Come and meet Willy Waterton & Audrey Armstrong, two members from one of our neighbouring field naturalist clubs in Owen Sound. They will be speaking about their new book on orchids found in Bruce Peninsula area. This is the fifth edition, a complete re-working of the standard guide for orchids in that part of Southern Ontario. The Owen Sound Club has a wonderful history and ongoing practice of putting together authoritative field guides, of which this orchid guide is but one!
We welcome Jenn Baici back to update us on her studies of real interest — controlling invasive plant species. Last year, Jenn told us about her research on Wild Turkeys in which she creatively combined an amazing variety of research tools. We all know about Garlic Mustard, and about Phragmites, and about Dog-Strangling Vine. Her present work is at University of Toronto on these and other Invasive Plants in which she is again combining a remarkable array of research tools to develop new approaches to controlling invasive plants. (Note that we’ve been taking a strong focus on HOW ecologists do their work, not only on what their work shows us.)
Here are some images and some thoughts of mine on this most wondrous late Autumn!
