Written by Kelly Beaster The Arrowhead Native Plant Explorers met at Lester-Amity Park on the east side of Duluth to host the annual plant foray. Equipped with plant presses, clippers, and serrated hand trowels, ANPE members and board officers searched for flowering and fruiting specimens to contribute to the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Olga Lakela Herbarium,Continue reading “Plant Foray at Lester-Amity 9.22.24”
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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”
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