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"murphy westwood" Discussed on WTOP
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In Defense of Plants Podcast
"murphy westwood" Discussed on In Defense of Plants Podcast
"And one of the things I decided to do was to provide a combination for people who refused to use LatinX. But this caused great consternation between my co author rob Knox and I doing the gluten and crop less provision, the floor of the northeastern United States and the adjacent Canada. And so he's been really influential in my career. And one of the things we put in the introduction is how the names are providing really aren't even common names. They're more vernacular names, kind of like an English translation of the Latin. Because they don't really mean anything. Because they're really not in common usage. And when you travel, you'll encounter new common names for the same plant or an inverse of common names where it might be something in the east and it means something different in the west, which aids to confusion. We kind of need to get over this and the example I think about and you probably know this example is dinosaurs, right? Little kids say Tyrannosaurus Rex. Right. They use the scientific names all the time. There's no expectation of like the little armed big dinosaur or whatever a common name of T. Rex would be. But for plants, we do. And I don't understand why. We just need to learn acer Rubens what we're commonly referred to as red maple. Let's just get on board with the scientific names. It sounds scientific in the latest, but there's too many plants to go the common name route. Right. And then you think of like, what does get a common name? Usually the most useful plants. Most plants, we haven't discovered a quote unquote anthropocentric use for them, but boy are they important? Yeah, that's another thing that's kind of challenging and playing conservation is the number one question. Well, what good is it? No. And it's drips with a human centric viewpoint that an organism doesn't deserve an existence if it doesn't provide me with some immediate tangible use. Right. It's a challenge to talk about playing conservation in those circles. Sure. But with all of the challenges you face, every once in a very rare moment, you get to do something amazing for plant conservation and sometimes that's taking a species thought to be extinct and realizing, no, it's still out there. Maybe not doing well, but it's still out there. And you guys hit the home run recently on a wonderful oak that goes by the name quercus, foia. That's right, no common name because there isn't one. But I was like, and that's what people call it. They call it the late leaf toke because they've vernacular lies the scientific name. But I'm glad you said you guys discovered this because that is the truth. This was a large collaboration. There were 9 of us in the field from across the U.S.. And this was where to even begin. So back when I was doing back when we were doing the extinct plants work, I reached out to Murphy Westwood at the Morton arboretum. It was like Murphy, you did the global conservation assessment of oaks and we have corpus folia as data deficient. And I brought up that it was only known from a small couple of trees that were last seen in like 1997 and thought to be extinct around 2011 they all die. It's like this doesn't sound data efficient. It sounds like we have nothing left to protect. But I can understand the designation of data deficient because you know there could always be more out there, which is always one of the challenges with plant conservation. You don't know what's up next creek or over the next hill. So nature serpent. We have two ranks. We have GH, which is globally historic. Which leaves some hope for rediscovering the GX, which is extinct, which is kind of like the hard X when we've kind of given up. So we had corkers start a fully as GH with some possibility because it was the last collected in 1997 by Michael and I think it was surely Powell. He's at Saul Ross state, he wrote the floor of the trans pecos really great guy. And he collected from boot canyon in Big Ben national park. So in 2021, I went down with Adam black, who was just a brilliant botanist who lived in Texas at the time. And we did a whole series of field work where we collected everything in the red oak group we encountered. And we made molecular vouchers because there's some real problems with species delineations in southwest Texas and the oaks. Oaks in general, but yeah. Oh man. But the steaks get high there because you have cortisol more, which is G 5 and corpus gravesite, which is G 5, but then you have corcos robusta, which might be G one. Cork is, which might be G one in corpus folio, which is thought to be extinct. And if you can't identify these things in the field, it's hard to build conservation action around them. So we went down and just bailed and looked at a bunch of plants and like, let's say, May of 2021. And then in September 2021, Adam and I went back with Andrew hip of the Morton arboretum who runs their molecular libraries and molecular phylogenetics. And Michael Eason, who's now at the San Antonio zoom botanical garden. And Michael wrote the book literally like the wildflowers of Texas. Nice. Really knowledgeable, wonderful photographer too, if you can check them out on Instagram. I think it's like TX flora or something like that. But we went down with a reporter. Marianne