Highlights from 2018

The Evergreen State College - Olympia, Washington      

  see PHOTOS               complete 2018 Program & Abstracts        

About 230 people attended! 

11 Symposia & Technical Sessions produced 65 oral presentations:

•  Plenary: Buying Time - Adapting to Climate Change in the Northwest
  
•  Adapting to the Effects of Climate Change in Aquatic & Infrastructure Management
  
•  Pacific Northwest Lichenology & Bryology   
  
•  Native Food Plants of the Northwest: Ecology, Culture, & Management in a Changing World  
  
•  Changes in Top Predators of the Salish Sea
  
•  Fisheries Conservation & Management in the Pacific Northwest
•  Ecoregional Land Management in Response to Changing Climate
  
•  Ecology & Geology
•  Hydrology & Aquatic and Riparian Habitats
•  Wildlife Biology & Management   
•  Forest Management & Forest Health
  

3 Workshops:

• New Tools for Science in the 21st Century
• Applications in R Programming for Ecology & Natural Resources
• Crust Lichens on Conifer Bark

3 Discussions Groups:

• Washington Natural Heritage Program - Northwest Lichencologists:  Rare Lichen Discussion
• Ethics Panel
  
• Plenary - Adapting to Climate Change
  

Banquet with good food, great company, and a very relevant presentation

                             by Jon Riedel, North Cascades National Park

                "Blue Legacy:  100 years of change in Washington's Glaciers"

4 Field Trips:    

• Prairies of the South Sound: Conservation & Restoration
• Using Small Unmanned Aircraft to Inform Natural Resource Management: Applications by the Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Bryophytes, Lichens, & Ecosystem Ecology of Acidic Peatlands
• Lichens of the Deschutes Falls County Park                               
  

Cooperators: 

• The Evergreen State College
• Washington Department of Natural Resources
• U.S. Forest Service
• Northwest Lichenologists