Conservation & Research Department Projects
Spring 2002
Vision and Mission
Native plant conservation is of national importance and
Denver Botanic Gardens can make a significant contribution to conservation by
working, primarily, on species native to Colorado. The ultimate goal is to reverse the degradation and decline
of native species populations through the conservation, experimentation, and
disseminating of knowledge concerning our native flora.
Various programs further our vision and mission:
Conservation
Programs
· Rare Plant Monitoring/Demography
· Rare Plant Reintroductions
· Rocky Mountain National Park
· Colorado Department of Transportation
· US Forest Service
· Center for Plant Conservation
· Conservation Genetics Program (plants and animals)
· Rare Plant Propagation for reintroductions, living collections
·
Chatfield Basin Conservation Network (CBCN)
Collections Programs
· Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium of Vascular Plants (37,000 specimens)
·
Herbarium of Fungi (Mycology; 22,000 specimens)
Information Access Programs (Usually Herbarium based)
·
NSF MaPSTeDI (Mountain
and Plains Spatio-Temporal Database Informatics Initiative)
·
DBG Digital Herbarium
·
Colorado Alpine Plants Project
· Celebrating Wildflowers - May 20-24 at Denver Botanic Gardens
This event promotes the importance of native plants to school children. This year the theme is wetlands and we will be hosting a native plant coloring contest, handling out wetlands coloring books and many other educational brochures, and having interactive wetlands activities. This event is a partnership of the Denver Botanic Gardens, US Forest Service, and US Bureau of Land Management.
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