Monthly programs
Beck Marty, MnDNR Ecologist; Water, Potatoes, Timber and the Critically Imperiled Jack Pine. POM-Cirsium hillii
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPlant of the month will be Cirsium hillii – presented by Erika Rowe Main talk to be given by Becky Marty, MN DNR Regional Ecologist
Linda Haugen, USFS Plant Pathologist; Minnesota’s Native Elms: Threats and Opportunities. POM- Ulmus americana
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesAnna Gerenday, Entomology Scientist, retired, UMN; Fungi, mostly mushrooms from wetlands of Minnesota, and their plant associates. POM- Alnus incana
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesNature and Culture: the MN North Shore’s ancient, still unfolding stories
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesSpeaker: Chel Anderson, Plant Ecologist/Botanist, Minnesota Biological Survey and Co-author, North Shore - A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast. POM: Castilleja septentrionalis - northern paintbrush Book signing to follow program. Annual plant sale to follow program.
Flora of Wisconsin’s Interstate Park: Advenures and Discoveries in My Backyard, by Derek Anderson
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresented by: Derek Anderson, Botanist/Plant Ecologist, MN-DNR. Place of the Month: Minnesota-Wisconsin Interstate Parks, also by Derek
Local History and Science behind Eastern Hemlock, Minnesota’s most endanged conifer, by Emily Ellingson
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresented by: Emily Ellingson, Graduate Research Assistant, UMN. Plant of the Month: (Bryophyte), Kim Fackler
A Look at the Gully 30 Calcareous Fen: Characterizing, Permitting, Constructing Through, and Monitoring a State Regulated Sensitive Wetland Resource, by Jim Arndt, Merject & Scott Milburn
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresented by: Jim Arndt, Merjent and Scott Milburn, Midwest Natural Resources
Ecology of Ordway Prairie, Minnesota, by Scott Zager, Botanist
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresented by: Scott Zager, Wildlands. Plant of the Month: TBD
Watching the Grass Grow; A Primer on Botanical Time-Lapse Imagery, by Steve Saupe
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresented by: Steve Saupe, CSBSJU Biology Professor. Plant of the Month: Rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis) - one of the resurrection type ferns