2010 Annual Meeting Program
Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico
Wednesday August 11
9:00 am–3:00 pm Premeeting Seminar: Botrychium—Don Farrar and Cindy Johnson
Thursday August 12
8:00 am–5:00 pm Premeeting Seminar (cont’d): Botrychium
1:30–5:00 pm NPSNM Board Meeting
3:00–6:00 pm Registration
4:00–5:00 pm Open Space Plant Walk—Deming Gustafson. Difficulty level: Easy–Moderate.
3:00–6:00 pm Submit Photos for Photo Contest
Friday August 13 Morning Session
7:30-8:00 am Submit Photos for Photo Contest
7:30-3:00 pm Registration
8:00-4:00 pm Book Sales and Silent Auction
8:30-9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00-9:50 am The Carbon Ranch-Fighting Climate Change through Food and
Stewardship-Courtney White
10:00-10:50 am Room A: Chloridoid Grasses of NM: Evolution and Classification-
J. Travis Columbus
Room B: The Flora of the Rocky Mountains-Ron Hartman
11:00-11:50 am Room A: Landscape of Enchantment—David Cristiani
Room B: Developing Mesquite & Nipa as New Global Arid-Lands
Crops—Richard Felger
12:00–1:30 pm Lunch at WNMU cafeteria (included in registration)
Friday August 13 Afternoon Session
1:00–5:00 pm View photos entered in the photo contest
1:30–2:30 pm Room A: Recent Research on Fern Gametophytes—Don Farrar
2:30–3:20 pm Room A: The Flora of Lake Roberts—Kelly Kindscher
2:30-4:30 pm Room B: Sedge Identification Workshop—William Norris and Danielle
Walkup (Limit: 30)
3:30–4:30 pm Room A: The Vascular Flora of the Gila National Forest: A
Database—Jack Carter and Charles A. Huff
5:30 pm Cocktail Reception—Little Walnut Picnic Shelter
Saturday August 14 Morning Sessions—Concurrent Field Trips and Workshops
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please sign up for field trips and workshops when you register for the annual meeting. Please be sure to be prepared for your field trips. Bring water food, sun screen, hat, hiking boots, etc. as needed, depending on where you are going. Saturday field trips will leave precisely on time! Departure and return times are staggered to avoid congestion.
8:00 am–Noon View Photos
Noon–1:30 pm Lunch at WNMU cafeteria (included in registration)
1. Cacti
This workshop/seminar will look at the many different types of cacti, both native and non-native. The cultivation and uses will be discussed as well as the botanical and ecological importance of these fascinating plants. Location:
Silver City Time: 8:00am–noon Limit: 14 participants Facilitator: Mark Cantrell
2. Dale A. Zimmerman Herbarium
Learn the importance of an herbarium, who uses it, and why. Participants will find out how specimens are labeled and who identifies them, as well as how plants are collected and prepared for mounting. A mounting demonstration
will be conducted. Location: WNMU Time: 9:00–11:00am Limit: 15 participants Facilitators: Dr. Jack Carter and
Deming Gustafson
3. Permaculture and Native Plants
This workshop/seminar will be a brief introduction to permaculture, water harvesting, and how native plants fit in the landscape. The seminar will end with an optional visit to the presenters’ yard. Location: WNMU Time: 8:00am–
noon Limit: 14 participants Facilitators: Dianna Wynn and Terry Timme
4. Photography Workshop
Learn to get close using plus lenses, extension tube, macro lenses (60mm, 105mm, 150mm); what is affordable and best for you. Explore lighting techniques and other ways to capture the beauty and intricacies of the often unseen
natural world. Location: WNMU Time: 9:00–11:00am Level: SLR or DSLR camera users Limit: 15 participants Facilitator: Elroy Limmer
5. Pine Needle Basket Workshop
Pine needles may be made into many beautiful works of art. Learn how to obtain, prepare, and use pine needles to make baskets and other objects. Participants will complete a small basket. Location: WNMU
Time: 8:00am–noon (don’t be late!) Level: beginner Limit: 10 participants Facilitator: Judy Allen
6. Boston Hill
This mixed-grassland and high-desert habitat provides fabulous views of Silver City as well as representative plant species. The area also includes more than a half-dozen former mining sites. Difficulty: Easy/Moderate Limit: 14 participants
Elevation: 5,980–6,380’ Distance: 2 miles Location: Silver City Time: 9:00–11:30am Leader: Donna Stevens
7. C-Bar Ranch Road
