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2006-2007 Meetings

• Sunday, October 8.  Annual Fall Meeting, 1pm. Matthaei Botanical Garden

• Sunday, October 15.  Oakland Land Conservancy Golden Prairie Preserve.  Meet at 1 pm. at Matthaei to carpool.  Leader Judy Kelly.  jkelly@hfcc.edu     

• Saturday, November 4, 2:00 pm  "Adventures in Alaska: from Prudhoe Bay to Homer"by Judy Kelly, Henry Ford Community College Biology professor and  HVC member.  Judy  has been to Alaska three times on Chautauqua short courses for college professors, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. She took a course on Energy Development in the Arctic for which she visited the Prudhoe Bay oilfields. She also studied the Ecology of South-central Alaska, and this last summer she took a course on Glaciers in Alaska.  She will touch a little on each of these subjects in her presentation which will be accompanied by some excellent slides

• Saturday, Dec. 2, 1:30 pm.  We will be joining with the SE MI Land Conservancy for their Annual Meeting and Program to be held at the Environmental Interpretive Center on the campus of the Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn. We will have light refreshments and social time, followed by an update on SMLC activities for 2006 and a highlight of upcoming plans. Julie Craves, from the Rouge River Bird Observatory, will present a program on Bird Banding. Come out to meet and mingle with SMLC members, Board directors and staff. Membership is not required.  Bring your friends and family. To help us plan for refreshments, a quick RSVP to (734) 484-6565  would be appreciated if you plan to attend. U of M-Dearborn is at 4901 Evergreen Road, south of Ford Road, immediately south of Henry Ford Community College. Enter at the first entrance into U of M-Dearborn and keep to the right. Park in the 5-story parking structure (free). The Environmental Interpretive Center is just to the west of the parking structure at the bend in the road.

• Sunday, March 4 at 2:00 pm.   Our meeting will be held at the Vagnozzi Visitor Center in Heritage Park in Farmington Hills.  Heritage Park is located on the west side of Farmington Road between 10 and 11 Mile Roads.  For those coming from the south, be aware that Farmington Rd. does not continue through the city of Farmington.  Further information about the park and a map may be found at:
  
  http://www.ci.farmington-hills.mi.us/Community/ParksAndFacilities/Parks.asp
  
  Our program will be given by Jan Ellison, President of The Belle Isle Botanical Society.  BIBS
  assists and supports the preservation of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, gardens and
  greenhouses; supports and further advances all gardening preservation efforts by the City of Detroit on the Conservatory grounds, provides educational programs for adults and children, provides volunteers to work in the Conservatory, gardens and greenhouses, and raises funds for these purposes.  BIBS is moving in a new direction in assisting the City of Detroit with the preservation of the Conservatory.  Join us to hear about their new plans as well as their continuing efforts. Light refreshments and social time will follow the meeting.