Summer 2011 Minnesota Plant Press ~ Minnesota Native Plant Society Newsletter

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Minnesota Plant Press Te Minnesota Native Plant Society Newsletter

www.mnnps.org Volume 30 Number 3 Summer 2011

In this issue New members ..........................2Society news ..........................2Wetland Plants book review....3Hastings eld trip.....................3Minnesota mushrooms ...........4

New board members ..............6Landscape tour ........................6DNR photo opportunity .........7Plant Lore: Goldthread ............7

Monthly meetingsThompson Park Center/Dakota

LodgeThompson County Park

360 Butler Ave. E.,West St. Paul, MN 55118

ProgramsThe Minnesota Native Plant

Society meets the rst Thursdayin October, November, December,February, March, April, May, andJune. Check at www.mnnps.orgfor more program information.

6 p.m. Social period7 9 p.m. Program, Society

businessOct. 6: Delays in Nitrogen

Cycling and PopulationOscillations in Wild RiceEcosystems, by Dr. John Pastor,

professor, Department of Biology, Uof M, Duluth. Plant-of-the-Month:Wild Rice ( Zizania palustris ), also

by Dr. Pastor.

Katy Chayka createsMinnesota wild owerfeld guide on internet

Katy Chayka, who supervisesthe MNNPS blog, has created

Minnesota Wild owers , an onlineeld guide with details about more

than 500 Minnesota wild owers.Peter Dziuk, a former Society boardmember, donated about 50,000

photos to the project.Katys website (www.

m i n n e s o t a w i l d f l o w e r s . i n f o )organizes plants by color, timeof bloom, and scienti c name.Information includes a detaileddescription, habitat, and a map.

Plants and Politicsby Scott Milburn, MNNPS president

The recent state government shutdown serves as a sad chapter in thestates history, and it will likely have continued impacts once the budgetis nalized. These include lost revenue from money typically spent duringthis period on natural resources, including such items as shing licenses andcamping permits at the state parks. Not only did these impacts affect statecoffers, but they also hurt the businesses that rely on summer travelers.

I am greatly disappointed with those politicians who seem to serve onlyout of self-interest rather than serving to represent the best interests of thegeneral population. With that, I encourage our members to make a specialeffort this year to take a trip somewhere new in the state and to visit a state

park or one of our great Scienti c and Natural Areas. In doing so, each oneof us can support the various local economies and, ultimately, Minnesotaitself.

Another positive bene t of these trips is that each one of us can learnduring the process, from nding an unfamiliar plant to seeing a uniquelandform. This also provides an opportunity for our members to contributewhat they are seeing on our blog or in the newsletter.

Travelling around the state also makes one appreciate Minnesota andthe fact that we still have intact natural areas, especially compared with

other states in the cornbelt. Think about all of the diversity and greatlandscapes from the North Shore tothe Prairie Coteau, from the AspenParklands to the Driftless Area, andthe great adventures to be had.

Plant XID-CD Updatesby Ron Huber

Bruce Barnes has updated theMinnesota and the Great Plains

plant identi cation XID-CDs.Improvements include more than

1,900 new or higher resolutionimages and nomenclatural changesconforming to those in WelbySmiths Trees and Shrubs of

Minnesota . Prices remain the same $70 Minnesota, $150 GreatPlains. If you purchased an earlier version, e-mail Bruce at [email protected] and he will send thenewly updated CD for a $6 shippingcharge. (We have provided him withthe names of all previous buyers.)


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Minnesota Native Plant Societys purpose(Abbreviated from the bylaws)

This organization is exclusively organized and operated for educational and scienti c purposes, including the following.

Conservation of all native plants.1.Continuing education of all members in the plant sciences.2.Education of the public regarding environmental protection of plant3.

life.Encouragement of research and publications on plants native to4.Minnesota.

Study of legislation on Minnesota ora, vegetation, ecosytems.5.Preservation of native plants, plant communities, and scienti c and6.

natural areas.Cooperation in programs concerned with the ecology of natural7.

resources and scenic features.Fellowship with all persons interested in native plants through8.

meetings, lectures, workshops, and eld trips.

