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( Updated Sunday August 15, 2010 1:00 pm)
Ruth Neupauer, former President of the Cincinnati Wildflower Preservation Society passed away Friday. Ruth was an excellent President, a fine friend, and wonderful company on the many hikes we attended together.
Information about services and memorials for her that you may wish to attend are at. the website http://springgrove.samplefh.com/content/obituaries/view.jsp?OID=59968
You may email or mail to me any remembrances of Ruth for the Wildflower Society Archives and I will forward these to Ruth's family.
Sincerely, Bob Bergstein,President, 3425 Lyleburn Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215 email is bbergstein@fuse.net
The Cincinnati Wildflower Preservation Society welcomes you to our site. Our hikes and lectures are free and open to the public, (but we depend on our memberships to cover our expenses.) JOIN NOW AS A NEW MEMBER AND AND YOUR MEMBERSHIP WILL NOT EXPIRE UNTIL OCTOBER 2011!!
--------------August 2010------------------
Don't miss this trip to a very unusual botanical location!
Saturday August 21, 2010, Noon, Laurel River Lake, Daniel Boone National Forest, near London, KY. (note: later than usual meeting time!)
Unless there's a consensus to see the lake, we probably won't actually see the lake. We will be visiting an acid seep near the lake. This is a habitat that we have not experienced in any recent years. This habitat supports plant communities that are unique to those that we usually see.
In fact, this is an opportunity to see several species that many of us have never seen, such as Pityopsis graminifolia, Elephontopus tomentosus, Lycopodiella appressa, Trichostema dichotomum, and Platanthera integrilabia as well as several others. Access to the seep will be a hike of about ½ mile in, and then back out with no significant change in elevation. After we visit the seep, we will proceed to a second roadside site where we should see Silphium wasiotense which is another plant which has been seen by only a very few people.
Directions: Go south on I-75 for about 159 miles to the second London, KY exit #38 at Rt. 192.
Turn left (east) on 192.
Plan to meet at 12:00 in the parking lot of the Frisch's on the east side of the exit #38 interchange. Allow time to eat lunch before we meet and car pool to the hike site at 12:00. There are several other restaurants next to Frisch's.
This is about 2 hours and 35 minutes from downtown Cincinnati non stop. Add any time you want for stops.
Do not be concerned about any construction delays on I-75. If there are any delays, we will all be late, and we will adjust the start time accordingly. From the Frisch's parking lot we will need to car pool due to limited parking at the seep.
If you are attending, call trip leader Stan Lockwood at 513-385-8650, so that we will know to account for you.
---------------------September 2010-----------------------
Friday September 10, 2010, 7:30 pm: Photo Sharing Program, Avon Woods Nature Center
This is first program of our 2010-11 season at our usual meeting place on the west side of Paddock Road (south of the Norwood Lateral) . Please bring the photos (on Chip or CD) and slides from your summer trips, to show your friends. We will have digital projector and computer, and cookies and coffee, too. Come early, at 6:30, and bring a picnic dinner, if you like. Call Bob Bergstein (513-477-4438) for computer information. Let me know if you have more than 10 minutes of slides, so I can allocate time to everyone.
Directions: Avon Woods Nature Center is a Cincinnati City Park at 4235 Paddock Road, Cincinnati 45229. From the Norwood Lateral (SR #562), drive 9/10 mile South on Paddock to the Avon Woods Park driveway. Turn sharp right and go to the lodge at the end of the long dark drive.
For details of the events below please Click on the newsletter tab above.
------------July 2010--------------------------
July 11, noon: Sunday Picnic &Walk, Jim &Jean Husbands’ Woods, Dearborn Co., IN (Please note that Sunday July 11, 2010 at Noon is the correct date and time for this event)
July 31: Saturday Field Trip, Blue Licks Battlefield State Park, Robertson County, KY
--------------August 2010---------------------
August 7: Saturday Field Trip, Ron Powell's Pawpaw Farm. Adams County, OH
August 21: Saturday Field Trip,Laurel River Lake in Dan Boone NF,Laurel County, KY
-------------September 2010-----------------
September 10 (2010):Friday Program, Avon Woods Nature Center, 6:30 pm Picnic Supper, 7:30 Photo Sharing Program
Our next newsletter will be posted in August 2010
Go to our Newsletter for all details of these future 2010 events
If you are not yet a member, you are welcome to attend events to see if you have a good time. I think you will. Our hikes are casual. Trip leaders are familiar with most plants and will be glad to share their knowledge with you.
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