We’ll walk through Chihuahuan montane woodland in the Burros on a new segment of the Continental Divide Trail. We’ll see a diverse sampling of plants characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert, as well as a shaggy-barked alligator
juniper. Difficulty: Easy/Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,900–6,300’ Distance: 3 miles Location: 30 mi S of Silver City Time: 8:00–11:45am Leader: Dr. Richard Felger
8. Cherry Creek Birds
We’ll take an easy walk through the riparian woodlands at Cherry Creek Campground along a perennial mountain stream in the Gila National Forest. Expect to see several species of resident birds, including the red-faced warbler
and ash-throated flycatcher, as well as the plants that support them. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation:6,650–6,800’ Distance: 2 miles Location: 15 mi N of Silver on Hwy 15 Time: 7:30–11:45am Leader: Jerry Bird
9. Garden Tour
The Silva Creek Botanical Gardens is a work in progress where representative species of native plants in the Grant County area are studied and grown. We’ll also visit two homes in the area that use native plants as the
mainstays of their landscaping. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Location: Silver City Time: 8:30–11:45am Leader: Charles Holmes
10. Lake Roberts
Lake Roberts lies nestled among the ponderosa pines within the boundaries of the Gila National Forest, just south of the Gila Wilderness boundary. There are 400 species within ¼ mile of the lake. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants
Elevation: 6,100–6,130’ Distance: 1 mile Location: 1 hour N of Silver Time: 7:30am–noon Leader: Dr. Kelly Kindscher
11. Signal Peak
Very little walking will be required of participants during this field trip as we visit the environs of the Continental Divide Trail at higher elevations. While driving to the trailhead we will go through several different zones. We’ll see dozens of plants characteristic of upper-elevation mixed coniferous forests. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 7,000–8,900’ Distance: 1 mile Location: 17 mi N of Silver on Hwy 15 Time: 8:00–11:45am Leaders: Dr. Dale A.Zimmerman and Dr. William Norris
12. WNMU Museum Mimbres Pottery Exhibit
We’ll visit the WNMU Museum, which houses one of the world’s most complete and comprehensive collections of Mimbres pottery, basketry, and artifacts, in the Eisele Collection. These stunning examples of ancient pottery reveal
a glimpse of the cultural and artistic life of the area as it was more than 800 years ago. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Location: WNMU Time: 10:00am–noon Leaders: Dr. Cynthia Bettison, RPA, and Philip Cave
Saturday August 14 Afternoon Sessions
12:30–3:00 pm Book sales and final bids in Silent Auction
1:30–2:20 pm Room A: Joint Session: Dye Lichens of New Mexico—Glenna Dean
2:30–3:30 pm Room A: Mitigation/Salvation of Moonworts—Cindy Johnson-Groh
Room B: People, Fire and Climate in Southwestern Landscapes—Tom
Swetnam
3:30–4:20 pm Room A: Joint Session: The Flora of the Florida Mountains of Luna
County—Gene Jercinovic
4:40 pm Pick up Silent Auction items, submitted photos
6:00 pm Banquet at Copper Creek Ranch: Cowboy Dinner. Keynote Speaker:
Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold biographer and conservation biologist. He
will speak about New Mexico’s deep influence on the continuing
evolution of land ethics and biodiversity conservation. Musical
entertainment will follow.
Sunday, August 15 Field Trips
Sunday field trips will all leave Silver City at 8:00 a.m. You will receive further information later.
13. Aspen Grove, Signal Peak Road
Aspen Grove is a mountain meadow along the road toward the 9,001-foot summit of Signal Peak. Drivers will make several stops to view a wide variety of plants at various elevations. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants
Elevation: 7,000–8,900’ Distance: ¼ mile Location: 6 mi N of Pinos Altos on Hwy 15 Leader: Dr. Russ Kleinman
14. Catwalk, White Water Creek
A grove of Arizona sycamore trees greets visitors in this riparian area of the Mogollons. The original catwalk was built in 1893 upon the pipeline that was suspended high above boulders of the canyon bottom to avoid washouts.
