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Aquilegia 40-1 Winter 2015-2016 Aquilegia Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society In this Issue Photographic Report of Dr. Tony Reznicek’s Carex Workshop at RMBL CoNPS 2015 Year in Review Field Trips and CoNPS New Summer Field Seminars Floristic Inventory at the Shambhala Mountain Center Rudolf Schmid: Rudi’s Retirement Saddens Botanical Bibliophiles Conservation Corner: Stream Restoration After the 2013 Floods Book Reviews, Jim Borland’s Garden Natives, and More! Volume 40 No. 1 Winter 2015- 2016 Aquilegia Volume 40 No. 1 Winter 2015-2016 1 Colorado Native Plant Society AQUILEGIA: Newsletter of the Colorado Dedicated to furthering the knowledge, appreciation, and Native Plant Society conservation of native plants and habitats of Colorado through education, stewardship, and advocacy Inside this issue Board of Directors Field Trips & Chapter Events..................................9 OFFICERS Summer Field Seminars........................................14 President(Co-) Charlie Turner [email protected] President(Co-) Jan L. Turner [email protected] Workshops.................................................................19 Vice-President Irene Shonle [email protected] Treasurer Mo Ewing [email protected] News & Announcements......................................20 Secretary Denise Wilson [email protected] Articles MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Jenny Ramp Neale [email protected] The Year in Review: 2015 ...................................................................................3 Bob Powell [email protected] Lenore Mitchell [email protected] Photographic Report on Dr. Tony Reznicek’ s Carex Workshop............6 Steve Olson [email protected] How to Use the New CoNPS Website ..........................................................29 Jessica Smith [email protected] Jan L. Turner [email protected] Rudolf Schmid: Rudi’s Retirement Saddens Botanical Bibliophiles...30 Cecily Mui [email protected] Amy Yarger [email protected] Floristic Inventory at the Shambhala Mountain Center.........................31 CHAPTER PRESIDENTS Columns Boulder Erica Cooper [email protected] Gore Range Nanette Kuich [email protected] Conservation Corner: Stream Restoration After the 2013 Floods......32 Metro Denver Samantha Clark [email protected] Northern Ronda Koski [email protected] Garden Natives ....................................................................................................35 Plateau Stephen Stern [email protected] Book & Media Reviews.......................................................................................36 Southeast Richard Bunn [email protected] Southwest John Bregar [email protected] Membership Form...........................................38 COMMITTEE CHAIRS Conservation Mo Ewing [email protected] Calendar..............................................................39 Education & Outreach Sara Copp [email protected] Field Studies Steve Popovich [email protected] Botanicum absurdicum ................................40 Finance Mo Ewing [email protected] Horticulture & Rest. Jim Tolstrup [email protected] Media Jan Turner [email protected] Want to Learn About Thistles, Membership Jen Bousselot [email protected] Research Grants Catherine Kleier [email protected] Photography, Willows, Wetland Sales Linda Smith [email protected] Workshops Ronda Koski [email protected] Plants, and More? Staff Administrative Coordinator Sign up now for CoNPS Linda Smith [email protected] 970-663-4085 Membership & Marketing Coordinator Summer Field Seminars! Jennifer Bousselot [email protected] Workshop Coordinator In a recent SurveyMonkey poll, CoNPS members Ronda Koski [email protected] said they wanted summer field seminars. A number More information of field seminars have been scheduled on the East- about John Fielder’s AQUILEGIA: Newsletter of the Colorado ern and Western Slopes. A catalog of seminars was Native Plant Society Summer Field Seminar sent out last month and an updated version will be on Photography on Aquilegia Vol. 40 No. 1 Winter 2015-2016 sent out soon. The Summer Field Seminars are also ISSN 2161-7317 (Online) - ISSN 2162-0865 (Print) Copyright © 2016 described in this issue of Aquilegia on pages 14-19. page 17. Sign up soon to Aquilegia is the newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society. These are wonderful educational opportunities. be guaranteed a place in Members receive four regular issues per year (Spring, Summer, Fall, the class! Winter) plus a special issue for the Society Annual Conference held in the Fall. In addition to the special event offered by John All contributions are subject to editing for brevity, grammar, and Fielder, field seminars include: consistency, with final approval of substantive