Vegetation Re-Survey of the Brule River Watershed in NW Wisconsin: 1852 – 2017. 4.12.22

Paul Hlina spoke about a plant survey of the Brule River watershed that he conducted in 2015-16 while at the Lake Superior Research Institute. He shared photos of many beautiful plants and some of their fascinating biology, but even more than that, Paul was a storyteller. He described the serendipitous series of events that ledContinue reading “Vegetation Re-Survey of the Brule River Watershed in NW Wisconsin: 1852 – 2017. 4.12.22”

Plants on the Edge: Monitoring rare, disjunct, and range edge species on Lake Superior Islands 03.15.2022

The plants Dr. Johnson spoke about are on the edge in two senses of the word. Many grow in the dynamic zone between water and land, and they are among the rarest plants of the region. She has studied these rare plants at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, which includes 22 Islands and a mainlandContinue reading “Plants on the Edge: Monitoring rare, disjunct, and range edge species on Lake Superior Islands 03.15.2022”