Difficulty: Easy/moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,100–5,500’ Distance: 2.2 miles (or ½ mile) Location: Hwy 180 NW of Silver City near Glenwood Leaders: Dr. Jack Carter, Donna Stevens, Deming Gustafson
15. City of Rocks State Park
Participants will wander among the monoliths of this geological monument to view the plants in their unique location; they were recently cataloged in a floristic study. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,100–5,150’
Distance: 1 mile Location: 45 min. SE of Silver City near Hwy 180 Leaders: Dr. William Norris and Javier Kirker
16. Mattock’s Site
In the Mimbres Valley, the Mattock’s site is being developed by the Silver City Museum Society. The site contains a native plant walk, Mimbreno site, and adobe ranch buildings. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 6,000–
6,100’ Distance: ½ mile Location: 4 mi NW of Hwy 152/Hwy 35 Leaders: Marilyn Markel and Charles Holmes
17. Mineral Creek and Cooney’s Tomb
After a brief stop at Cooney’s Tomb, participants will hike along Mineral Creek and Cooney Canyon to the old mining town site of Cooney in the Mogollon Mountains. Difficulty: Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,500–6,000’
Distance: 4 miles Location: 35 mi NW of Silver City off Hwy 180 Leaders: Wayne Buckner and Spike Flanders
18. Pony Hills
The rocky outcrop of Pony Hills rises above the Chihuahuan Desert grassland-ecotone where participants will view both plants and petroglyphs. If time permits, we may look for the night-blooming cereus at a nearby location.
Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 4,800–4,950’ Distance: 1 mile Location: 16 miles NE of Deming on Hwy
180 and Hwy 25 Leader: Dr. Richard Felger
19. Rabb Park
Following the riparian area formed by Rabb and Girty springs, this field trip rises and falls along bedrock in the Gila National Forest on trail 747. Difficulty: Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 6,600–7,200’ Distance: 7 miles
Location: 45 minutes NE of Silver City on Hwy 152 Leaders: Lee Stockman and Janet Gilchrist
20. Railroad Canyon
Ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests are dissected by many stream crossings along the Railroad Canyon field trip, which will turn back short of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. Difficulty: Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation:
7,000–9,000’ Distance: 8 miles Location: 55 min. NE of Silver on Hwy 152 Leader: Dr. Kelly Kindscher
21. Spring Canyon
One of the few mountain areas of Luna County, the Floridas are home to some striking and unusual Chihuahuan Desert plants. Mid-August is an excellent time to seee them. Difficulty: Easy/Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation:
4,800–6,200’ Distance: 2 miles Location: Rockhound State Park, 10 miles SE of Deming Leader: Gene Jercinovic
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Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico
Wednesday August 11
9:00 am–3:00 pm Premeeting Seminar: Botrychium—Don Farrar and Cindy Johnson
Thursday August 12
8:00 am–5:00 pm Premeeting Seminar (cont’d): Botrychium
1:30–5:00 pm NPSNM Board Meeting
3:00–6:00 pm Registration
4:00–5:00 pm Open Space Plant Walk—Deming Gustafson. Difficulty level: Easy–Moderate.
3:00–6:00 pm Submit Photos for Photo Contest
Friday August 13 Morning Session
7:30-8:00 am Submit Photos for Photo Contest
7:30-3:00 pm Registration
8:00-4:00 pm Book Sales and Silent Auction
8:30-9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00-9:50 am The Carbon Ranch-Fighting Climate Change through Food and
Stewardship-Courtney White
10:00-10:50 am Room A: Chloridoid Grasses of NM: Evolution and Classification-
J. Travis Columbus
Room B: The Flora of the Rocky Mountains-Ron Hartman
11:00-11:50 am Room A: Landscape of Enchantment—David Cristiani
Room B: Developing Mesquite & Nipa as New Global Arid-Lands
Crops—Richard Felger
12:00–1:30 pm Lunch at WNMU cafeteria (included in registration)
Friday August 13 Afternoon Session
1:00–5:00 pm View photos entered in the photo contest
1:30–2:30 pm Room A: Recent Research on Fern Gametophytes—Don Farrar
2:30–3:20 pm Room A: The Flora of Lake Roberts—Kelly Kindscher
2:30-4:30 pm Room B: Sedge Identification Workshop—William Norris and Danielle
Walkup (Limit: 30)
3:30–4:30 pm Room A: The Vascular Flora of the Gila National Forest: A
Database—Jack Carter and Charles A. Huff
5:30 pm Cocktail Reception—Little Walnut Picnic Shelter
Saturday August 14 Morning Sessions—Concurrent Field Trips and Workshops
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please sign up for field trips and workshops when you register for the annual meeting. Please be sure to be prepared for your field trips. Bring water food, sun screen, hat, hiking boots, etc. as needed, depending on where you are going. Saturday field trips will leave precisely on time! Departure and return times are staggered to avoid congestion.