changes by the author. Articles from Aquilegia may be used by other native plant societies Eastern Slope: Beneficial Arthropods, Colorado Native Plants for Urban Land- or non-profit groups, if fully cited to the author and attributed to Aquilegia. scapes, Botany in a Day, Ute Indian Prayer Trees, Botany in a Day, Field Plant The deadline for the next issue is May 10. Ecology Skills, Thistle Identification, Willow Identification, Dendrochronology, Announcements, news, articles, book reviews, poems, botanical Grass Identification, Colorado Bumblebees, Butterfly Natural History, Designing illustrations, photographs, and other contributions should be sent to the editor. with Native Plants for Pollinators, Itinerate Field Plant Ecology, Wetland & Riparian Plants, and Riparian Plant ID, Ecology, and River Restoration Criteria Editor Jan Turner [email protected] Cartoonist Rob Pudim Western Slope: Ecological Diversity within Sagebrush Steppe, Thistles of Gun- Columnists Mo Ewing, Jim Borland nison, Medicine on the Wild Side: What Insects Can Teach Us About Chemicals in Proofreaders Linda Smith, Nan Daniels Layout & Design Jan Turner Nature, Natural History of Rocky Mountain Pollination, Ecology & Botany of Iron Technical Troubleshooter Charlie Turner Fens in the San Juans, Grasses of the Grand Junction area, Colorado Native Ameri- Facebook Carol English & Jen Bousselot Twitter Sally White Webmaster Mo Ewing Assistant Webmaster Charlie Turner can Ethnobotany, Wetland Flora ID, and Lichens ID. Web Editor Linda Smith For subscriptions and memberships contact Linda Smith Front cover: Cirsium scopulorum on LaPlata Peak. Photo © Tami Kochen, 2nd place winner, [email protected] or 970-663-4085. Native Plant Category, 2015 CoNPS Photo Contest. 2 Aquilegia Volume 40 No. 1 Winter 2015-2016 The Year in Review 2015 by Jan and Charlie Turner, CoNPS Presidents The year 2015 could be summarized as a year of many exciting changes for CoNPS. Chapters offered a record-breaking number of field trips (close to 60) and committees were extremely busy and productive. Board meetings have been energetic and synergistic, with many good ideas coming from the discussion of the Board members who include the officers, chapter presidents, committee chairs, and Board members at large. The Board has been honored to have Jack and Martha Carter, who returned to Colorado after 2015: A Year of Big Changes many years in Silver City, NM, attend 1. New staff position: Marketing some of the Board meetings and share Charlie & Jan Turner, Co-Presidents & Membership Coordinator - Jen their ideas with the Board. The work of Bousselot began July 2015 volunteers has been outstanding this year with much to show for their efforts. 2. New website run on WordPress After discussion and brainstorming about the need for a greater advocacy role for enabling multiple people to edit it CoNPS (as reflected in the 2014 advocacy survey), the Board decided that additional 3. CoNPS has a new chapter, the staff support was needed in order to facilitate communication, promote and help to Southwest Chapter based in Durango organize volunteer opportunities, and increase membership to 3. So many events and activities: a level that we could afford to hire an Advocacy Coordinator. record number of volunteers and With improvements in these areas, CoNPS would be in a better committee & chapter activities position to recruit and coordinate volunteers for conservation 4. A CoNPS fund-raiser helped projects and also to better support the goals of CoNPS’ other Jennifer Ackerfield raise enough committees. A new staff position, Membership & Marketing money to have her book, Flora of Coordinator, was created and Dr. Jennifer Bousselot was Colorado, published by BRIT. hired to fill the position. Jen started the half-time job in July 2015 and her role involves communicating with members through social media and email to keep them up-to-date with CoNPS news and events, helping chapter Jen Bousselot, Membership & presidents and committee chairs find volunteers for events and projects, increasing CoNPS’ presence Marketing Coordinator at events throughout the state, and supporting and growing the membership. Jen’s CoNPS E-News is sent out approximately every 10 days, keeping members up-to-date on news about CoNPS and its partner organizations and containing a calendar of current field trips, programs, workshops, field seminars, and volunteer opportunities. As social media coordinator, she facilitates the work of CoNPS Facebook Master, Carol English, and Twitter Master, Sally White. Another important function of the Membership & Marketing Coordinator is to grow the membership to a level that will make CoNPS more sustainable as an organization. In the short time she has been with CoNPS, Jen
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