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Volume 07 (1993 – 1994)

July 5, 2018 By

V 7, No. 1, Fall 1993 – In “Forests Beneath Your Feet,” Sharon Eversman gives us a fine primer on mosses, liverworts, lichens, and fungi along with a short bibliography for further reading; a thorough report on the Annual Meeting at Wall Creek and the Gravely range; Field Trip Reports included: “Fall Foray with Dr. Mushroom”; “Two Moon Park”; “Meeteetse Spires”; “South and North Pryors”; and “Willow Creek, Beartooth Mountains”; and a memoriam to Sherman J. Preece.

V 7, No. 2, Winter 1994 – “Growing Hardy Ferns in Montana,” by Jean Parker tells why and how to propagate native ferns and includes a list of species characteristics and a list of references; a field trip report, “Flathead Lake Mushroom Foray,” documents many fungi found on a Swan Valley trip; and there is a review of Jerry DeSanto’s Bitterroot.

V 7, No. 3, Spring 1994 – “Gardening on the Wild Side – Planting a Prairie Garden,” by Linda Iverson offers practical guidance for establishing native prairie areas in your yard ; “Gilia minutiflora: A New Plant for Montana,” by Judy Hoy reports finding this species in the Bitterroot; Field Trip Reports include: “Jewel Basin Mushroom Madness,” wherein Larry Evans documents many species found and includes a cautionary note on the difficulty of some field identification, Neal Brown reports on a Purple Loosestrife pull in the Nine-Pipes area that also brought attention to a variety of small fauna, and Linda Iverson describes work done to help maintain native vegetation at an underpass in Livingston; and Steve Shelly describes programs planned throughout the state for “National Wildflower Week: Celebrating Wildflowers!”

V 7, No. 4, Summer 1994 – In, “…What List?” Bonnie Heidel describes the lists that are the basis of referring to a plant as sensitive, threatened, or endangered; “High, Dry and Handsome, Montana’s Pryor Desert – 7th Annual MNPS Meeting,” presents and excellent summary of this meeting with key species seen; “Loosestrife Growers Ordered to Remove Plants,” and “Studies Indicate Loosestrife Cultivars are Fertile,” and “Beware: Plants on the Loose!” highlight potential problems with invasive exotics including Lythrum slicaria and potentially with L. virgatum in the Flathead area; a reprinted piece from Montana Audubon News describes “The Value of Old Growth Forests”; a field trip report tells about finding Thelypteris phegopteris along the Bull River; Peter Rice reports on herbarium computerization in, “Invasion of Killer Weeds Saves Herbarium!!” (includes a graphic representation of the expansion of Campanula rapunculoides in the Northwest; and “Spotted Knapweed Invades Ungrazed Bunchgrass Communities” by John Lacey, Peter Husby, and Gene Handl describes sampling methods and results on the Blackfoot-Clearwater Game Range. We are looking for the pamphlet, “High, Dry and Handsome” mentioned above, but as a result of that search have found and archived the following related treasures: Pryor Mountain Desert: A Montana Native Plant Society naturalist’s Guide by Donald H. Heinze with Mark Taylor and “Prior Mountain Mini Key.“

KELSEYA, the MNPS newsletter,

is published four times a year and is included with your membership.
 Kelseya contains timely articles about Montana plants and their communities, listings of chapter and state meetings and field trips, and updates on native plant issues.

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including becoming a member or chapter policies or programs, contact our Vice-President, Ryan Quire.




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