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2004 Summer Field Trips

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Bring you passport OR birth certificate AND a photo ID for border crossing.  U.S. Immigration staff can be sticklers on the return trip.

• Saturday, June 12.  9:00 am.  Goll Woods State Nature Preserve, Archbold, Ohio.   Map of Goll Woods   Giant old trees in Ohio preserve
  Old-growth woods reminiscent of the Great Black Swamp with 200-400 year old oak trees; excellent spring wildflowers. Goll Woods is the least disturbed woodland known to remain in extreme northwestern Ohio. Within this 321 acre preserve are some of the largest trees remaining in Ohio.
  Meet for this all day field trip at the west parking lot at Matthaei at 9:00 am.  The drive is 1.5 hours.  Return to Matthaei by 4:30 pm. Bring lunch, beverage, sunscreen and insect repellent. Leader: Steve Kobylarz  skobylarz@earthlink.net  248-486-1175.
   

• Saturday, June 26.  Brighton Recreation Area, Brighton, Michigan. 

Meet at the west parking lot at Matthaei at 9:00 am.  Bring lunch, beverage, sunscreen and insect repellent. The five mile trail will take about 2 hourse even, if we do not linger long on plants.  Leader: Sondra Gunn sgunn@umich.edu  734-769-7978.
 

• July, TBA Walpole Island Prairies, Ontario, Canada 
  

Natural Heritage website   WALPOLE ISLAND INDIAN RESERVE   Walpole Island First Nation  Bring lunch, beverage, sunscreen and insect repellent.  Leader: Melanie Gunn mgunn@umich.edu
 

• Saturday August 14.  Ojibway Prairie, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.  All day trip.  Meet at 9:00 am in the west parking lot at Matthaei.  

The prairie is 4 miles south of the Ambassador bridge on Matchette Road.  Bring lunch, beverages, sunscreen and insect repellent.  Leaders: Paul DesJardins pdesjard@greenshield.ca, 519-971-9562 and Joanne Cantoni joannecantoni@netzero.net 248-932-5370.

2003-2004 Meetings

• Monday September 15. Taking Conservation to the Next Level.   Helen Taylor, Director of The Nature Conservancy-Michigan Chapter and Andrea Kline, Nature Conservancy Director of Conservation for East Michigan will tell us about current developments in conserving Michigan.
   

• Sunday September 28. Annual Fall Meeting, Matthaei Botanical Gardens.
   

• Monday October 20.  Tree Diseases: Ash Decline, Oak Wilt, Dutch Elm Disease, & More.   David Roberts, Ph.D., Michigan State University Extension Service.   Over the past 100 years, our native forests have been decimated by a series of pests, starting with the chestnut blight, continuing with the Dutch elm disease and now concluding with the emerald ash borer.   Dr. David Roberts will tell about these interesting problems and some of the things that can/can not be done about them.  Dr. Roberts is the regional authority on these issues.
   

• Monday November 17.  The Ecology and Conservation Biology of Rain Forest Trees in Indonesian Borneo.    Gary Paoli, Ph.D.,  University of Michigan, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Lowland tropical rain forests of Indonesian Borneo are one of the most species rich forest ecosystems on earth.   Gary will discuss some of the most striking natural history of this forest and then discuss how this natural history relates to the current conservation problems.  Not only is the biology interesting, but the politics create some special challenges
   

• Monday January 19.  6:15 P.M.  POTLUCK DINNER.  In order to insure a good distribution of items, we suggest the following based on participants last names: A - F   bring main courses; G – O   bring salads; P – Z bring deserts.  Please bring your own table service. The Club will provide beverages. Please call Sarah Nooden at 734-663-5667, if you have any questions or suggestions. Interested persons who are unable to participate in the potluck are certainly welcome to attend the lecture only. 
  7:45 p.m.  LECTURE SOUTH PACIFIC BOTANY AND CONSERVATION ISSUES.   Larry Noodén, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Cell & Molecular Biology Departments.  At this time of year, many like to think about warm balmy weather and tropical flowers. The tropical Pacific region is certainly renowned for these attractions; however, there is much more of interest when you examine these places more closely.  The talk will feature plant migrations across the great expanses of ocean, human uses of the plants, volcanism and tsunamis and extinctions.  The beauty and uniqueness of the region will come out along the way.
   

• Monday February 16.  “The Ecology of Alaska and Prudhoe Bay” Judith Kelly, Biology Department, Henry Ford Community College. 
   

• Monday March 15. “How Plants Get Their Names”  Edward Voss, University of Michigan Professor Emeritus of Botany, Biology Department, and Curator Emeritus of Vascular Plants, U M Herbarium.  Plants, animals, auto parts, websites, people -- all require names so that we can communicate with each other, look up information (in catalogs, directories, or dictionaries), record our discoveries, label pictures, etc.  As a basic part of language, names are derived in various ways ("correct" or not).  But different names for the same object may exist within a language, not to mention among languages.  We need rules!  And we have some for plants.   All these aspects of both "common" and "scientific" names will be illustrated with examples (mostly from the local flora).  Would you make coleslaw from skunk-cabbage?  Will the ash borer kill off our mountain-ash?  Who was Joe Pye?
   

• Monday April 19.  "Caring for an Urban Arboretum: a Stewardship Plan for Nichols Arboretum"  Robert Grese, Director of Nichols Arboretum and Associate Professor UM School of Natural Resources and Environment.  Bob will discuss the challenges of caring for the gardens and natural areas found in Nichols Arboretum.  He will also review ongoing efforts to rejuvenate historic gardens, rehabilitate the Arb's native ecosystems, address problems of erosion, and future plans.  This is a Joint meeting with Ann Arbor Chapter Wild Ones

2003  Summer Field Trips

• Saturday August 23.  9:00 am.  Goll Woods, Archbold, Ohio.  Led by Steve Kobylarz - phone 248-486-1175 or skobylarz@earthlink.net

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