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.”

Eastern and Western

The At-Large Chapters 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:

tba

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.




We appreciate your support and wish to acknowledge your donation in our newsletter!

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

To write or comment…

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

For comments on this website, including updates and corrections, contact
 Bob Person