Research Grant Reports

2025 John Marr Grant Recipients

The CoNPS John Marr Grant recipients for 2025 are:   Ashlee Kerber, Master's student at Denver Botanic Garden/University of Colorado Denver, "Genetic and volatile chemical signatures in the Polemonium viscosum complex: a combined approach to species delimitation"...

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Rise to the Challenges: Every iNaturalist is a Winner!

Rise to the Challenges: Every iNaturalist is a Winner!

This spring Colorado is hosting several exciting iNaturalist City Challenges and Special Projects. New to iNaturalist? Now is the perfect time to join! You can learn so much by participating while contributing to an invaluable database for global biodiversity,...

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Conservation Committee Meeting Minutes 2/4/25

  Cimmarron-Comanche Grassland PlanThe committee chair is in touch with Henry Pollack, Executive Director of the Southern Plains Lands Trust, who is following the planning process. Delisting Ute ladies-tresses, Spiranthes diluvialisA proposal by USFWS to delist...

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Be Bold, Be Native: Speak for the Plants!

Be Bold, Be Native: Speak for the Plants!

The election is over, now let’s vote for Colorado’s native plants and habitats! The CoNPS is collaborating this year with the Colorado Gives Foundation in our annual fundraising effort and we are reaching out to our members and friends for their support. The...

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Wetlands Restoration at Rocky Mountain National Park

Wetlands Restoration at Rocky Mountain National Park

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of wetlands in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, where for millennia both humans and wildlife have been relying on them as a source of food, shelter, and clean water. In Rocky Mountain National Park, (RMNP) a concerted effort is...

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2023 John Marr Grant Recipients

Sabrine Dritz, Ph.D. student at UC-Davis, “The functional response of bumblebee pollination in diverse floral landscapes”: $1000 Kyla Knauf, Ph. D. student at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden, “It’s not just flower power: the importance of seed...

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2023 Myrna Steinkamp Grant Award Winners

William Petry, Assistant Professor NC-State, “Fusing data sources across spatial scales for holistic demographic monitoring of the Avery Peak Twinpod (Physaria alpina)”: $1000 My-Lan Le, Master’s student at UC-Denver and Denver Botanic Garden, “Environmental Variation...

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