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Tamarix Elimination & Reseeding Project at Old Fort Bent from our state before it spreads beyond control. Volunteers will ~ I D~_te: Saturday, April 24 spend the day walking through beautilul prairie grasslands north- ~ Trip Leader: Dexter Hess east of Boulder, shovel in hand, popping Mediterrant5an sage from / / The results 6I 10 years of Tamarix (salt cedar) control at the Old • the prairi e. To register, go on-line at www'.voc.org and select . \ Fort Bent will be the__majorthrust ofthis field hip. The trip will Boulder Prairie Restoration. 1 Include a visit to a gret:nhou!')e to see the results of an on-going reseeding ,program 'using. native plant seeds collected locally and Beginner Wildflower ldentificati9n I - used to reseed the impacted areas. Park personnel are participat­ Date: Sunday, May 23, 9 am - 1 pm ing in the field trip. Meet at the main entrance to Bent's Old Fort, Trip Leader: ·Sue Kamal -- 'lational Histori<; .Site, on _Highway 194, seyen miles east of La Co_me ,learn to key wildflgwers in this outdoor cla~sroom. The I - , • I r:::: .- _. -. . unta, .Coldrado. ,CoJJ.taet Dexter Hess, 719-184-2494 or email ·'field, trip is intended forI those who1 do not_ know how to use a key, . [email protected] for more infohnati~n~nd to register and would like tO' Jearn. Janet Wingate's Rocky Mpuntain Flower ' / ' for the, trip by April 20. · Finder, an easy non-intimidating key, will be used. Bring your own copy or you rna)' purchase one on site for around $10. Bring Rattlesnake Arches other keys as you wish. A hand lens is helpful, but not required, ( _c 1· Date: Saturday, April 24 _ and may be purchased on site. Please wear sturdy hiking shoes, _ Trip Leader: Jeanne .Wenger and bring water, lunch, a hat, sunscreen and raingear. Meet at the This trip will involve carpooling and travel by four-wheel pri~e to Flatirons Vista Trailhead;· south of Boulder on the west side of the trailhead in Colorado Canyons Nafiopal Cgnservation Area. Hwy 93, 0.3 mile south of Hwy 128. Contact Sue Ka~al, We will see haifa dozen members ofthe f~milyApiacea7 i~clu9- Sue,[email protected] 970-351-1512 to registeL Limit lSi 1 ing perhaps the:best example of Lomatium latilobum in Colorado . . The 'hike wi'll be mod~rately streimous, ~pp~oximately 5 miles - ,Ute Trail, Gunnison Gorge 1 long, and we'll see the greatest concentration of arches o~tside of Annual West Slope-Field Trip & Board Meeting Archek National Park. ~ontact\Teanne, 970-256-9227 ,or email Date: Saturday, May 29 and-Sunday May 30 [email protected] 1 Trip Leader: Gretchen Van Reyper-~ ( I Explore a variety of spring flora.in this unlque l:!rea. The Ute trail Mediterranean S~ge Weed -Pull was historically one of the main routes used by the Ute tribe. It is I - • D(l'te: Saturday, May 8 t. "-Field rrips "continues on page 2 Trip Leader: Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) ) . A Join CONPS meiJ:lbers and other civic,minded citi_?ens for a day Contents) '- of work and fun on the prairie!! For several years, Yocal, state and \ About the Society ...... · . . ·\ . . .7 federal agencies have worked cooperatively wi!h private ' Announcements ... ,_...... 5 landowners in Boulder Comity to manage the only known popu- . / / -. - lation o[ Mediterranean sage in Colorado. This invasive plant Articles ...... 3-4 1

aggressively invades native plant communities, degrad~ng Calenfla(. "· . . • • • • • • • •• • .".8 vildlife habitat and threatening the ecological health of . , I / Chapter News ...... r...... 6 Colorado's prairie grasslands. _With the help of 50'0 volunteers, 1 1 Field Trip Schedule ••• ~ ••••• ••••.•• 1-2, 4 Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and Wildlands Restoration Membership in the Society ...... 