SEC 08-09

Revised 04/08/10

April 2009 Newsletter pdf file

Spring 2009 Field Trips

Saturday, May 2 Tenhave Woods, Royal Oak

Tenhave Woods is located at the end of Marais St. which runs north of 13 Mile Rd. just east of Crooks. Park at the Lexington/Marais corner lot at the Royal Oak Senior/Community Center & meet at the Lexington entrance to the woods.

9:00 am: Bird Walk-- A look at the resident birds and some that are just passing through.

10:00 am: Spring Wildflowers -- Looking for wild geranium, foamflower, jack-in-the-pulpit, trillium, wood poppy and more.

11:30 am: Pond Life-- We will be sampling the vernal pond for what is living in it. We will have viewing trays to examine what we find. For those interested, small aquarium nets will be available for you to catch your own pond life and have us identify it. Come and learn about the interesting aquatic wildlife of Dragonfly Pond.

1:00 to 4:00 pm: Open House-- Come and check out the nature park, as we will have several programs running continuously throughout the afternoon.

For more information contact (248) 246-3380

Fall 2008 Meetings

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 at 2:00 PM

Environmental Discovery Center at Indian Springs Metropark

Program is free, Metroparks Daily Pass $4 per vehicle
“Nature through the eyes of artist Charley Harper"
Please attend a special Michigan Botanical Club program we have planned in conjunction with the Huron-Clinton Metroparks featuring the life and art of Charley Harper (1922-2007) by his son Brett Harper. Charley was known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters, and magazine and book illustrations over a long career. He called his style “minimal realism” and the results were bold, colorful and often whimsical. He also wrote amusing, pun-filled captions for his artwork. He illustrated the Golden Book of Biology (1962), The Animal Kingdom, Ford Times, Ranger Rick and the National Park Service. Charley and his artwork were featured in an article in the Jan/Feb. 2008 issue of Audubon magazine, as well as in a recently published book entitled “Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life” by Todd Oldham. Prints of his artwork will be for sale at the program.

For more information on Charley Harper see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Harper

http://fabframes.com/charley.aspx?gclid=CL_lk7_MqZUCFQcmIgoddDFjaA

Winter 2009 meetings

Sunday, March 1, 2:00 pm. Heritage Park Visitor's Center, Farmington Hills.
"A Bewildered Naturalist Goes West" Don and Joyce Drife spent time this past summer exploring Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks.
These two parks contain a flora very different from that of Michigan, as well as spectacular scenery and wildlife. When Don, the Royal Oak Nature Society Botanist, goes west, he confesses that he does not know all of the birds and maybe only 20% of the plants. Sometimes, he admits that he cannot place the plants even in the correct family. Don says, "In Michigan it is rare to find a flowering plant that I can't place at the least into the correct genus. Out west, I am bewildered by many of the things that I see. I spend more time with a plant key in a day than I will in a year in Michigan. It was great fun as I identified in 10 days, 350 species of plants that I had never seen before!" Come join Don as he leads an exploration of the natural history of these two spectacular National Parks. Please join us on Sunday afternoon in the Visitor's Center at Heritage Park in Farmington Hills.
Here is a link to a map to Heritage Park. http://www.ci.farmington-hills.mi.us/Community/MapsInANewWindow/InteractiveCityMap.pdf

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