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Speaker: Dr. Sara Tangren
Fall is the time that our native grasses strut their stuff! Join us for a fun, non-technical discussion of native grasses and their
The species we will discuss include: wood oats, bottlebrush, Virginia wildrye, indiangrass, little bluestem, switchgrass, purpletop, bushy beardgrass, purple lovegrass, and woolgrass.
Our speaker will be Dr. Sara Tangren. Her areas of specialization include native landscaping, native seed production, the native industry, meadow making, invasive plant control, and rare plant conservation. Her restoration work has included a collaboration with the Anacostia Watershed Society to restore plant communities along the Anacostia River Bank, with the University of Maryland Arboretum & Botanical Garden to protect the rare wildflower sundial lupine, with MNCPPC to establish native meadows, and with PEPCO to restore a native meadow community. She established the first native gardens at the University of Maryland in 2006, and she has designed and implemented native gardens for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Vice President’s Mansion, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. More recently she taught about native plants and sustainable landscaping for the Maryland Master Gardener program. She is currently concluding a report on native plant and seed use in the Eastern United States.
The program will be presented online through Zoom, in webinar format. You will not be able to share your own audio or video with other participants, but you will be able to submit questions in writing during the program. Registration is required. After you register, you will receive a registration confirmation email with a link to the Zoom program. The program is free and open to the public. If you enjoy MNPS programs please consider clicking here to make a donation. And don't forget to renew your membership!
Speaker: Kevin Dodge, Director of the Natural Resources & Wildlife Technology Program, Garrett College
Grasses can be a challenge to identify – they don’t have “normal-looking” flowers, they all seem to look alike, and they are described using terminology all their own. They are downright intimidating for many of us and therefore (let’s be honest) easy to conveniently ignore; you know, “it’s some kind of grass.” Yet, by using a relatively simple, easy to use guide based on overall appearance, we can learn to recognize some of the more common grasses of our area, gain confidence, divide and conquer, and begin to crack the code that will allow us to dive deeper into grass identification.
Kevin Dodge received his B.S. in Biology from Southwest Missouri State University in 1981 and his M.S. in Biology from Michigan Technological University in 1983. He pursued further studies in Wildlife Biology at West Virginia University from 1983 through 1987. Dodge has worked since 1987 at Garrett College, in far western Maryland, where he is the Director of the Natural Resources and Wildlife Technology program. He teaches various courses in natural history and ecology, including Wildlife Biology, Dendrology, Herbaceous Plant Identification, Plant Taxonomy, Herpetology, Regional Songbird Identification, Ornithology, and General Ecology. Dodge's courses emphasize field experience, and many classes include field trips to other parts of the mid-Atlantic/Central Appalachian region. He has also taught classes at Frostburg State University and West Virginia University.
The program will be presented online through Zoom, in webinar format. You will not be able to share your own audio or video with other participants, but you will be able to submit questions in writing during the program.
Registration is required. After you register, you will receive a registration confirmation email with a link to the Zoom program.
The program is free and open to the public.
If you enjoy MNPS programs please consider clicking here to make a donation. And don't forget to renew your membership!
Speaker: Sam Droege
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC) and Beltsville Agriculture Research Center (BARC) lands constitute some of the most ecologically important in the mid-Atlantic and one of the most studied landscapes in the world. Siting of the high-speed superconducting magnetic levitation (SCMAGLEV) train threatens the destruction of 200 acres of those public properties for the creation of an industrial repair facility and storage yard. Sam Droege will focus on the rare plant communities and associated insects which are threatened by this industrial use of public lands.
Our speaker, wildlife biologist Sam Droege, has spent the last 40 years at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, monitoring amphibian, insect, bird and other populations. His group maintains high resolution macro photographs at https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/
Topic: "Making Central Appalachian Forests More Resilient"
Speaker: Pabodha Galgamuwe, Forest Science Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy
Details to follow.
