[BSW] Next meetingL Jan. 9 + other events and info

[Kathy Bilton]

Next meeting: Tuesday, January 9 at 7 P.M.
Speaker: Vicki Funk
Topic: Collections in an era of genomes: More important than ever

Location: VZ Conference Room (WG 33)
Ground Floor of the West Wing, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 
DC.

Please email Erika Gardner at the address gardnere at si.edu to arrange for a 
pass to get to the meeting room.

Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, 
1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The 
restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th 
and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the 
nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.

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Thursday, January 18 - 6:30 - In Arlington
John Kress will be speaking about his new 
book: Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans 
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eet2lt46a753e3f2&llr=j6cnxgcab
Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment is sponsoring this program.

Thursday, February 1 - 10AM - A Winter Tree ID walk sponsored by PVAS and 
WVNPS at Eidolon Nature Preserve near Berkeley Springs.
http://potomacaudubon.org/admin/website/system-pages/?pageId=1858687

See several upcoming MNPS events on their page: https://mdflora.org/ and 
the VNPS calendar for their events: http://vnps.org/events/

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Former NPS Official Found To Have Overlooked Environmental Regs Said To Be 
Next Acting Director
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/01/former-nps-official-found-have-overlooked-environmental-regs-said-be-next-acting-director