From kathy at fred.net  Fri May  8 09:28:16 2020
From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 10:28:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [BSW] Botanical chalking
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2005081020010.3383@shell.xecu.net>


'Rebel botanists' use sidewalk chalk to help people connect with nature
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/rebel-botanists-use-sidewalk-chalk-help-people-connect-nature



From kathy at fred.net  Mon May 11 12:37:35 2020
From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 13:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [BSW] Recently published book about Andre Michaux in North America
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2005111321230.3383@shell.xecu.net>


Marion Lobstein has had a long-term relationship with Magnolia 
macrophylla. ?  She recently learned of a book that has just been 
published about the botanist who first described this tree, Andre Michaux. 
And she's written a short paper about her involvement with this Magnolia 
and her subsequent botanical life.   Link to the paper is below.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AmbJVPQ3WmV9HLlSOZFw9eHL-b5XXx7E

(A few years ago I brought her a leaf of this Magnolia which I had gotten 
from Jean Worthley's property without knowing how fond Marion was of this 
tree.  And when I talked to her the other day, she said she still had this 
leaf in her office.)

From kathy at fred.net  Wed May 13 19:05:54 2020
From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 20:05:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [BSW] "Wrong Approach for Stream Restoration"
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2005132005311.37574@shell.xecu.net>



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 19:29:16 -0400
From: Rod Simmons <simmons22041 at gmail.com>
To: kathy at fred.net
Subject: "Wrong Approach for Stream Restoration"

Please see the letter to the editor in this week's Mount Vernon Gazette,
"Wrong Approach for Stream Restoration" pp. 6-7, as to misguided stream
"restoration" projects in our region.???

http://connectionarchives.com/PDF/2020/051320/Mt%20Vernon.pdf

It identically applies to the currently planned 1,900-foot Taylor Run
project at?Chinquapin Park and First Baptist Church?lands?(private)?in the
City of Alexandria and the currently planned upper Donaldson Run and Gulf
Branch projects in Arlington County, as well as virtually all other upper
headwater stream?projects in our region.

Feel free to post to ARMN, TreeStewards, or other conservation and education
list serves.



From kathy at fred.net  Tue May 26 16:18:28 2020
From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 17:18:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [BSW] Zoom invite for BSW meeting - Tuesday, June 2,
 beginning at 7 pm
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2005261534000.37574@shell.xecu.net>

Robin Everly is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for the 
Botanical Society of Washington.

Topic:  Coffee, leaf rust, and plant collecting: The rise, fall, and 
resurgence of a popular crop

Presenter: Alan T. Whittemore
U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.

Time: Jun 2, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join the Botanical Society of Washington's Zoom Meeting:
https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/8687584555?pwd=WllwQ1ZCMEhkZWZvem1jQURDeHh3UT09

(Note from Kathy:  I think all you have to do is click on the link to join 
the Zoom.  If you don't already have it, you will be asked to install the 
Zoom software on your computer.  If you are using a phone or tablet, you 
will likely have to download the Zoom app.  The numbers below are only 
needed if you want to join by a telephone call rather than app or 
software.  You do not need to have your own Zoom account. A flyer for 
the meeting - on which you can see a photo of wild coffee documented by 
Fred Meyer in a 1965 issue of Economic Botany -  is here: 
http://botsoc.org/jun20.pdf.)

Meeting ID: 868 758 4555
Password: 945124
One tap mobile
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Password: 945124
Find your local number: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/u/aetP5KdRDM


Zoom Help Center - Joining a Meeting 
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From kathy at fred.net  Wed May 27 11:18:03 2020
From: kathy at fred.net (KATHY BILTON)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 12:18:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [BSW] Rod on Emerald Planet talking about Wetlands Habitat
 Restoration and Water Quality
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2005271158150.37574@shell.xecu.net>


Rod Simmons talks about Wetlands Habitat Restoration and Water Quality in 
the first two segements. Kurt Moser of the Four Mile Run Foundation 
appears in the second two segments.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:55 +0000
To: ......
From: Rod Simmons <Rod.Simmons at alexandriava.gov>
Subject: Re: [The EmeraldPlanet TV 2.26.20] (Isabella (Molina) Mebane-Keys),
     Guests:
     "Rod Simmons, Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac Chapter & Kurt Moser, Fo
     ur Mile Run Foundation". Topic: ?Wetlands Habitat Restoration and Water
     Quality for L...

Hi Sam, Steve,?and EmeraldPlanet TV,

Thank you for having us on your show and for sending the edited and
uploaded?segments at the links below!? It was a lot of fun doing these
programs?with EmeraldPlanet TV, and?is an excellent way to get our
respective environmental conservation and education?messages?to a broader
audience.

