2018 Intertribal Nursery Council Meeting

NOTE: To view a PDF of available presentations click on the blue underlined titles below.

Tuesday, July 24

• 7:45 – 8:30 am – Registration
• 8:30 am – Welcome – Jeremiah Pinto, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID
• Welcome & Elder Blessing – Ted Howard, Tribal Chairman, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, Owyhee, NV
• 9:00 am – Round Robin Introductions
• 9:15 am – Salmon Reintroduction in the Duck Valley Reservation – Jinwon Seo, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, Owyhee, NV
• 9:40 am – Monitoring and maintaining fisheries and wildlife habitat on the Duck Valley Reservation – Chris Cleveland, Jamie Smith, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, Owyhee, NV
• 10:00 am – Break
• 10:20 am – Hoop houses, grants, and food sovereignty for the Shoshone-Paiute, Reggie Premo and Rhiannon Nino(presenting), University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Duck Valley Native Programs Specialist, Owyhee, NV
• 10:45 am – Plants for people: bringing traditional ecological knowledge to restoration – Jeremy Ojua, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Grand Ronde, OR
• 11:10 am – Community and agency native plant needs on the Navajo nation – Jesse Mike, Navajo Natural Heritage Program, Flagstaff, AZ
• 11:35 am – Recruitment of Seed-Associated Microbes in Ethnobotancial Plant Species as a Result of Soil Degradation – Desirae Kissell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
• 11:50 am – Monitoring vegetation recovery following the 2015 Soda wildfire and rehabilitation treatments – Kyle Calf Looking, Matt Fisk, Cara Applestein, and Matt Germino, US Geological Survey, Boise, ID
• 12:10 pm – Lunch (included with registration)
• 1:30 – 5:30 pm – Tours (near Boise, ID):
  • Table Rock Restoration Project – Martha Brabec, City of Boise
  • US Forest Service Lucky Peak Nursery – Sara Wilson, USDA Forest Service

Wednesday, July 25

• 8:00 am – The western monarch: how efforts to save this endangered butterfly are helping all types of pollinators – Thomas D Landis, Native Plant Nursery Consulting, Medford, OR
• 8:30 am – Considering native bees in nursery, restoration, and traditional ecological management practices – Brian Dykstra, Native Bee Society, Willow Creek, CA
• 9:00 am – Pollinator restoration programs, plant identification, and traditional ecological knowledge – Andrew Gourd, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Wyandotte, OK
• 9:30 am – Forest Service National Botany Program – William Carromero, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC
• 9:45 am – Compiling ethnobotany of southwest CA – William Pink – Agua Caliente Tribe of Cupeño Indians, Temecula, CA
• 10:15 am – Break
• 10:45 am – An update on propagation and mitigation efforts: Greenhouse irrigation control and determining which species can be planted in cheatgrass – Steven Link(presenting), Gail Redberg, Janice Jones, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, OR
• 11:15 am – Alternatives to traditional pesticides and fertilizers in native plant nurseries – Joel Fields , Wilbur Ellis, Spokane, WA
• 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Box lunch and tours (Owyhee, NV):
  • Pit stop (tentative: Bruneau Canyon Overlook or Bruneau Sand Dunes State Park)
  • Shoshone-Paiute greenhouses (Owyhee, NV)
  • Traditional Dinner (included with registration); (Owyhee, NV)

Thursday, July 26

• 8:00 am – Climate change & the Seed Selection Tool – Holly Prendeville, USDA NW Climate Hub, Corvallis, OR
• 8:30 am – Drought and Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow network (CoCoRaHS) – Holly Prendeville
• 9:00 am – Adaptive genetics and climate – Bryce Richardson, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID
• 10:15 am – Break
• 10:35 am – Restoration successional trajectories, seed zones, and seed production – Francis Kilkenny, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID
• 11:20 am – Nursery practices to mitigate drought – Jeremiah Pinto, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID
• 11:40 am – Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances demo project – Jeff Everett, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, OR
• 12:00 pm – Adjourn