Dr. Larry Stevens, director of the Springs Stewardship Institute in Flagstaff, will present SSI’s recent findings on the distribution, ecological condition, and peculiar species associated with headwater springs of the Verde River. The basin’s more than 850 springs provide critical baseflow of the Verde River, but have largely been ignored as ecosystems. With support from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, and through collaboration with Friends of the Verde, SSI inventoried 34 springs throughout the basin. Dr. Stevens will report on general findings and several significant surprises that emerged from SSI’s research of Verde River basin springs in 2023.

Transporation: Self-Drive

Cost: $15

Rating: 1

Speaker: Larry Stevens Executive Director, Springs Stewardship Institute

Dr. Larry Stevens is the Curator of Ecology at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and the Director of Springs Stewardship Institute. He received his Ph.D in Zoology from Northern Arizona University in 1989, and served as the ecologist for Grand Canyon National Park from 1989 to 1994. Well respected in the field of ecology, Dr. Stevens was the editor for Red Lake Books, has served on many ecological councils in Arizona, conducted research on biogeography, springs ecology, and published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

He will be joining us on the Montezuma Well field trip this year!

Part of the Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival