2008 Symposium

Northern California Plant Life: Celebrating What We Have With an Eye to the Future

January 14-16, 2008
California State University, Chico

This was the second annual symposium sponsored by Northern California Botanists! The various topics presented at these symposia concentrate on northern California botany, always looking for links between the worlds of applied and academic botany. New this year was a day of instructional workshops following the symposium.

• Post-conference wrap-up and summary (click here)

Symposium topics for January 14-15, 2008 were:

• Rare plant monitoring and management
• Ethnobotany and vegetation management
• How to be a botanist
• Ecological studies, with an eye to the future
• Going underground
• Wetland restoration and mitigation
• Vegetation mapping and conservation
• Northern California botanical and ecological discoveries

Workshops being presented January 16, 2008 were:

• Rare plants of northern California
• Conducting rare plant assessments
• Traditional land care practices of indian peoples

The 2008 Symposium registration program materials:

• Cover page and sponsors page (pdf)
• Welcome page (pdf)
• Program and abstracts (pdf)
• Addendum (pdf)
• Evaluation form (pdf)
• Post-conference wrap-up and summary

For details about the 2007 symposium, held January 18-19, 2007, click here .