MNNPS Boardof DirectorsPresident: Scott Milburn , [email protected] President: Shirley MahKooyman, shirley.mah.kooyman@

mnnps.orgSecretary, program coordinator Andrs Morantes, [email protected] , membership data baseRon and Cathy Huber, [email protected] Arndt, board member, eldtrip chair, [email protected] Bourdaghs , board member,[email protected] Heck , board member,webmaster, [email protected] Jones , board member,[email protected] Lueth, board member, [email protected] Nixon, board member,conservation committee chair, [email protected]

Erika Rowe , board member, [email protected] Trips: [email protected]: [email protected]: Roy Robison,[email protected] or membershipinquiries: [email protected]

Minnesota Plant Press Editor:Gerry Drewry, 651-463-8006;

[email protected]

MNNPS welcomesnew members

The Society gives a warmwelcome to 23 new members who

joined during the second quarter of 2011. Listed alphabetically, theyare:

Barbara Asmus, St. Louis Park,Minn.;Joseph M. Beattie, Hastings,Minn.;Kristen Blann, Cushing, Minn.;Marshal Braman, no data (PayPal);Christina Crowther, Chanhassen,Minn.;Christine Dolph, Minneapolis;Ann Fallon, Afton, Minn.;Jason Garms, St. Paul;Anna Gerenday, Afton, Minn.;

Leslie Gillette, Hopkins, Minn.;Brian Goodspeed, Falcon Heights,Minn.;Happy Dancing Turtle, Pine River,Minn.;Steve Heiskary, Lino Lakes, Minn.;Debra Henninger, Arden Hills,Minn.;Marcel Jouseau, St. Paul;Kelly Kallock, Minneapolis;Tom Meersman, Minneapolis;Minnesota Life College, Rich eld,Minn.;

Maddy Papermaster, Marine,Minn.;Wendy Paulsen, Chisago City,Minn.;Ron Spinosa, St. Paul;Lisa Steidl, Coon Rapids, Minn.;Tavis Westbrook, Duluth, Minn.

Treasurers reportTreasurers Ron and Cathy Huber

rep orted that in the second quarter of 2011, income exceeded expenses

by $4,964.72. Income included:Symposium, $6,228; plant sale,$434; membership dues, $2,831.Expenses included: Symposium,$4,216.51; printing, $878.91;

postage, $296.92. Assets totaled$22,035.61.

Patience, please if you use PayPal by Ron Huber

If you prefer to pay your duesusing PayPal, please remember to

patiently wait for the pop-up of themembership data form. Otherwise,we have no info about you exceptfor the e-mail shown. That may not

be the one that you want to use whenreceiving newsletters, postcards,

etc. Thank you for your patience.

MNNPS questions?Go to www.mnnps.org for

answers. The Society blog is there,news about eld trips, meetings,and committees, and all issues of this newsletter since 1982.

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Twenty Society members spentthe afternoon of April 23 hiking andstudying early spring wild owersduring a eld trip to the Hastings

Scienti c and Natural Area.Seeing the rare snow trillium

(Trillium nivale ) in bloom (photoat right) was the highlight of theafternoon. The trip was led by ScottMilburn, MNNPS president, andKen Arndt, board member.

Future eld trips are being planned. Watch the website (www.mnnps.org) for details. These

photos are by Ken Arndt.

Snow trillium is highlight of feld trip to Hastings SNA

Book reviewWetland Plants of Minnesota:

a Complete Guide to the Aquaticand Wetland Plants of the NorthStar State , by Steve W. Chadde,published by CreateSpace, 2011,

paperback, 614 pages, $39. May bedownloaded at www.amazon.com

Review by Michael BourdaghsIn 1998, Steve Chadde authored

A Great Lakes Wetland Flora ,which quickly became indispensiblefor wetland botanists working inthe Upper Midwest. It providednearly comprehensive coverageof the wetland and aquatic speciesin a single compact volume. Thatwas an improvement over both

simpler guides that tend to lack coverage as well as full blowntaxonomic treatments that are oftencumbersome in the eld.

Updates and improvements have been made in subsequent editions,with the second in 2002 and thethird released in February 2011. It isfrom this newest edition that SteveChadde has compiled Wetland

Plants Of Minnesota.

As with the previous guides,Wetland Plants of Minnesota includes the approximately 900species that commonly occur inwetland and aquatic habitats in thestate, but it is more speci callygeared to Minnesota.

Following introductorymaterials, the book is organized bymajor taxonomic groups: Ferns andFern Allies, Gymnosperms, and twoAngiosperm (Dicots and Monocots)sections. The keys are technicaland dichotomous, where theobserver must rely on knowledgeof taxonomic terminology and closeobservation.

