From kathy at fred.net Sun Jan 6 14:07:46 2019 From: kathy at fred.net (Kathy Bilton) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 15:07:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] 2018 Winter Solstice field trip (FWD) Message-ID: Here is a message from Rod regarding the 2018 Winter Solstice field trip. Following his message are several other related messages. At the bottom, I have pasted a reply by Marc Imlay. Also, a couple of articles are mentioned for which I have provided links. Also below, someone provided a link to a photo album from the day. I'm copying it here for ease of finding: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8AWMSZ3hpBWX4Zhe8 (Regarding the January meeting, it's not looking good for the museum being open. So everything is still up in the air...) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 18:13:58 +0000 From: Rod Simmons To: Jane Hill (and copied to others) Subject: Re: 2018 Winter Solstice field trip Hi Jane and all, On our Winter Solstice Walk last month to the old-age section of Chapman State Park, several folks inquired about learning more of the natural community types, etc., of the site. To this effect, attached is a document that briefly discusses these features.? Perhaps we could link the PDF to the Maryland Native Plant Society (and VNPS, BSW, and ARMN) Facebook pages? Link is here: http://www.friendsofchapmansp.org/images/files/ChapmanTrailSurveyRodSimmons2009.pdf Also, attached and below is further discussion on some of the land snails, including rare/disjunct species, that are known to occur at Chapman State Park and vicinity. Link to article is here: http://virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/banisteria/pdf-files/ban43/Banisteria%2043_Land%20snails.pdf Thanks, Rod From: Kerry L Wixted -DNR- Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2018 12:01 PM To: Rod Simmons Subject: Re: 2018 Winter Solstice field trip Rod, Thanks for leading such a great trip! Hope you had a nice holiday. :)? dnr.maryland.gov Kerry Wixted Wildlife Education and Outreach Specialist Wildlife and Heritage Service Department of Natural Resources 580 Taylor Ave., E-1 Annapolis, Maryland 21401 410-260-8566 (office) kerry.wixted at maryland.gov On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 12:12 AM Rod Simmons wrote: Thanks very much, Mark and Donna - and all who attended the 2018 Winter Solstice Field Trip to Chapman Forest North (Chapman State Park)!? Special thanks to field trip co-leaders Bonnie Bick, Mary Farrah, and Scott Graham, as well as the many stellar naturalists and biologists who helped discover so many interesting things on the walk.? Thanks to Vince Verweij for the fine job?delivering the solstice poem - now a new tradition. We had a lively group of 65-70 participants. ? Thanks also to Greg Zell for the generous gift of the wonderfully crafted "omen sticks" (woodjets). Happy Holidays and New Year to all! __________________________________________________________________________ From: Mark Murphy Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2018 7:07 PM To: Margaret Chatham; Dean Arkema; toni.genberg at gmail.com; lncherry at aol.com; Rod Simmons Subject: It was great seeing you all today and enjoying the park. Here is a link to a Google Photos album from today. I think you are all in at least one photo! And a special thank you to Rod Simmons. Please share with others who attended. https://photos.app.goo.gl/8AWMSZ3hpBWX4Zhe8 Hope you and yours all have a great holiday and new year! ? Mark and Donna Murphy ? From: Rod Simmons Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:02 PM To: Steury, Brent Subject: Re: Two new papers concerning Arlington County Natural resources Hi Brent, ? Thanks for the information.? Wayne Grimm collected them in the mid-1990s and took them with him back to Canada where he reared some for further identification and for specimens.? He died a few years later and I have no idea what became of any of the specimens or where he might have deposited them.? I think I remember him saying they would go to the Canadian Royal Museum?? He also had other experts he worked with ? in Ohio, I seem to remember? ? and they could have ended up in a museum there as well. I also don?t know what Ken Hotopp might have collected on surveys of the area from that time and subsequent trips. I?m copying Jim Long, Marc Imlay, and others here who may know more on voucher specimens. ?? All the best, ? Rod From: Steury, Brent [mailto:brent_steury at nps.gov] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:50 AM To: Rod Simmons Subject: Re: Two new papers concerning Arlington County Natural resources ?Rod: Thanks for the paper. There are some nice snail finds reported here - ?if accurate. Do you know if specimens were collected and if so who has