Native Plant Workshop Offers Eight Workshop Choices
March 8, 2012 | 
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The KSB’s 33rd Annual Native Plant Workshop will offer eight workshops with participants able to choose two at the all day event on March 24, 2012 held at the West Sedona School. In addition, there are two keynote speakers: rainwater guru and author Brad Lancaster and horticulturist Jan Busco.
Participants will need to choose only two of these eight workshops:
Larry Anderson will take a unique view of the definition of Container Gardening.
Merle and Michele Herrick will cover how composting works, the methods and types of composting, the materials needed, the rewards and how to get started in your own backyard.
Mary Lata’s workshop will address firewise landscaping – learn how to create defensible space around your home to reduce a wildfire’s intensity and ability to spread.
Clare Licher will provide a brief explanation of the nature of essential oils and their uses in the Aromatherapy and Perfume industries, discuss steam distillation and include an aromatic experience of some of the oils.
Carl Olson will look at insects encountered in your yard and garden, what they mean within your ecosystem and how to change your perspective from the negative and the importance each brings to a healthy ecosystem.
Diane Scantlebury will give a brief overview of hydroponic growing basics and supply sources with one or two practical, home hydroponic, project suggestions.
Jeff Schalau’s presentation will discuss: the differences between invasive and noxious weeds; how these plants negatively impact native plant communities, how to recognize and identify these plants; and some simple weed management practices.
Gene Twaronite will provide a brief survey of cold hardy cacti, agaves, yuccas, and hesperaloes native to the Southwest, liberally sprinkled with personal observations, anecdotes and cultural advice.
For more information and to register, please visit: http://keepsedonabeautiful.org/native-plant-workshop-home-2012
Mary Lata to Present at Native Plant Workshop March 24, 2012
Concerned about brush, grass or forest fires where you live? Mary’s workshop will address firewise landscaping – learn how to create defensible space around your home to reduce a wildfire’s intensity and ability to spread. Although there are no “fireproof” plant species, where and how you plant can be more important than what species you use. Mary will provide information concerning what plant species are more fire resistant.
Mary has been interested in fire and fire effects since she was approximately 7. Having grown up in Iowa, she has always had her own garden plot, and has admitted to leaving a trail of flowering bulbs in the various locations where she has lived. Combining her love of fire and plants has led her on a path towards fire-safe and native landscaping.
Mary is currently employed as a Fire Ecologist with the US Forest Service and has worked for The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service. She holds a master’s degree in Physical Geography, and a Ph.D. in Geoscience from the University of Iowa.
Mary will be one of eight workshops (participants can choose two of the eight)at KSB’s 33rd Annual Native Plant Workshop at the West Sedona School (570 Posse Ground Road) on Saturday, March 24. For more information and registration, please visithttp://keepsedonabeautiful.org/our-programs/native-plant-workshop
Native Plant Workshop on March 24, 2012
This year Keep Sedona Beautiful’s 33rd Annual Native Plant Workshop will be held at the West Sedona School (570 Posse Ground Road) on March 24 from 8:30am to 3:00pm. Registration will begin at 7:30am.
Our first keynote speaker is the rainwater guru, Brad Lancaster, coming to us from Tucson and speaking on Planting the Rain: Principles, Practices, and tips for Water-Harvesting Earthworks and Raingardens.
Getting the Best from Your Native Plants! is the topic of our second keynote speaker horticulturist Jan Busco.
We are also offering eight workshop choices of which you can attend two. Also included are breakfast savories (Wildflower Bread Company), coffee, tea, water (Kinetco), lunch (Weber’s IGA), and over fifty items in a Silent Auction (something for everyone).
For more information and registration, please visit http://keepsedonabeautiful.org/our-programs/native-plant-workshop.
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33rd Native Plant Workshop
Arizona Hedgehog Cactus: Photo by Gerry Snyder
Keep Sedona Beautiful presents the 33rd Annual Native Plant Workshop on March 24, 2012 at the West Sedona School. Doors open at 7:45am. The format is similiar to last year with a full day program featuring two keynote speakers plus a selection of two workshops from eight choices. Breakfast beverages and savories plus a bagged lunch are included. There is also a Silent Auction with numerous items.
Please visit http://www.keepsedonabeautiful.org/our-programs/native-plant-workshop for further information as it becomes available including registration.
Native Plant Workshop
Save the date, Saturday, March 24, 2012 for the 33rd Annual Native Plant Workshop. Keynote speakers, small workshop presentations, lunch and a silent auction make for an interesting and educational day.
32nd Annual Native Plant Workshop Held
The “Going Native” 32nd Annual Native Plant Workshop was held Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 3:00PM at the West Sedona School which was a new venue but proved to be very satisfactory.
