[PCA] NEWS: The Academic Decline: How to Train the Next Generation of Botanists

[De Angelis, Patricia]

I would just like to point out that this US News & World Report mentions
the work of the Chicago Botanic Garden (one of our Plant Conservation
Alliance Cooperators) and the Conservation Land Management (CLM) internship
program, which started in 2001 in partnership with the Bureau of Land
Management and has led to partnerships with National Park Service, the US
Forest Service, the US Geological Survey, and the US Fish and Wildlife
Service. These agencies are among the Federal Member Agencies of the Plant
Conservation Alliance.

More info on CLM: CLM is "a mentoring program to train and employ science
graduates from a wide variety of fields to assist land managers with their
huge task of preserving and protecting biodiversity on our public lands."
http://www.clminternship.org/history

Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife
Service-International Affairs
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110
Arlington, VA  22203
703-358-1708 x1753
FAX: 703-358-2276

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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Kwong, Olivia <okwong at blm.gov> wrote:

>
> http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/12/the-academic-decline-how-to-train-the-next-generation-of-botanists
>
> The Academic Decline: How to Train the Next Generation of Botanists
> Although federal agencies need educated botanists, only a handful of
> colleges still have botany programs
> By ALLIE BIDWELL
> November 12, 2013
> U.S. News & World Report
>
> Krissa Skogen is a conservation scientist at the Chicago Botanic Garden,
> where she spends her days researching a family of plants known as the
> evening primrose.
>
> She and her colleagues study different features of more than 100 species
> of the sunny yellow flowers: How big are their petals? How much nectar do
> they produce? What combination of compounds in their fragrance attracts the
> most pollinators?
>
> While it might seem like a particularly nuanced job for only a certain
> niche, Skogen says understanding the relationship between plants and their
> pollinators can have a large effect on other sectors.
>
> See the link above for the full article text.
>
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