The great advantage of the guideis that the keys are limited to theMinnesota wetland species and arethereby simpli ed. Each species hasa complete description that includes

physical characteristics, a county

range map, habitat information, linedrawings, and in some cases black-and-white photography. Manyimprovements have been made inthe species descriptions, comparedwith previous editions. The additionof the photography also aidsidenti cation.

Species distribution maps have previously been available only fromsources separate from taxonomictreatments. Having the physicalcharacteristics, map, line drawingsand photos for a species all in one

place is a great convenience. In

some cases, Minnesota speci chabitat information has been

provided. Brief explanations of many of the genus names have

been provided. The white water lilygenus Nymphaea: Water goddessin Greek mythology is a goodexample.

Wetland Plants of Minnesota isan outstanding botanical resource.Its comprehensive coverage, keys,and detailed species informationmake it a must have for the wetlandprofessional and a great guide forthe botanical enthusiast.

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by David J. McLaughlin, Depart ment of Plant Biology, and Bell Museum of Natural History,University of Minnesota, St. Paul

With the support of theMinnesota DNR, some students, avolunteer and I carried out a surveyof mushrooms in western Minnesota

between May and October 2007. Thesurvey was motivated by the limiteddocumentation for larger fungi inthe western part of the state. This isa progress report on that survey.

But rst we will consider howrecent advances in classi cationof fungi, an outcome of a nationalresearch program on the Treeof Life and related projects, arechanging our view of how differentmushroom forms are related andhow these changes affect scienti cnames. Then we will review thesurvey results. The Then in thetitle refers to the old classi cationfor mushrooms, the Now to thenew classi cation. The Thenalso refers to our knowledge of mushroom distribution before thesurvey; the Now refers to thehundreds of new county records andsome new state records.

Mushroom classifcationThe Fungal Tree of Life

project was designed to develop a

comprehensive phylogenetic tree for fungi, using molecular and structuralcharacters. A phylogenetic treereveals relationships among species,

just as a genealogical tree reveals therelationships between members of our family and connections to other

peoples families. A phylogenetictree has predictive value, helpingto explain changes among speciesin their form, internal structure and

ecological relationships, just as agenealogical tree explains facialand other physical similarities, aswell as our susceptibility to someailments. The goal of the Tree of Life

projects is to provide a classi cationthat re ects the actual relationshipsamong species.

Mushrooms are produced by twogreat groups (phyla) of fungi, the

Ascomycota or sac fungi and the Basidiomycota or club fungi. Thecommon names for these groups refer to the structures on which their sexualspores are formed. We will focushere on the club fungi, speci callythe gilled (agarics), non-gilled(boletes, polypores, coral fungi,teeth fungi, and chanterelles) andthe gasteroid (puffballs, earthstars,

birds nest fungi, stinkhorns andfalse truf es) mushrooms. Theywere classi ed in the 19th century

in three large groups (orders or class): the Aphyllophorales for non-gilled mushrooms, the Agaricalesfor gilled mushrooms and theGasteromycetes for gasteroid forms,whose fruiting bodies remainedclosed until maturity. This was aconvenient classi cation system for mushrooms because it required onlythe external form of the mushroom toclassify them. But, it also disguisedwho was related to whom.

The Fungal Tree of Life projecthas upended the earlier classi cationwith mushrooms now spread across14 orders and with many differentmushroom forms in each order.

Naturally, this has an impact onthe scienti c names of mushrooms.A good example is the inky caps.Formerly all inky caps were classi edin a single genus, Coprinus , whichwas distinguished by its black spores

and self-digesting gills that producethe ink. Coprinus was placed inthe family Coprinaceae with someother black-spored mushrooms,such as Psathyrella , which lacksthe inky gills. The Fungal Tree of Life studies revealed that Coprinuswas actually four groups (genera) of mushrooms that had independentlydeveloped the ability to form inkycaps. Three were related to eachother and to Psathyrella , but thefourth was related to the buttonmushroom Agaricus , including thetype of Coprinus , i.e., the species towhich the genus name is attached.Coprinus was then transferred tothe Agaricaceae . Thus, we ended upwith the family Coprinaceae withoutCoprinus , and a new family namewas chosen Psathyrellaceae forthe remaining three groups of inkycaps, each with a new genus name,and Psathyrella as the type of thenew family. These name changesare disconcerting for the scientistand non-scientist alike, but they leadto greater stability in names in thelong run and a better understandingof the organisms.

