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<br><div style="font-family: tahoma,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1">-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Whitepine chapter INPS" <<a href="mailto:whitepine.chapter@gmail.com">whitepine.chapter@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "White Pine Chapter" <<a href="mailto:whitepine.chapter@gmail.com">whitepine.chapter@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 02/22/14 16:00<br>Subject: Upcoming Events, White Pine Chapter & INPS<br><br><div dir="ltr"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><u>UPCOMING EVENTS</u></b></p>
<br><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span><b>Thursday, March 27,</b></span> <b>2014, 7 pm, Chapter Meeting</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><u>Topic:<span> </span> "Highlights of Annual Meetings past, especially the 2013 INPS/American Penstemon Society joint meeting."</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Presenter:</b> <span>Nancy Miller, White Pine chapter member</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Location:</b><span><span> </span> 1912 Center, Fiske Room (</span><span style="color: rgb(43, 43, 43);">412 E. 3rd St.), Moscow, Idaho</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(43, 43, 43);">Nancy has been a mainstay of both our White Pine Chapter, and of the state INPS organization.<span> </span> Come "meet" other INPS enthusiasts via this illustrated talk, and learn what many of us have been missing out on!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Thursday</b><span>, <b>April 3, 2014, 7 pm, Chapter meeting</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Topic:<span> </span> <u>"</u></b><b><u><span style="color: black;">Native and Invasive Roses of the Inland Pacific Northwest: Identification, Biology and Control"</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Presenter</b><span>:<span> </span></span> Pamela Pavek, <span style="color: black;">Conservation Agronomist,</span> USDA NRCS Pullman Plant Materials Center.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Location:</b><span><span> </span> 1912 Center, Great Room (</span><span style="color: rgb(43, 43, 43);">412 E. 3rd St.), Moscow, Idaho</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">Late April or early May, either a Saturday or Sunday:<span> </span> <b><u>University of Idaho Systematic Botany class field trip</u></b><u>.</u><span> </span> White Pine members are invited to learn plant identification and ecology at this annual floristic event.<span> </span> Leader:<span> </span> Pam Brunsfeld, UI Systematic Botany Instructor, and former Manager and Curator, UI Stillinger Herbarium.<span> </span> More information will be available in April.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Saturday, May 17, 2014:<span> </span> <u>Field trip to see several native orchid species of Moscow Mountain</u></b><span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Trip leader:</b><span><span> </span> James Riser, PhD candidate, Washington State University botany and environmental biology instructor.<span> </span> Orchids that may be in bloom include Calypso bulbosa, and species of the</span> Corallorhiza, Platanthera, and Neottia (Listera) genera.<span> </span> <i>Watch for further details.</i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span><b>Saturday, May 24, 2014, <span> </span>9:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.</b></span><b>m.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><u>3<sup>rd</sup> Annual Native Plant Sale</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span>Indoors at the 1912 Center Arts Room, 412 E. 3rd St., Moscow.<span> </span> Co-ordinators:<span> </span> Thad Davis and Steve Flint. Setup will be the day before, details to be announced at a later date.<span> </span> As before, count on a selection of many wonderful species!<span> </span> Additional vendors and volunteers welcome! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Friday, June 20-Sunday, June 22:<span> </span></b> <b>INPS/Eriogonum Society Annual Meeting 2014.<span> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Centered in Twin Falls, Idaho, this event offers the opportunity to explore the botanical and geological wonders of the middle Snake River Plain, including the Bennett Hills and Gooding City of Rocks, the South Hills (southern Sawtooth National Forest), and the Craters of the Moon.<span> </span> Optional post-meeting tour of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Fish Creek Canyon on Monday, June 23.<span> </span> <b><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=0cff9e62ab&view=att&th=143c21b3d43af756&attid=0.5&disp=safe&zw">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=0cff9e62ab&view=att&th=143c21b3d43af756&attid=0.5&disp=safe&zw</a></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Please note that the above links to information and registration forms give a meeting date of 2013-but this is a 2014 event</i><b><i>.</i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Late June, or early July</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Weekend trip:<span> </span> Fescue grasslands in central Idaho, Mud Springs Ridge, located west of Lucile, between the Salmon and Snake Rivers.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>Leader:</b><span><span> </span> Mike Hays, USFS Botanist, Nez Perce-Clearwater Forest.<span> </span> A promised continuation of last year's trip, scheduled to catch many plants in bloom, which may include <i>Silene spaldingii.<span> </span></i> Watch for further details.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span><i>Sent by Sonja Lewis, who is without Internet service till mid-week. 208-883-2638.</i><br></span></p> </div> </div> </div></body>