I've copied the VNPS board here, who I know will be very interested in the
segments.

All the best,

Rod

____________________________________________________________________________
From: Dr. Samuel Lee Hancock, CM <emeraldplanet1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:37 PM
To: Rod Simmons <Rod.Simmons at alexandriava.gov>; Kurt Moser, Ecologist and
Director, Four Mile Run Foundation <kmoser at fourmilerun.org>
Cc: Stephen (Steve) R. Hammell, Principal, Green Mountain Studio
<esteban3619 at gmail.com>; Dr. Samuel Lee Hancock, CM, President EmeraldPlanet
<emeraldplanet1 at gmail.com>; Dr. Samuel Lee Hancock, CM, President
EmeraldPlanet <Dr_Sam_Hancock at yahoo.com>

Subject: [EXTERNAL]Fwd: 2.26.20 [The EmeraldPlanet TV] (Isabella (Molina)
Mebane-Keys), Guests: "Rod Simmons, Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac
Chapter & Kurt Moser, Four Mile Run Foundation". Topic: ?Wetlands Habitat
Restoration and Water Quality for Local... ?
Ref:?2.26.20 [The EmeraldPlanet TV] Guests: "Rod Simmons, Virginia Native
Plant Society/Potomac Chapter & Kurt Moser, Four Mile Run Foundation".
Topic: ?Wetlands Habitat Restoration and Water Quality for Local Communities
and the Chesapeake Bay".??Thank you and Best Wishes!?

Good afternoon Rod and Kurt!? Trust you are doing well.? Please find your
"Ever Green" fully edited and uploaded interviews on the EmeraldPlanet
International Foundation??web site and YouTube account.??The
EmeraldPlanet?TV??Shows and program for your "Virginia Native Plant
Society/Potomac Chapter" and "Four Mile Run Foundation"?interviews URLs are
included below.? Please make use of these in anyway you may like on your?web
sites, YouTube accounts, any other social media, and distribution to
your?colleagues, funders, and supporters as you may wish.?

If you post the individual shows you should have two or three times the
number of visitors over just the full program.? Thus you have six [6]
different URLs to cover your web sites, social media networks, and extensive
contact.? Once the FCCAC TV Station reopens from the COVID-19 lockdown we
will have a seventh [7th] television broadcast URL for you to use and
distribute as you desire.??

Please let me know what we can do to help and assist you with your "Virginia
Native Plant Society/Potomac Chapter" and "Four Mile Run
Foundation"?projects as together we?create?The EmeraldPlanet?...Sam

Tel:??202-718-2762


Title:  "Wetlands Habitat Restoration and Water Quality for Local 
Communities and the Chesapeake Bay"

2.26.20?Segment '1' YouTube URL:??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7JFgIv4qyA

2.26.20??Segment '2' YouTube URL:??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2amgivY8MU

2.26.20?Segment '3' YouTube URL:? https://youtu.be/9y1uHViS1pw

2.26.20?Segment '4' YouTube URL:? https://youtu.be/t0haAsJrLr4


Date:? 2.26.20

The order and particulars of the interviews are:

       ?Segment '1':??Rod Simmons, Conservation?Biologist & Ecologist,
       Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac
       Chapter,?(In-Studio),?Theme:?"Best Management Practices for
       Wetlands and Streams Restoration Projects";

       ??Segment '2':??Rod Simmons,?Conservation?Biologist & Ecologist,
       Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac
       Chapter,?(In-Studio),?Theme: ?"How Do Projects for Various Sized
       Wetlands and Streams Differ and 'Best Practices' Learned to
       Increase Success";

       ??Segment '3':??Kurt Moser,?Ecologist and Director, Four Mile
       Run Foundation,?(In-Studio),?Theme:? "Environmental Benefits of
       the Four Mile Run Wetland Restoration"

       ? Segment '4':??Kurt Moser,?Ecologist and Director, Four Mile
       Run Foundation,?(In-Studio),?Theme:? "The Human Dimension in
       Restoration at Four Mile Run".?


2.26.20 The?EmeraldPlanet?Web Site?URL:?http://www.emerald-planet.org/?p=16976

2.26.20? The?EmeraldPlanet International Foundation"?YouTube URL:
?https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZcUqgB5K2O2f_8SOoYyWQ



SPECIAL NOTE:?Overviews Below....?

