2022 DeDecker Botanical Grant Awards
The Bristlecone Chapter of the California Native Plant Society has recently awarded these grants for botanical projects. The Mary DeDecker Botanical Grant Program annually awards funding for projects that increase the understanding and appreciation of our region’s unique native flora.
These grants are supported by the annual native plant sale. Persons funded are required to report on their research findings or how they used the grant money.
2022 DeDecker Botanical Grant Recipients Announced
The Bristlecone Chapter is very pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s DeDecker Botanical Grant. We had many competitive applications. It is through the success of our annual native plant sale and the generous donations of plant enthusiasts that we are able to support these excellent projects:
2022 DeDecker Botanical Grant Recipients
- Tamsen Dunn - Unusual Robustness of a Novel Boechera of the Eastern Sierra - see progress report here
- Eastern Sierra Land Trust - Appreciating Native Plants Through Art - see progress report here
- Kaleb Goff - Applying functional trait measurements to better understand climate change impacts to alpine plant communities over a 17-year study period in the White Mountains, Inyo Co., CA - see progress report here
- Presentation at WMRC:
February 23, 2023, Thursday, 6-7:30 pm ONLINE: Taxonomic and functional diversity of xeric alpine plant communities in a changing climate, with Kaleb Goff, PhD Student, North Carolina State University and 2022 WMRC Mini Grant recipient and Bristlecone Chapter DeDecker grant recipient. White Mountain Research Station Lecture-
Kaleb will discuss findings that demonstrate climate change’s affects on plant diversity and functionality within the xeric alpine ecosystems of the White Mountains, California. His work is also in collaboration with GLORIA Great Basin, which has been monitoring plant communities in the White Mountains for the last 18 years. Registration required via Zoom. This talk will be recorded. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REGISTER HERE
- Peri Lee Pipkin - Black Holes, White Gold: A Floristic Inventory of the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, NV- see progress report here
- Presentation at WMRC:
- March 23, Thursday, 6-7:30 pm, ONLINE: Black Holes, White Gold: A Floristic Inventory of the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, NV, with Peri Lee Pipkin, Masters student, Claremont University, 2022 WMRC Mini Grant and Bristlecone Chapter DeDecker Grant Recpient.
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Peri Lee is conducting a floristic inventory of the Silver Peak mountains in Esmeralda County, Nevada. These desert mountains are arid yet full of incredible biodiversity, and range from valleys of alkali wetlands, cactus flats to red rock canyons, and peaks bearing lupines and bristlecone pines. There are several species of interest in the area, including the endemic and endangered Tiehm’s buckwheat, and the rare plant Tecopa Bird’s Beak. In addition to this floristic inventory, Peri Lee is also writing a conservation plan in order to preserve the threatened population of Tecopa’s Bird’s Beak that occurs in the alkali wetlands. Registration required via Zoom. This talk will be recorded. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
- Presentation at WMRC:
- Kyle Rosenblad - Climate change and evolutionary potential in a montane meadow-dependent species - see progress report here
- Kimberly Schaefer - A Vascular Flora of the Sacatar Trail Wilderness - see progress report here
