuu as well. Lastly, there are other publications focusing on botany on the site such as the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens in Claremont, California. Check it out.

Don and Shiela Rideout, editors, remind all members that their contributions to the newsletter are welcomed. You can email news briefs, blurbs, bits, and blog writings directly to Don. 

Online Pre-Ordering of Native Plants is Open Now

This year pre-orders for the Botany Society Fall Festival native plants will be taken online on this Web site. You will be able to simply click on a button next to the size of the native plant you would like to purchase. All 1-gallon size plants are $10 each. Larger sizes will depend on the plant. You will receive a confirming email of your order with a total price.

Use the online Plant Sale Order Form.

Botany Society Fall Festival Will Utilize Online Pre-Ordering of Native Plants

Parkinsonia (Cercidium) florida
Photo: FRED MELGART with permission

The Botany Society Fall Festival will be held over Thanksgiving Weekend, Friday and Saturday, November 27-28, 2015. The Fall Festival features a plant sale of native, desert plant species available from local growers. No desert plants are dug up or harmed for this sale.

For the Fall Festival we primarily sell plants in 1-gallon containers, and these are the usually the best value. However, we can get plants in containers up to a 15-gallon size. Some trees or large shrubs are only available in larger sizes. 

This year pre-orders for plants will be taken online on this Web site. You will be able to simply click on a button next to the size of the native plant you would like to purchase. All 1-gallon size plants are $10 each. Larger sizes will depend on the plant. You will receive a confirming email of your order with a total price.

You can pickup your plant order at the Visitor Center over Thanksgiving Weekend, Friday and Saturday, November 27-28, 2015.

May-June End of Season Newsletter Has Been Posted

The BOTANY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER for May/June has been published. This issue features the Botany Society Certification course classroom and field activities along with a tour of the ABDSP herbarium, information on Botany Study Group activities. Don Rideout's new column The Desert Garden, makes its debut. Lastly, this issue includes our second Book Review in the newsletter: PLANT GUIDE: Maritime Succulent Scrub Region, Northwest Baja California, Mexico by Jim Riley, Jon Rebman and Sula Vanderplank. 

Don Rideout, editor, reminds all members that their contributions to the newsletter are welcomed. You can email news briefs, blurbs, bits, and blog writings directly to Don.