The?Virginia Native Plant Society?is dedicated to the protection and
preservation of the native plants of Virginia and their habitats, in order
to sustain for generations to come the integrity of the Commonwealth?s rich
natural heritage of ecosystems and biodiversity for purposes of enjoyment,
enlightenment, sustainable use, and our own very survival.??To this end, we
advocate and follow practices that will conserve our natural endowment, and
we discourage and combat practices that will endanger or destroy it. We are
committed to do all we can to slow the accelerating conversion of natural
landscape to built and planted landscape and to reduce its damage to natural
ecosystems.

The Virginia Native Plant Society?s tag line is ?Saving wild flowers and
wild places.? That certainly covers a lot of ground! And each chapter has
its own unique way of responding to the call to action.? It?maintains
a?Registry Site Program?to protect places with ?an exemplary occurrence of a
habitat, a plant community, or a plant species.? ?VNPS holds two annual
events, a spring workshop dedicated to academic study of timely topics,
climate change this year; and an annual meeting in the fall, held in
different parts of the state, with speakers and field trips. Each year there
are several additional extended, overnight field trips in places of special
interest.? There are numerous other activities, projects, and programs of
interest to "Saving wild flowers and wild places."

Four Mile Run is envisioned as a cherished community resource and a model
for natural lands stewardship in an urban setting.??Our mission is to
promote nature, culture, and community at lower Four Mile Run
through?restoration, advocacy, recreation, and education.??The Four Mile Run
Conservatory Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and volunteer
organization formed in 2016 following years of community efforts to beautify
and improve Four Mile Run Park.

The organization host over fifty [50] events yearly including nature and
history walks, natural history presentations, and volunteer clean-up
events.? There are also community happy hour networking gatherings to foster
greater citizen participation.? Summer Internships are offered in areas such
as:? collecting water samples to measure the amount of microplastic?
pollution; cataloging wildlife cameras data as to the diversity and number
of native species in the park; while community volunteers have identified
and cataloged?over 200 plant and animal species in the lower Four Mile Run.?
The new Dock Project to design, construct, and commission a floating
accessible?dock for non-motorized?water craft is proceeding.

       EmeraldPlanet????
       2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, D.C.
       20037??USA
       www.emerald-planet.org??? ? ?* ? ? ?Tel: ?202-718-2762??

Ref:??Ref:??2.26.20 In-Studio Guests--[The EmeraldPlanet?TV?]??Guests: "Rod
Simmons, Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac Chapter &?Kurt Moser,?Four
Mile Run Foundation". Topic:??Wetlands Habitat Restoration and Water
Quality?for Local Communities and the Chesapeake Bay",?Details Below. Thank
you!??
?
The order and particulars of the interviews are:

       ?Segment '1':??Rod Simmons, Conservation Ecologist & Biologist,
       Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac
       Chapter,?(In-Studio),?Theme:?"Best Management Practices for
       Wetlands and Streams Restoration Projects";

       ??Segment '2':??Rod Simmons, Conservation Ecologist & Biologist,
       Virginia Native Plant Society/Potomac
       Chapter,?(In-Studio),?Theme: ?"How Do Projects for Various Sized
       Wetlands and Streams Differ and 'Best Practices' Learned to
       Increase Success";

       ??Segment '3':??Kurt Moser,?Ecologist and Director, Four Mile
       Run Foundation,?(In-Studio),?Theme:? "Environmental Benefits of
       the Four Mile Run Wetland Restoration";

       ? Segment '4':??Kurt Moser,?Ecologist and Director, Four Mile
       Run Foundation,?(In-Studio),?Theme:? "The Human Dimension in
       Restoration at Four Mile Run".?

Thank You Production Crew and Program Team for your commitment, dedication,
and goodwill as we continue to expand our "best practices" solutions
identification and reporting throughout 2020 and the Decade of the 2020s.?
We would like to acknowledge that equipment and facilities are provided by
Falls Church Public Cable Access Corporation, Falls Church, Virginia.? We
thank our many viewers, supporters, and the general public for weekly
feedback, ideas, and suggestions?as together we create?The
EmeraldPlanet?....??

? ? ? ? ? ? Sam?


Dr. Samuel Lee Hancock, CM,?
President & Executive Director
EmeraldPlanet International Foundation???
Creator & Host
The?EmeraldPlanet?Television Productions??

Managing Director
The Emerald?Mall
Paul Harris Fellow (Ruby Award), Member, and

Co-Chair, "Trees for the Capital",?
Rotary Club of Washington, D.C.
Collaboration w/PanAmerican?PanAfrican? Association
(NGO) in Consultative Status with the?United Nations?
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Strategic Partner, The World Bank Group,?Connect4Climate
2200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20037 USA
Tel: ? ?202-718-2762
Email:?Dr_Sam_Hancock at yahoo.com
? ? ? ? ? ??emeraldplanet1 at gmail.com
Web:?www.emerald-planet.org???