President: Ann Pinzl (email: apinzl [at] sbcglobal [dot] net), (775) 883-0463

Vice President: Jim Morefield (email: jdmore [at] heritage [dot] nv [dot] gov), (775) 684-2902

Recording Secretary: Pat Neyman

Corresponding Secretary, Membership, & Newsletter: Arnold Tiehm (email: atiehm [at] unr [dot] edu), (775) 329-1645; Membership co-chairs Beth Hewitt and Stacey Crowe

Treasurer: Bill Bowers

Board Members: Tara Forbis, Sonja Kokos, Trent Draper, John Dyer, Christy Malone, Lesley DeFalco

Field Trips: Larry Taylor, (775) 883-6016; DeVon Ekenstam (email: ekenstam [at] mvdsl [dot] com) (702) 378-0624 and Matt Hamilton

Programs: Jan Nachlinger (775) 849-2804; Sue Wainscott (702) 455-3859

Rare Plant Committee & webmaster: Jim Morefield (see above); Rare Plant co-chair Dianne Bangle (702) 293-8759

"The Nevada Native Plant Society (NNPS) is a non-profit corporation organized solely for educational, scientific and charitable purposes for the stimulation of interest in and the developing of an appreciation for native Nevada plants and their preservation" (from the Society's Articles of Incorporation). The Society is supported entirely by membership dues, gifts, and various fundraising activities. All interested in learning more about, conserving, growing, or just seeing and appreciating the 2800+ wild plant species of Nevada and the adjacent Great Basin, Mojave Desert, and eastern Sierra Nevada regions are encouraged to join and participate.  The current Society bylaws are posted here, along with the original 1975 bylaws.

• Margaret Williams Research Grants next deadline February 1st, 2009. Two grants were awarded in March 2008, to Ben Grady, a Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin, Madison, for Speciation and Edaphic Endemism in Eriogonum (Polygonaceae): A Molecular Systematic Approach, and to Genevieve Walden, a Masters student at San Francisco State University, for Phylogenetic Analysis of Sectional and Species Level relationships Within Phacelia Inferred from Chloroplast ndhF and Nuclear rITS Sequence Data. See the NNPS Newsletter for April 2008, vol. 34, no. 3, pages 4-5, for more details.
• Nevada Wildflower Reports On-line and Great Basin Precipitation Watch
• Celebrating Wildflowers (on the U.S.D.A. Forest Service's web site) 
• Recommended Readings for plant identification and enjoyment, for both general and technical audiences, from the Nevada Natural Heritage Program web site.
• PROGRAMS and Events: Upcoming, Recent, and Past
• FIELD TRIPS: Upcoming, Recent, and Past 
• Nevada Moss Collecting Initiative forms available - YOU can help!
• PUBLICATIONS: Mentzelia and the Occasional Papers series
• PUBLICATIONS: Newsletter Index  
• Selection and Cultivation of Nevada Native Plants (a guide to information resources)
• Native Rare Plant Photographs and Images on the Nevada Natural Heritage Program images page, with links to many more sources of native plant images. In particular, see also the USDA Plants Database and the CalPhotos Database for many native plant photographs contributed by Gary Monroe, Margaret Williams, and other NNPS photographers.
• NNPS Rare Plant Status Lists, Nevada Rare Plant Atlas, and related rare species lists and information
• Other web sites of interest to members on the Nevada Natural Heritage Program links page.

What happened to the Northern Nevada Native Plant Society? In 2001 members voted 38 to 7 to accept the Board of Directors' proposal to drop the word "Northern" from our name. Although in the past our members and activities were concentrated in northern Nevada, our membership, organization, and mission have always been state-wide in scope. So we are now officially known as the Nevada Native Plant Society (NNPS), with an active and growing southern Nevada group.

Membership: To join NNPS and begin receiving newsletters, please print, complete, and mail our application form, with your check made payable to NNPS, to P.O. Box 8965, Reno, NV 89507-8965. Dues are for the calendar year in which you join. NOTE: before printing the application form on 8.5x11 paper, turn off all page scaling / resizing / centering in Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Click here or below for the application form.

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Publications: Members receive a monthly newsletter except in December and January, and there is one combined issue for July + August. The newsletter includes information on upcoming and recent meetings, field trips, and other events, short articles and new information on diverse topics related to Nevada native plants, book reviews, announcements, and membership information. Mentzelia is the society's occasional journal, and includes longer, more in-depth articles and monographs of interest to the membership. The most recent is number 8 (2007), spiral bound, describing the Spring Mountains of Clark and Nye counties, Nevada, and their vascular flora. The Occasional Papers series issues single articles on botanical topics, often reprinted from other (usually out-of-print) sources. Back issues of most publications are available by writing to the mailing address above.

Activities: Call a contact above, or join and obtain the Newsletter, for more details. Non-members are welcome! Regular meetings are held in Reno the first Thursday of February, March, April, May, September, October, and November, from 7-9 pm, in the lab across the courtyard from the herbarium at 920 Valley Road on the UNR Campus, and in Henderson the first Monday of every month, from 6:30-7:30 pm, at the U.S. Geological Survey office at 160 N. Stephanie Street. In Reno there is usually an optional dinner with the guest speaker before the meeting, at 5:45 pm (note new time!) at the Carrow's Restaurant on the northwest corner of Wells Avenue and 6th Street. One meeting each year is usually devoted to member photographs. Field trips occur throughout spring, summer, and early fall to local and regional areas of botanical interest. Most are on Saturdays, with occasional overnight or weekday events, and are at participants' sole risk. Themes include plant identification, photography, wildflower displays, ecology, rare and endangered species conservation, and weed control. There is often an August potluck and social at a park or arboretum in the Reno area. Margaret Williams Research Grants are awarded each year to support work involving Nevada flora. A seed exchange program occurs as members have the time and ability to gather, process, and package seeds. Packets of numerous native species have been made available for the cost of postage. The Nevada Rare Plant Workshop, co-sponsored with the Nevada Natural Heritage Program, takes place yearly the first week of April in either Carson City or Las Vegas. This one-day workshop gathers botanical experts and resource professionals from throughout the west to discuss current and new information on Nevada's rarest plant species, and to review and recommend conservation priorities for those species. Contact the Rare Plant Committee (above) for further information.

This page was initiated on 1 October 1998, and was last updated on 05 Sep 2008.

This page is hosted by the Nevada Natural Heritage Program on the State of Nevada web server.