Chapter
Newsletter and Events
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Newsletter of the Olympic
November 2009 to January 2010
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Newsletter of the Olympic
November 2009 to January 2010
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Special Event Tuesday November
3, 7:00 pm, Peter Bahls, Director of Northwest Watershed Institute will discuss the natural history and preservation of
Tarboo Creek and estuary. This is one of the most important natural
area protection efforts in the Ed. Note: I have an
informal report of a population of phantom orchid (Cephalanthera austiniae) in or near the preserve. We should take
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Tuesday, December 15, 6:00
pm; Spruce room at WSU Extention at
Celebrate another WNPS year with
food and photos. Bring a potluck dish and your place settings (paper plates and
utensils will be available if you forget). Bring your botany slides for
sharing. Both a 35 mm slide projector
and digital projector will be available. Feel free to bring any suggestions
regarding projects or field trips you might want the Chapter to sponsor in
2010. We will also be electing (or re-electing) officers. For questions contact
Point Wilson Work Party: Thursday,
December 3, 9:30-12 Fort Worden State Park: Meet at the Point Wilson center restroom parking
lot ( between the kitchen shelter and lighthouse). Our effort to
divert people from trampling the best of the native plant habitat
continues. We will be moving mill felt for our European beach grass
control and stringing cable. There are both light, small tasks and larger
physical jobs to do. Contact
Murhut Falls and the Ranger Hole Hike: Two short hikes
within the Duckabush Recreation Area, Friday January 15, 2010. Meet at the
Quilcene FS Ranger Station no later than 10:00 to carpool to the trailheads
along the Duckabush. The hike to
Nature Walk with Jefferson Land Trust with docents for the Quimper Wildlife Corridor:
Saturdays (November 7; December 5; January 2) 10:00 – 11:30 am. Easy walk
on uneven terrain. Wear weather appropriate footwear and clothing.
No bathrooms on site. Admission is free, everyone welcome.
Where are they? A request for information
The “Flora of
the Olympic Peninsula” records Rocky Mountain Juniper, Juniperus scopulorum, in lowland,
montane and subalpine elevations in the Olympics. (Or are they J. maritima, the recently named seaside juniper?)
Recent trips by the Chapter have found these junipers on the Lower Dungeness
Trail, on Three o’clock Ridge and there is a specimen in the
WNPS 2010 Native Plant Calendar
Our
2010 Native Plants of Washington Calendar offers a whole new year of floral
splendor. WNPS members have helped us produce an outstanding calendar of
images.
Support
the conservation work of the Society and its efforts to educate others about
the value of native plants. Buy one for yourself and some for those on your
gift list. Calendars may be purchased at chapter meetings this fall and winter,
or contact
Olympic
Olympic National Park celebrated the
completion of its new greenhouse at
Chapter Apparatus:
Chair:
Treasurer: Janis
Burger; toucan@olypen.com.
Secretary: Ann
Weinmann 360-379-0986; aweinmann@cablespeed.com
Web site:
Newsletter/State Board:
Board member: Willi Smothers: 360-385-6709; aloha@olympus.net
Board member:
Board member: Eve Dixon: 360-379-5610 ext. 205;
noxiousweeds@jefferson.wa.us
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If you would like to receive this newsletter
digitally via email rather than hard copy, please notify Ann Weinmann at aweinmann@cablespeed.com. This will not only save postage, but
frequently we include photos which you will see in living color rather than
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Input for the February-April newsletter must be
received NLT January 20. Send to
The
Botanical
by
We are approaching the end of the Charles Darwin anniversary
year--the 200th year since his birth and the 150th year
since he published The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection. It is this book that led to his fame both in
his time and today, but it was in the study of botany where he spent many of
his most enjoyable years. This was
particularly true in the last 20 years of his life when he published multiple
volumes (in cooperation with his son, Francis) exclusively on botanical topics;
however, even though he did not publish specifically on botany until after The Origin, his interest was always keen
as evidenced by his collection and preservation of plant specimens during the
Voyage of the Beagle in the 1830s.
In the 1850’s when
So, in the final two months of this anniversary year we can celebrate Charles
Darwin, but also the important role of the plant kingdom in elucidating general
truths about evolution and biology in general. My favorite botanical quote from
“I have just
made out my first grass, hurrah! hurrah! I must confess that fortune favors the
bold, for, as luck would have it, it was the easy Anthoxanthum odoratum , nevertheless it is a great discovery; I
never expected to make out a grass in my life, so hurrah! It has done my stomach
surprising good”
Senecio darwinii herbarium
sample collected by Charles Darwin
in Terra del Fuego during the voyage of the Beagle 1831-1836.
Some
Volumes on Plants by Charles Darwin
1862: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are
fertilized by insects.
1865: On the movement and habits of climbing plants
1875:
Insectivorous plants
1876: The effects of cross and self fertilization in the plant kingdom
1877: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species
1880: The power of movement in plants.
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