Wild Ones March 2009 Meeting

Please note that our new Wild Ones program start time is 7PM,
preceded by a 30 minute Chapter meeting (from 6:30-7PM).

WHEN: Wednesday, March 25^th

WHERE: Hartley Nature Center

AGENDA:

• Meet and greet
• Announcements, updates on existing projects, and "things I've seen" stories
• Officers reports
• Plant & Insect Interactions: Can Native Plants Attract Beneficial Insect and Help Sustain Wildlife in our Yards?
• Presenter: Tim Craig, UMD Etymologist.
• Next Wednesday, March 25, Tim Craig, UMD Etymologist will speak at Hartley Nature Center at 7:00 PM on "Plant & Insect Interactions: Can Native Plants Attract Beneficial Insect and Help Sustain Wildlife in our Yards?"    Professor Craig is a biologist at the University of Minnesota Duluth who studies the evolution of plant-insect interactions. 
  Maybe the insects don't directly power the turning of the earth, but they do play a key role in the web of ecology, from pollination to bird buffet.  
  This event is free and open to the public.  It is co-sponsored by Hartley Nature Center and Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes - a national non-profit promoting sustainable landscaping.
  
  
• Wild Ones members - please join us for a quick meeting starting at 6:30pm before the program.

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