The  Botanical  Society of  Washington

Next Meeting Date:Tuesday, February 2nd 7:00 PM Speaker: Marietta Eaton, of BLM Topic: National Landscape Conservation System: An Opportunity for Native Plant Conservation and Restoration Flyer for Posting:  february10.pdf

Meeting location: Cathy Kerby Room (Room CE-340), Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Use the Constitution Avenue entrance; wait to be escorted up. All are welcome. As usual, light refreshments will be served prior to and after the presentation.

Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.

2010 Meetings:

• January 5 - Wetlands of Hawaii - Terrell Erickson and Chris Puttock
• February 2 - National Landscape Conservation System - Marietta Eaton
• March 2
• April 6
• May 4
• June 2

2009 Meetings:

• January 6 - Paul Yarowsky
• February 3 - Jun Wen - Evolution of Asian-North American Disjunct Plants
• March 3 - Elizabeth Kellogg - Grasses and Their Flowers
• April 7 - Jamie Whitacre - Botanical Art in the U.S. Capitol: Brumidi's Fruits and Flowers
• May 5 - Leslie Overstreet - Mark Catesby
• June 2 - Pedro Acevedo – Caribbean floristics. Website for Flora of the West Indies
• September 1 - Members' Night
• October 6 - Joanne Nightingale - re: pollinator decline
• November 3 - Markku Miettinen - re: Scandinavian fens and bogs
• December 1 - Annual Banquet - President's Talk - Pat Ford Invitation

  (Meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month, September through June.)

2009 Field Trip Calendar:

Field Trip Details

• April 4, Saturday - Bear Island - C and O Canal - Mile 10.5 (Maryland) - 9:00 AM.
• April 11, Saturday - Turkey Run Park (Virginia) - 9:30 A.M. at parking lot C-1
• April 25-26, Saturday-Sunday - St. Anthony's Wilderness, PA.
• May 9, Saturday - Joint trip with the MNPS and the VNPS to do field surveys and have a field botany workshop along Mattawoman Creek.
• May 30-31, Saturday-Sunday - State College-Lewisburg, PA area. Visit an old-growth forest. Joint trip with PNPS and MNPS.
• June 20 - Summer solstice walk - Chapman Forest
• October 17 - Saturday - Crow's Nest

  See this page for fieldtrip details and suggestions for future trips.

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