7 Volunteers 1,will help to eradicate this damaging non-native plant Page 2 Aquilegia Vol:-- 28 No. 2 / "Field" Trips" continued from page 1 Lehigh. If you do not have a regular park pass,-bring your copy a moderate hike of4.5 miles dropping 1200 feet into the Gunnison of Aquilegia for free admission. Follow the road west and take the River Gorge. There are plenty ~f composites, m~stards, buck­ next two left hand turns; you will be going-south. The Pavilion is wheats and other interesting flora along this route. Contact on your left just before the road makes-an abrupt turn to the west ~ Gretchen at'970-835-3268 for registration and information. Contact l}aylene at 303-755-2981 or [email protected] tJ · 'f register and for more information. \ \ \ \ Life of the Butterflies and How They Affect Native Pla~ts in 1 the Montane tift; Zone Taylor Pass Alpine Hike Date: Saturday, June 5, 8:30 am - 3:00 pm Date: Saturday, July 10 Trip Leader: Jan Chu Trip Leader: Gay Austin Meet at the Safeway st'Ore, at 28th andltis in ~oulder. From there This field trip will explore alpine plant communities on the top of we will travel to the Cal-Wood Educational Center near Taylor ,Pa ~ s (12,000 ft. elevation). We'll.look at the area set aside Jamestown. Bring appropriate gear for_hiking around in this zone by the White River National Forest for a Botanical Special including rain gear and good footwear. Montane, ponds and Interest Area and the area being con~idered for the same designa­ tion by the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National grassl~nd _sites_wil~ be visit~d. 1Regi~ter for this tr;ip pY June 1. For more mformatwn, _s:ontact Jan at .J03-666-4149 or e-mail chu- Forests. Access will be from the Aspen side: Call Gay Austin for [email protected]. / ' registration and more information cRoxborough State Park ~ Date: Saturday, June 12, 8:30am- Noon Sub-Alpine and Alpine Hike on Mount Evans 1 Trip Leader: Vickey Trammell . Date: Saturday, ~July 10 Meet at 8:30 on the patio in front of the Roxborough State Park Trip Leader: Larry Lindauer Visitor Center. _ J3ring wal:er, hat, sunscreen, and your favorite Join with us on a 1.5 miJe hike through the Mount Gotiath Natural flower book. Dress for the weather and for possible Jura~sic mud. .Area and the adjoining sub-alpine forest and tundra on Mount A $5.00 Day Pass is requir~d for every car entering the park, Evans. Dress appropriately ~and be prep~red . to hefp identify the unless you have an annual State Park pass. Purchase the day pass sub-alpine and tundra plants found/ in the area. Sign up by July at the gate. No dogs are allowed in the park. To .register, call 7, 303-697-910~ or [email protected]. -Vic~ey ~rammell /303-795-584~_or jr:[email protected]. Register -by-Satur-da.y-J.une-U-at-~.---~------'~------="--__:__G.t:.a.s:s.e.s_tbe Pawnee Butte Region / Date: Saturday, July 17 ~ Uncompahgre Plate-au Pinyon-Juniper Treatment Tour Trip Leader: lvo Lindauer - Date: Sunday, June 13 Emphasis on this field trip will be to i dentify grasses of the short Trip Leader: Gretchen Van Reyper grass prairje and of a -relic grass 5 ommunity of mid~grass prairie Come and see what this restoration initiative is all about. This species. Bring your grass key and a hand lens if available. Be· pre­ tour will look at roller-chop treatments of various ages' in pinyon-' pared for about a two-mile hike. Wear good,hiking shoes or boots juniper and sageoiush areas~ outside of Montrose. These treat­ (many cactus on the ' hike), sunscreen, water, lunch, and field ments were done to thin~ wGody vegetation and increase the abun­ glasses iJ you desire to observe birds on the hike. , Meet at the dance and diversi~ of herbacemis species. Come and explore the _Crow Valley Cam,p Ground in Briggsdale, Colorado at 8-:30 am. effectiveness of the treatments and loQk at revegetation progress We will carpool to the Pawnee BHttes. Contact Ivo at 970-285- in areas treated from two to five years ago. BLM monitoring 1112 or e-mail [email protected]. Register by July 10 for the field results will be available and monitoring protocol can be discussed. ~P- I '

