Past Scholarship and Grant Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Project Title | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Anne Beeman | Effects of seed mix composition, soil tilling, and soil texture on shrub establishment and native species diversity in sagebrush steppe restoration | $500 |
| 2024 | Erin Bentley | Kaleidoscope Science | $500 |
| 2024 | Jared Friedman | The relationship between climate change and conifer hydraulic function in subalpine forests | $1000 |
| 2023 | Chelsea-Victoria Turner | Using Historical Specimen Data and New Floristic Inventories to Climate Change Refugia in the Big Horn Mountain Range | $780 |
| 2023 | Rachel Renne | Investigating perennial forb microsites in big sagebrush ecosystems | $1000 |
| 2022 | Michelle Weschler | Can noise from wind turbines affect pollination and native pollinators? | $500 |
| 2022 | Red Dirt Master Gardeners | Hot Springs County Courthouse north entrance native plant garden | $500 |
| 2021 | Bridger Huhn | Understanding the high photosynthetic rate of the rare plant Yermo xanthocephalus. | $500 |
| 2020 | Sienna Wessel | Disentangling the drivers and effects of sagebrush steppe community diversity and composition to improve restoration outcomes | $480 |
| 2020 | Madison Crawford | Monitoring Penstemon absarokensis populations and estimating the role of insect pollinators in the Wyoming Absaroka Mountain Range | $500 |
| 2019 | Alice Stears | A demographic study of the species Oenothera coloradensis | $980 |
| 2018 | Jason Johns | The genetic basis of adaptive alpine dwarfism in Aquilegia | $750 |
| 2018 | Stephanie Winters | Linking soil ecology with vegetation management to optimize efforts of ponderosa pine after wildfires | $864 |
| 2018 | Jane Greaser | 23rd Street Wildscape | $500 |
| 2017 | Rebecca Upjohn | Restoring the West: Using plant functional traits to predict native shrub species response following Russian olive removal | $750 |
| 2017 | Jill Keith | Evaluating value, usage and promotion of indigenous plants/foods of Wyoming and the west | $500 |
| 2016 | Jason Mercer | Exploring alternative hydrological niches of rare plants in groundwater dependent mountain peatlands | $1000 |
| 2015 | Jiemin Guo | Water stress and CO2 diffusion in leaves of 4 native trees | $800 |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Pansing and Sage and Snow Garden Club |
Whitebark Pine Regeneration
Native Plants in Water-Wise Demonstration Garden |
$600 $800 |
| 2013 | Yelena Kosovich | Bryophyte Inventory of Medicine Bow National Forest | $500 |
| 2013 | Olivia Nater, University of Wyoming | Pollination Under Threat – How will climate change affect plant/bee mutualisms? | $1000 |
| 2012 | Teton County Conservation District | Teton County Native Plant Pocket Guide | $500 |
| 2012 | Weston County Natural Resources District | Xeriscape demonstration garden using native plants | $845 |
| 2012 | Andrew King, University of Wyoming | Thematic map of forest changes due to mountain pine beetle | $685 |
| 2010 | Emma Sage University of Wyoming |
Determining the future carbon use of key Wyoming prairie species | $300 |
| 2010 | Nicholas Dowie University of Wyoming |
A unique pinedrops collection, an ancient lineage in danger? | $300 |
| 2009 | Monia Haselhorst University of Wyoming |
Recombination in spruce hybrids as a window to the physiological ecology of divergent species | $500 |
| 2008 | Brittany Jenkins University of Wyoming |
Genetic consequences of rarity among plant species in the genus Penstemon | $500 |
| 2008 | James Zier University of Wyoming |
Peatland response to Holocene climate change and susceptibility to future climate change, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming | $500 |
| 2007 | David Scott University of Wyoming |
Floristic inventory of Grand Teton National Park and Pinyon Peak highlands | $500 |
| 2007 | Mark Lesser University of Wyoming |
Ponderosa pine colonization and expansion records, associated genetic structure, and influence of past climates on species’ range expansions | $500 |
| 2006 | Adam Rollins University of Arkansas |
The Myxomycetetes of Thunder Basin National Grassland among North American grasslands | $300 |
