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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Wasatch Room, Salt Lake City, Utah Presentation by Dr. Stan Kitchen, US Forest Service Shrub Lab. Topic: "Pinyon-Juniper Communities in Utah." Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Marc Coles-Ritchie | |||
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PLEASE NOTE: NOT ON THE USUAL DAY NOR AT THE USUAL LOCATION! SL Chapter meeting at Red Butte Garden (classroom, upstairs from the front desk) Vegetation of the Pando Clone Aspen Forest - presented by Marc Coles-Ritchie |
Marc Coles-Ritchie | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Wasatch Room, Salt Lake City, Utah Presentation by Greg Lee, Executive Director of Red Butte Garden. Topic: "Getting to know the Sunflower Family: Floral Biology and Chemical Ecology." Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Wasatch Room, Salt Lake City, Utah Presentation by Wayne Padgett about efforts to increase funding for botany work by federal agencies. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Where Do All The Wildflowers Go? Speaker: Joel Tuhy. Co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy of Utah. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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NOTE DIFFERENT DAY OF THE WEEK AND LOCATION! SL Chapter meeting, Red Butte Garden classroom, SLC, Utah Topic: Cliffrose, Bitterbrush and Tree Rings. Speaker: Bill Gray. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public (no admission applies). |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Interwoven: Juniper and the Web of Being Speaker: Kristen Rogers-Iversen. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: New Jordan River Nature Park. Speakers: Soren Simonsen, Matthew Utley and Anne Terry. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting, Red Butte Garden classroom, SLC, Utah Topic: Hand Pollinating the Dwarf Bear Poppy: Patching the Pollination Web? Speaker: Alyson DeNittis, UVU. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting has been cancelled due to bad weather. |
Bill Gray | |||
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Red Butte Garden classroom (REI doubled-booked, so the meeting will not be at REI as is usually the case) Topic: Milkweeds and Monarchs. Speaker: Rachel Taylor. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
| There will be no December Salt Lake chapter meeting. | Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting: Red Butte Garden classroom Topic: Dr. Mitchell Power, Associate Professor of Geography at the U, and Curator of the Garrett Herbarium, will talk about his research into the history of fire in the Uinta Mountains. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Cathy King | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: UFO Night. Leader: Bill Gray. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Send Bill Gray your UFO's at least one week, preferably more, prior to the meeting. |
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40th anniversary potluck picnic celebration and retreat, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Spruges Campground, Group Site.
Sponsored by the Salt Lake Chapter. Feel freel to arrive as early as 2pm for a wildflower hike with Bill Gray. Main dish will be provided along with utensils, etc. but feel free to bring a dish to share (dessert, appetizer or side dish). Campground is location 1/2 mile past market 11 in Big Cottonwood Cnayon. Turn right into the campground, continue to the right and follow the loop that says campsites 1-38. Group Reservation #1 will be on the immediate left. Handicap accessible. |
Cathy King or call 801-867-3595 |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Wildflowers with more than one color Speaker: Joel Tuhy of The Nature Conservancy’s Moab Field Office Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public Co-sponsored by The Nature Conservancy, Utah Chapter |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUAL! Location: Salt Lake Main Library, 210 E. 400 S. Conference Room A Speaker: Marc Coles-Ritchie Topic: Mountain Goats in the La Sal Mountains |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. Salt Lake City, Utah Speaker: Bruce Pavlik Topic: The Four Corners Potato: Conserving an ancient food from southern Utah |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. Salt Lake City, Utah Speaker: Wayne Padgett Topic: Research Natural Areas: Landscapes with a View of the Past, Present, and Future. This meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. Salt Lake City, Utah Speaker: Dr. William Gray Topic: A Farewell to Asters This meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
| There will be no January Salt Lake chapter meeting. | Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. Salt Lake City, Utah Speaker: Robert Johnson, Collections Manager, Stanley L Welsh Herbarium (BYU) Topic: Relating to Native Plants in Wildscapes and Landscapes: Rhymes and Reasons (oncor presentation of talk given earlier this year at the American Penstemon Society meeting in Vernal). This meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. | Bill Gray or Cathy King | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. (meeting location not yet firm), Salt Lake City, Utah Speaker: Carl Fisher, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons Topic: Wasatch Mountain Accord Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. (meeting location not yet firm), Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: UFO Night. Leader: Bill Gray. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Wait until further notice before sending in your pictures. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Rare or Interesting Wildflowers of the Moab Area Speaker: Joel Tuhy of The Nature Conservancy’s Moab Field Office Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Envisioning a sustainable population living in harmony with Utah’s natural environment Speaker: Wayne Martinson of Utah Population and Environment Council Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Water-wise gardening (including information relating to soils, irrigation, plant selection and on-going maintenance) Speaker: Faye Rutishauser, Water Conservation Coordinator for the Utah Division of Water Resources Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Aspens Dr. Karen Mock (USU) will give a repeat performance of her talk at our most recent annual meeting of the members which was very well-received. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
| Meeting cancelled due to bad weather. | Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: 3rd annual potpourri evening Members give 5 minute talks on botanical topics of their choice. Contact Bill Gray if you would like to present a topic. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Climate Change and the Future of Biodiversity in the Intermountain West: An Uncertain Future Speaker: Wayne Padgett Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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Special SL Chapter meeting at Red Butte Garden Topic: What is a flower? Speaker: Dr. Loran Anderson Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
Bill Gray | |||
