Monthly programs
Nature 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
EDDMapS: Easy reporting of invasive species, by Laura Van Riper, MnDNR
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresenter: Laura Van Riper, Terrestrial Invasive Species Coordinator, MnDNR. POM: Key species you should know
Friends of Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas: Their history and purpose, by Bob Djupstrom and Ellen Fuge, MnDNR-retired
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresenters: Bob Djupstrom - MN DNR Scientific and Natural Areas-Retired, and Ellen Fuge - MN DNR Scientific and Natural Areas-Retired
Evaluating your Prairie Seeding; a refresher on seedling identification, by Paul Bockenstedt, Stantec
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresenter: Paul Bockenstedt, Restoration Ecologist, Stantec. POM: TBD