Renault, who did a really great piece in the new republic on this hunt for corpus folia. And we didn't find it. But we got permits from Big Ben and we made a bunch of collections and we surveyed a bunch of stuff. But one of the things we learned during that trip was if we were ever going to make a real stab at rediscovering that oak, we'd have to set up camp and boot canyon because it is a multiple hour hike from the parking lot in the desert. Yeah. And yeah, and you know what it's like backpacking? Like you have to carry all your gear, like it's work and then you're hiking all day and you have to make your food. It becomes quickly like an owners. We have this idea of romantic. Field work. And that's not really what this would be. But it kind of turned into that. So year two comes and it was a larger group. So I want to see if I can remember all the names because it's important for me to call these people up because the media celebration loves giving credit to a couple of people, but that's not really how it should be. So I already mentioned Michael Eason at the San Antonio zoom botanical garden in Adam black. He's now with Bartlett. He lives in North Carolina now. But then we had people like, so Raymond, this was our lead at the U.S. botanical garden mentioned Murphy west who had already at Morton. But Emily griswold is at UC Davis. She came down for fuel work. She studies oaks and Phillips schultzy, I think it was his last name is that Lady Bird Johnson wildflower center. He was a local who also helped us out with Elizabeth Thomas, who was working at poly hill at the time polyurethane. I think that's Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard. Sorry if I did that wrong. And then Sarah Wiley was another arborist from California. So we had a big group of us. And we took PAC mules in
In Defense of Plants Podcast
In Situ Community-Based Oak Conservation At The Morton Arboretum
"Suited to do some major impact stuff for a bunch of trees and the main focus of what we were connected over our oaks because the icn just did their assessment or trying to get this out that what is it. Forty one percent of species across the globe are facing extinction or at least of conservation concern. And i just spoke with your colleague dr murphy westwood about a lot of exit. You so taking trees to other places to help conserve them. But you are position in a way that you're doing a lot of the institute the other side of that coin which is also desperately needed. So let's take a closer look at just. What in situ conservation means to you before we look at some of the species. You're working with right. So the global tree conservation program in the morton arboretum. We have a very specific approach to how we try to save threatened tree species. We've i go through prioritizing because unfortunately we cannot save all the sixteen thousand three species on the planet and we wish we could right now but we don't have the money or manpower resources so we need to make some hard choices of what we are going to folks and that is We used a lot the redmi sting which is why you talked about with murphy and the new red list of folks which is one of our target tax on groups was published and my team members did that and so now we have a clear picture of which species need our help the most so then two approaches we can take our well. Try to go and save these species right were they occur and that's go in situ conservation so within their native range but also complement to that. Sometimes we just can't that we were not able to save the species right where they occur. So then we can compliment that with ex situ conservation. Which is what murphy. Also talked a lot about hoochie. You can do see the preservation and you can save species by having specimen symbol. Tammy berea so. My job is to focus on the in situ conservation part so where we do is that we select right now. We have tools as if he projects with two different species off endangered oaks which are coworkers brandy. Gi which is endemic micro endemic old that only occurs in the tip or huckabee -fornia peninsula in the california lack in mexico. Scowls working mogo. Well people those these resorts drink margaritas. And they have no idea that fifty kilometers from there There is these amazing biosphere reserve called sierra laguna forest biosphere reserve. And we've seen that reserve. There is the majority of the distribution of these core brand This is a very dry arid. Ecosystems very scrubby and so these are tree only occurs on by edges obese announced streams. And when you think of a stream or a river you imagine that yes. What but he's he's really funny. I guess share some pictures of you just sad there dry and only when there's hurricanes or weather events then erase a lot there and it feels app and it crashes the mountains a mountain range right there and so all. The rain gets dunked on everything. Floods the roles get destroyed. And then you pass this they rebuild it like with the sand like they have. Ob sands so anyway abc's where these oak grows but the problem is that because it's a very dry ecosystem that is also where the ranchers want to have the ratchets. That's there's water so they put these long hosts. And that's how they watered needle gardens or wetlands. Show there's a conflict between the place where the you know the specific habitat for these species. And where the ranches are and the problem. The ranchers be street because he'd provides shea in