| 2006 | Nancy Bockino University of Wyoming |
Disturbance interactions between mountain pine beetle and blister rust in whitebark pine | $300 |
| 2006 | Robert Harms University of Nebraska |
Lichen flora of the Snowy Range | $300 |
| 2005 | Adam Siepielski New Mexico State University |
Geopgraphic mosaic of co-evolution for Clark’s Nutcrackers and bird dispersed pines in Wyoming and the greater Rocky Mountain region. | $400 |
| 2005 | Evelyn Hill University of Wyoming |
Ethnobotany of Grand Teton National Park | $200 |
| 2004 | Elizabeth Sanders Southern Illinois University |
Taxanomic and systematic test of the Abronia ammophila – Abronia mellifera – Abronia fragrans species complex using genetic markers | $500 |
| 2004 | Evelyn Hill University of Wyoming |
An ethnobotany of the Teton Ecosystem. | $300 |
| 2004 | Sally Madden University of Wyoming |
Long term effects of domestic livestock removal from Wyoming big sagebrush dominated rangelands: vegetative diversity and soil stability | $200 |
| 2003 | Erin Berquist Colorado State University |
Vegetative survey quantifying the effects of coalbed methane on native and non-native flora in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming | $400 |
| 2002 | Elizabeth Lack University of Wyoming |
A floristic and sensitive plant inventory of wetland and aquatic species in Wyoming | $500 |
| 2001 | Justen Bryant Whittall Univ. California – Santa Barbara |
Pollination and habitat characterization of the rare Wyoming endemic Aquilegia laramiensis (Ranunculaceae): the missing link to understanding the diversification of North American columbines? | $500 |
| 2000 | Mark Lyford University of Wyoming |
Holocene migration of Utah juniper in Wyoming | $300 |
| 2000 | Jodi Norris University of Wyoming |
Ponderosa pine biogeography | $280 |
| 2000 | Steve Gray University of Wyoming |
Tree-ring based reconstruction of climate variability in the Greater Yellowstone area | $280 |
| 1999 | Michael Tercek Tulane University |
Habitat requirements and evolution of Agrostis rossiae | $400 |
| 1999 | Michele Slaton University of Wyoming |
Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on alpine plants in the Medicine Bow Range | $400 |
| 1998 | Amy Roderick University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the North Platte watershed and Shirley Basin | $500 |
| 1997 | Barbara Packer University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the Laramie Range | $200 |
| 1997 | Lynn Kinter University of Wyoming |
Grassland and shrubland ecology in the upper Wind River watershed | $200 |
| 1997 | Mark Lyford University of Wyoming |
Past vegetation history of the Bighorn Range | $200 |
| 1996 | Kathy Doyle University of Wyoming |
Fire ecology in the Teton Range | $200 |
| 1996 | Laura Welp University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the Great Divide Basin | $200 |
| 1995 | Charmaine Refsdal University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of southwestern Wyoming and adjacent Utah | $300 |
| 1994 | Sandy Floyd University of Colorado |
Demography of Gaura neomexicana ssp. coloradensis on F.E. Warren Air Force Base | $300 |
| 1993 | Alan Redder University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the Haystack Mountains | $300 |
| 1992 | Judi Parham Central WY College |
Natural history of Ledum glandulosum in the Wind River Mountains | $300 |
| 1991 | Robin Jones University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the Owl Creek/Bridger Mountains | $300 |
| 1990 | Tim Evans University of Wyoming |
Biogeographic study of Haplopappus section Oonopsis | $200 |
| 1990 | Erik Hamerlynck University of Wyoming |
Possible subnivean photosynthesis in the subalpine species Erythronium grandiflorum and Caltha leptosepala | $100 |
| 1989 | Nancy Kastning University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the Park/Sierra Madre Range | $200 |
| 1988 | Neil Snow University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and surrounding areas | $300 |
| 1987 | Neil Snow University of Wyoming |
Floristic survey of the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and surrounding areas | $100 |