The Carter Conservation Fund at Work
The NPSNM uses your contributions to fund projects that promote our goals of botanical/environmental education, research, conservation, and restoration. We award one-year grants, with occasional renewals. The lists of grants awarded are found on the Grants Page. Reports from the Grantees on their projects are listed below.
In addition to funding grants, the NPSNM has donated $600 annually to the four major herbaria of the state. Our state herbaria provide an important resource to botanical scientists and educators throughout the state and world. An herbarium is a collection of pressed and mounted plant specimens with associated documentation. The collections within an herbarium comprise a physical record of plant biodiversity, biogeographical distribution and ecology for a region. Herbarium specimens are examined by a variety of users such as university researchers, students, environmental consultants, government agencies, and native plant enthusiasts. In addition, herbarium specimens are sent on loan to qualified researchers and institutions, and detailed, digitized images are being made available widely.
Grant Reports 2014
Plant It: Cactus Adoption and Native Plant Day, Asombro Institute 2014
August Fendler Memorial Project, Audubon 2014
Vascular Flora and Bryophytes of the Gila Cliff Dwellings, Norris 2014
Polemonium present in New Mexico, Rose 2014
Bob Hutchens Collection of Fabaceae, Witte 2014
Grant Reports 2016
NM Carex Project. Norris 2016
Blue Hole Cienega Nature Preserve Environmental Education Program. LeJeune 2016
Is Species Identity or Source Climate a Better Predictor of Seed Germination. Seglias 2016
Gene Dispersal Across Gypsum Outcrops. Lewis 2016
Native Plant Curriculum for NM. Institute for Applied Ecology 2016
Status of Sunflower Pollinators in Southwest. Cumberland 2016
Evolution and Systematics of Oenothera. Cooper 2016
Physiology of Gypsophile Lineages of the Chihuahuan Desert NM. Muller 2016
Desert Stories. Asombro Institute for Science Education 2016
Grant Reports 2015
Mogollon Death Camas, Moeny 2015
Biology and Systematics of Phyllanthus, Hembry 2015
Vascular Plants of the Ladder Ranch, Gautreaux 2015
Sandia Mountain Natural History Center 2015
Pajarito Environmental Education Center 2015
NM Carex Specimens, Norris et al. 2015
Wetwater Environmental Services 2015
Grant Reports 2011
Link to Diversification in Western North American Mertensia, Nazaire 2011
Link to Dichotomous Keys for Sedges in the genus Carex, Norris 2011
Link to Marth Becktell's letter from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (PDF) and their Grant Report (PDF)
Link to Herbarium UTEP , Worthington 2011
Link to Photographic report on donation from Ken Heil, San Juan College in Farmington (PDF) and text of the report.
Link to Restoring Native Riparian Plants at Broad Canyon Ranch, Cary 2011
Link to Upper Gila Watershed 2011