Over the next ten years, 1m ore of tpese treatments will be imple­ mented on the Plateau as part' of -the Uncompahgre Project. Mandall Pass in the Flat Top~ Contact Gretchen, 97\0-835-3268 or email gretc][email protected] Date: Sunday, July18 Trip Leader: Karen Vail or Jeanne Wenger Those Hardy Pla-nts of Cherry Creek State Park If you've never been to the Flat Tops, it's like nothing else you've Date: Saturday, June 19, 9 AM ever seen. The Mandall Lakes area is definitely one of the magi­ Trip Lea_der: Raylene Owen cal places. The hike into Mandall P{!SS is long and fairly strenuous _Cherry Creek State Park has the highest usage of all of our state ( 4 miles to the pass with 2000 foot elevation gain), but the parks. The plants there must be tough to withstand the pressure. Hymenoxys, Polemonium viscosissium, Silene ac'aulis and many Biology teacher ementus. Raylene Owen will guide a tour of the other alpines are rampant. The lower part of the trail is moderate, flora of the Cherry' Creek Basin with an emphasis on weeds. heading up through some gorgeous meadows into the phenomenal Copies of Weeds of the West will be available for purchase. This bowL It gets steep right before Mandall Lakes, about 3 miles in, will be a walking tour of both the riparian and short grass prairie then is a steady climb to the end of the bowl, and a hefty climb Up ecosystems. Meet at 9:00AM at the'Twelve _Mile House Pavilion. to the pass. Contact Karen Vail (970::.870-956:' We will return to the picnic pavilion at noon for lunch and a [email protected]) or Jeanne Wenger (970-256-922 chance to test your identification skills. (Directions to the [email protected]). ~ Pavilion: Enter the park at the east entrance at Parker Road and "Field Tfip_s" continues on page 4 \ Vol. 28 No . 2 Aquilegia Page 3 Progress on The Southern Rocky Mountain Interactive Flora {SRMIF) Project Jeff Brasher University of N.ortherh Colorado [email protected] Ever struggled' for hours to identify an SRMIF will look like. Thus far about 99% t10n (Snow & Brasher 2004). A reference unknown species of Astragalus? We hope of the initial set of characters have been collection of authoritatively identifie_d to make identification of Astragalus and scored in the data matrix. Wllen complet­ specimens from the SRMR now contains everything else ri{uch easier with the ed, I wil-l assess the adequacy of the initial approximately 1800 species and is c_Qntin­ Southern Rocky Mountain Interactive character set with Lucid's "Score ually being expanded. SRMR specimens Flora . (SRMIF). Last year CONPS SUJ;l­ AnFront Range, the High Plains of RMIF). The Checklist presently includes Snow 2002). It was l ~ter re~i sed, expand- New -Mexico, and especially the West 135 families: 830 genera, 3278 species, ed, _stnd reposted as the "Southern Rocky , Slope of Colorado. Additional fieldwork, and 3752 total tem1inal taxa to be treated Mountain Interactive Flor,a (SRMIF)" to secure additional digital images is in the interactive key. The project thus far (Brasher & Snow 2003). The SRMIF web-.:' planned for-coming months. also has revealed or confirmed state site has received over 930 hits since incep­ records for Physaria brassicoides, - tion in 2002. The family-level key "data A lot of groundwork had to be laid in the ' Eichhornia crassipes, and Pistia stratiotes cun·ently is being refined based on user p a~t few years to facilitate progress on (Snow et al. in review). A large amount of feedback. Phases I-IV. This has been facilitated by pertins:nt taxonomic literature has been financial support from CONPS, the gathered from UNC libraries, reprint Phase II, the Key to genera, is currently in University of Northern Colorado, and the requests, and interlibrary loans. progress. I am now preparing a mixed-rank National Science Foundation (for SRMIF, key to 1) families, 2) most genera, and 3) as well as databasing and georeferencing Current and Future Efforts. Other con­ selected species. This will include a rela­ SRMR specimens). Considerable progress tributors to the interactive key will con­ tively complete treatment for one family has been made in developing the UNC tribute data for families sometime this (probably Ericaceae or Pinaceae), which herbarium over the past fi ve years. 