Montana's native plants and their communities
North Yaak Wetland/Fen Walkabout - Yaak Saturday July 11 – 10 am to 1 pm Easy, slow-paced, mostly flat 2.5-mile walk round-trip, exploring habitat security in the Yaak Valley. This field trip will visit recently protected wetland and fen habitats near Yaak, with opportunities to observe English sundew, mosses and other wetland indicator species. The […]
Prairie Peace Garden self-guided tour - SE of Townsend Saturday, July 11 - 11 am to 4 pm Come see Bryan Flynn’s Private Stock Peonies (aka Prairie Peace Garden), a few miles southeast of Townsend. Bryan has created an ever-expanding number of native grass and forb strips in various stages of development, as well as […]
I’ve collected my seed … now what? - Butte One Early Weekday Evening in July (based on plant seeding cycle) – 6 pm Krystal Weilage will engage a small, hands-on group in specific techniques for handling particular native seed types to prepare them for storage and/or seeding. Bring your own native seed or learn with […]
Native Seed Collection workshop - West Glacier Tuesday, July 21 – 11 am to 12 pm Presented by Mark Majerus, a native plant enthusiast who worked as a botanist/agronomist, retiring from the Bridger Plant Materials Center. The workshop will emphasize stages of seed development in grasses, forbs, and shrubs. Mark will show us diagnostic techniques […]
Grass ID & appreciation workshop - West Glacier Tuesday, July 21 – 1:30 pm to 3 pm Grasses comprise the largest, most wide-spread and economically important plant family worldwide. Mark Majerus spent his career working with grasses. He authored the book, Forage and Reclamation Grasses of the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. The workshop […]
Native Seed Collection Workshop - Missoula DNRC nursery Thursday, July 23 – 5:30 pm Mark Majerus, a highly experienced grasslands botanist, will walk us through how to collect and process seed from native plant species at the DNRC Seedling Nursery. For more details and to register, please email mtnursery@mt.gov.
Spanish Peaks Trail - Gallatin Gateway Sunday, July 26 – 8 am We’ll take the main trail south from Spanish Peaks trailhead, following the gentle valley, and stopping often to look at the flowers, including side trips to look at montane riparian wetland species along the creek. It’s a bit of a drive to a […]
Native Seed Collecting and Grass ID workshops Last week of July, TIME & Location TBD Mark Majerus will be teaching. Contact Rachael Potter for info at jrepotter@gmail.com.
Hike McGuire Ridge, S of Rexford Saturday, August 1 – ~8:30 am to ~4 pm Explore NW Montana’s upper elevation vegetation. Join Peter Lesica as we walk a ridge that is nearly 7,000 feet in elevation. We’ll go past a maintained lookout on McGuire Mountain – the views in all directions should be spectacular! Moderate, […]
Hoodoo Pass work trip (Superior) Friday, August 7 – 11 am The Clark Fork Chapter has adopted the Hoodoo pass trailhead. Come and help! Pull invasive weeds, install an educational kiosk, and install boot brush station to help clean weed-seeds off boots before people step into the area. Afterwards, hike along State Line Trail #738 […]
Northwest Peak Scenic Area (Yaak) Saturday, August 8 – 8:30 am to ~4:30 pm Hike to Northwest Peak in Lincoln County to visit whitebark pine and subalpine larch habitats. Chris Reichert and Betty Kuropat, retired Forest Service silviculturists, will lead this moderate 3-to-4-mile round-trip hike. This will be a good time to visit the beautiful […]
Prairie Peace Garden self-guided tour - SE of Townsend Saturday, August 8 - 11 am to 4 pm Come see Bryan Flynn’s Private Stock Peonies (aka Prairie Peace Garden), a few miles southeast of Townsend. Bryan has created an ever-expanding number of native grass and forb strips in various stages of development, as well as […]
