For information about this Chapter program, please see the Kelsey Chapter Page. The program will be on January 12, 2020. Other chapters may announce programs on their pages from time-to-time as well. For Society-wide programs, be sure to check out MNPS Presents.
Native Plant Landscaping Source List UpdatedThe Native Plant Landscaping Source List has been updated. This long-awaited update replaces the outdated source list last published 10 years ago. Plans are to keep it updated regularly. See the Landscaping Page for this and other native plant landscaping articles pertinent to the Montana environment. The Sources pdf may be found about halfway down the General Articles section of the page.
Fall 2021 Kelseya now on-lineThe Winter 2022 issue of the Kelseya has recently been mailed to Montana Native Plant Society members (email or postal mail as preferred) and the Fall issue is now available online on the Kelseya recent issues page along with a summary of key articles in the Winter issue. To receive your own copy of the newsletter in a timely manner, please join the Montana Native Plant Society now (see Membership Page for all the information).
Three Winter MNPS Presents Programs now ScheduledMNPS Presents has announced three winter programs for January, February, and March, 2022. For all the information, go to the MNPS Presents Page here.
MNPS Presents! - Virtual Programs for the Whole State
With the huge success of online Zoom transmitted programs last year, the MNPS Board decided to sponsor one state-wide Zoom Program each month this winter. For all the information on upcoming programs, please check out this page on our website. Programs will be recorded and links to the recordings will be posted when available a day or so after the presentation, also at this link.
Here’s a link for the news archive.
Some useful things:
- Professor Cathy Cripps, who presented programs on mushrooms at the 2014 Montana Native Plant Society Annual Meeting in 2014, has written a recently published guide to local fungi. Here is a link to the Montana State University publication announcement.
- Three mobile device apps that may be of interest to MNPS members are now available from High Country Apps http://www.highcountryapps.com: “Montana Grasses,” “Glacier Wildflowers,” and “Flora of Yellowstone.”
- The author for “Montana Grasses” is Dr. Matt Lavin of MSU and the author for “Glacier Wildflowers” is Montana Native Plant Society member, Shannon Kimball. For “Flora of Yellowstone” the author is Whitney Tilt. All 3 are members of their local native plant societies. High Country Apps has confirmed that they are donating 5% of proceeds from the “Montana Grasses” app to the state-wide Montana Native Plant Society. For Glacier, they will donate 5% of proceeds to Glacier National Park Conservancy and for Yellowstone, 5% will go to theYellowstone Park Foundation. (Works on most applicable devices; Minimum OS versions are iOS 5.0 and Android 2.2)
