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Michigan Botanical Club State Newsletter Volume 24, Issue 1 • April 2018 Michigan Botanical Club State Newsletter http://michbotclub.org/ Corresponding Secretary’s Report n this issue, we have the information you will need to Spring Foray and Fall Meeting Schedule Iregister for the 2018 Foray. The White Pine Chapter has put together a wide range schedule of field trips, workshops and YEAR SPRING FALL speakers. 2018 White Pine Chapter Huron Valley Chapter Awards, remembrances of members who have passed this 2019 State Board White Pine Chapter year and the Michigan Botanical Foundation, as well as the 2020 Southeast Chapter State Board President’s report round out the issue. 2021 Southwestern Chapter Southeast Chapter As MBC President, Garrett Crow mentions in his report, the Big Tree Program has been revived. It is time to start looking Appreciation: for the big trees out there and reporting them. hank you to HVC members Andrea Matthies and Jim Enjoy and see you at the Foray! TOdell for transporting and setting up the display panels Respectfully Submitted, at the Wildflower Association Conference. We appreciate your efforts and enthusiasm. Sheila Bourgoin Ariseaema Editor and Corresponding Secretary Contents Announcements Corresponding Secretary’s Report 1 Fall Meeting: The MBC Fall meeting, hosted by the Announcements 1 Huron Valley Chapter will take place on Saturday, President’s Report 2 September 29, 2018 at the Discovery Center, DNR 2018 Spring Foray - May 25-27 3 Waterloo State Recreation Area. Spring Foray 2018 Schedule 5 The MBC Treasurer Position Is Still Open Spring Foray 2018 Directions and Map 6 If you are inclined to working with figures and Field Trip Schedule 7 interested in participating at the statewide level of Awards from the 2017 Spring Foray 18 leadership in the MBC, please respond directly to the 2017 Fall Mini-Foray: 20 Nominating Committee Chair: Tyler Bassett at <keep- In Memoriam 21 [email protected]> Board of Directors Meeting, October 7, 2017 22 You would be expected to report at the State Board Board of Directors Meeting, January 27, 2018 23 meetings which meet 3 times per year; in January, Michigan Botanical Foundation Report for 2017 24 at the Foray, and at the Fall Meeting. The Treasurer has been wishing to retire for several years now and can coach you in all the details which are not terribly difficult. April 2018 President’s Report his winter seems to have been an especially hard one, so the program, having assisted Andy, but his years as a forester TI, for one, am eager for spring and for our MBC Spring for the Michigan DNR and a deep love of trees––especially Foray Memorial Day weekend in the Chain-of-Lakes region Big Trees––make him an ideal person to head up the pro- east of Grand Traverse Bay. The White Pine Chapter has been gram. And Sheila Bourgoin is ably updating the database working hard to provide a wonderful array of field trips and online. So if you know of any big trees that might vie as a special lectures. This issue of Arisaema highlights all the won- state champion, check out the How to Measure a Big Tree and derful opportunities ahead. So scour the newsletter for your Reporting the Big Tree information. preferred field trips and register early. Are you aware that the Michigan Botanical Club now has I wish to congratulate the Southwestern Chapter on a very 501(c)3 tax exempt status? We encourage anyone wishing to successful Mini-Foray last Fall. Meeting at the wonderfully support various efforts of the Club to make donations, such situated field station at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute al- as supporting Foray expenses, student scholarships to at- lowed us to experience a late summer perspective on some tend Forays, publications such as The Great Lakes Botanist or unique habitats. Our hats off to Dave Wendling and all the Arisaema, field research, various other projects or the general organizers, as well as the field trip leaders—Dave Warners, fund. If one wishes to support specific Chapter activities/ Brad Slaughter, Tyler Bassett, and Corey Lucas for a very projects, the donations must to be given to the State organi- memorable weekend. The staff of the PCC Institute provided zation, with directions in the cover letter for the funds to be a wonderful dinner and in the evening I got to speak on a directed to a particular Chapter. favorite topic of mine: “In the Footsteps of 19th Century Even as we are eager to get out there on the Spring Foray Naturalists: Exploration for Aquatic Plants on the Amazon field trips, we can also look forward to a wonderful summer and Rio Negro.” of trips organized by individual chapters, culminating with I would like to take this opportunity to encourage members a State-wide Fall Mini-Foray, hosted by the Huron Valley to check out the Michigan Big Tree Database on the MBC Chapter. We are grateful to HVC’s new President, Neal website. For a number of years Andy Sawyer had been the Billetdeaux, and his team for organizing