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Minnesota Plant Press the Minnesota Native Plant Society Newsletter Minnesota Plant Press The Minnesota Native Plant Society Newsletter Volume 27 Number 2 Winter 2008 Monthly meetings Thompson Park Center/Dakota Lodge Canoes help searchers Thompson County Park 360 Butler Ave. E., in dwarf trout lily hunt West St. Paul, MN 55118 by Russ Schaffenberg 651-552-7559 (kitchen) I first saw the rare dwarf trout lily in 2006 when I volunteered with the DNR Natural Heritage Program. I helped with the count in Programs Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, close to the park headquarters, near The MN NPS meets the first Thursday the waterfalls — a gorgeous scene on a beautiful spring day. To stare in October, November, December, at the emerging greenery on the forest floor all day puts me in a very February, March, April, May, and June. happy place after a long winter. I guess when you linger a long while Check the website for more program in nature and immerse yourself in it and leave other thoughts behind, information. you will sense and experience nature at a much deeper level of detail 6 p.m. — Social period and sensation. I felt great satisfaction while driving home that day, 7 – 9 p.m. — Program, society glad spring was here, eager to plan more outdoor adventures. business I shared with Derek Anderson and Nancy Sather my love to canoe Feb 7: “Biofuels: Threats and and kayak and that I had paddled past the dwarf trout lily SNAs on Opportunities for Native Plants,” by Joe the Cannon River before. There are several SNAs along the Cannon, Fargione, regional scientist, The Nature and it makes a great day-trip from the metro, whether you bike, Conservancy, Minnesota Chapter. Plant rollerblade, paddle the river, or simply hike. If you choose to paddle, of the Month (also by Fargione): Panicum you don’t even need an extra vehicle to shuttle between Cannon Falls, virgatum (switchgrass). Announce slate Welch and Red Wing, as you can just bike or skate back to the car on of new board member candidates. the scenic trail. I also shared that I could equip any plant search they March 6: “Rare Plants in had to do via boat. Temporary Rainwater Pools on They took me up on my offer. They had been studying maps, Bedrock Outcrops: Recent Discoveries zeroing in on possible dwarf trout lily habitat on private land along the on Some of Southwestern Minnesota’s Straight River, which joins the Cannon near Faribault, and contacting Most Scenic and Threatened Habitats,” by landowners to get permission to search. The easiest way to access the Fred Harris, Plant Ecologist, DNR. (No sites was via the river, because these places were often far from a road POM since many plants will be covered and because some landowners preferred that we access via the river. in detail.) Annual Meeting/Election A canoe trip was planned. of three new board members. I met up with DNR staff April 5, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Annual members Derek, Sharon Goetz SocietyIn this news ......................2 issue symposium, “The North Shore Hollister, and Amanda Plain at Symposium .......................3 Highlands,” Bell Museum of Natural Medford City Park. We unloaded President’s column.............4 History, University of Minnesota, the gear and canoes, drove to our ATV damage .....................4 Minneapolis. See article on page 3. destination, left my vehicle, and Herbarium .........................5 returned. Derek, our leader, came Medicinal plant harvests ...6 MN NPS website well prepared with GPS and great For current information about MN NPS Field trips ......................... 7 maps. On larger rivers with larger Plant Lore: Fireweed .........7 field trips, meetings, and other events, bends, it’s easy to navigate with a Membership form ..............7 check the website: www.mnnps.org Continued on page 3 and finally had time to study the Meet Russ flora again, gaining inspiration, MN NPS Board information and connections from Schaffenberg the MN NPS. Now basically a of Directors Russ is one of the newest members homemaker, he has time to travel, President: Scott Milburn, scott. of the Society’s board. He grew up in enjoy nature and study the flora. [email protected] Mankato, amid a strong tradition of Vice President: Shirley Mah gardening, hunting, fishing and love Updates to plant Kooyman, shirley.mah.kooyman@ of nature. But his hippie friends in mnnps.org college gardened organically, which keys are available Secretary: Sean Jergens, sean. greatly influenced him, and ever Bruce Barnes has updated [email protected] since then he has grown much of his his Flora ID plant keys with Treasurer: Ron and Cathy own food and loves to cook. added images, nomenclatural changes, etc. Contact him if you Huber, [email protected] With strong environmental wish to get an update for $6 for Ken Arndt, board member, ken. values, he studied chemistry and shipping and handling. He