Potowmack Chapter 2024 Annual Meeting & Program
Date/Time
Sunday, November 17, 2024
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Green Spring Gardens
Categories
The VNPS Potowmack Chapter 2024 Annual Meeting & Program will be held on Sunday, November 17, 2024, at the Green Spring Gardens Visitor Center in Alexandria, VA.
Per the Potowmack Chapter Bylaws, this meeting is held to elect officers and at-large members of the Board, to approve the budget for the upcoming year, and to conduct such other business as may be appropriate.
Election Proxy Ballots and the proposed FY2025 Budget will be emailed to all Potowmack Chapter members no later than October 18, 2024.
We will have free copies (one per attendee) of the new Guide for Selecting Riparian Trees and Shrubs in Virginia published by the Upper and Middle James Riparian Consortium. We will also have various native plant publications, including the Guide to Native Plants for Northern Virginia, for sale by cash, check, or credit card.
12:30 pm – Social Time
1:00 pm – Business Meeting & Elections
The following chapter members are proposed for election or reelection:
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- Alan Ford, President
- Kit Sheffield, Treasurer
- Mark Murphy, Vice-President
- Jen Brown, Secretary
1:30 pm – Program & Speaker: Saving the Forests: Early Detection and Rapid Response in the National Capital Region.
Sara Tangren, PhD, Environmental Program Coordinator for National Capital Region PRISM, will discuss early-phase invasive plant species detection and response.
Are you worried about the endless onslaught of invasive species attacking our forests? Perhaps you, or someone you know, has dedicated themselves to the effort to save our forests. If so, you may be wondering how we are ever going to break out of this endless cycle! In this presentation we will discuss the prevention of invasions, the early detection of new invasives (including horizon scanning techniques), and the importance of rapid response. These techniques will be discussed in the context of programs actually ocurring in the National Capital Region. We will leave you with a few plant species to watch out for this winter so that you can be part of the effort to help break the cycle of invasives breaking our forests!