Mushroom surveyDocumentation for Minnesota

mushrooms has accumulatederratically. From 1885 to 1910,mushrooms were studied as partof the Natural History Survey of Minnesota. Between 1910 and1960, major fungal studies wereconcerned with plant diseases. Inthe 1960s, a renewed interest inthe study of mushrooms began, butthe documentation for mushroomswithin the state is far from complete.Computerization of the fungalcollections within the Bell Museum

began in the 1990s and now makes it

Minnesota mushrooms:then and now

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as part of the BOLD: Barcodeof Life Database project www.

boldsystems.org. The ITS, or internal transcribed spacer regionof nuclear ribosomal DNA, is being

proposed as the rst fungal barcode,i.e., a piece of DNA that can beused to identify a species. The ITSsequences have aided in some of therecent identi cations. It should benoted that keys to many mushroomgenera are inadequate, and primaryliterature must be used. This isespecially true for Cortinarius,

Entoloma , Pluteus , Russula , andTricholoma . A monograph for NorthAmerican species of Psathyrella bySmith, 1972, is comprehensive butdif cult to use. Maj Padamsee, whorecently completed a Ph.D. project

on the genus, is responsible for theseidenti cations.

All collections are new countyrecords based on the data inthe University Herbarium. Thefollowing appear to be new staterecords: Conocybe cf. siennophylla,Coprinellus tigrinellus, Coprinopsisconiophora, Cortinarius cf .alnetorum, Cortinarius gutatus,Galerina decipiens, Laccariatrichodermophila, Lactariusnancyae, Psathyrella lepidotoides,

Psathyrella obtusata, Ramariamyceliosa , and Russula fontqueri.Some of these collections willneed further study to con rmthe identi cation. The number of new state records makes itclear that the state is very poorlyknown mycologically, especiallyconsidering that collectionidenti cation is continuing.

The following collections arementioned in publications but areundocumented in the UniversityHerbarium: Neolecta irregularisand Psathyrella typhae . Neolectairregularis is an especiallyinteresting nd, as it fruits late in thefall and produces brilliant yellow,club-shaped fruiting bodies. It wascollected near Itasca State Park, oneof the better surveyed areas in thestate. Thus, it is surprising that there

possible to determine the records bycounty or management area, such asa state park or forest. These recordscan be accessed at http://ssrs.cfans.umn.edu:8080/FungiWebSearch/A check of mushroom records

by county in western Minnesotashowed that almost all countieswere unsurveyed except for thosein the vicinity of Itasca State Park,where the University of MinnesotaBiological Station is located.

Eight trips to Western Minnesotawere made to survey mushroomdiversity between May and October 2007. We chose sites with a varietyof habitats, including some thatwould remain moist in dry weather so that mushrooms might be foundduring drier periods. Two graduatestudents, Bryn Dentinger and MajPadamsee, a post-baccalaureatestudent, Tom Jenkinson, and avolunteer, Esther McLaughlin,assisted with the survey. Four sites

became the primary focus of thesurvey: Kilen Woods State Park,Jackson Co.; Camden State Park,Lyon Co.; Smoky Hills State Forest,Becker Co. (MCBS site E4); PaulBunyon State Forest, Hubbard Co.(MCBS site T6).

Approximately 300 collectionswere obtained. Collecting waslimited until heavy rains in August.Fifty- ve percent of the collectionswere obtained in late August toearly Oct. Most are documentedwith photographs, and many includedescriptions and spore prints.Collections are being processed for inclusion in the Fungal Collection,University Herbarium, Bell

Museum. Specimens are essential if we are to successfully document thefungi of Minnesota, a goal neededto establish baseline informationon these species that interact inmany ways with plants, especiallythe mycorrhizal species that growwith tree roots and aid the plant inmineral uptake and defense.

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are no recent reports on its presencein Minnesota.

Another bene t of the survey isthat we are beginning to understandthe distribution of some of thespecies and how they relate tothe four biomes that make plantdistributions in the state of special

interest, but also make it vulnerableto rapid climate warming. For example, we now have a second staterecord for Russula pulverulenta . Itis now known from Rice and Lyonscounties, a southern distributionin the state that suggests it may berestricted to the deciduous forest

biome and river valley forests inthe grassland biome. The bolete

Paragyrodon sphaerosporus isa very distinctive species with aheavy rubbery veil which protectsthe spore-forming layer. It is a mid-continental endemic. In Minnesotait is well known from the deciduousforest biome and is recorded for the

rst time from the grassland biome,again in river valley forests. At KilenWoods State Park it seems welladapted to the wood edge adjacentto the upland prairies.

