2023 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.
2023 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:
2023 DeDecker Botanical Grant Recipients
- 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:
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. Recording available here or below:
- Presentation at WMRC:
- OTHER Recipients' Progress Reports Coming Soon!
- Rachel Friesen - Climate change and alpine plant community turnover in Yosemite National Park
- Mahima Dixit - Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Eriogonum deflexum complex
- Kimberly Schaefer - A vascular flora of the Sacatar Trail Wilderness
- Rachel Tageant - A floristic inventory of the Owens River Headwater Wilderness
- Zoe Wood - From museum to field and back