our Fall event. keeper of the database, but more recently found that he Sincerely, has had to give up that responsibility. We are so very grate- ful for his years of service. Our new Chair of the Big Tree Garrett Crow Committee is Ted Reuschel. Ted is especially familiar with President, Michigan Botanical Club MICHIGAN BOTANICAL CLUB The Michigan Botanical Club, the native plant society of Michigan, promotes through its aims, the understanding, enjoyment and preservation of our Great Lakes flora, and the conservation of our natural heritage. The Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1941. AIMS • Conservation of all native plants. • Education of the public to appreciate and to preserve plant life. • Sponsorship of research and publications on plant life. • Sponsorship of legislation to promote the preservation of Michigan native flora. • Establishment of suitable sanctuaries and natural areas. Illustration: Abe Cone • Cooperation in programs concerned with the use and conservation of all natural resources and scenic features. page 2 April 2018 Welcome to the Michigan Botanical Club 2018 Spring Foray - May 25-27 The MBC Spring Foray, hosted by the White Pine Chapter, adjacent to acid-loving sphagnum moss plants like the welcomes you to Antrim County and adjacent Kalkaska and pitcher plant and tall white bog orchid. Charlevoix Counties. The Foray home base at Shanty Creek’s The Saturday evening presentation will address some of Lakeview Hotel overlooks Lake Bellaire, located in the middle the issues of native orchid species of Michigan. MNFI lists of the Elk River Chain of Lakes watershed, covering over 500 Calypso bulbosa (calypso ladyslipper) and Cypripedium arieti- square miles of land and 200 miles of shoreline. num (ram’s head ladyslipper) in the rare species inventory for Communities of northern mesic hardwood and conifer for- five counties in this region. ests, rich conifer swamps, bogs, fens, coastal dunes, meadows, and more rest on bedrock of primarily Ellsworth shale. This corner of Michigan boasts three unique state symbols: the Petoskey stone, state wildflower,Iris lacustris, and state soil, Kalkaska sand. Kalkaska sand, unique to Michigan, is ideal soil for the state tree, Pinus strobus (white pine) and also for red pine, jack pine, and oaks. Emmet till, a loamy sand of the area’s glacial moraines supports hardwood forests of maple, beech and Trillium, Calypso and Ram’s Head photos by Marilyn Keigley basswood. Spring ephemerals such as Arisaema triphyllum Speakers and Hikes (jack-in-the-pulpit), Cypripedium acaule (pink ladyslipper), Evening Speakers: Friday “The Medicinal Facts and Fallacies and massive carpets of Trillium grandiflorum (common tril- of Michigan Native Plants,” Dr. Robert Krueger; Saturday lium) proliferate in these forests. “Native Orchids—Challenges and Opportunities,” Angie Lucas; Sunday, “Making Ecologically Sound Decisions— Exotics, Invasives, and Native Plants”, Sarah Pregitzer and Randy Butters. Hikes led by expert botanists to Antrim Creek, Grass River, Jordan River Pathway, Skegemog, Glacial Hills, and others will cover a range of topics such as forbs, orchids, grasses, ferns, sedges, ecology, geology, bogs, invasives, lichens, trees, medicinal uses and more. Indoor Class Options: photography, lichens lecture, planting Trillium grandiflorum natives and pollinators, textile dyeing with plants, lichens and photo by Marilyn Keigley fungi, dried flower art and watercolor. Lake Bellaire connects to fourteen lakes and five rivers. From it flows the Grass River which continues its journey to Clam Check-in and Important Information Lake, Torch Lake, Torch River, Lake Skegemog, Elk Lake Hotel Check-in time is 5:00 p.m. Checkout time is noon. and finally, Lake Michigan. The Elk River Chain of Make hotel reservations online: Lakes filters the largest watershed emptying into Grand Traverse Bay. Wetlands in the 1492 acres http://reserve.shantycreek.com/?g=504413 of Grass River Natural Area include rich conifer Room rates Friday through Sunday are also avail- swamp, sprucebog pockets, northern fen, marshes, able 2 days before and 2 days after the Foray, subject to and three trout streams—Finch Creek, Cold Creek, availability. and Shanty Creek that feed into the Grass River. Michigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI) Please bring your own water bottles. rated the rich conifer swamp and the northern On Your Own Friday or Monday (Dinner is on your on fen extremely high, a rating considered rare and Friday) significant. Grass River Natural Area has interesting habitat transitions featuring calcium-loving plants Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore begins in Empire like bulblet fern and grass-of-Parnassus growing 60 miles west— Hartwick Pines State Park is 41 miles MBC 2018 Spring Foray page 3 April 2018 east— Wilderness State Park is 79 miles north, home to Iris This link will take you directly to the MBC room reservation lacustris (dwarf lake iris).
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