Overview of Conservation Status Ranks — Angie Schmidt, IDFG Success With GPS — Lynn Kinter, IDFG

In this Issue Macrofungi of the South Hills Letter from the President Renewal Reminder INPS Rare Plant Conference New ERIG Grant Opportunities INPS 2009 Officer Candidates 2009 INPS Annual Meeting Registration Form Native Plants News Chapter News Link

A workshop for those seeking to improve, manage, and conserve their lands. This workshop will focus on providing information to ranchers and small acreage landowners for conservation and restoration of their lands. Expert practitioners and scientists will be on hand to address issues and challenges landowners face to improve their lands. The workshop is jointly […]

The 24th Rare Plant Conference will be Feb. 11 and 12, 2009, at Idaho Power, 1221 West Idaho Street, Boise. Our keynote speaker will be Del Wiens, who has conducted plant research in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Honduras, and many other exotic places around the globe. The Rare Plant Conference is always a great chance to […]

If you have slides or digital images of your summer botany photos, please bring them to the next meeting. Don’t be shy. All skill levels welcome! (Contact Susan @ 867-6188 to arrange to share your photos) There will also be a seed exchange so please remember to bring those as well. MK Nature Center 600 […]

Sam Owen Campground is a game refuge and is located 17 miles east of Sandpoint on Highway 200. Turn right onto Peninsula Road just past mile marker 48. Go 0.9 mile; turn left on Sam Owen Park Road. We have reserved the covered picnic area and 10 campsites for Friday night and Saturday night. Campsites […]

When: Aprill 19, 2008 (10 am to 2 pm) Where: Idaho Fish and Game MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut (behind Fish and Game Headquarters, Boise) The partial list of plants is available. At this time we don’t have a list for plants being brought in from the Native & Xeric nursery. Plant Sale 2008 […]

We now have the excellent PowerPoint presentation from Lonnie Huter’s talk at the last Pahove chapter meeting available online. Tamarisk is an invasive plant that crowds out native species, very tolerant of marginal (salty) soil conditions, and is difficut to control. It was added to the Idaho Noxious Weed List in 2007. Tamarisk in Idaho […]

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