[Botsocwash] (BSW) REMINDER: Meeting tonight at 7pm + MISC

[Kathy BILTON]

REMINDER: BSW meeting tonight, February 6,  at 7pm.

The next Botanical Society of Washington meeting will be on Tuesday,
February 6 at 7pm with the Zoom doors opening by 6:45pm.

The speaker: Andrea Weeks, Ph.D., George Mason University
Topic: "Common Ground of Fellow Botanists: Lena Artz and Francis W.
Hunnewell II in the Shenandoah Valley"

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89154323931?pwd=MG1jZStnNW1sUFpHcnpIRC9QNEJiZz09
Meeting ID: 891 5432 3931
Passcode: 991986

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The speaker at our March 5 meeting will be Melissa McCormick, Senior
Scientist, SI Environmental Research Center.  Her general topic will be
orchid ecology.
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Thursday, February 8 - 7pm - Botanical Art, Illustration and Journaling
with Lara Call Gastinger [via Zoom]
https://vnps.org/potowmack/events/botanical-art-illustration-and-journaling-with-lara-call-gastinger-via-zoom/

Saturday, February 10 - 9am to 4pm - 6th Annual Prince William Native Plant
Symposium (Hybrid)
https://vnps.org/princewilliamwildflowersociety/events/6th-annual-prince-william-native-plant-symposium/

Tuesday, February 27 at 7pm - MNPS: Tiny Forests, Big Results?
https://mdflora.org/event-5450029

Thursday-Sunday March 7-10 - American Conservation Film Festival
https://conservationfilmfest.org/

Friday, May 17 - 21st Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, Advancing Plant
Conservation Through Horticulture
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany/news-and-highlights/smithsonian-botanical-symposium

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The Nation’s Capital, Built on Water, Struggles to Keep from Drowning
https://wapo.st/3HPKzG8

VNPS Events Calendar
https://vnps.org/events/categories/type-of-event/programs/

Restoring Red Spruce Forests | The Nature Conservancy
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/priority-landscapes/appalachians/stories/red-spruce-forest-restoration/

Rare 3D Fossils Show that Some Early Trees Had Forms Unlike Any You've Ever
Seen
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-rare-3d-fossils-early-trees.html

Flowers are Evolving in Ways that Could Spell Further Trouble for the
 Planet’s Pollinators
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/23/world/flower-self-fertilization-pollinator-decline-scn/index.html

Global warming and invasive species threaten seagrass meadows in the
Mediterranean
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-global-invasive-species-threaten-seagrass.html

Feral Pigs and Donkeys May Be More Salvation than Scourge for Ecosystems
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4445182-invasive-animals-ecosystems-study/

A Celebration of Sound: Macaulay Library Reaches 2 Million Recordings
https://youtu.be/pPs-4V2Y0Qc?t=59

This Pay Phone is Free, but You Can’t Make a Call. It Only Plays Birdsongs.
https://wapo.st/480ljY8
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