November meeting:

Nov. 14: Don Leopold - Native Plants for the Naturalistic Garden


Leopold is a professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and author of Native Plants of the Northeast.

The meeting will be held at the Kenneth Post Lab on the Cornell University campus, brown bag lunch at noon, program begins at 1 p.m.

From the Timber Press website:

Donald J. Leopold has been studying native plants for nearly 30 years. He earned his Ph.D. in forest ecology from Purdue University in 1984, his master's in forest ecology from the University of Kentucky in 1981, and a B.S. in ornamental horticulture and nursery management from the University of Kentucky in 1978.

In 1985, he joined the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. He has taught courses in dendrology, plant materials, freshwater wetland ecology, and numerous graduate seminars on conservation and restoration topics.

Currently, he is Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY. Dr. Leopold has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, four other books, six book chapters, five book reviews, three proceedings, and many miscellaneous publications, all generally about topics in forest and wetland ecology.

Additionally he has garnered nearly $10 million of extramural funding as principal or co-principal investigator, was editor of the Natural Areas Journal, associate editor for the Journal of Forestry, and is currently an associate editor for the Northeast Naturalist.

Donald has long been a member of the Ecological Society of America, the Society of Conservation Biologists, and the Society of Wetland Scientists.


Sunday, November 2, 2008

2008 Treasurer's Report

From BZ Marranca, treasurer:

We met or exceeded all of our budgeted projections as far as plant sales went. (See David Mitchell's plant sale report.) We did really well at the Garden Fair this year. We brought in nearly double the amount for which we had budgeted. Dues, however, fell a little short of projection. But we haven't spent as much as projected (yet). I'll have a spreadsheet available later.

1 comments:

Carol said...

Since many members renew for the new year between now and Dec. 31, I expect we may make our budget for membership.

Ever since I can remember (I was treasurer for several years before I became Chair), we have run surplus budgets. We have built up a nice reserve - and that's in spite of our efforts to spend more - for stipends to NARGS conferences, subsidies for workshops and Plant-of-the-Month, and free plants as a member appreciation. Can someone figure out how this works?