• 2010 Board
  

  The 2010 NASC Board elections resulted with Greg Nevel moving to the Head of Public Relations Education post and Stepanie Hicks joining us for the first time filling the Member At Large position. 

  Long time NASC director Jonathan Treffkorn This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it is stepping down to focus a bit more on college.  We thank Jonathan for his many years on the board and hope he would be able to help us out in the future.

• Open Call for Nominations for the Board of NASC
  

  The NASC Annual Membership Meeting on January 8, 2010 is open to the public.

The North American Sarracenia Conservancy (NASC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that exists to serve as a living record of the taxonomic, morphological and genetic diversity of the genus Sarracenia for purposes of conservation and cultivation.

In short, the conservancy consists of Sarracenia experts, cultivators and admirers who are working together to preserve the genetic diversity of Sarracenia both by preserving their natural habitat and through a decentralized preservation through cultivation program.  Learn more!

Sarracenia is a genus of carnivorous plants commonly known as North American Pitcher Plants. These plants grow funnel shaped leaves that allow them to trap and digest insects. Sarracenia are found from Texas through the eastern seaboard, New England, and much of Canada. They thrive in swampy areas with acidic soil where most plants starve for lack of nutrients. Sarracenia, with their alternate source of nutrients, can outcompete other plants that rely on soil nutrients.

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