Idaho  Native  Plant  Society

P.O. Box 9451 Boise, ID 83707

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ANNUAL MEETING-May Update

Annual Meeting Friday, June 21st-Monday, June 24th Boise, Idaho

Click on the following link to view the latest update regarding the annual meeting. This update includes a meeting schedule along with some necessary items to bring.

Annual Meeting May Update

NATIONAL WILDFLOWERS WEEK

May 19th-May 25th is National Wildflowers Week!

You can view the proclamation below.

National Wildflowers Week Proclamation

Penstemon Identification Workshop

June 12th and 13th
U of I Research Station, Aberdeen, Idaho

Want to sharpen you penstemon keying skills?
Then you should attend this class.
Just in time before our annual meeting in June where we will have the opportunity to look at penstemons.

Penstemon Workshop at U of I Research Station

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2013 Joint Annual Meeting with the INPS & the American Penstemon Society

This year's annual meeting will be held June 21-24, 2013 in Boise.
There will be plenty of interesting opportunities to botanize and socialize.
Please see the articles in the February issue of Sage Notes for more information.
Click below to access the registration form and more detailed information about lodging, field trips, banquet meals, and the reception at the IBG.

Registration Form

Meeting Information

UPDATE RE: ANNUAL MEETING

I hope you are making your plans to come to Idaho and scout out some penstemons with us in June. We are certainly excited to host y�all. Meeting plans are coming together well.

There is still a little too much snow to get up in the hills and check the field trip sites. We hope to get on with our final scouting trips shortly. We have had adequate winter moisture to give us the potential for a great wildflower show. If mother nature gives us a little spring moisture to carry us to our meeting date, we should be treated to a memorable display.

Registration is open and we have quite a number of people who have already signed up. You can get registration information on either the APS or INPS web sites. Call or email me if you have any questions about meeting arrangements or accommodations.

Pulling off one of these meetings is never trouble-free, and this year is no exception. I need to inform you of one change to our plans. We arranged with the Owyhee Plaza Hotel to be the center of activities. Representatives of the hotel called us last week and informed us that they are selling the building and converting the guest rooms to condominiums. So, as of next month, the hotel will no longer accept reservations for lodging. They will, however, maintain their meeting room services and we will still have all of our meetings and presentations at the Owyhee Plaza. What will be missing is your opportunity to stay in the guest rooms at this interesting, historical old building.

So, here is the scoop on what you need to do. Make room reservations at another nearby motel. We have provided a list of possibilities in the registration materials posted on the web sites. We have made arrangements for the Safari Inn (one block away from the Owyhee Plaza Hotel) to serve as our main guest lodging facility. Their toll-free reservation number is 1-800-541-6556. Their agreed rates are comparable to or slightly less than those quoted by the Owyhee Plaza. I often stay at the Safari Inn when I am on business in Boise and have found it to be a nice place. If you already have reservations at the Owyhee Plaza Hotel, they have agreed to transfer those reservations to the Safari Inn. Hopefully, you have been informed of this change. Again, contact me if you have questions.

I am getting excited for the meeting and to see all of my old friends (meaning friends I have known a while, not gray-haired geezers; but maybe the difference is indistinguishable). See you in June.

Stephen Love
Research Professor, Superintendent
University of Idaho - Aberdeen R & E Center
1693 S 2700 W
Aberdeen, ID 83210
Ph. 208-397-4181

2013 INPS Photo Contest

Announcing the INPS Photo Contest
Shoot for your chance to showcase our amazing Idaho flora!

The Idaho Native Plant Society is having a photo contest! The contest is open to all members of INPS across the state. This is an excellent opportunity for plant lovers to share their most remarkable photos and earn a chance to win a prize. Photos may be used for the INPS image library on the website, education and outreach documents, Sage Notes, and future calendars.

Photos must be of plants NATIVE to Idaho. This can include close-up shots of species or landscape shots of multiple plants in their native habitats. The contest rules and the entry form can be opened by clicking on the links below. The contest start and end dates will be March 31, 2013 and August 30, 2013.

ENTRY FORM

PHOTO CONTEST RULES

2013 Pahove Chapter Native Plant Sale

INPS Members Only Sale: Friday, April 26th, 5-7pm

Public Sale: Saturday, April 27th, 10am-1pm

There will be no waiting lines at the entrance again this year, that seems to have worked just fine last year!
You can also renew or purchase your membership at the sale.

Location: MK Nature Center
600 South Walnut, Boise

2013 Plant Sale Availability List

NATIVE PLANT WEEK

It's officially native plant appreciation week (April 28, 2013-May 4, 2013).
Read the Governor's Proclamation.

Native Plant Week

Adventures in Xeriscaping

PAHOVE CHAPTER APRIL 18, 2013 PRESENTATION AT THE MKNC @ 7PM
"Adventures in Xeriscaping" presented by Peggy Faith of Xeric Gardening

Peggy Faith has been working in the horticulture industry for 24 years.
She gained her many skills from apprenticeships, continuing education, and "hands on dirt time".