2003 year: Snow (Poaceae ), Ron Hartman viii include images, geographic distribu­ was particularly active, with many speci­ (Apiaceae, Cary;phyllaceae), Mark tion, and other add-on infonnation as an mens being acquired, mounted, and moved Simmons (Celastraceae, Euphorbiaceae), example of what the completed (Phase IV) to their positions in our current classifica- "Articles" continues on page 4 Page 4 Aquilegia Vol. 28 No.2 "Articles" continued from page 3 Snow, N. & J. W. Brasher. 2004. Provisional Checklist of Vascular Monique McHenry & Tom Ranker (ferns and fer11 allies), and pos­ Plants for the Soutpern Rocky sibly other collaborators. This summer Snow will create an inter­ Mountain Interactive Flor'. active key of 200 species targeted specifically for schoolteachers (SRMIF). (www.unco.edu/biolo­ in the SRMR, whiGh i§ a component of the NSF fimding. gy/herbarium/SRMIF). University - of Northern Colorado, Greeley. - I am also currently serving as a beta-tester for the spiffY new Version 3 of Lucid Professional softWare (CBIT 2003 onwards), Snow, N.,. J. W. Brasher, R. which plans to be released l

I''Field Trips" continued from page 2 1.• Acknowledgements 1 · . Many individuals and organizati~ns have contributed directly or Seventh Annual Middle St Vrain Weed Survey indirectly ,to this project. These include N. Snow, whp has initiat- Date:· Saturday, August 28 - ed and is orchestra!ing the SRMIF; NSF and C:-o-'_p=-_ ~I.:::.:s '-=fo,:.:t::::.· t=::-h,:.:e.:;;N"'='s '=F------'---Leader: Pat Butler grant (DBI-0237149): R. P. Gmalnick, R. Hartman, M. Simmons, In partnership with the USFS and Colonido Mountain Club, we' N. Snow," T. Ranker. Other workers on the grant ~nclude J. will hike approx. 6 miles (and about 1500 feet elevation gain) into Ackerfield, T. Hogan, N. Lederer, M. McHenry, E. Nelson, A. the M iddle r St Vrain Creek drainage in the Indian P(}aks Reeves. Help with Lucid has been provided by D. Sharp & the Wilderness to monitor an? pull several stands of Canada thistle Lucid Development Team. Bill Jennings, Don Hazlett; and Bob (Brea arvensis) and yelklw toa~iflax (Linaria vulgaris) and look King have annotated specimens at UNC. as patt of the interactive for new infestations. People interested in pulling thistle around key project. A more complete set of acknowledgements is includ- the Camp Dick parking areas witholft hiking should also contact ed in SnQ:W and Brash~r (2004). Pat. To register and receive more information, ca}l Pat Butler at 303-440-0586. ' . Literature Cited r------~ ------\-, Brasher, J. W.' & ,N- Snow. 2002, Aug. 30. Color'ado Interactive : · · 2004 Annual Meeting : I · ~ ; I Flora, Phase I: Key to the families. Online interactive key. Disturbance in Natural Ecosystems : - (http://a'sstudents.unco.edu/students/lucid/). University of September 18-19, Steamboat Springs ~- 1 Northern Colorado, Greeley. I . ~ · '' I :saturday morning· - Tal~s on beelle ~~ fire impacts, the: - I - I Brasher, J. W. & N. Snow. 2003, Sept. 24. Southern Rocky :Routt blowdown, grasshopper epidemics, increase,d fueq Mountain Interactive Flordates to :beautiful spot by Steamboat Lake. · : Weber's three-letter family acronym system. Taxon 53. :sunday morning - Southern Rocky Mountain Interactive: :Flora project. The meeting will end by noon. : CBIT (C_entre for' Biological Information Technology). 2003 I • I . _., ...- onwards. Lucidcentral.com: identification and diagnostic tools :Hotel rates from $59- $89, KOA and Forest Service camp- .£1 (http://lucidcentral.com). University of Queensland, Brisbane, I - I :grouf1lds nearby. . : Australi.a. : Details in later issues. : L------~------~ Vol. 28 No.2 Aqui legia Page 5 /