is [email protected] biology and became good at plant planning to bring out new, updated Peter Dziuk, board member, peter. identification, and still has his databases on an annual basis, with [email protected] tattered Britton and Brown and updates available around the first Linda Huhn, board member and Thomas Morley. But ultimately of each year. program coordinator, 612-374-1435 he became a chemist, first in the environmental field, then in the water Contact him at: Bruce S. Daniel Jones, board member, purification industry. He was also a Barnes, Flora ID Northwest, [email protected] working musician and recently was LLC, 731 NW 5th, Pendleton, Beth Nixon, board member, beth. inducted into the Minnesota Rock & OR 97801; 541-276-5547; FAX [email protected] Country Music Hall of Fame. He 541-276-8405; or [email protected]; Russ Schaffenberg, board finally traded his drumsticks for a or www.xidservices.com/FID member, russ.schaffenberg@mnnps. lake cabin in northern Wisconsin. org If you have not yet purchased Listserv Coordinator: Charles Russ is president of his lake a Minnesota interactive plant key Umbanhowar, [email protected] association, writes their newsletter, through the MN NPS, contact Ron does the lake monitoring and loves Huber at [email protected]. Field Trips: fieldtrips.mnnps@ to canoe and kayak the nearby Wild The cost is $70 to members who mnnps.org and Scenic rivers. He retired early are up-to-date on their dues. Memberships: memberships. [email protected]; 651-739-4323 Historian-Archives: Roy Robison, historian-archives.mnnps@ Minnesota Native Plant Society’s purpose mnnps.org (Abbreviated from the bylaws) Technical or membership This organization is exclusively organized and operated for inquiries: contact.mnnps@mnnps. educational and scientific purposes, including the following. org 1. Conservation of all native plants. Minnesota Plant Press Editor: 2. Continuing education of all members in the plant sciences. Gerry Drewry, 651-463-8006; 3. Education of the public regarding environmental protection of plant [email protected] life. 21st Prairie Conference 4. Encouragement of research and publications on plants native to The 21st North American Prairie Minnesota. Conference will be Aug. 4 to 8 on 5. Study of legislation on Minnesota flora, vegetation, and ecosytems. the Winona State University campus, 6. Preservation of special plants, plant communities, and scientific and Winona. The theme is “The Prairie natural areas. Meets the River.” The conference 7. Cooperation in programs concerned with the ecology of natural will be part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebration. resources and scenic features. Additional information is available 8. Fellowship with all persons interested in native plants through at https://w3.winona.edu/events or meetings, lectures, workshops, and field trips. by contacting Dr. Bruno Borsari at 507-457-2822. [email protected] 2 Dwarf trout lily search Continued from page 1 canoe map, but the bends were so North Shore Highlands many and so small that we couldn’t keep track with the map and had byis Scott focus Milburn of symposium to check GPS along the way. Our This year’s symposium will be April 5, again at the Bell Museum of targets were a number of parcels on Natural History. The focus will be on the North Shore Highlands Subsection. either side of the river. A brochure, with reservation form, is available at our website on the link Rivers in southeastern Minnesota for “Annual Symposium.” The brochure will be mailed to our members are prone to flooding because of the in February. We have a great line- shape of the land and rapid runoff the last few parcels. We planned our up of speakers on this fascinating from fields. This disturbance creates approach to one section, then spread portion of the state. I want to thank zones of different vegetation, out to sweep across the bottom these folks from the Minnesota reflected in elevation. Zones vary towards a hillside. County Biological Survey for their from gravel, sand and clay — On the final pass along the help: Supervisor Carmen Converse; with opportunistic annuals and hillside, it looked promising — Lynden Gerdes, ecologist; and tough perennials — to rich, mature just the kind of scene Gleason & Lawson Gerdes, ecologist. hardwood forest on the high ground, Cronquist describe: “rich woods, We are honored to have Professor and a continuous gradient of high to often on north slopes.” Amanda Emeritus Dr. John Green, University low floodplain in between. There found a skull; we thought it was a of Minnesota-Duluth, start the day seemed to be a line in elevation fox. We paused to speculate about it. with a presentation on the geology above which the false rue anemone Then, moments later and a few steps of the North Shore Highlands was abundant and below which there away, there they were! Eureka! With (NSH). He will be followed by Chel was none.
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