8:00 am–Noon View Photos
Noon–1:30 pm Lunch at WNMU cafeteria (included in registration)
1. Cacti
This workshop/seminar will look at the many different types of cacti, both native and non-native. The cultivation and uses will be discussed as well as the botanical and ecological importance of these fascinating plants. Location:
Silver City Time: 8:00am–noon Limit: 14 participants Facilitator: Mark Cantrell
2. Dale A. Zimmerman Herbarium
Learn the importance of an herbarium, who uses it, and why. Participants will find out how specimens are labeled and who identifies them, as well as how plants are collected and prepared for mounting. A mounting demonstration
will be conducted. Location: WNMU Time: 9:00–11:00am Limit: 15 participants Facilitators: Dr. Jack Carter and
Deming Gustafson
3. Permaculture and Native Plants
This workshop/seminar will be a brief introduction to permaculture, water harvesting, and how native plants fit in the landscape. The seminar will end with an optional visit to the presenters’ yard. Location: WNMU Time: 8:00am–
noon Limit: 14 participants Facilitators: Dianna Wynn and Terry Timme
4. Photography Workshop
Learn to get close using plus lenses, extension tube, macro lenses (60mm, 105mm, 150mm); what is affordable and best for you. Explore lighting techniques and other ways to capture the beauty and intricacies of the often unseen
natural world. Location: WNMU Time: 9:00–11:00am Level: SLR or DSLR camera users Limit: 15 participants Facilitator: Elroy Limmer
5. Pine Needle Basket Workshop
Pine needles may be made into many beautiful works of art. Learn how to obtain, prepare, and use pine needles to make baskets and other objects. Participants will complete a small basket. Location: WNMU
Time: 8:00am–noon (don’t be late!) Level: beginner Limit: 10 participants Facilitator: Judy Allen
6. Boston Hill
This mixed-grassland and high-desert habitat provides fabulous views of Silver City as well as representative plant species. The area also includes more than a half-dozen former mining sites. Difficulty: Easy/Moderate Limit: 14 participants
Elevation: 5,980–6,380’ Distance: 2 miles Location: Silver City Time: 9:00–11:30am Leader: Donna Stevens
7. C-Bar Ranch Road
We’ll walk through Chihuahuan montane woodland in the Burros on a new segment of the Continental Divide Trail. We’ll see a diverse sampling of plants characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert, as well as a shaggy-barked alligator
juniper. Difficulty: Easy/Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,900–6,300’ Distance: 3 miles Location: 30 mi S of Silver City Time: 8:00–11:45am Leader: Dr. Richard Felger
8. Cherry Creek Birds
We’ll take an easy walk through the riparian woodlands at Cherry Creek Campground along a perennial mountain stream in the Gila National Forest. Expect to see several species of resident birds, including the red-faced warbler
and ash-throated flycatcher, as well as the plants that support them. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation:6,650–6,800’ Distance: 2 miles Location: 15 mi N of Silver on Hwy 15 Time: 7:30–11:45am Leader: Jerry Bird
9. Garden Tour
The Silva Creek Botanical Gardens is a work in progress where representative species of native plants in the Grant County area are studied and grown. We’ll also visit two homes in the area that use native plants as the
mainstays of their landscaping. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Location: Silver City Time: 8:30–11:45am Leader: Charles Holmes
10. Lake Roberts
Lake Roberts lies nestled among the ponderosa pines within the boundaries of the Gila National Forest, just south of the Gila Wilderness boundary. There are 400 species within ¼ mile of the lake. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants
Elevation: 6,100–6,130’ Distance: 1 mile Location: 1 hour N of Silver Time: 7:30am–noon Leader: Dr. Kelly Kindscher
11. Signal Peak
Very little walking will be required of participants during this field trip as we visit the environs of the Continental Divide Trail at higher elevations. While driving to the trailhead we will go through several different zones. We’ll see dozens of plants characteristic of upper-elevation mixed coniferous forests. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 7,000–8,900’ Distance: 1 mile Location: 17 mi N of Silver on Hwy 15 Time: 8:00–11:45am Leaders: Dr. Dale A.Zimmerman and Dr. William Norris
12. WNMU Museum Mimbres Pottery Exhibit
We’ll visit the WNMU Museum, which houses one of the world’s most complete and comprehensive collections of Mimbres pottery, basketry, and artifacts, in the Eisele Collection. These stunning examples of ancient pottery reveal
a glimpse of the cultural and artistic life of the area as it was more than 800 years ago. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Location: WNMU Time: 10:00am–noon Leaders: Dr. Cynthia Bettison, RPA, and Philip Cave
Saturday August 14 Afternoon Sessions
12:30–3:00 pm Book sales and final bids in Silent Auction
1:30–2:20 pm Room A: Joint Session: Dye Lichens of New Mexico—Glenna Dean
2:30–3:30 pm Room A: Mitigation/Salvation of Moonworts—Cindy Johnson-Groh
Room B: People, Fire and Climate in Southwestern Landscapes—Tom
Swetnam
3:30–4:20 pm Room A: Joint Session: The Flora of the Florida Mountains of Luna
County—Gene Jercinovic
4:40 pm Pick up Silent Auction items, submitted photos
6:00 pm Banquet at Copper Creek Ranch: Cowboy Dinner. Keynote Speaker:
Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold biographer and conservation biologist. He
will speak about New Mexico’s deep influence on the continuing
evolution of land ethics and biodiversity conservation. Musical
entertainment will follow.
