Category Archive - Education
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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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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