t I Announcements- , I LORAINE YE-ATTS-HONORED. II BO.OK SALES UPDATE ~--~ ':---;----~~--:--:---;::~~~-:----~ ~~~~-;--~-;-;------:--~ In January, the J3-ocky Mountain Chapter of the North American The Flora of North America volum ~ s have finally ar:ived. T)lere Rock Garden Society (NARGS) presented Loraine Yeatts with the is a significant price increase due to publisher pricing and a dras­ T. Paul Maslin Award, the Chapter's highest honor, in recognition tic reduction in our discount. The new prices are - of her extraordinary contributions to rock gardening in the Rocky Vols. 2, 3, 4, 22 - $89.00, plus $3.25 postage, Mountain West. She has been active in the Chapter since 1986. Vols. 23 , 25, 26 - $109.00, plus, $4.00 postage. She wrote a chapter' in the landmark bpok ~ocky ' Mountain When our current supply ofVols. 2, 3, 4 and 22 is sold, the prices Alpines. Soon she was invited to speak to several NARGS chap- will ris ~ to $109.00, plus $3.25 postage. ters and then to 13 chapters of the A!pine Ga_rden Society in England. Lorai'ne is active in the Denver Botanic ·Gardens LEA~NING OPPORTUNITIES Herbarium, and led their team during several ~;ummers on a major A ,, plant inventory for Rocky Mountain National Park, which she Denve( Botanic Gar~ens later ,described in interesting 1lectures. She also co-authored the Colorado Native Plants and Ecosystems Alpine Plant Finder field handbook. When the Rocky Mountain Come learn the amazing Cliversity of plant and animal life that co­ Chapter agreed to host the July 2003 NARGS conference, Loraine exist within Cfolorado's variety of ecosystems and how to identifY managed an inten~ive training program in plant identification to each community by physiCal appearance andl other site character­ develop ,field trip guides. She recruited over 50 trainees' and set istics. To register, call DBG Education Dept., 720-865-3580. up training hikes for two summers, followed by winter botanical Instructor: Sheridan Samano ~eminars. During the conference, registrants were inspired by her Course: #GC I 06 boundless enthusiasm and honored her by acclaiming the !Colorado Trail Foundation Honorary Lifetime Membership - for long-term (generally over CONPS member Dick Mosely will teach two classes (July 18-24 ten years) high quality service-to the. Society. and July 25 -31) on wildflower identification which will inc'lude "- daily field trips in the vicinity of the CTF facility in the San Juans. ,AQUILEG/A DEADLINE - MAY 25 For information and to r:egister contact Charlotte Briber, 303-526- 0809 or Gudy Gaskill, [email protected]. Submit contributionsfor~Yol. 28, No.3 by May 25,2004. Articles 'ess than 1000 words are especially welcome. Previously pub­ SPACE AVAILABLE - ~1 ished articles submitted for reprinting require permission. There' are still openings- J in the Gardening in Colorado . - - / . Submit via e-mail or on disks as an MS Word or rtf document. workshop, May 22 anq 23. Contact Mignon Macias for See page 7 for additional information. regist(atioiJ, [email protected].

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·I.__----=-----CH_A_P_TE_R_N_EW------'----5 _____J _ Boulder Chapter March 2 Rare Plants of Bo-ulder Southeast Cbapter Coun~y and Overlap into Larimer Monthly chapter meetings are the · on the County. Ann ArmstTo ng. Dinner with the Activities are scheduled throughout the second Thursday of the month at 7 PM at speaker at 5:15 PM, Coopersmiths, year. Meeting and field trip information is the City of Boulder Open Space and Mow1tain Ave.,Oid Town, Fort Collins. available from Doris Drisgill, Mountain Parks offices in the north build­ [email protected], - 719-578-1091 , or ing conference room, 66 South Cherryvale April 6 Landscaping with George Cameron, [email protected], Road. From South Boulder Road, go south Native Plants. Jim Borland. Dinner with 719-634-4431. on Cherryvale 1110 mile and turn west the speaker at 5:15 PM, Coopersmiths, April 6 Meeting at 7 PM at onto a lane to the offices. Contact Tommi Mountain Ave., Old Town, Fort Collins. Beidl eman Environmental Center, on Scanes, [email protected] or 303- Caramillo St. , just nolth of Uintah and off 682-1408'. Chestnut.

