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Volume 09 (1995 – 1996)

July 5, 2018 By

V 9, No. 1, Fall 1995 – Richart Stout describes research into chemical responses in plants to insect damage in, “How Plants Talk to Each Other”; an obituary for Klaus Lackschewitz reprinted from the Missoulian; Field Trip reports include: “The Grasses of Peet’s Hill”, “A Rare Chance to Visit the Sweetgrass Hills”, “Crazy [Mountains] Days”, several trips documented in “Maka Flora Summer Activities”, and annual meeting field trips – “Onion Park / O’Brien Creek RNA”, “Paine Gulch”, “Big Baldy Mountain”, “Belt Creek Dry Fork”, and “South Fork Judith River / Judith Guard Station”; and “Botanical Exploration in Montana, Part 3, W. E. Booth,” by Robert Dorn.

V 9, No. 2, Winter 1996 – An “In Memoriam” on Klaus Lackschewitz by Jerry de Santo accompanied by personal remembrances by Howard Reinhardt, Jean Pfeiffer, Beth Ferris, Susanne L. Bessac and from Mr. Lackschewitz himself; an obituary for Mark Bjorlie; a profile of “Contracted Ricegrass in Montana, “ by Bonnie Heidel; and an activity update in “MNPS Conservation Efforts Move Forward,” by Peter Lesica.

V 9, No. 3, Spring 1996 – Bonnie Heidel reports on, “Spiranthes diluvialis – A Threatened Orchid in Montana”; Peter Lisica offers, “A Different View of Crested Wheatgrass”; find a short review of, Restoring Diversity: Strategies for Reintroduction of Endangered Plants by Donald Falk, Constance Millar, and Margaret Olwell; Dennis Nichols offers an intense report, “The Rare & the Beautiful,” on at last finding Common Clarkia among other fine things; Bonnie Heidel writes, “Questions and Answers about Sweetgrass”; a short review of, The Alpine Flora of the Rocky Mountains, Vol. I: The Middle Rockies, by Richard W. Scott; and rush skeleton weed is described in, “New Weed Threatens Montana.”

V 9, No. 4, Summer 1996 – In “Botanical Exploration in Montana, Part 4: W E Booth as Teacher,” Robert Dorn describes the kind of teacher this intrepid Montana foundational botanist was; Dennis Nicholls describes how he came to report a new state large tree record for a paper birch in “A Beauty of a Birch;” and an annual meeting report and other society news. Note: A February 1996 version of “1996 Big Tree Register of Montana’s Champion Trees was included as an insert in this issue of the Kelseya. For a current listing and other information about this program, click this link: dnrc.mt.gov/forestry/Assistance/BigTree/ to the Montana Big Trees Program in the State DNRC, Forestry Division.

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.

For general questions,

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




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