Sunday, August 15 Field Trips
Sunday field trips will all leave Silver City at 8:00 a.m. You will receive further information later.
13. Aspen Grove, Signal Peak Road
Aspen Grove is a mountain meadow along the road toward the 9,001-foot summit of Signal Peak. Drivers will make several stops to view a wide variety of plants at various elevations. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants
Elevation: 7,000–8,900’ Distance: ¼ mile Location: 6 mi N of Pinos Altos on Hwy 15 Leader: Dr. Russ Kleinman
14. Catwalk, White Water Creek
A grove of Arizona sycamore trees greets visitors in this riparian area of the Mogollons. The original catwalk was built in 1893 upon the pipeline that was suspended high above boulders of the canyon bottom to avoid washouts.
Difficulty: Easy/moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,100–5,500’ Distance: 2.2 miles (or ½ mile) Location: Hwy 180 NW of Silver City near Glenwood Leaders: Dr. Jack Carter, Donna Stevens, Deming Gustafson
15. City of Rocks State Park
Participants will wander among the monoliths of this geological monument to view the plants in their unique location; they were recently cataloged in a floristic study. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,100–5,150’
Distance: 1 mile Location: 45 min. SE of Silver City near Hwy 180 Leaders: Dr. William Norris and Javier Kirker
16. Mattock’s Site
In the Mimbres Valley, the Mattock’s site is being developed by the Silver City Museum Society. The site contains a native plant walk, Mimbreno site, and adobe ranch buildings. Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 6,000–
6,100’ Distance: ½ mile Location: 4 mi NW of Hwy 152/Hwy 35 Leaders: Marilyn Markel and Charles Holmes
17. Mineral Creek and Cooney’s Tomb
After a brief stop at Cooney’s Tomb, participants will hike along Mineral Creek and Cooney Canyon to the old mining town site of Cooney in the Mogollon Mountains. Difficulty: Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 5,500–6,000’
Distance: 4 miles Location: 35 mi NW of Silver City off Hwy 180 Leaders: Wayne Buckner and Spike Flanders
18. Pony Hills
The rocky outcrop of Pony Hills rises above the Chihuahuan Desert grassland-ecotone where participants will view both plants and petroglyphs. If time permits, we may look for the night-blooming cereus at a nearby location.
Difficulty: Easy Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 4,800–4,950’ Distance: 1 mile Location: 16 miles NE of Deming on Hwy
180 and Hwy 25 Leader: Dr. Richard Felger
19. Rabb Park
Following the riparian area formed by Rabb and Girty springs, this field trip rises and falls along bedrock in the Gila National Forest on trail 747. Difficulty: Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation: 6,600–7,200’ Distance: 7 miles
Location: 45 minutes NE of Silver City on Hwy 152 Leaders: Lee Stockman and Janet Gilchrist
20. Railroad Canyon
Ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests are dissected by many stream crossings along the Railroad Canyon field trip, which will turn back short of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. Difficulty: Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation:
7,000–9,000’ Distance: 8 miles Location: 55 min. NE of Silver on Hwy 152 Leader: Dr. Kelly Kindscher
21. Spring Canyon
One of the few mountain areas of Luna County, the Floridas are home to some striking and unusual Chihuahuan Desert plants. Mid-August is an excellent time to seee them. Difficulty: Easy/Moderate Limit: 14 participants Elevation:
4,800–6,200’ Distance: 2 miles Location: Rockhound State Park, 10 miles SE of Deming Leader: Gene Jercinovic
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