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Tropical Botany Course Offered at Fairchild Garden
CLICK HERE TO SEE COURSE DESCRIPTION. The University of Florida, Department of Botany and The Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden, in collaboration with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, will offer an intensive, in-residence course/workshop on the...
2010 Blog Stats in Review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was...
Rensselaer Plateau Forest Legacy Area Approved
From the Rensselaer Plateau Alliance: Happy New Year! Our long awaited news has arrived. The Rensselaer Plateau Forest Legacy Area has been approved by the US Forest Service. The RPA is extremely pleased with the decision to designate the Rensselaer Plateau a forest...
Minnesota Wildflowers Website A Good Resource For New York Too.
The Minnesota Wildflowers website, http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/page/home, has many beautiful photos and lots of information about wildflowers that also occur in New York. You just may find that missing photo to help you identify a plant you discovered in New...
Yes, Old Pressed Plants Are Really Useful
CLICK HERE to see an article about how ecologists are using herbarium specimens to study global warming. Brooklyn Botanic Garden is featured.
Ancestral Plants. A new book by Arthur Haines
Anaskimin has just published a new book by Arthur Haines entitled Ancestral Plants. A Primitive Skills Guide to Important Edible, Medicinal, and Useful Plants of the Northeast. Volume 1. For more information see this flier.
New York Flora Atlas Statistics
Here are some important indices for the Atlas that are kept up-to-date in real-time. Number of Plant Species 3,895 Number of Plant Images 1,698 Number of Herbarium Records 105,275 See the sidebar link to go to the Atlas. ...
Eagle Hill Botany Programs for 2011
Lichens and Lichen Ecology May 22 - 28. David Richardson and Mark Seaward Crustose Lichens: Identification Using Morphology, Anatomy, and Simple Chemistry May 29 - Jun 4. Irwin M. Brodo Introduction to Modern Phylogenetic Methods Jun 5 - 11. Brigid O'Donnell...
Support the Long Island Plant Atlas!
The Long Island Botanical Society is raising funds to publish their Atlas of Vascular Plants of Long Island. If you would like to help, the contribution form is below. Click on it for a larger image.
Connecticut to Phase Out 25 Cultivars of Barberry
Connecticut's nursery and landscape industry will voluntarily start phasing out the sale and production of 25 Japanese barberry cultivars over the next three years because of their invasive potential (July 1, 2010-June 30, 2013). To see more about this action CLICK...
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