Current Events Calendar

The following is a list of events sponsored by White Pine Chapter or in collaboration with other organizations because our members have an interest. Please check with a contact if you have a specific question or wish to confirm event information.
For a list of events for other INPS chapters, please click on INPS.

Upcoming Events
Please mark your calendar with the dates of these meetings, presentations, and field trips. Additional information may also be communicated through chapter email notices, newsletters, and postcards and via public flyers and press releases. We look forward to seeing you on these educational excursions. For a printable short agenda click here.
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January 26, February 23 and March 29, 2012. Time 6:30-8:30.

UI Stillinger Herbarium Keying Work Party: INPS Co-sponsor

Last summer the Stillinger Herbarium hosted the 4th annual Idaho Botanical Foray where we led a group of about 40 volunteers from Idaho and Washington on a 5-day camping and collecting trip to the foothills of the Seven Devils and Cuddy Mountains in East Central Idaho. The trip was a huge success, which means we have a large number of specimens to identify (ca. 650) and we need your help!

What: Foray Work Parties! At these work parties, participants will have the opportunity to work closely with experts at plant identification and build the skill set necessary to effectively use dichotomous keys and the herbarium collection to identify the collections made on the foray.

When: The last Thursday of the month in January, February and March from 6:30-8:30. You may stop by anytime during the event and stay as long as you want! At this point the announced February date is the same date as our chapter meeting. More information forthcoming!

Where: Stillinger Herbarium, CNR room 22. We will have scopes set up and extra copies of Hitchcock and Cronquist - if you have your own H&C, bring it along. Also, snacks to share while keying are highly encouraged!

For more information, contact the Stillinger Herbarium, send email or call 208.885.7033

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Thursday, February 23, 2012. Time 7:00 p.m.. White Pine chapter monthly meeting
Title: Asclepias family - the Milkweeds
Speaker: James Riser
Location: 1912 Center, Fiske Room, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Idaho (between Adams and Van Buren)

For more information, contact James Riser, send email or call 406-531-4509

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March, 2012. White Pine chapter monthly meeting

Meeting details have not yet been finalized. Please check back later.
An email announcement will be sent to members and contacts.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012. 7:30 p.m. White Pine chapter monthly meeting in conjunction with Palouse Audubon Society
Topic: Landscaping with Native Plants with Wildlife in mind
Speakers: Several members of each organization will present the program
Location: 1912 Center, Great Room, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Idaho (between Adams and Van Buren)

This is a joint meeting of Palouse Audubon and INPS White Pine Chapter. Garden-worthy native plants that provide food, shelter, protection, and nesting habitat will be discussed.

For more information, contact Nancy Miller, send email or call 208-301-0560.

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Summer Fieldtrips are being planned. Our target native species will be members of the the penstemon family. Pam Brunsfeld will start things off with a penstemon workshop at the herbarium. We will then conduct a number of field trips to varying locations and habitats in Washington and Idaho to maximize the number of different penstemon species which we can see and study. All locations should be within a 2 1/2 hour drive.

If you have a favorite penstemon you would like to learn more about or you know where less common ones can be found within several hours' drive, let us know. For more information, contact Nancy Miller, send email or call 208-301-0560

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Recent Events

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Thursday, January 12, 2012. Time 7:00 p.m.

Palouse Prairie Foundation; INPS White Pine chapter co-sponsor
Speaker: Karen Ward
Topic: Invasive Species
Location: Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA. Please enter through the door near the parking lot

Karen is a Plant Pathologist working as plant pest diagnostician at WSU in Pullman. As part of her job she offers training sessions, called First Detector training, teaching people about the First Detector program, and how to recognize invasive species, be they insects, weeds, plant pathogens, mollusks, etc.

For more information, contact Dave Skinner, send email or call 208-874-2040

White Pine photo by Dr. Wm Hall