them? Discus patulus and Xolotrema fosteri would seem to be unmistakable if they had good material. The Ventridens may have been misidentified. The others are listed in my report from the Piscataway area. Brent Steury Natural Resources Program Manager 700 George Washington Memorial Parkway Turkey Run Park Headquarters McLean, VA ?22101 Ph. 703-289-2541 ----------------------------------------- Reply from Marc Imlay: Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:36:28 -0500 From: Marc Imlay To: 'Rod Simmons' , 'Jane Hill' ? My malacological friend, Wayne Grimm, worked for Canada on Snails and the specimens could well be where he worked. One species was globally endangered although it was not on the Federal or State list of endangered species at the time. This helped us justify saving Chapman Forest from becoming a city as big as Annapolis. When I called him in Canada he told me his wife had a vision that he should come and help us find the snail where he had seen it when he was in high school studying all the snails of Maryland as a hobby. So he came and found the globally endangered species at Chapman Forest? before it was developed. Marc ? From kathy at fred.net Fri Jan 18 09:15:56 2019 From: kathy at fred.net (Kathy Bilton) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:15:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] Seed Cleaning Sessions in Arlington + Misc. Message-ID: No word about next BSW meeting.... Below find links to some VNPS and MNPS events and then information from Earth Sangha about 2 upcoming seed cleaning sessions in Arlington. ----------------------------------------- Saturday, February 9 - Identifying Plants in Winter at the Virginia State Arboretum https://vnps.org/piedmont/events/identifying-plants-in-winter-at-the-virginia-state-arboretum/ ------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 14 - Butterflies and Blossoms, or Larval Host Plants and the Lepidoptera that Eat Them https://vnps.org/potowmack/events/butterflies-and-blossoms-or-larval-host-plants-and-the-lepidoptera-that-eat-them/ -------------------------------------------- VNPS Calendar: https://vnps.org/events/ MNPS Calendar: https://mdflora.org/events ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 07:32:12 -0700 From: Earth Sangha Dear Friends, We are hoping to resume our weekly seed-cleaning sessions both at Arlington Village and Long Branch Nature Center. Sundays, January 20 DEAR FRIENDS, We are hoping to resume our weekly seed-cleaning sessions both at Arlington Village and Long Branch Nature Center. Sundays, January 20th & 27th, from 10 am to 1 pm, at Arlington Village: 1400 South Edgewood Street, Arlington. This is the community room of Arlington Village and is located on the lowest point of the street. Please look for the brown street sign that says "1400 South Edgewood Street." The community Room is through basement door at the corner of the building. If you can't find it, please call Rodney at 703-216-4855 for directions. Mondays, January 28th, from 10 am to 1 pm, at Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington: 625 South Carlin Spring Road, Arlington. This Monday, 21st is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the Long Branch Nature Center will be closed. We will most likely add two more weeks (Sundays & Mondays) in February for seed cleaning. The Daingerfield Island greenhouse is closed during the government shutdown. We normally would have used this facility for our weekday seed cleaning, but that venue is not available now. Lisa Bright Executive Director Earth Sangha 571-213-8025 ------------------------------------------------------------- Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/plants-use-flowers-hear-buzz-animals/579964/?fbclid=IwAR1nNTZp14m5EBPFQnpxh--BB9ydZBwD1bEcLzzoQLFnYK1Zs2htDMnqV6U Moss is no weed. It?s a brilliant addition to the garden. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/moss-is-no-weed-its-a-brilliant-addition-to-the-garden/2019/01/08/0d5ccc98-0f8c-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html From kathy at fred.net Mon Jan 28 15:35:14 2019 From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:35:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BSW] We're back!! Next Meeting, Tuesday, February 5 Message-ID: The next meeting of the Botanical Society of Washington will be on TUesday, February 5 at 7 PM. Dr. Rob Soreng will be speaking about Plant Collecting in Far East Russia. Rob is a Research Associate with the Department of Botany, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution. Flyer for posting: http://botsoc.org/feb19.pdf (Remember - parking is no longer available in the museum lot.) 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-the-domain si (dot)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.