by CONPS ME | Nov 14, 2021 | Bryophytes
Plagiobryoides renauldii, an acrocarpous moss not previously known from Colorado, was found at Unaweep Seep State Natural Area in Mesa County. A bryophyte survey of the natural area was conducted on April 11, 2021, by a group of bryologists, including myself, Paula...
by CONPS ME | Nov 8, 2021 | Conservation Public Comment and Reports
On November 7, 2021 CoNPS posted their comments on the Grand Mesa, Uncompagre and Gunnision National Forest Plan. Two of our outstanding members Gay Austin, a former employee of the Bureau of Land Management, and Peggy Lyon who worked for the Colorado Natural...
by CONPS ME | Nov 2, 2021 | Mission Grant Recipients
Spring 2021 Mission Grants Awarded to Mary Menz, C. J. Bradford, John Giordanengo & Ashley Bruner Spring 2021: The CoNPS Mission Grant committee awarded $310.00 to Mary Menz and CJ Brafford of the Ute Indian Museum to support herbarium collections documenting...
by CONPS ME | Oct 15, 2021 | CoNPS Blog
Perhaps you missed the flowers, they’re pretty tiny, but during the rich light of a late sunny afternoon, you can’t miss the brilliant shine of the seed heads of our two native grasses, Big bluestem and Little bluestem. So alike, yet so different, and each is from a...
by CONPS ME | May 26, 2021 | Alice Eastwood Scholarship Recipients
2021 Alice Eastwood Scholarship Recipient: Tiffany Gentry (Integrative Biology, University of Colorado Denver). $950. Tiffany moved to Colorado in 2010 and quickly became obsessed with the landscape of the Southern Rocky Mountains, which led her to pursue...
