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Northern Wildflowers: Facebook Page
If you are on facebook, check out Northern Wildflowers page. This is the description: A group for those people who like to admire, smell, and propagate wildflowers (especially the ones in New York and Minnesota).
How Many Non-Native Species in New York Are Invasive?
These are results from the committee to assess the invasiveness of plants in New York State run by Marilyn Jordan of The Nature Conservancy on Long Island and Gerry Moore from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The number of persisting non-native species in New York is...
Rails to Trails And The Need for Botanical Surveys.
The link below shows the need for complete botanical surveys when old railroads are converted to trails for the public. The article is by Steve Daniel who has had experience with a trail conversion near Rochester. The article also appeared in a recent issue of the...
New Book: Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East
Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East Carolyn Summers, with illustrations by Michele Hertz Gardeners are endowed with love for a hobby that has profound potential for positive change. The beautifully-illustrated Designing Gardens with Flora of the American...
Winter 2010 Electronic NYFA Newsletter Sent Out Today
Remember, an electronic membership has the added advantage of delivery before paper copies are sent out and includes full color photographs. You can also simply click on web addresses instead of typing them into your browser. Convert to electronic membership the next...
The Crum Bryological Workshop for 2010 Announced
The Crum Workshop will be held this year in Tobermory, Ontario, Canada, at the very tip of the Bruce Peninsula, sticking out into Lake Huron, on September 23-28, 2010. Save the dates. There will be more information later in the year about facilities, etc. Our local...
New County-Level Maps of North American Flora Available
Yesterday afternoon, we launched our complete set of county-level maps of the North American vascular flora on our BONAP website (www.bonap.org). We have also updated the data of our Digital North American Flora page. Although we are painfully aware of the prolonged...
Homer House’s 1918 Wildflowers of NY online
This beautiful treatment of New York's wildflowers can be found at http://chestofbooks.com/flora-plants/flowers/Wild-Flowers-New-York/index.html
Electronic Newsletter Winter 09 Sent Out Today
Remember, an electronic membership has the added advantage of delivery before paper copies are sent out and includes full color photographs. You can also simply click on web addresses instead of typing them into your browser. Convert to electronic membership the next...
A New Take on Tree Leaves
See the following article on the biodiversity of leaves from another angle. http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/bio-diversity/?hp
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