Wetlands Plant Workshop
2010
(Workshop currently fully enrolled.)
Botanist Janet Marr will teach GLC’s 2010 Wetlands Plant Workshop, Keweenaw Peninsula, on Saturday, August 21th and Sunday, August 22nd.
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Damp to wet-feet plants |
blue-bead lily (Clintonia borealis)
big-leaf aster (Aster macrophyllus)
wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
starflower (Trientalis borealis)
pink ladyslipper (Cypripedium acaule)
sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
pin cherry (Prunus virginiana)
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water-horehound (Lycopus uniflorus)
turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
swamp candles (Lysimachia terrestris)
bluejoint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
tussock sedge (Carex stricta)
tamarack (Larix laricina)
winterberry (Ilex verticillata) |
Do many of the common “dry-feet plants” of the Keweenaw Peninsula listed above sound familiar? How about the wetland plants in the second column? If these aren’t as familiar and you want to expand your knowledge of the Keweenaw’s common (and not so common) wetland plants, then be sure to sign up for the Gratiot Lake Conservancy-sponsored Wetland Plant Workshop being taught this coming August.
WHERE: near Eagle Harbor (Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula)
WHEN: Saturday, August 21 and Sunday, August 22, 2010
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM eastern time each day
INSTRUCTOR: botanist Janet Marr, who has taught other Gratiot Lake Conservancy-sponsored workshops (spring botany and aquatic plants)
SPONSOR: Gratiot Lake Conservancy
FEE: Space is limited and advance enrollment is required. The fee for this 2-day workshop is $70 ($55 for Gratiot Lake Conservancy members). Click here to download the enrollment form and mail this form with payment to Gratiot Lake Conservancy, PO Box 310, Mohawk MI 49950.
SCHOLARSHIP: There will be Janet Avery Scholarships available. Interested applicants should either email Bonnie Hay at belh@verizon.net or write to Gratiot Lake Conservancy, PO Box 310, Mohawk MI 49950. Please indicate your affiliation, why you would like to attend the workshop, and how you intend to use what you learn in your work, studies, or teaching.
ARE YOU A MICHIGAN K-12 TEACHER with a professional certificate? If so, you will earn 1.2 SB-CEUs when you participate in this workshop.
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES: Workshop activities will take place mostly out-of-doors. Visits will be made to local wetlands including swamp forests, shrub thickets, and more open community types such as marshes and fens. Native plants and selected non-native invasive species will be identified. Characteristics of selected plant families will be discussed, botanical terms will be defined, dichotomous keys will be used when appropriate, and wetland community types will be described. This workshop was designed for college students, teachers, extension agents, environmental consultants, biological technicians, and others interested in learning how to identify wetland plants including invasive wetland species..
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