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Join us as Mike Kintgen's presentation will cover modern day alpine plant conservation in both the garden and the wild. Mike will touch on the North American Botanic Garden Strategy for alpine Plant Conservation (The alpine strategy) and how its helping to guide alpine plant work across the US and Canada. Mike will take you deep into remote alpine areas to showcase the beauty of our native alpine flora and touch on the basics of how we go about conserving alpine plants through seed banking. The discussion will wrap up with a look at the Rock Alpine garden at Denver Botanic gardens where some of these collections are on display.

About the presenter:

Mike Kintgen has been gardening since age 7 in both Steamboat Springs and the Denver metro area. He is a graduate of Landscape Horticulture from Colorado State University and also holds a Master of Science in Environmental Biology from Regis University focusing on Alpine Ecology.  He has worked at Denver Botanic Garden since 2004 with high elevation and western native plants. Mike has lectured across North America, in Europe and Argentina. Additionally, he has written for a wide variety of journals and magazines. He has helped to author multiple books with Denver Botanic Gardens including Steppes and Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region.

He is a member of numerous plant societies focusing on alpine, rock gardens and western native plants. Mike helped author the North American Botanic Strategy for Alpine Plant Conservation with Betty Ford Alpine Gardens and DBG’s Research Department, which was recently published in 2020.

When not working at Denver Botanic Gardens he enjoys gardening at home and hiking and exploring plants in their native habitats. Since 2020 his work has taken him to Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming working with our native alpine flora.

Date and Time:

• Thursday, November 5, 2026
• 10:30am - 12:00pm

Location: 

• Stewart L. Udall Center for Museum Resources (2nd floor conference room), 725 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, 87505

Pricing:

• Members: $28
• NARGS members: $28
• Not-Yet-Members: $35

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