From kbilton at gmail.com Mon Jan 1 20:44:27 2024 From: kbilton at gmail.com (Kathy BILTON) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 21:44:27 -0500 Subject: [Botsocwash] (BSW) Reminder: Meeting tomorrow, Jan. 2 + MISC. Message-ID: Our first 2024 meeting is coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, January 2. The meeting will start at 7pm with "doors" opening by 6:45. Speaking will be Harlan Svoboda, Ph.D., the curator of the Herbaria at the U.S. National Arboretum. His topic: "The Enduring Legacy of the USDA's Botanical Explorations" Flyer: http://www.botsoc.org/jan24.pdf Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88263702830?pwd=d3lWendTcVVyVGNJdUh1MTZvdjhmZz09 Meeting ID: 882 6370 2830 Passcode: 196891 Meeting # 1044 ------------------------------------------ The guardian tree: The birthplace of Carl Linnaeus https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-guardian-tree-the-birthplace-of-carl-linnaeus Leesburg-area landowner donates historic 85-acre plot to become a park https://wapo.st/47jI2xW Gardeners sound the alarm about unwanted guests lurking in your local plant nursery: ?Should be heavily regulated? https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/invasive-plant-species-nurseries-study/ [MAIPC] We need your help for invasives legislation! http://lists.maipc.org/pipermail/maipc-maipc.org/2023-December/002735.html Peak District: More than 31,000 trees planted to tackle ash dieback - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-67544873 Park trees to be felled in fight against ash dieback spread - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-66936238 Harnessing the Moonseed Plant?s Chemical Know-How https://wi.mit.edu/news/harnessing-moonseed-plant-s-chemical-know-how -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kbilton at gmail.com Sat Jan 6 15:21:23 2024 From: kbilton at gmail.com (Kathy BILTON) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 16:21:23 -0500 Subject: [Botsocwash] February 6 meeting + Recording of January 2 + MISC. Message-ID: The next Botanical Society of Washington meeting will be on Tuesday, February 6 at 7pm with the Zoom doors opening by 6:45pm. Stay tuned to find out whether it will be hybrid or solely online. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------- Last Tuesday's recording is now available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zKZdWLSM0 Speaker: Harlan Svoboda, Ph.D., the curator of the Herbaria at the U.S. National Arboretum. His topic: "The Enduring Legacy of the USDA's Botanical Explorations" It's also still available here, possibly with better video quality. https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/CzepiQTG2-GZ3YQPIlRKOw0OERJ9CpitWLlX-ImPTewlhV_HVuojsq9D_t7RaPuE.gd4dImDeitqarRb4 Passcode: q.X011BM ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, January 18 - 7pm - Wildflowers in Winter https://npsnj.org/event/wildflowers-in-winter/ March 25 - April 4, 2024 -An Overview of The Quillworts: Identification, Ecology, and Evolution https://eaglehill.us/programs/sems-online/flyers-online-pdfs/2024-Schafran.pdf Lunchtime Lectures from the Fort Worth Botanical Garden https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFlQggX9zTKQ3QuZ7lgnJ9zIMW997bIZq 1920's Botany Professor?s Mycology Samples Return to Brown Herbarium now houses collections of Walter H. Snell, former professional baseball player, Brown professor https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2023/11/1920s-botany-professors-mycology-samples-return-to-brown >From Martha Mitchell?s Encyclopedia Brunoniana: Walter Henry Snell (1889-1980) https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=S0270 Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/science/flower-sex-evolution-bees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE0.6tWE.CccqmT7jRDY6&smid=em-share Tech Founder Relinquishes Nearly 1,000 Acres of Private Land to Public https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-mendocino-forest-thomas-creek-18586075.php "We are All Connected," The Wisdom of Jadav Payeng, India's Forest Man https://www.oneearth.org/reforestation-hero-jadav-payeng/ Could Low Caffeine Coffee Varieties Replace Decaf? https://perfectdailygrind.com/2021/06/could-low-caffeine-coffee-varieties-replace-decaf/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kbilton at gmail.com Tue Jan 16 12:32:27 2024 From: kbilton at gmail.com (Kathy BILTON) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:32:27 -0500 Subject: [Botsocwash] Feb. 6 meeting + Feb. 4 Evergreen and Beetle walk (rescheduled from Dec, .) + MISC. Message-ID: 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 http://botsoc.org/feb24.pdf The March 5th meeting will be a hybrid meeting, as will the rest of this year's meetings. The in-person meeting will be in the VZ Conference Room WG33, which is where we had been meeting prior to the beginning of COVID. ----------------------------------------------- Hi all, We've rescheduled the Winter Solstice Walk for February 4, 2024 and will rename it as a Winter Evergreen and First Beetle of the Year Walk. Everything else is the same. Thanks, Rod The "everything else" can be seen in the email announcing the walk that was to have taken place in December. It will start at 11am. http://botsoc.org/pipermail/botsocwash_botsoc.org/2023-December/000014.html ------------------------------------------- Thursday, January 18, 2024 6:45 pm - Native Plant Society Volunteers and Invasive Plants