Fw: Slides etc

["judy jordan" <thane at accesswest dot com>]

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From: Margaret Malm  was definitely a weird one, weather-wise.  I just 
got back from Alaska and, as you know, their flora is vastly different 
from ours!
But now the rabbitbrush is starting to bloom, along with matchweed, 
Machaeranthera, several Aster species, and so on.

Autumn is about upon us. 

Time to get back to our wildflowers!

 

Our first meeting of the fall season will be at the Hurricane Dixie 
College campus on OCTOBER 12.  7 PM

 

Info below, as supplied by our speaker, Dr. Bill Gray

We will probably have a group of Audubon people with us, also. So let's 
have a good showing, eh?

 

Margaret


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Title: "Flower Watching and Bird Watching in Utah"
Dr. William Gray, Professor Emeritus of Biology, Univ. of Utah.

Bio: My professional training was in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
at Cambridge, before coming to the US in 1964 for "a year, or maybe 
two". After discovering the mountains and deserts of the southwest we 
decided to settle no further east than the Rocky Mountains. So I taught 
at the U of U for 27 years, and took up botany as a retirement project.

Abstract: "Flower watchers and bird watchers have some major 
similarities and some major differences. With either occupation it is 
possible to spend a whole morning and walk no more than half a mile. 
However, birders have a choice of half a dozen field guides that cover 
the whole of the US in a single book, with pictures of every bird and an 
agreed-upon list of common names. Such a thing is unimaginable for the 
flowers - there are roughly ten times as many species and many of them 
are highly localized.

My goal is to narrow this gap, by creating highly interactive CD guides 
that can bring huge amounts of information and photos within reach of 
the average user. The first of these covered the Wasatch Front, with 
2600 of my own photos, and user-friendly keys that allow expert and 
novice to identify plants. A second one, in conjunction with the 
American Penstemon Society, dealt with all the 280-odd species of 
Penstemon in North America. My talk will focus on two current projects. 
One, in collaboration with Margaret Malm, is on the plants of Zion 
National Park. The other deals with Utah's 4000 or so species, with an 
emphasis on where they can be found. Both will give users the ability to 
add their own photos and data."






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