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V17-1, Fall 2003 – “Native Plants and Agriculture… Can they Co-Exist?” by Helen Atthowe; “Dr. Rumely Honored by MNPS,” by Pat Plantenberg; a conservation report, “Montana’s National Forests… Natives and Weeds”; “Did Native Americans have use for Algae?” by Johan F. Dormaar; and a notice that the rare Penstemon lemhiensis, previously unrecorded in the Pioneer Range, was found during an annual meeting field trip.
V17-2, Winter 2004 – “Agropyron by Any Other Name is Still a Wheatgrass” by Peter Lesica and Matt Lavin, offers a great summary of the reasons botanical nomenclature seems to be in constant flux these days; in “Green Wheatgrass: Reclamation Savior or Ecological Demon,” Garth Wruck discusses the risks of wide introduction of non-native species as rangeland saviors; Kathy Lloyd penned a review of Graham Nicholls’s book Alpine Plants of North America, while James K. Agee discusses “Whitebark Pine Communities: Ecology and Restoration” by Tomback, Arno, and Keane; Andy Kukolax introduces his wonderful little book, Ultralight Wildflower Guide to the Central Montana Rocky Mountains; in “Fall in the Flathead,” Maria Mantas sells native plant hiking in the fall; James R. Habeck offers a biographical sketch of the University of Montana’s first botany professor in “Joseph Edward Kirkwood: Early Montana Plant Explorer”; and Betty Kuropat reports on the water howellia interpretive signs posted near Holland Lake in “Powerful Glaciers form Tiny Wetlands for Fragile Flowers.”
V17-3, Spring 2004 – “Tree Planting Group Makes Commitment to Native Plants” by Janet Ellis; an announcement of the Montana Plant Life website, created by Jan Hjallmarsson; Bonnie Heidel reviews A Region of Astonishing Beauty by Roger L. Williams, a history of early botanical exploration in the mountain west.
V17-4, Summer 2004 – “Trillium ovatum in Western Montana – Implications for Conservation” is a small grants report by Tarn Ream describing life cycle facts about this beautiful spring wildflower; a moving description of the type specimens collected in Montana on the Lewis and Clark expedition recently on display in Helena; “Asters Retreat to Eurasia” by Robert Dorn describes classification changes in the traditional Aster genera Eucephalus, Ionactis, Oreostemma, Symphyotrichum and Almutaster.