Montana Native Plant Society

Focused on Native Plants and Plant Communities of Montana

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“…to preserve, conserve, and study Montana’s native plants and plant communities.”

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Eastern and Western

The At-Large Areas exist to serve the MNPS membership without reference to specific area chapter membership and give a Society home to those without a chapter membership.

Eastern

Eastern At-Large Representative

Jennifer Lyman
5119 Cherokee Trail
Billings, MT 59106
406-656-7869 home or 406-657-1186 work

Activities:

Saturday, July 2 – Alpine Wildflowers of the Beartooth Mountains (Red Lodge). Alpine wildflowers will be the focus of this field trip, with lots of cushion plants, dwarf willows, and so much more to see. The trip will leave from Red Lodge. Please text, call or email Jennifer Lyman for details about meeting place and time, campgrounds, and other information: 406-860-0223, [email protected] com.

Friday, July 15 – Yeager Flats (Choteau). Dave and Genevieve Shea will lead this moderately difficult, five-mile roundtrip hike through limber pine savannah, narrow-leafed cottonwood groves, sagebrush, Douglas-fir/Englemann spruce forest, and a portion of the 2000 lightening-caused Ear Mountain Fire. In these varied habitats grow a great variety of shrubs, grasses, and forbs, including bitterroot and several orchids. Clark’s nutcrackers and other birds are common, and prairie falcons nest on cliff faces. This is also good mule deer, elk, mountain sheep, and black and grizzly bear country. Some archeology and history, as well as Rocky Mountain Front geology, wildlife, and management issues, will be discussed. This walk is sponsored by Wild Montana & co-sponsored by MNPS. Registration opens on May 4th for Wild Montana members and May 6th for non-members at: wildmontana.org/walks.


Western

Plant lovers on the trail
Typical Western-at-Large Group out Botanizing and having fun.

Western At-Large Representative

Kris Boyd,
212 Milnor Lake Road, Troy, MT 59935
406-890-4353 cell or 406-295-9414 home

Activities: tba

What would you like to do? As the Western At-Large Representative I’d love to hear from you.  Kristina

Here are some fun things the group did over the 2017 – 2018 summers:

 

Plant lovers – how can you tell?

 

Young botanists have fun too!

 

Polemonium pulcherrimum

 

115 year old Grand Fir bole

 

Observing Goldthread Roots

 

Western Hemlock and Western White Pine locked in an embrace
Western Hemlock and Western White Pine locked in an embrace

 

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 questions about MNPS,

including becoming a member or chapter policies or programs, contact our Vice-President, Robert Pal.




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Chapters

For information about activities in your area, or to seek information about plants or resources in your area, please contact the chapter closest to you (click on Activities Drop Down Menu at the top of this page): Calypso (Dillon, Butte, Southwest Montana; Clark Fork, (Missoula, West Central Montana); Kelsey (Greater Helena and Great Falls areas,  and regions associated with the Rocky Mountain Front and central and north central Montana.); Flathead (Northwest Montana, Glacier Park); Maka Flora (Eastern Montana); Valley of Flowers (greater Bozeman area), or check out the Eastern- or Western-at-Large Areas on the same menu.

MT Native Plants Society Contact

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Montana Native Plant Society
P.O. Box 8783
Missoula, MT 59807-8783

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 Bob Person

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