Events
November 2017
Founders and Foundations: Michigan’s First Survey and Pre-settlement Biodiversity
A talk by University of Michigan Assistant Director Tony Reznicek. Michigan is unique in that immediately after achieving statehood in 1837, the fledgling Legislature authorized a comprehensive "First Geological Survey" of the state's natural resources. This included not only geology and soils, but also timber resources and a survey of plants and animals, and it included the collection of specimens which became the foundation of the present day museum and Herbarium collections. The plant collections are especially extensive, but were poorly labeled and suffered from past…
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CANCELLED: The Schachen – a Botanic Garden in the Bavarian Alps
PLEASE NOTE: This program has been canceled. Jennie Wainwright-Klein gives a presentation on the Schachen Alpine Garden, a satellite garden of the Munich Botanic Garden. Schachen lies at 1850 m in the Wetterstein Mountains, 120 km south of Munich. Opened in 1901, a large and ever growing collection of alpine plants from Europe to the Carpathians, the Caucasus, Himalayas, the Arctic and North America are represented here, as are alpines from the Drakensberg and Maloti Mountains of South Africa,…
Find out more »CANCELLED: Alpine Plants of the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho and adjacent South Africa
PLEASE NOTE: This program has been canceled. Jennie Wainwright-Klein gives a presentation on the Maloti Mountains, part of the Drakensberg Mountains, a stretch along the northeastern border of Lesotho forming a watershed with a number of major South African rivers having their source here. The Highlands of Lesotho are a mosaic of wetlands, grasslands and rock faces with many interesting plants. Places particularly rich in plants will be shown: the Bokong Nature Reserve, Letseng-La-Terae and the Sehlabathebe National Park…
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