Conservation Conference 2009

CNPS 2009 Conservation Conference: Strategies and Solutions

About the Conference

The CNPS 2009 Conservation Conference will help guide California’s conservation science and public policy for coming decades. It provides a framework for identifying significant statewide and regional conservation threats and numerous means to explore, promote, and integrate the best science and public policy strategies and solutions to conserve the state’s native plant flora.

This conference will bring together over 1,000 scientists, university students and researchers, conservationists, professional and amateur botanists, and public policy makers, local and regional land use planners and natural resource managers from all regions of the state and beyond to share and learn about the latest developments in conservation science and public policy.

This meeting is a unique opportunity for diverse audiences to exchange knowledge, experience, and ideas and promote effective solutions to California’s conservation challenges. Participants will also have excellent opportunities to network and establish new partnerships. Anyone interested in the flora of California, plant science, sensitive plant and habitat conservation, vegetation ecology, and landscape-level planning should participate.

The first CNPS conservation conference: Conservation and Management of Rare and Endangered Plants was held in 1986, in Sacramento, CA and was the largest ever convened in North America to address rare and endangered plants. The 1986 conference dramatically enhanced the conservation community’s appreciation for, understanding of, and ability to conserve California’s native flora. It’s been 22 years, and now CNPS is again organizing a state-wide conference to address the current threats to California’s native flora. Like the 1986 conference, this conference will provide a vision and context to educate and inspire those currently conserving California’s flora and to help propagate the next generation of botanical conservationists.