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B.C. Vegetation Working Group

April 13 - 16, 1987 Cowichan Lake Research Station Mesachie Lake, B.C.

Monday, April 13
	2000 - 2200				Registration and social get-together
Tuesday, April 14			Rare and Endangered Plants

	0700	Breakfast
	0745	Introductory Remarks - Chairperson, Dr. Jim Pojar
	0800	Principles of disjunct distribution and rarity in plants - Dr. Geraldine Allen
	0825	The work and objectives of the Plant Subcommittee of COSEWIC in B.C. - Dr. Gerald Straley
	0850	The rare plants of northern British Columbia and Yukon Territory - Dr. George Douglas
	0915	The rare plant inventory in the State of Washington - John Gamon
	0940	Rare plants and their protection in Alaska - Dr. David Murray
	1005	Coffee break
	1025	Rare bryophytes in British Columbia - Dr. Wilfred Schofield
	1050	Southern rare and endangered plant elements in British Columbia - Dr. Adolf Ceska
	1115	Rare and endangered alpine plants of British Columbia - Dr. Bob Ogilvie
	1140	Threatened and rare ecosystems in British Columbia - Dr. Jim Pojar
	1205	Lunch break
	1315	The natural areas system and other protection efforts for rare plants in the State of Washington - Mark Sheehan
	1340	Protecting B.C.’s rare and endangered plants in ecological reserves - Dr. Hans Roemer
	1405	Coffee
	1515	Discussion groups How should endangered plants be protected in B.C.? What criteria should be used for a threatened and endangered species short-list? Discussion of a tentative species list The problem of peripheral species What re-defined classes of rareness/endangerment would you propose?
	1645	Dinner
	1800	Visit to Honeymoon Bay Ecological Reserve (Erythronium revolutum)
	2000	General Meeting – B.C. Vegetation Working Group
Wednesday, April 15				Succession and Vegetation Dynamics
	0700	Breakfast
	0745	Introductory Remarks - Chairperson, Dr. Marc Bell
	0800	Long term succession in coastal British Columbia - Dr. Richard Hebda, B.C. Provincial Museum
	0830	Forest succession research in interior Alaska - Dr. Leslie Viereck, USDA Forest Service, Alaska
	0900	Research in plant community dynamics in southeastern Alaska - Dr. Paul Alaback, USDA Forest Service, Alaska
	0930	Patch dynamics and spatial scale in some Pacific Northwest forests - Dr. Joe Antos, University of Victoria
	1000	Coffee break
	1030	Vegetation relationships among seral ecosystems in southwestern British Columbia - Dr. Karel Klinka, U.B.C.
	1100	Bog woodland succession in northcoastal British Columbia - Allen Banner, Min. of Forests and Lands, Smithers
	1130	Post-burning revegetation in the sub-boreal spruce zone - Evelyn Hamilton, Min. of Forests and Lands
	1200	Lunch break
	1300	Seral classification of the Kimsquit River floodplains: a research framework for coastal grizzly bear habitat evaluation - Tony Hamilton, Min. of Environment and Parks
	1330	Patterns of vegetation recovery on Mt. St. Helens: survivors and colonists - Dr. Roger del Moral, University of Washington
	1400	Distribution and ecology of knapweed in North America with particular reference to British Columbia - Dr. Brian Wikeem
	1500	Visit to Mount Tzuhalem (rare plant communities and species)
	1900	Dinner
	2030	Slide presentation
Thursday, April 16
	0700	Breakfast
	0800	Field trip: coastal succession - Dr. R. Smith and others, CFS, Victoria
	1200	Bag lunch break