Some leaders and speakers have offered to post their lectures and handouts.

Monthly Member Meets

• March 23, 2021 Notes
• April 20, 2021 Notes
  
• May 18, 2021 Notes
• June 22, 2021 Notes

Monthly Program Presentations and Handouts

The National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration

Chat Transcript

Endangered Pine Barrens Communities of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD with Rod Simmons December 21, 2021

Flora of the Patuxent Research Refuge (pdf)

Human Impacts On Native Plants & Insects: Restoring Biodiversity with Dr. Sara Via MNPS program June 29, 2021

• This slide presentation in pdf format can be viewed and downloaded at https://drive.google.com/file/d/17ezDoBZ9A4aMOEatR67Ae5anNyifWKGQ/view?usp=sharing
• Dr. Via advises NOT to open the documents in Google Docs because it impacts the formatting; if you want a copy, download each file as a pdf. Please do not use the slides without her permission. Her email is svia@umd.edu.
• She has answered the questions we didn't have time for at the end of the webinar here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mIe7HuVNkZUMENZ4WBDyJhFT8eke5RGz/view?usp=sharing
• Check her website, https://climatecorner.org/, for her upcoming webinars and her comprehensive report "Increasing Soil Health and Sequestering Carbon in Agricultural Soils, A Natural Climate Solution."
• Webinar Video: https://youtu.be/x4PdgS_yzw4

Emerald Ash Borer Update. Colleen Kenny,  Forest Health Planner- MD DNR Forest Service,  MNPS program November 26, 2019

• • Power Point. Warning VERY large file (44 MB)
  • PDF. (9.8 MB)

Invisible Connections: Introduction to Parasitic Plants. Dr. Vanessa Beauchamp, Towson University.  MNPS program February 26, 2019. 

• • Power Point. Warning VERY large file (22 MB)
  • PDF, Slides only (4.5 MB)
  • PDF, Slides & Notes (6.1 MB)

  
  

Other Program Handouts

• Milkweeds and their Habitats from Rochelle Bartolomei presentation in Aug. 2018
• Helping Nature Help Itself: Restoring the Land Using Natural Processes, Charles Smith. August 28, 2018. Very Large File: 48 MB pdf
  
• The Limits of Restoration, Rod Simmons, March 27, 2018. Very Large File: 39 MB pdf
• Apocynaceae of Maryland (Dogbane and milkweed family) by Chris Puttock, February 2018
• Vanishing Pine Barrens of the Washington D.C. Vicinity, Rod Simmons. September 17, 2016 Large File: 14.5 MB pdf
• Smithsonian Pollinator and Wildlife Habitats, James Gagliardi, July 26, 2016
• Orchid (Orchidaceae) decline in the Catoctin Mountains, Frederick County, Maryland as documented by a long-term dataset by Wesley M. Knapp • Richard Wiegand
  
• Key to Oaks in Winter: On-line key; pdf file of the key
• Landscaping with Native Plants to Attract Wildlife. January 31, 2012. Speaker: Christa Partain. Slide show (pdf, 2 M);   
• Landscaping with Native Plants book referenced during January 31, 2012 talk
  
• Heath Diversity in Maryland: Distribution and Representative Natural Community Types. April 30, 2013. Speaker: Rod Simmons. (Large File 21 MB pdf)
• Ericaceae of Maryland Handout from Feb 2013 talk by Chris Puttock (pdf)
  (Word document)
  
• Books for sale from MD DNR from the Richard Wiegand library. Contact Paula Becker paula.becker@maryland.gov for details.
• Seeing the Lianas in the Trees by Stacey A. Leitch Young (3.8 MB pdf)
• Plant ID (for Newcomb's) basic handouts from Karyn Molines (4.5 MB)
• Native Plants Used by Indigenous People of the Chesapeake Bay Area (PDF)
• Vascular Plants of Maryland, USA: A Comprehensive Account of the State's Botanical Diversity. Wesley Knapp and Robert F. C. Naczi (PDF)