[MPWG] Trish Flaster to speak at USBG - Apr 27 (DC)

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

Trish Flaster, Chair of both the MPWG-Conservation Committee and the 
MPWG-Ethnobotany Committee, will be speaking next week at the US Botanic 
Garden!

Sustainability: Medicinal Plants and Culture through the Eyes of an 
Ethnobotanist
Trish Flaster, Executive Director of Botanical Liaisons, LLC

Date: Thursday, April 27
Location: U.S Botanic Garden Conservatory Classroom, 245 First Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20024
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
SONG (Supporters of the National Garden*): $8
Non-Members: $10

Travel to foreign lands to understand one ethnobotanist's attempts to 
preserve traditional knowledge of plant uses.   Ethnnobotany is the 
science that studies and documents plants within the context of the 
cultures that utilize and maintain them. Sustainability requires 
protecting both the plants and the human populations they support. The 
process begins with discussions with healers and proceeds by identifying 
collaborators to assist with the development of a project that offers 
benefits to all those participating. To assure that the future of plant 
knowledge is secure, the implementation of monitoring harvest treatments 
from the wild will be presented.

To register, call Katie Palm at 202-226-4082 or email gsword at aoc.gov 

Katie Palm
Education Program Specialist
U.S. Botanic Garden
245 First St, SW
Washington, DC 20024


*SONG (Supporters of the National Garden*) - Membership to USBG's SONG 
costs $50/year.  SONG memebrs receive discounts to selected USBG events.
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