| No chapter meeting at the regular time/place this month in light of the annual meeting on the 5th. | SL Chapter page | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Utah’s Monarch Butterflies and their Plants. Speaker: Ecologist Dr. Ty Harrison Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: UFO Night. Leader: Bill Gray. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Send Bill Gray your UFO's at least one week prior to the meeting. |
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Special guest speaker: Joel Tuhy, Conservation Science Director for Utah Nature Conservancy's Moab office. Topic: Wildflowers that are Planimals. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Special guest speaker: Barney Barnett of Willard Bay Gardens Topic: Gardening with Native Plants |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Special guest speaker: Emily Holt, Assistant Professor of Biology at Utah Valley University Topic: Lichens: a very diverse and important group of organisms |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Special guest speaker: Maria Gaetani Topic: NEON, an ecological monitoring program NEON= National Ecological Observatory Network created by The National Science Foundation. Salt Lake City is one of the field sites. |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Special guest speaker: Elizabeth Johnson, Garrett Herbarium Collections Manager Topic: New directions at the herbarium plus: Potpourri evening where members talk about 4-5 photos in a theme. Send pictures in advance to Bill Gray |
Bill Gray | |||
| No chapter meeting in December | Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Speakers: Dr. Jim Ehleringer Topic: Recent research relating to the atmosphere of the Salt Lake valley |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting Location: REI, 3285 East 3300 South, Salt Lake City, Utah Speakers: Marita Tewes, Red Butte Garden Topic: Plans for a water-wise garden at RBG |
Bill Gray | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Native Plant Propagation. Speaker: Faye Rutishauser. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. After working at Red Butte Garden for some years (and serendipitously discovering a tiny occurrence Viola beckwithii on the grounds), Faye started New Horizons Nursery, Erda, Utah, to propagate Utah native plants. She will share tips on how to propagate native plants from seed and how to grow these drought-tolerant plants successfully in your own garden. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: SL Chapter Planning Meeting. Leader: Bill Gray. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Informal meeting at REI to get your input on field trips for the coming season. Let us know where you would like to go. Bill Gray's new Wildflower Guides will be given away as door prizes. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Salt Lake County Weeds. Speaker: Sage Fitch. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Sage Fitch of Salt Lake County Weed Control will be talking about the current status of some of the major weed problems we face in the Salt Lake area, and of how they are being addressed. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: New Research on Cottam's Hybrid Oaks. Speaker: Blake Wellard. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Weber State botanist and now University of Utah graduate student Blake Wellard will be talking about his work on the famous Cottam hybrid oaks of northern Utah. |
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| UNPS annual meeting of the members and potluck, hosted by the Salt Lake Chapter. Location: Red Butte Garden, Research Park, Salt Lake City, Utah. Speaker: Dr. Bill Gray will discuss his project, partly funded by UNPS, to catalogue and relocate photo points in Utah and the West taken by pioneer botanist Marcus E. Jones. | Kipp Lee | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: The Legacy of Marcus Jones. Speaker: Bill King. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: UFO Night. Leader: Bill Gray. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Send Bill Gray your UFO's at least one week prior to the meeting. |
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| 5th Annual Purge your Spurge and Native Plant Sale, to be held on May 14th, 2011 at the REI on 33rd from 10-3 pm. | More information | |||
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SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So., Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Plant photography. Speaker: Steve Hegji This meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. Meeting is open without charge to all members of the public. |
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| SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. in Salt Lake City. Bring your 2009 pictures on a memory stick or CD/DVD or send them in advance to Bill Gray (including your UFO's or "mystery plants" from any year) and we will spotlight what an amazing year 2009 has been. | Marni Ambrose | |||
| SL Chapter field trip to Lamb's Canyon/Lake Salamander (unique opportunity) - limited number of participants, RSVP required | Bill Gray | |||
| SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. in Salt Lake City. Ellen Harz will discuss keeping bees in an urban setting. Included: a demonstration hive with live bees. |
Marni Ambrose
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| SL Chapter meeting at REI, 3285 E. 3300 So. in Salt Lake City. Dr. Wayne Whaley, Utah Valley University professor in Zoology, will discuss the Indra Swallowtail Butterfly, and butterflies generally. | Kipp Lee | |||
| Joint meeting with the Wasatch Rock Garden Society at the Sugarhouse Garden Center. Bill Gray will present “Southwest Australia: a Botanical Wonderland”. | Kipp Lee | |||
| Our annual native plant sale at REI: We are again planning for this event in front of the REI store at 3285 East 3300 South in Salt Lake City. This plant sale fundraiser will be sponsored by Jeannette Warner of Wildland Nursery. She will have a huge selection of various native perennials, shrubs, and trees. 10% of the proceeds will benefit the UNPS Salt Lake Chapter. | ||||
| Purge Your Spurge Event at REI (3285 E. 33300 So., SLC UT) - see news page for more information | More information: Purge Your Spurge! flyer | |||
| Beaver Dam Mountains Field Trip: We will be camping in the Cedar Pocket Campground in the Arizona Strip. A road from our campground will take us into the Utah portion of the Beaver Dam Wilderness Area where three floristic provinces meet. The plant species are unique and very limited in our state. A tentative side trip is planned to the Mojave Desert portion of Zion Park. Saturday night we will have a potluck dinner so bring a dish of your choice. This is open to all members in the state and we will make carpool arrangements. | ||||
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SL Chapter November meeting at Jack and Corinne Sweet Library
(F Street and Ninth Avenue - note: again NOT at REI this time)
Topic: Emigration Canyon: Uneasy Interface between Man and Nature Speakers: Sarah Bennett and Cindy Purse |
(801)532-3486 |
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| FOURTH ANNUAL NATIVE PLANT SALE AT REI: We are again planning for this event in front of the REI store at 3285 East 3300 South in Salt Lake City. Please watch this page and our main calendar/news pages for further details. If you are interested in helping us, please contact us! | 801-272-3275 |
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