[Vision2020] Fw:Tuesday, December 9, 2014 Chapter Holiday Meeting - Dr. Steve Love speaker

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Subject: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 Chapter Holiday Meeting - Dr. Steve Love speaker
From: "Whitepine chapter INPS" <whitepine.chapter at gmail.com>
To: "White Pine Chapter" <whitepine.chapter at gmail.com>
Date: 11/20/14 20:35:02

 Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 7:00 p.m. White Pine Chapter meeting
Presenter: Dr. Steve Love, UI Extension specialist
Topic: Scary Roads and Alpine Dwarves
Location: 1912 Center, Great Room, 412 East Third St., Moscow, Idaho (between Adams and Van Buren)

 Please bring a holiday hors d'oeuvre or snack if you are able to. Come enjoy photos of some high mountain scenery and wildflower displays.

Dr. Love will summarize the adventures of a week-long expedition to collect diminutive forms of high-elevation Intermountain native plants destined for horticultural research. The trek agenda included summits of 9 mountain ranges over a period of six days. Destinations included the Lemhi Range, the White Clouds Peaks, the Seven Devils Mountains, and Sheep Rock in Idaho; Wallowa Mountain in Oregon; Ruby Mountains in Nevada; and the Markagunt Pleateau, Henry Mountains, and Abajo Mountains in Utah. The presentation will include photographs of collection sites and descriptions of plants obtained. This collection project was supported through a 2014 INPS ERIG grant.

Dr. Stephen Love is a UI Extension consumer horticulture specialist stationed at the Aberdeen Research and Extension Center. He earned his bachelor's degree in horticulture at Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in horticulture and plant physiology at Clemson University. Dr. Love is an avid native plant enthusiast. He conducts native plant domestication research with intent to make these plants available to homeowners for landscape applications. He is currently the vice-president of INPS, serves on the Board of Directors of Eriogonum Society, Editor of the American Penstemon Society Bulletin, and soon to be Editor-in-Chief of the Native Plants Journal. In addition to his native plant interests, Dr. Love delivers homeowner and green industry education on topics related to horticulture and is Webmaster of the Idaho Landscapes and Gardens web site (www.extension.uidaho.edu/idahogardens
).

 A poster will be available soon on the Current Events Webpage for printing and posting.

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