Conservation & Ecological RestorationMelissa Booher
2017 The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
Melissa Booher is a master’s ecology student in the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Her project is titled “Carex scopulorum’s Role in Restoration of the Carbon Storing Ecosystem in Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park.” Her research will assess the fate and contribution of introducing thousands of Carex scopulorum (also known as mountain sedge) seedlings to areas of Tuolumne Meadows, a subalpine Sierra Nevada meadow, with high bare soil cover. This sedge species is native, highly productive, and predicted to contribute to organic soil building. Understanding how Carex scopulorum contributes to the recovery of this meadow will help land managers effectively restore similarly degraded areas throughout the Sierra Nevada.
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
The Garden Club of America (the GCA) offers an annual Fellowship in Ecological Restoration. Established in 2000 with funds from the John B. Young Charitable Trust as well as GCA members and clubs, the fellowship’s goal is to support research that will advance knowledge and increase the number of scientists in the important field of ecological restoration, the active healing of the land. The $8,000 grant is awarded annually to exceptional graduate students to support specialized study in ecological restoration at an accredited U.S. university. Preference will be given to projects that include field research conducted in the United States. A panel of experts associated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum reviews the applications and makes recommendations to the GCA Scholarship Committee.
For the purposes of this scholarship, The Garden Club of America agrees to the definition of ecological restoration as stated by the Society of Ecological Restoration (SER).
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