Native Plant Trust owns and conserves seven native plant sanctuaries throughout New England, each of which boasts unique natural communities. Join us online on January 24 at 1 pm for a detailed look at the natural-community mapping process, which encompasses how we research the plants in the field, record them using digital mapping tools, identify and classify the community types, and use the information to create conservation strategies.
Erik Sechler will speak. Prior to joining Native Plant Trust, Bud worked with Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program as an ecological information specialist and county inventory ecologist, and with New York Natural Heritage Program as an ecologist specializing in natural community ecology, avian habitat ecology, and vegetation mapping. He has more than 10 years’ experience working for a Natural Heritage Program and NatureServe as an ecologist and has also worked with Manomet and The Trustees of Reservations on Martha’s Vineyard. He holds a master’s degree in Conservation Biology from Antioch New England University, where he studied habitat modeling of Louisiana Waterthrush in southern New Hampshire, and a pre-medicine degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His professional interests include avian, natural community and conservation ecology, rare plant ecology, conservation and management, habitat assessment, and invasive plant ecology and management.
$12 for NPT members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/natural-community-mapping-sanctuaries/
