KNPS’s native plant stewardship certification program is making a comeback in 2020! KNPS organized this successful program for 7 years but has put the program on hold since 2017. But now, KNPS is planning to offer this series again for professionals, students, landowners, citizen scientists, and anyone interested in learning more about native plant identification and stewardship. This 6-part program will train you on native plant ID basics, Kentucky’s botanical and natural community diversity, invasive species ID and management, rare and native plant management, seed collection, native plant gardening, and more. The goal of the program is to train more botanical stewards/guardians in the state and ultimately connect these graduates with native plant stewardship projects across Kentucky. If you are interested in the coordinator position or would like to help with the program by participating as an instructor, please contact us at KYPlants@knps.org!
Duties of the coordinator position include:
- Emailing class participants and instructors a few times a month prior to classes
- Distributing/mailing program packets to class participants
- Emails and phone calls about general program logistics