Colorado Native Plant Society’s Southwest Chapter will host a lecture by Nora Ventrella at 7 p.m. Jan. 20 at Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, as a part of its 2023 lecture series.
The lecture is titled “Rare and Restoration Plants of the Navajo Nation; Conservation Activities of the Navajo Natural Heritage Program.”
Ventrella has been the botanist for the Navajo Natural Heritage Program with the Navajo Nation Department of Fish and Wildlife for the past six years. She collects, manages and disseminates information about threatened and endangered plant species on Navajo lands and is the curator of the Navajo Nation herbarium in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The presentation will be preceded by a short meeting of the Southwest Chapter and followed by a question-and-answer session.
For more information, contact johnbregar09@gmail.com.
