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Teton Chapter, Wyoming Native Plant Society2010 Field Trips
For updates, please visit the Teton Chapter link on the WNPS
home page: www.uwyo.edu/wyndd/wnps Teton Chapter contact: Amy
Taylor, [email protected]
For all field trips: Please be prepared to do some walking on
all outingsdifficulty varies with eachhike. You should bring water,
food, sunscreen, and appropriate clothing for all types of weather.
Youmay also want to bring field guides, hand lens, field journal,
and camera. If you have specific questions
about the outing, please contact the trip leader.
May 12, 5:00-7:00 p.m.: Spring Wildflowers along the Putt-Putt
Trail (off Nelson Drive, Jackson)Join biologist Cathy Shill of The
Hole Hiking Experience and botanist Amy Taylor. We will amble
through sagebrush and the surrounding woods to identify early
spring wildflowers and new green growth.If you have them, bring
hand lens and field guides with dichotomous keys. Take Broadway
east until itends at the elk refuge; turn right on Nelson Drive;
take first left past retaining wall structures to trailhead.Amy
307-733-3776.
May 22, 9:00 a.m.: Blacktail Butte, Grand Teton NPMeet at
interagency visitor center at the north end of Jackson at 9 am.
Well be done by 2 pm.
4 miles round trip up and back; easy to moderate hiking. Well
see early flowers in habitats from valley-bottom sage steppe, deep
conifer forest, open meadows, to rocky summits.Susan Marsh
307-733-5744
June 12, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Granite Canyon Trailhead, Grand
Teton NPJoin Jean Jorgensen to learn about the traditional uses and
folklore of native plants. Park pass orentrance fee applies.
Carpooling options available. 307-733-5625
June 18-20: 2010 Wyoming Native Plant Society Annual Meeting,
CheyenneGo towww.uwyo.edu/wyndd/wnpsfor details.
July 2, 3:00-5:30 p.m.: Wildflower walk for the Teton Valley
Balloon Festival, Idaho
Explore summer blooms and Horseshoe Canyon with Cathy Shill,
biologist and owner of The HoleHiking Experience. Meet Cathy at
Broulims parking lot in downtown Driggs and carpool to hiking
areain the Big Hole Mountains. Bring water and a sun hat. Call
Cathy with questions-307.690.4453
July 5, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 a.m.: The many uses of plants of
Jackson Hole Phillips Pass TrailJoin naturalist Kevin Taylor,
Wildlife Expeditions of Teton Science Schools to learn about plants
used forfood, medicine, cordage/rope, friction fires, and basketry.
Moderate hike of about two miles. Take TetonPass Road (Hwy 22) to
Phillips Pass Trailhead. Lots of room for parking on the left side
of highway(going up from Wilson). Cross highway to get to
trailhead. Kevin Taylor 307-733-3776
July 17, 8:30 a.m.: Plummer Canyon, south end of the Teton
RangeTo carpool from Jackson Hole meet at Pearl St Bagels in Wilson
at 8:30 am. Well be done by about 3
pm. 7-mile round trip up and back, one section of moderately
steep uphill. The route starts in a lushnarrow canyon andbreaks
into high subalpine meadows. Well see how they look after 4 years
with nosheep grazing. Susan Marsh 307-733-5744
July 22, 1:00-3:00 p.m.: Native Test Plot Field Tour - Please
join the Teton Conservation District andthe Teton Science School in
touring a few native plant test plots in the Jackson area. As part
of acollaborative project titled Working Together to Increase the
Awareness and Availability of Native Seedthe two agencies have
worked with various landowners to plant native seed for research
and propagation.Difficulty will be easy as we will be carpooling to
the sits and walking around/talking about what was
planted and what we see. Meet at the Teton Science Schools
Jackson Campus located at 700 CoyoteCanyon Rd. in Jackson. Info:
Rachel Markko 307-733-2110
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July 24
th& July 25
th, Saturday and Sunday-A weekend of wetlands
Explore wetlands with the Idaho and Wyoming Native Plant
Societies and Teton Regional Land Trust.
Visiting two areas, in two states with something uniquely in
common.rare fens and peatlands and the
plants that inhabit them. Attend the Saturday afternoon outing
to Woods Fen or the Sunday field trip to
the squirrel meadows area only or attend both with a camp out.
We will have use of the Caribou-Targhee
NF Squirrel Meadows Cabin Saturday Night, July 24 ththere will
be room for eight in the cabin (first
come, first served) and room for tents or RVs. Rose Lehman
208-390-4744
Saturday July 24th, 12:45 pm at Wood's Creek Fen
Driggs, Idahowith Wetland Ecologist Natalie Kashi and University
of Montana Research Associate Dr.
Michael Merigliano. Wood's Creek Fen near Driggs Idaho is a
treasure -- a rare calcareous fen
that supports dynamic biodiversity and many rare plants. We will
see cottongrass, orchids,
Kelsey's phlox, alpine meadow rue, and if we are lucky simple
bog sedge......just to name a few.
Meet at 12:45pm at the Land Trust office in Driggs (146 223 S
Highway 33) and carpool or
1:00pm at Wood's Creek Fen on the North side of Bates Road West
of Driggs. Expect your feet to
get wet, bring sandals or boots, bug spray, sunscreen, a hat and
water! Natalie 208-201-5541
SundayJuly 25, 11:00 a.m.: Squirrel Meadows Area (East of
Ashton, ID) Klara Varga
(local Ashton, ID Botanist) will be leading this trip to some of
the best botanizing sites to be
found in this part of Idaho and Wyoming. We will be visiting a
fen at Loon Lake, enjoying the
pond lilies at Indian Lake and identifying and discussing the
wildflowers found in this area.
July 30th
and July 31st, Westside of the Tetons, Darby Canyon
This will be a combined field trip with the Teton Chapter of the
Wyoming NPS and Idaho NPS. We willhave the use of the Darby Girls
Camp (Tetons, near Driggs, ID) Friday night for story-telling
andcamping (tent sites and some cabins). Stay over-night and/or
join the group Saturday morning to exploredestinations up Darby
Canyon. Details forthcoming.Coordinators: Kelley Coburn, Rose
Lehman, Amy Taylor (307-733-3776).
August 28, 2010 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (full day option to tram):
Trees of the Yellowstone RegionJoin local arborist Ben Read to
learn about trees of the area. The group will meet at the
Stagecoach Barparking lot in Wilson at 9:00 a.m. to carpool. One
destination will be the old pass road to hike (aboutthree miles
roundtrip; considerable elevation gain and loss.) For those wishing
to see trees in the sub-alpine, an afternoon excursion up the tram
(Teton Village) is an option. Tram fee applies. Ben
307-690-0486.
September 12, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Blacktail Butte (GTNP): All
about FUNGILuke Bruner, ecologist for the Wyoming Wetlands Society,
will guide us in our search for mushrooms.Along the way, he will
discuss ecology, evolution and classification of fungi as well as
the symbioticrelationships of fungi with plant and animals. Meet at
Blacktail Butte climbers parking lot at 10am. Packa lunch.
If you would like to join our local chapter of the Wyoming
Native Plant Society (WNPS) or renew yourmembership for 2010,
please send a check for $5.00 to Amy Taylor, Treasurer, Teton
Chapter, WNPS,PO Box 6654, Jackson WY 83002. Dues pay for projects
like our native plant garden and mailings.