Both saprotrophic and

mycorrhizal species were wellrepresented at Kilen Woods andCamden State Parks, with the latter mainly appearing in late Augustthrough October. Some speciesfruited abundantly in both state

parks. In Smoky Hills State ForestMCBS site E4 is especially richin saprotrophic species and seemswell adapted to their fruiting, asnew species were found regularlythroughout the survey. Mycorrhizal

species were never common,despite the presence of a diversityof appropriate host tree species.

Paul Bunyon State ForestMCBS site T6 is very sandy anddominated by red and jack pines. It

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of Cortinarius and the very strikingstriking Gomphus occosus and

Neolecta irregularis , but boletes,which would be expected with

pines, were scarce.

This report should not be viewedas a complete account of themushroom species present at thesesites. Our focus was on eshy andreadily decayed species, not the

better known bracket and shelf fungi.When collecting was good, smallspecies or single specimens had to

be ignored, as the documentationrequired for a collection exceededour capacity to handle them. Somespecimens had deteriorated betweenvisits, which were approximatelymonthly to each site until the end of August, when more frequent tripswere made. Some Lepiota specieswere in good condition for only aday or so after rains. Also, differentspecies are known to appear insuccessive years at a site, so acomplete survey requires severalyears.

Nevertheless, this report provides a rst approximation of mushroom diversity at these sitesand a considerable increase in our knowledge of Minnesota mushroomdiversity.

Dr. Peter JordanTo be honest, I must admit my

greatest attachment to the landand oceans and their biota lies inCalifornia, with Isle Royale the nextclosest one. After that, Minnesotacertainly holds the greatest interestfor me.

I grew up in central, coastalCalifornia, and from an early agewas fascinated with the ora of the Santa Cruz mountains and the

birds of San Francisco Bay. Myhigh-school summers were spentworking for the concessionairein Yosemite Valley, from which I

began exploring the surroundingwilderness, and eventually becamea devout admirer of John Muir.

I was drafted in the Army in theearly 1950s and ended my tour witha year at Ft. Lewis Washington within sight of Mt Rainier. It wasmy great fortune to have a colleaguewho was an experienced climber,

leading to many weekends on therocks and glaciers. That experiencein turn shifted my professional goalstowards natural-resource scienceand management.

I returned to college and pursueda degree in wildlife conservationat the University of CaliforniaBerkeley. My academic advisor wasStarker Leopold, oldest son of Aldo

whom up to that point, Id never heard of. Also, without appreciatingits academic/scienti c signi cance,I had ended up studying amongthe top researchers on vertebrateanimals within the western U.S.Even before graduating, I had a jobwith a research group working onrange improvement for deer.

This soon led me into graduatework, which eventually led to aPh.D on ecology and managementof migratory deer in the Sierra

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Nevada. A signi cant portion of my efforts was on the plant species

being eaten by deer over their wideelevational range.

After my prolonged Ph.D, Imoved east to join studies of wolvesand moose at Isle Royale NationalPark, as part of a team from PurdueUniversity. After three years of wolf studies in winter and the browsing

patterns of moose year round, I took a faculty position at Yale, while stillcontinuing studies at Isle Royale.

Our team there pioneered

research on the physiology andecology of sodium in moose,having discovered that the levelof this essential mineral in all theterrestrial plants they eat was well

below their minimum requirements.We found that moose compensate

by consuming submerged aquatic plants in shallow warm watersduring summer. These plants,such as species of Potamogetonconcentrate sodium from waterscontaining extremely low levels of this mineral.

In 1974 I joined the wildlifefaculty at the University of Minnesota and have continuedhere, even after retiring in 2003,with my studies of moose impacton forest vegetation at Isle Royale.Additional work with students inMinnesota has included the effectsof intense forest management on

forage for moose, deer, and hares inthe Superior National Forest, and theeffects of deer on herbaceous plantsin southeastern Minnesota, the latter

being done jointly with Lee Frelich.Also over the years, Ive beenfortunate to work abroad on wildlifewith students in India, Nepal, Israel,Costa Rica, and Quebec plus myown minor studies in Sweden andAlaska, and recently, even somefollow-up work on my Sierra

Introducing three newboard members

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Free Landscape TourThe Ramsey-Washington Metro

Watershed District will conduct a

free tour of four landscapes from5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3.Each area was designed to protectand improve water quality andnatural resources and has receivedan ecology award. The tour beginsat the watershed districts of ce,2665 Noel Drive, Little Canada.Participants will then board a busto visit three other sites. To register,contact Shelly Meiser at [email protected] or call 651-792-7965.


