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State Seed Mixes, Their Evolving Role In Addressing Ecological Challenges

Presenter: Dan Shaw, Senior Ecologist/Vegetation Specialist, Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources The Zoom presentation is available on the Videos page. Talk Summary: State seed mixes have evolved over the last 20 years to meet statewide needs for restoration

Restoring Ecosystem Functionality and Biodiversity in Minnesota’s Changing Climate

Presenter: Heather Holm, biologist, pollinator conservationist, and award-winning author The Zoom presentation is available on the Videos page. Talk Summary: Four unique biomes converge within Minnesota along a southwest to northeast continuum. Prior to Euro-American settlement, the four contiguous biomes

Minnesota’s North Shore

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

This will be our first in-person meeting for the plant society in over three years and we hope some of you are able to join us once again! For those who are unable to be there, the option of viewing the presentation through Zoom will continue to take place.

Discussion on Welby Smith’s newly published book, Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

Presenter: Welby Smith, State Botanist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources The recorded presentation is available on the Videos page. Please join us for the upcoming monthly meeting with our presenter, Welby Smith, who will discuss his newly published

Minnesota’s Peatlands: Climate Change, Carbon, and Cool Plants

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

Presenter: Laura Reuling, Research Scientist, University of Minnesota The recorded program is available on the Video page. Laura Reuling is a researcher scientist at the University of Minnesota in the silviculture program. Her research explores applied questions about forest ecology,

MN PlantWatch

Presented by: Angela Miner and Deanna Leigh. The recorded Zoom presentation is available on the Video page. MN PlantWatch is a new community science initiative that supports the conservation of Minnesota's rare native plants. Volunteers search for plants in their

Comparing the impacts of patch-burn grazing on vegetation in two northern tallgrass prairies

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

Presenter: Fred Harris, plant ecologist, MN DNR (retired) The recorded Zoom presentation is available on the Video page. Plant of the Month: The genus Phemeranthus “Everything you ever wanted to know about Phemeranthus, but…” Talk Summary: MN Biological Survey has

Collaborating to Conserving Native Characeae in Minnesota Lakes

This will be an on-line Zoom meeting only. MNNPS members, check your email for instructions. 7:00 PM Meeting starts Program: Collaborating to Conserving Native Characeae in Minnesota Lakes Talk Abstract The Characeae, a family comprised of large, morphologically complex, freshwater