March 11 Growing Natives in the ) Metro-Denver Chapter Garden. Mikl Brawner, owner of Monthly m'eetings are held September Harlequin's Gardens, a Boulder nursery Southwest Chapter through Apri l at 7 PM in the Waring House specializing in natives and Colorado­ at the Denver Botanic G~n·den. The Waring For news and activities, contact Chapter adapted perennials and shrubs, will discuss House is the mansion just south of the President Sandy Friedley at 970-884-9245 uses of some of his favorite natives in the main 'entrance on York Street. To· enter, or by e-m ail at friedley@frontier. net. dry garden. head south on York past the Gardens main April 8 Rediscovering , and entrance. Make an immediate right into Restoring the North American Prairie. parking lot that says "Staff Parking." For tl Stephen Jones a:nd Carol Cushman, more information, contact ChaJ!lter \ - authors of The Peterson Field Guide to the President Rita \ Berberian at North--A-merieem--Pra-iric.~present-an -eereeriftfl@l-1ttH'nai l:e0m-ot'-363-5-H=659•-1--. ---'---- ·

- Plateau Chapter Fort Collins Chapter Chapter activities are scheduled through­ Monthly meetings are scheduled October out the year. For more information, contact through April at 7:00 PM . The March ~nd Chapter President Jeanne Wenger at 970- Yellow Toadflax -Linaria vulgaris April meetings wi ll be in the new facilities 256-9227, [email protected] or Caringfor the Land Series, Vo l. IV, March 2000 at t he Gardens at Spring Creek on Centre Program Chair Lori Brummer at 970- 641 - Avenue in Fort Collins. Join us for dinner 3561, lbrummer@gunnison':com. Aquilegia via Email with the speaker prior to meetings. Check West Slope workshops and field trips Aquilegia is available via email. Send· monthly calendar for location. Contact , will be posted on the CONPS website your email ·address to Eric Lane, Chapter President Annette Miller, 970 -4 9~ - _(www.conps.org;). [email protected], or Alice Guthrie, 3240 or [email protected]. [email protected]. . / Vol. 28 No.2 Aquilegia Page 7

Board of Directors David Anderson (04). Fort Collins . . 970-484-0774 Gwen Kittel (04) .... Boulder ..... 303-258'0908 Aqullegia Laurel Potts (04) .... Glenwood ...... Springs ..... 970-625-4769 Mark Simmons (04). Fort Coll ins . . 970-491-2154

/ Neil Snow (04) ..... Greeley . . . 970-330.-4823 Dick Fi sher (05) .... Steamboat 'Aquilegia .is published four or more times per ...... Springs ..... 970-276-4448 T.be Colorado Native Plant Society is a non­ year by the Colorado Native Plant Society. Sue Kamal (05) . .... Greeley .. . .. 970-353-9240 profit organization dedicated to the apprecia­ This newsletter is avai !able to members of the lvo Lindauer (05) . . . Pali sade.. . 970-285-111 2 tion and conservation of the Colorado native Society and to others with an interest in native Pat-Ploegsma (05) ... Strasburg . . .. 303-622-9439 flora. Membership is open to all with an inter­ plants. Articles for Aquilegia mi_ly be used by John Proctor (05) ... Walden ...... 970-723-8204 est in our native plants, and is composed of other native pl ant societies or non-profit Chapjer Presidents plant enthusiasts both professional and non­ groups, if fully cited to author and attributed to Bou lder ...... Totnmi Scanes ... 303-682- 1208 professional. Aquilegia. Fort Collins .... Annette Mil ler ... 970-495-3240 Please join us in helping to encourage interest Articles :Ot exceeding 2000 words 'in length Metro-Denver ... Rita Berberian ... 303-513-059 1 in enjoying and protecting Colorado's native and shorter items fewer than 500 words in Plateau ...... Jeanne ·wenger ... 970-256-9227 plants. The Society sponsors field trips, work­ length, such as unusual information about a Southeast ...... Doris Drisgill ... . 719-578-1091 shops, and other activities through local chap­ plant, are especially welcome. Previously pub­ and...... George Cameron . 719-634-4431 ters and statewide. Contact the Society, a chap­ lished ariicles submitted for reprinting require Southwest...... - Sandy Friedley ... 