[BSW] Tree stewards meeting in the crypt + Norton Brown herbarium

[Kathy Bilton]

The next BSw meeting is a week from today at 7pm.  Aleks Radosavljevic 
will be the speaker.  November 1st.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

>From the Tree Stewards of Arlington and Alexandria.
Membership Meeting in the Crypt: This Sunday, Oct. 30

https://treestewards.org/2016/10/24/membership-meeting-in-the-crypt-this-sunday-oct-30/

Rod Simmons will be leading a tree walk over parts of the 22 acre 
Ivy Hill Cemetery.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

From: Sylvan Kaufman <sylvan.kaufman at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:37 PM
Subject: [PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close
To: "native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org"
<native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org>

I learned this week from the Director of the Norton Brown Herbarium at 
University of Maryland that it will close unless the Director can find 
$100,000 in operating expenses each year starting in 2017.  This herbarium 
is the state herbarium for Maryland . Does anyone have advice about how to 
either find outside funding or convince the University that they should 
fund the operating budget?  I have put the message out to several Maryland 
conservation-related listserves in the hopes that people will write 
letters of support to the Chair of the Plant Sciences department and Dean 
of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources that house the 
herbarium.

Thanks,
Sylvan