Category Archive - Education
December 23, 2009
Native Flora Workshop March 23-24, 2010
Idaho State University, Wood River Room, Pocatello, Idaho
The Sah-Wah-Be Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society is pleased to sponsor the 1st Idaho Native Flora Workshop. Co-hosts include: The Idaho Museum of Natural History, Ray J. Davis Herbarium, and the Idaho State University Department of Biological Sciences.
Theme: Back to Basics in Field Identification
Held in alternate years between Idaho Rare Plant Conferences, this workshop provides opportunities to learn more about our native flora and to network with fellow native pant enthusiasts and professionals. All plant aficionados who want to learn more about native plants in Southeast Idaho and improve their field identification skills are encouraged to attend. Professional botanists from Southeast Idaho and surrounding states will speak on topics of local interest and lead the workshops.
Tentative Conference Schedule:
There will be a no host social on Monday evening, March 22 from 6:30-8:30 pm for anyone coming in early at, Portneuf Valley Brewing, 615 S. 1st Ave.
The conference will start Tuesday, March 23, with registration and poster submissions starting at 8:30am. Presentations by professional botanists on different aspects of native flora common to Southeast Idaho and surrounding states promise to be educational and interesting.
On the evening of the 23rd we will hold our dinner banquet. This is a great opportunity to socialize with botany friends of old, as well as make new acquaintances. Our scheduled speaker is H. Wayne Phillips who will present Wild Orchids of Montana and Idaho. The banquet will be just down the hall from the conference at the Pond Student Union Ballroom. The banquet is open to all conference attendees, INPS members and their guests.
Included in the Wednesday morning session will be a presentation by NatureServ on how they rank plant species followed by a panel discussion on the same topic from professional ranking botanists from Idaho and surrounding states
Wednesday afternoon there will be keying workshops on the Tribes of Asteraceae and the Tribes of Poaceae. Each session will last 2 hours from 1:00-3:00pm and from 3:00-5:00pm. Sessions will run concurrently.
A $35 registration fee ($15 for students) is due by February 28th. Registration submitted on March st or later will be $45 ($25 for students). Cost of the banquet will be $21.00 per person.
Please contact me with any questions or concerns, and thank you for your interest. Janet Bala, Organizing Committee (208) 282-2815 (work) (208) 317-3824 (cell)
balajane at isu dot edu
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November 15, 2006
Rare Plants, Pollinators, and Their Conservation
IDAHO NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY -- PAHOVE CHAPTER
7 P.M. NOVEMBER 16, 2006
MK NATURE CENTER AUDITORIUM, IDAHO FISH AND GAME
600 SOUTH WALNUT AVENUE (BEHIND FISH AND GAME HEADQUARTERS)
GINA GLENNE, Botanist for the Snake River Fish and Wildlife Office, US Fish and Wildlife Service presents:
Rare Plants, Pollinators, and Their Conservation
When do conservation efforts need to consider pollinator conservation to be effective? How do biologists determine if and which pollinators are necessary for a rare plant species to reproduce? What can you do to encourage native pollinators in your yard? Understanding how a rare plant reproduces and whether or not pollinators are needed for reproduction is essential to rare plant conservation. Hear the latest on pollinator conservation actions for Idaho species.
COMING SOON...
Your invitation to the Pahove Chapter Conservation Committee meeting Stay tuned!
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10:49 AM
February 17, 2005
UW Herbarium Photographic Images Online!
The University of Washington Herbarium (WTU) has recently developed a new web site containing photographs, distribution maps and descriptive information for Washington's vascular plant flora. The website currently contains 5,713 photographs of 1,183 species, which can be accessed by browsing lists of names, or by a basic random-access identification key provided for those species. Visit the site at
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php.
The main WTU Herbarium web site:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/herbarium/index.php.
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