Her successful business, Xeric Gardening has been operating in the Treasure Valley for five years.

The presentation will touch on microclimates, soil types, hardscaping Feng Shui, and native plant choices for your unique xeriscape.

The Cedars of Lebanon and Lichen Cover as an Indicator of Forest Health presented by Roger Rosentreter

World traveler and lichen expert, Roger Rosentreter will take us
on a journey to Lebanon, a country well known for its symbolic
cedar trees which proudly appear on their national flag.

MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut, Boise
Thursday March 14, 7pm

A variety of environmental pressures are affecting the cedar forest habitats. Seven nature reserves have been established for forest protection but some individual cedars in the Ehden Reserve are not growing well.Their impaired health and slow growth is limited to specific sites and to young cedars growing in the shade of large deciduous trees. The abundant lichen cover on trees in the Reserve is an indication of unhealthy trees and are viewed as a symptom and not the causal agent of the tree's problem. We believe that the presence of lichens themselves is not harming or killing the cedar trees. Rather, lichens are a symptom or indicator of other underlying stressors upon the cedars. Lichen cover is a good indicator of forest interactions and ecological processes (Rogers et al. 2011).

**New INPS Plant List approved by INPS Board on January 23, 2013**

Please see details of INPS Plant List and INPS Board decision at: http://www.idahonativeplants.org/rpc/Conference.aspx.

INTERMOUNTAIN PLANT SUMMIT

Here is the 1st announcement for the 7th meeting of the Intermountain Native Plant Summit. It will be held in Boise, Idaho from March 26th-27th. If you need further information then please contact Thomas A. Jones at the USDA ARS.

Announcement

Fire Ecology: Past, Present and Future

Thursday, January 24, 2013, 7:00 p.m. White Pine Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Penny Morgan, Professor, UI College of Natural Resources,
Director of the Wildland Fire Program
Topic: Fire Ecology: Past, Present and Future
Location: 1912 Center, Great Room, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Idaho (between Adams and Van Buren)

Penny was born, raised, and educated in the West. Her current research focuses on some of the broad challenges facing people in the West: How will changing climate influence fire occurrence and severity? Where, when and why do fires burn severely? How do bark beetles affect crown fire hazard in forests and burn severity? What drives landscape dynamics, and how can we best manage landscape change? How does vegetation recover following large fires, and how does post-fire management affect weeds and other vegetation regrowth? She is committed to helping people understand and use science in natural resources management.

Suggested reading: July 2012 editorial from the Denver Post written by Tony Cheng, Colorado State University: Are Colorado forests just tinder?

For more information visit the University of Idaho's Wildland Fire Program at
http://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/frfs/fire

PAHOVE CHAPTER JANUARY 2013 PRESENTATION

(CANCELLED ON JANUARY 24TH DUE TO ICY ROADS AND BAD WEATHER)
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 7 PM-rescheduled to above date due to weather
at the MK Nature Center,
600 S. Walnut, Boise

Join your Pahove Chapter friends
for popcorn and a movie- featuring Dirt! THE MOVIE - a story with heart and soil

An insightful and timely film telling the story of the glorious and unappreciated material beneath our feet. This movie takes a humorous and substantial look at the history and current state of living organic matter- soil.
It will make you want to get dirty!

PAHOVE CHAPTER NOVEMBER 2012 PRESENTATION

THURSDAY, November 8th at 7pm at the MKNC

Danielle Clay presents "An Ode to Our Foes". Danielle will explore the medicinal uses of many of our common garden "foes" and help us understand their value.

AND

Kimi-Jo Slayton presents "Re-Wilding the Native Hoop". Kimi-Jo will share a video overview of ethno-botanicals with a specific story of traditional land management practices of the first nations people.

WILD FOOD PRESENTATION

In this beautiful, educational and fun slide presentation, Dr. Kallas shows how to identify, harvest and prepare nutritious, delicious, and abundant edible wild plants found within walking distance of your kitchen. He also shows you features that make for effective learning in any wild food book.

This presentation is a sampling of the content of John's new book: Edible Wild Plants, Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period and a book signing. Edible Wild Plants is ground-breaking: It is the first book to make wild foods understandable and usable by the general public, including gardeners, chefs, dieters, home cooks and nutrition-minded consumers.

John Kallas has investigated edible wild plants since 1970 and taught about them since 1978. A trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher, and teacher, Dr. Kallas has a doctorate in Nutrition, a Masters in Education, and majors in Biology and Natural Science. He founded Wild Food Adventures, The Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants & Other Foragables in 1993 and was the primary writer and editor of the Wild Food Adventurer newsletter. He published Edible Wild Plants in 2010. For more information about John, his book, or Wild Food Adventures visit www.wildfoodadventures.com.

Thursday September 13, 2012
7 - 9pm
Marshall Public Library
113 South Garfield Ave, Pocatello, Idaho
208-232-1263

Wild Food Adventures:
wildfoodadventures.com

Admission is Free
Books available for $25