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Plant Loreby Thor Kommedahl What is goldthread?

Goldthread, also called canker root, is Coptis trifolia and a member of the buttercup family.How did it get its names?

Goldthread describes the golden-yellow, threadlike rhizomes. Coptiscomes from a Greek word kopto,meaning to cut referring to thedissected leaves. Trifolia refers tothe three-parted leaves. Rhizomeswere chewed to relieve canker sores,hence the name canker root.What does it look like?

Goldthread is a mat-forming perennial with bright yellow,threadlike rhizomes and three-lobed,shiny, evergreen leaves resemblingstrawberry leaves. Five whitepetals (really sepals) appear fromMay through July. Petals are club-like and not conspicuous. It appearsto have no stem.Where does it grow?

It is native to northeasternMinnesota in coniferous forests,swamps, bogs, and road banks in thickets, mossy places, cedar

swamps, and in damp woods. It formsendomycorrhizal associations.Is it edible, poisonous ormedicinal?

It is neither edible nor poisonous.The rhizome is highly astringentand contains berberine, noted for itsanti-in ammatory and antibacterial

properties. Thus it was widely usedin 19th century America for mouthsores. For a while it was listed inthe U.S. Pharmacopaeia .Are there other uses?

Peter Kalm in 1749 reportedthat leaves and stalks were used byIndians to give a ne yellow color toanimal skins, and the French learnedthis from them to dye wool and other materials. It is considered indicativeof minerotrophic water (water thatcarries mineral nutrients into the

peat) in peatlands. Ruffed grouse eatfoliage in limited amounts.

Otto GockmanI have been a member of the

Minnesota Native Plant Societyon and off since high school. Ilive in St. Paul and currently work as a botanist at Midwest NaturalResources, an environmentalconsulting company based out of St. Paul. I have been interested innative plants, conservation, lichens,etc. for as long as I can remember. I

believe that my work as well as my personal experiences with our nativeecosystems will contribute greatlytowards the goals of MNNPS .

Photos of Goldthread (Coptistrifolia) are by Peter Dziuk.

Nevada study area. Besides researchin Minnesota, I was involved withan unsuccessful attempt to re-establish woodland caribou to thefar-northeastern corner of our state.I am also working with students torestore more native vegetation to a

patch of natural habitat, the SaritaWetland, on the Universitys St.Paul campus, and Im currently onthe DNR Commissioners advisorycommittee on scienti c and naturalareas.

I must admit, however, that de-spite my many years in Minnesota,my knowledge of our native oraremains quite limited. I try, how-ever, to compensate by maintainingties with young botanical expertssuch as Andrs Morantes and Otto

Gockman.

Mike LynchI am a graduate of the University

of Minnesota (2010) in AppliedPlant Science. I became interestedin native plants after helping myin-laws begin to restore their

degraded oak savanna. I made itmy mission to learn the scienti cnames of all species native to thisarea. I have recently spent freetime volunteering for Great River Greening and exploring the various

parks and natural areas in the TwinCities. One of my favorite thingsto do is to introduce the public tothe beauty of the natural landscape.My favorite plant is Anise-scentedhyssop ( Agastache foeniculum ).

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DNR wants photos ofItasca State Park

Volunteers are invited to takehigh quality digital pictures of Itasca State Park, including its ora,fauna and scenic outlooks. Speci c

photos of people interacting withinthe park are also needed. Volunteerswill work with little direction andmust have experience with digital

photography and appropriate digitalcamera equipment. They will nameand catalogue all of the digital photosthey take. The time commitment isvariable throughout the summer andfall. For more information, contactConnie Cox at 218-699-7259 or e-mail [email protected]


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Directions:

Take MN Hwy. 52 to the Butler Ave. E. exit in West St. Paul.Go west on Butler 0.2 mile to Stassen Lane.Go south on Stassen Lane to Thompson County Par k.

Minnesota Native Plant SocietyP.O. Box 20401Bloomington, MN 55420

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