970-884-9245 ter representative, or committee ch ~ ir for more permission. Camera-ready line ari or other Standing Committees and Chairs information. illustrations are also solicited. Please include Conservation ... Vacant ..... author's name and address, although anonymi­ Education and Outreach ty may be requested. Articles submitted via e­ .. Sue Kamal ...... 970-353-9240 Schedule of Membership Fees mai l or on di sks (IBM preferably) are appreci­ Field Studies . .. Neil Snow ...... 970-330-4823 Life ...... $250 ated. Please ind icate word processing software Field Trips ..... Vacant ...... Supporiing ...... : ...... $50 and version; if possible, submit as an RTF (rich Finance ...... Georgia-Doyle ... 970-491-6477 Organization or Corporate ...... $30 text format) file. Horticulture and. Laurel Potts .... . 970-625-4769 Family or-Dual ...... $20 Restoration .... and Lisa Tasker .. 970-544-3633 Individual ...... $ 15 Please direct all ~ontribution s to the newsletter to: Membership .... Eric Lane . 303-239-41 82 Student or Senior .... • -...... $8 {\lice Guthrie Newsletter ..... Alice Guthrie .... 303-651-3127 509, Collyer Rare Plant ... . . Eleanor Longmont, CO 80501 Monograph . Von Bm·gen ..... 303-756-1400 Membership Renewal/Information E-Mail: [email protected] Research Grants. NeiT Snow ...... 970-330-4823 Please direct all membership applications, [email protected] Sales ...... April Wasson .. .. 303-763-7679 renewals, and address changes to the Eric Lane ...... Sue Kamal ...... 970-353-9240 (Chair of Membership), Colorado Native Plant Officers ...... Laurel Potts ..... 970-625-4769 Society, P.O. Box 200, Fort Collins, CO 80522. President... . . Jill Handwerk . . . 970-491-5857 Website ...... Bob Clarke ...... 970-242-6067 Please direct all other inquiries regarding the Vice-President ... David Anderson. 970-484-0774 Workshop: East . Jil l Handwerk& .. 970-491-5857 Society to the Secretary at the same address. ~e'cretary . . . . . Kim Regier. .... 303-556-8309 . ... Mignon Macias ... 303-249-2977 TreJ!Surer...... Georgia Doy le .. 970-491-64 77 West ...... Gay Austi-n ...... 970-64 1-6264 / . MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AND RENEWAL FORM Name(s) MEMBERSHIP CLASS: Dues cover a 12-month period. Address Individual, $15.00 _Family/dual, $20.00 (Address) Se_!lior, $8.00 Student•, $8 .00 City ______State ____ Zip _ Corporate, $30.00 _Supporting, $50.00 Phone ______E-mai l Lifetime, $250.00 Chapter: __ Boulder Fort Collins Metro Denver Plateau Southeast Southwest In addition to my membership, I have included $ as a contribution to the John Marr Fund (endowment in support of small grants-in-aid ofresearch), $ as a contribution to the Myrna P. Steinkamp Memorial Fund (endowment in support of sma ll grants-in-aid of research), or$ ~ as a general contribution to the Society. CONPS IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZA'J\ION - DUES AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE \ ~ CALENDAR ~ ~ 2 - 004 -" / ', CHAPTER EVENTS ·sOCIETY EVENTS ; §odlder Chapter WORKSHOPS March.ll Growing Natives in the Garden Dec. 6, 7 _Beginner A.rchaeobotany - ,_ " (\ - Jan. 10, 11 Asteraceae Tribes AprilS . Rediscovering and Restoring the No,rth 1 American P'rairie r · I' Feb.7,S Sedges of Co~orado I '• ! . ' - \ I March 20,21 Native Orchids of Colorado Mays - Mediterranean Sage Weed Dig \1 April17, 1S Ferns of Colorado June 10 Annual Picnic and-Hike - I . May 21, 23' Gardening in Colorado

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April6 Landscaping with Native Plants January 24 ' Longm'ont Public Safety Building 1 ) . \ . Metro-:-Denver·chapter February )S Longmont·Pub)ic Library \ / I . ' March 23 26 Years of Plant Conservation ~tthe April 3 LongmonfPublic Library .Colorado Natural Areas Program 1 May 30 West sibpe ' - April27 Song of the Alpine - (- ' May Picnic and Hike ANNUAL MEETING ' -- July Garden Tour Sept. 1S-19 ·~ steamboat Springs, CO '>,_ I ~~I ) ' --~------~~~------~~~------·-/_· ~-· --~--~~------~·

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