Volume 38 4, Summer 2025. Joe Elliott writes about “What Good Are Mosses?”; a listing of the latest field trips; an article about urban heat islands by Mark Majerus; an article by Pat McLeod about fall field trips in the Yaak; the President’s Platform; pictures of the 2025 Annual Meeting in Ekalaka; and an article by Kathy Settevendemie about a nature journaling workshop held in January.
Volume 38 3, Spring 2025. Peter Lesica tells about Dusty Maidens; a review of the Montana Native Plant Conservation Strategy; an update about the Citizen Botany program; a bunch of information & signup forms for the 2025 Annual Meeting to be held near Ekalaka on June 20-22, 2025; some minor proposed changes to MNPS bylaws; “Remembering Mary Sloan;” an article about the USDA Bridger Plant Materials Program south of Billings; an article about the DNRC Nursery in Missoula which is producing quantities of native seed; and another about a hub for the Montana Native Seed Network.
Volume 38 2, Winter 2025. A profile of President Robert Pal and his impressive professional accomplishments; in the Conservation Corner, Elizabeth Bergstrom describes how the Montana Native Plant Conservation Strategy came about; Michelle Toschak gives the results of the first Bumblebee Atlas season; Elizabeth Bergstrom & Carol Goffe exhort members to take on some of the Conservation Committee’s important work; Denise Montgomery writes in the Gardener’s Notebook about Purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea); Dalton Brantley describes “fasciation” he observed in the glacial daisy (Erigeron glacialis Nuttall); for their work as state treasurers, Jenny Tollefson and Shannon Kimball received Outstanding Service Awards in 2024; and a little information about the 2025 Annual Meeting to be held near Ekalaka on June 20-22, 2025.
Volume 38 1, Fall 2024. A recap of the 2024 annual meeting by Teagan Hayes; the Conservation Corner by Elizabeth Bergstrom about Spalding’s catchfly, the “Species of Greatest Conservation Need;” an article by Peter Lesica, “Facilitation,” explains how “in harsh environments, new plants sometimes do better in close proximity to other plants than they do alone;” field trip report by Paul Buck about an August jaunt to Shoofly Meadow in the Rattlesnake NRA; Paul also writes in the Gardener’s Notebook about growing Rocky Mountain beeplant (Cleome) as an “almost perfect” addition to a native plant garden; Maria Mantas tells about restoring the Water howellia interpretive sign on the Holland Lake nature trail; Kathy Lloyd & Drake Barton document adding a collection of Lewis & Clark plants to the Lewis & Clark county library in Helena; and announcing publication of the Montana Native Plant Conservation Strategy.