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MNPS ELECTION 2010

Vote Early (and Just Once): Nominees for MNPS Board of Directors

by Patrick Plantenberg

It ’s MNPS voting time again! Three positions on the Board of Directors need to be renewed and three awesome incumbents have agreed to run, again, for another two-year term. However, you can choose to write-in another name, or yourself! Please mark the ballot enclosed in the Spring Kelseya or the online form linked below and return it to MNPS via snail mail or email no later than July 31. Remember, there is a $100 prize for the chapter with the greatest percentage of voters!

And the nominees are:

Karen Shelly (Vice President)—Karen has been Vice-President for three years.S he is a member of the Clark Fork Chapter in Missoula,and a graduate student in Geography at the University of Montana. In addition to working on her thesis, Karen works for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. She is compiling a state-wide Wildland-Urban interface (WUI) map for DNRC's Fire and Aviation Bureau.

Pat Plantenberg (Secretary)—Pat has been MNPS Secretary since the dawn of man. He is older than dirt and therefore wields great influence over the Kelsey Chapter in Helena, as well as governing activities in Townsend, where he lives and is civic-minded. Pat is the official MNPS Election Committee humorist, and in his spare time is a reclamation specialist with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

H.Wayne Phillips (Eastern Representative At-Large)—Wayne has been the eastern representative for several terms. He has been a monumental MNPS presence, serving as President and Secretary, and as the long-standing leader of the unofficial chapter in Great Falls. He is retired as a U.S.Forest Service ecologist and now teaches about the flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains for various institutions. He has also written three field guides and conducted innumerable MNPS programs and field trips. At Annual Meetings, Wayne is responsible for the popular plant ID contest and the ad hoc committee that performs Poems and Songs of the Plant World.