The two keynote speakers were Bill McDorman, President of Seeds Trust, who spoke on “The Reasonable Landscape”, and Jeff Schalau, Associate Agent for the University of AZ Cooperative Extension in Yavapai County, whose topic was “The Agriculture/Environment Connection: Producing Safe Food and Clean Water While Conserving Local Ecosystems”.
This year we offered a total of seven workshops and participants were able to choose two:
1. Jason Lavelle: Xeriscaping with Cacti and Native Plants
2. Shaun Symond: Native Plants for Your Home and Garden
3. Dena Greenwood: Attracting Birds with Native Plants
4. Tom Watkins: Non Native Plants and Their Management
5. John Neville: Water Harvesting from Simple to Complete
6. Joy Kimmel: Identifying Native Plants in the Verde Valley
7: Leilah Breitler: How to Make Salves & Tinctures Using Wild Herbs
Advance tickets were $20 for KSB members and $30 for the general public. Besides the workshops, lunch and free penstomen plants were included.
An exciting Silent Auction was held featuring 57 items varying from a mixed case of Arizona Stronghold Wines to meals at Rene’s at Tlaquepaque, Heartline Café, Red’s Restaurant, Elote Café and L’Auberge to a fine wool rug donated by Azadi Fine Rugs to Two seats on any Pink Jeep Tour. The variety was wonderful as well as the generous support of the community.
The fifth annual prestigious Norman B. Herkenham award was presented to Max Licher, resident of Sedona for 28 years. Max was selected for this award based on his work cataloguing, identifying and photographing native species here in Sedona and the Verde Valley, and his continuing work on education in this regard. He has documented about 1200 species of native and naturalized flora of Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, and has made this work available on the Southwest Environmental Information Network.
In the evaluation forms, participants responded that they enjoyed the event, learned a great deal and thought everything was well organized. A special thanks to the committee of Co-Chairs Georgia Munsell and Nancy Spinelli, Debra Fleeger, Wendy Heald, Gail Heyer, Jane McGraw, Michelle & Gerry Snyder, Barbara Saul, Rich Spinelli, Bette & Venkat Venkateswaran, and Jan Wind who put in over 900 volunteer hours.
From business sponsors, the silent auction donations and ticket sales, KSB netted over $13,000 which will be put to good use keeping Sedona beautiful.
The 2012 Native Plant Workshop promises to be just as informative and is scheduled for the end of March.
GOING NATIVE
Native Plant Workshop, March 19, 2011
The 32nd Annual Native Plant Workshop is Saturday, March 19 at the West Sedona School, 570 Posse Ground Road. Registration begins at 7:45am with the workshop going from 8:30am until 3:00pm.
The 2011 workshop features two keynote speakers: Bill McDorman of Seeds Trust on “The Reasonable Landscape” and Jeff Schalau from the Arizona Cooperative Extension on The Agricultural/Environment Connection: Producing Safe Food and Clean Water While conserving Local Ecosystems”.
Admission also includes your choice of two of the eight workshops:
1. Jason Lavelle: Xeriscaping with Cacti and Native Plants
2. Shaun Symond: Native Plants for Your Home and Garden
3. Dena Greenwood: Attracting Birds with Native Plants
4. Tom Watkins: Non Native Plants and their Eradication
5. Audrey Stephens: A Monarch Butterfly Presentation
6. John Neville: Water harvesting from Simple to Complete
7. Joy Kimmel: Identifying Native Plants in the Verde Valley
8. Leilah Breitler: How to Make Salves & Tinctures Using Wild Herbs
Plus a free plant, a silent auction with over 50 items and lunch included!
Advance tickets are $20.00 for Keep Sedona Beautiful members, and $30.00 for non-members. Tickets at the door are an additional $10.00.
Program details and advance signup are available at http://npw.keepsedonabeautiful.org/
Register online now as space is limited and past workshops have sold out prior to the event.
Coconino Forest Service Releases Draft Management Plan
Important!
Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc.
Comment Request
Coconino National Forest Releases
Draft Management Plan
Meetings on Plan Scheduled — Comments Requested
A draft of the Coconino National Forest Land Management Plan (Plan) is now available for public review and input on the Plan revision website:
(http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coconino/projects/plan-revision/imputs2.shtml)
This is a very important Plan to comment on.
Individual comments are highly encouraged to positively affect this critical Plan that will have long-term effects on our environment, community and National Forest. After extensive public meetings and cooperation the Coconino National Forest (CNF) amended its Forest Management Plan in 1998. The result of this community/Forest Service collaboration was Amendment 12 to the current Plan. The CNF is currently revising its entire FMP for the first time since 1982. This means that the provisions of Amendment 12 will no longer be a separate amendment within the Plan. The provisions will become part of the overall Plan and may not exactly represent the values contained in Amendment 12.
Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc. (KSB) strongly believes that we need to carefully monitor the merging of Amendment 12 into the revised Plan. Slight edits, changes in management direction, goals, standards and guidelines could have significant impact on the original intent of Amendment 12. The management area of Amendment 12 encompasses 160,000 acres in the vicinity of Sedona. This is the same 160,000 acres that the proposed National Scenic Area would encompass.
Of particular importance, Amendment 12 contains an important land exchange policy. It states: “This policy will allow disposal of National Forest lands in the planning area only if high-priority private lands can be acquired in the planning area.” The policy is clear, no land exchanges for private lands outside the planning area.
KSB requests that you send comments to the Coconino National Forest concerning this Plan revision and insist that this land exchange policy stay intact. Furthermore we ask that your comments call for a public review and meeting process that allows for public meetings in the Greater Sedona area, open discussion on the revised Plan, identification of any changes to Amendment 12 and where in the revised Plan such changes to Amendment 12 be found.
Comment Example:
As an involved concerned resident of the Sedona Area I want to comment on the currently proposed revision to the Coconino National Forest Management (Plan). In 1998 our community and the Coconino National Forest, after 3 years of effort and collaboration, developed Amendment 12. The focal point of Amendment 12 was a policy that no land exchanges would be made for private lands outside the planning area. This important policy must be included into any proposed management plan. Additionally, I ask that there be a public review and meeting process that allows for public meetings to take place in the Greater Sedona Area, open discussion on the revised Plan, identification of all changes to Amendment 12 and where in the Plan such changes can be found.
Please make the above requested comments as soon as possible. Make additional comments prior to March 14, 2011
Send Email Comments to: coconino_national_forest_plan_revision_team@fsfed.us
Send Written Comments to:
Coconino National Forest
Attention: Plan Revision
1824 S. Thompson
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
Public Meeting Schedule:
Tuesday, March 1, 2011- Flagstaff 6:00 p.m. Radisson Woodlands Hotel, 1175 West Route 66, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Wednesday, March 2, 2011- Camp Verde 6:00 p.m.
The Lodge at Cliff Castle, Conference Center, 333 Middle Verde Road, Camp Verde, AZ 86322
One on One Discussion Meetings:
For those who cannot attend the March 1 or March 2 meetings there will be two one-on-one meeting dates available.
March 4, 2011, Sedona Public Library- Noon to 3 p.m.
3250 White Bear Road, Sedona
March 8, 2011, Red Rock Ranger District- Noon to 3 p.m.
8375 State Route 179, Sedona, Arizona
Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc. will be contacting its National Scenic Area Coalition partners and asking the CNF to schedule public meetings on the Plan in the Sedona area. We will continue to keep you informed of and monitor the Plan’s progress.
Tom O’Halleran, President
Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc.
Heather Provencio, Red Rock District Ranger
KSB Speakers Series features Heather Provencio, Red Rock District Ranger
Red Rock District Ranger Heather Provencio
Keep Sedona Beautiful’s monthly Speaker Series will begin with wine and hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 and feature Heather Provencio, Red Rock District Ranger of the Coconino National Forest. At 5:45 the program will begin, and Provencio’s talk will focus on the state of the Coconino National Forest, highlighting how it relates to the current national emphasis on climate change as directed by President Obama and the Secretary of Agriculture.
Heather was born and raised in southern Illinois and grew up in a Forest Service family. She moved to Arizona in 1982 to attend Northern Arizona University and pursue a Bachelor’s degree in archaeology and anthropology. In 1998, she attended NAU again and received her Master’s degree in Anthropology. Her Master’s work focused on volunteerism in archaeology, and her first job with the Forest Service was in 1985 as a firefighter on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in northern Arizona. Later, on that same Forest, she went on to become a trail crew foreman, work in human resources, was a recreation planner and an archaeologist. Prior to coming to the Red Rock District, Heather worked as District archaeologist and tribal liaison for the Peaks and Mormon Lake Ranger Districts of the Coconino National Forest in Flagstaff. She has served as the District Ranger for the Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest since 2006 and is temporarily detailed into the Deputy Forest Supervisor position on the Coconino National Forest in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The Speaker Series takes place at Keep Sedona Beautiful headquarters, the historic Pushmataha Center, 360 Brewer Road in Sedona. Held the third Wednesday of each month from October to June, the award-winning series presents an interesting diversity of programs relevant to our region. Non-members are asked to make a $3 donation. Keep Sedona Beautiful is a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Preserving the Wonder” of Sedona for future generations. For more information on Keep Sedona Beautiful, call 282-4938 or go to www.keepsedonabeautiful.org.
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NSA Update from Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick
Bell Rock, Sedona AZ
Representative Ann Kirkpatrick has announced that on June 10, the House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and National Lands will hold a hearing to discuss the Sedona-Red Rock National Scenic Area Act, along with other bills. This is the first step in moving these bills forward.
Find more information on the Sedona-Red Rocks National Scenic Area Act on Keep Sedona Beautiful’s website.