https://vnps.org/johnclayton/events/native-plant-society-volunteers-and-invasive-plants-tim-maywalt-zoom-presentation/ Thursday, January 18 - 7pm - Wildflowers in Winter https://npsnj.org/event/wildflowers-in-winter/ Tuesday, January 30 - 7pm MNPS Monthly Program: Are Native Plants Warming to a Changing Climate? by Dr. Sara Tangren https://mdflora.org/event-5450022 Thursday, February 8 at 7pm - Botanical Art, Illustration and Journaling with Lara Call Gastinge https://vnps.org/potowmack/events/botanical-art-illustration-and-journaling-with-lara-call-gastinger-via-zoom/ Ten Curious New Plants and Fungi Recorded in 2023 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-plants-2023-kew-gardens New Seattle City Council members must deliver on promise to protect trees https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/new-seattle-council-members-must-deliver-on-promise-to-protect-trees/ Scientists Film Plant 'Talking' to Its Neighbor, And The Footage Is Incredible https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-film-plant-talking-to-its-neighbor-and-the-footage-is-incredible Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do https://www.newscientist.com/article/2378234-ancient-plants-leaves-didnt-follow-golden-rule-as-modern-ones-do/ Scientists have discovered the world's oldest forest?and its radical impact on life (2019 article) https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-have-discovered-world-s-oldest-forest-and-its-radical-impact-life -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kbilton at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 14:02:11 2024 From: kbilton at gmail.com (Kathy BILTON) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:02:11 -0500 Subject: [Botsocwash] Reminder: Next BSW meeting in one week on Feb. 6 + MNPS tonight +MISC. Message-ID: 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 http://botsoc.org/feb24.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 30 - 7pm - Zoom MNPS Monthly Program: Are Native Plants Warming to a Changing Climate? by Dr. Sara Tangren https://mdflora.org/event-5450022 Phoenix Trees https://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=24-P13-00004#feature5 January-March 2024 Plant Press https://nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol27no1.pdf The Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) within the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks applicants for a permanent Collections Manager. Deadline for applications: February 15, 2024. https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/herbarium-collections-manager-madison-wisconsin-united-states Wildflowers in Winter presented by Mary Anne Borge (and other presentations) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJ0M75TCNnmork9LDhBU7A Something Wild: The Fir Wave Phenomenon and Other Challenges in NH's White Mountains https://www.nhpr.org/show/something-wild/2024-01-26/something-wild-the-fir-wave-phenomenon-and-other-challenges-in-nh-white-mountains Why pawpaws are hard to find in stores - Marketplace https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/19/why-youll-have-a-hard-time-buying-the-most-american-fruit/ The World Hasn?t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/science/cicadas-emergence-broods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O00.gmNd.ah_j3RyFQZpy&smid=em-share What is Pando? A Guide to One of Utah?s Most Unassuming Natural Wonders. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/08/20/what-is-pando-guide-one-utahs-most/ A Plant That Flowers Underground Is New to Science, but Not to Borneo https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/science/underground-palm-borneo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU0.aGyS.7gsF0E0Krhu8&smid=em-share To Avert Species' Extinction, Western Massachusetts Researchers Plant Appalachian Trees in Franklin County https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-01-17/to-avert-species-extinction-western-mass-researchers-plant-appalachian-trees-in-franklin-county Her Dried-Up Yard Won an ?Ugliest Lawn? Award. She Hopes It Inspires Others. https://wapo.st/48zV246 Metairie Couple Fights to Keep Their Native Plant Garden https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/jefferson/metairie-couple-fights-to-keep-their-native-plant-garden-jefferson-local-news/289-518d31ab-20da-47af-8f98-7740e60584eb Unusual Chemical Transforms Seedlings into Super Plants https://scitechdaily.com/accidental-discovery-how-a-whiff-of-an-unusual-chemical-transforms-seedlings-into-super-plants/ I Couldn't Get Mortgage after Japanese Knotweed was Found Nearby... It wasn't Even on My Property https://www.the-sun.com/news/10128836/couldnt-get-mortgage-japanese-knotweed-found-nearby/ Mystery of the Quantum Lentils: Are Legumes Exchanging Secret Signals? https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034691-200-mystery-of-the-quantum-lentils-are-legumes-exchanging-secret-signals A Window into Plant Evolution: The Unusual Genetic Journey of Lycophytes https://phys.org/news/2024-01-window-evolution-unusual-genetic-journey.html Trail Community Reels From Death of Well-Known Hiker in White Mountains https://thetrek.co/appalachian-trail/trail-community-reels-from-death-of-well-known-hiker-in-white-mountains/ After 31 Years, Feds Move Ahead with Plans to Introduce Grizzlies to Bitterroot Mountains https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/grizzly-bear-reintroduction-bitterroot-mountains/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: