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Volume 12 (1998 – 1999)

July 5, 2018 By

V 12, No. 1, Fall 1998 – “Ute Ladies’ Tresses Shows Up Again in Gallatin County: And Puts Airport Expansion Project on Hold,” by Judy McCarthy includes detailed discussion on the identification of this threatened orchid and its evolutionary background; an accompanying excerpt from the Bozeman Chronicle explains how a “Protected Flower Stymies Airport Plans”; “Research Natural Areas Program has change in Leadership,” announces the departure of Angela Evenden and assumption of duties by Steve Shelly; in “The Complex Web of Life Underground,” Peter Lesica desribes the variety of native species that make their living at least in part through parasitism; “Landscaping with Native Plants: Why Should You?”; field trip reports for trips at Storm Lake, Bottle Point, Ninepipes Refuge and Indian Meadows; a Big Sky Sketch with Bonnie Heidel covers Primula alcalina, alkali primrose; Jill Davies reviews Plants of the Southern Interior British Columbia by Parish, Coupe, and Lloyd 1996; and there is a list of other publications of interest.

V 12, No. 2, Winter 1999 – “USFWS Finally Moves on Listing Spalding’s Catchfly,” by Shannon Kimball gives notice of progress in an eventually successful listing petition; Susan Palermo describes the “Natives are Nice,” curriculum for grades 3 through 5 that she developed with help of the MNPS small grants program; Bonnie Heidel follows up on the previous issue’s information in “Update on Ute Ladies’ Tresses”; Robyn Klein describes the reasons for and solicits support a bill in the legislature at the time to govern, “Wildcrafting Native Plants,” with special concern for Echinacea angustifolium; a field trip report on “Coal Ridge Lookout,” Jean Pfeiffer describes work to restore the UM Native Plant Garden in, “Diversity on Campus: Native plant Garden at U. of M. Preserves Samples of Montana’s Native Flora”; Shannon Kimball offers an update on “Water Howellia Conservation”; Big Sky Sketches describe Oregon Grape and Serviceberry in “A Plant for All Seasons,” by Carol Mackin and “Bountiful Berries” by Lois Olsen; Al Joyes reviews Plant Use by Early Montanans published by the Montana Historical Society Press; and there is a version of a poem for which Wayne Phillips has become a noted reciter “Them Botanists” by Forrest Marsh.

V 12, No. 3, Spring 1999 – In “Legislation Passed for the Sustainable Harvest of Wild Plants,” Dennis Nichols, with information from Robyn Klein, reported on the difficult path followed by a bill in the Montana Legislature to protect certain native plants from the rampant commercial harvesting threatening their very existence and expressing the likelihood the bill would soon be enacted; Bonnie Heidel described what she thought may have been the first ever online field guide in, “Montana’s Rare Plants on the Internet,” a description of the then new NRIS guide to Montana plants of special concern; Peter Lesica described the celebration in, “UM Herbarium Celebrates 100th Anniversary”; Linda Iverson edited a longer version by Helen Atthowe on “Growing Echinacea”; and “Xeric Garden of the Montana Native Plants Garden” by Sheila Morrison and Roberta Walsh; as well as society news and other news notes.

V 12, No. 4, Summer 1999 – not published

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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