AT: Bluebonnets, Big Red Sage and Biodiversity Benchmarks with Minnette Marr

Minnette Marr, Conservation Botanist and Research Associate, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Bluebonnets, Big Red Sage and Biodiversity Benchmarks. “Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center has provided formal and informal programs about native-to-Texas plants and central Texas landscapes for almost forty years. The Public Garden Sustainability Index is one of the newer tools in the Center’s tool cart…[We] will look at the Wildflower Center’s progress on implementing the Biodiversity Benchmarks to achieve environmental sustainability and explore ways to strengthen the partnerships between public gardens and NPSOT chapters.”