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This is where we coordinate communication within our Plant Team. Please use the comments link to post questions and updates.
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This is where we coordinate communication within our Plant Team. Please use the comments link to post questions and updates.
Here is a website with a list of the vascular plants of Lick Creek Park:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/LCP/LCPLIST.HTML
Terry Junek
Monique has been our outstanding plant team leader for many years and is ready to hand over the hat to Punnee. So if you have any questions, please contact Punnee.
Ryan and I went over the plant list from last year and realized there are two lists. Monique maintained a list of all the plants at the Lick Creek Site, however, that was too many to check off in one 24-hr period. We also have a list of the flags that Monique prepared for teaching guests about the plants that are actually flowering and present along the trail from the Equestrial parking to the main parking lot.
We are hoping Punnee will delegate some one on the plant team to set out these flags and check off the names on the plant short list.
Thanks!
Jane
Hi Jane,
This is the first time I use this site, and since I am new in this game (fo fill in Monique’s shoes, and her shoes are awfully big) I am not quite sure I can do any a justice here). But since my right leg is no longer perfect like beafore I have to limit my walking to about 30 minutes. I plan to find a spot that contains great diversity of plant families in the park and kind of tell them about few easily detectable families (Apiaceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae, Faagaceae etc) and plenty of blooms also. What do you think? I also want to talk about the ecological history of the Park and, after reading the comments about burning, probable touching that too. I will need you help in getting materials, what ever you or Monique have for me to review. I will go survey the park next Thursday (I have no class that day) and select the sites. Let me know what you prefer me to do. I have Monique’s Key to the Angiosperm from the library.. Thanks
Jean Paul wrote: I’m glad that i’ll be working with the Plant Team again this year. It was reallly fun watching Monique at work. I’ve invited Sandra Williams to join us again this year — as a retired school teacher and artsy craftsy person she was invaluable with the children and leaf rubbings. I need to pass on to Sandra when and where the Plant Team will be meeting. When will I find that out? I thought Punnee was heading up the Team this year. I’ve told her I will help her lay out a plant identification trail early Saturday morning. Is her activity going to interfere in any way with Monique’s activities?
Punnee wrote; I am glad to find this out earlier so that we can avoid the confussion since I have already staked the area and individual plants for the project last Sunday (right before the rain!!). On Wednesday I had an emergency call from my son-in-law.
I think we can have both Monique plan and our team.
Here is what I have already done: On the Post Oak trail (the left trail from eq. park, not the right one) I had staked the double-flag for the area that I will tie the plant’s names (sci, and commom) which still in consideration because of the forseen future blooms .
From the Plant Speaker booth, I will have three-four posters of plant morphology with few handouts of how we identify plants (very simple version). I plan to have samples of leaves, flowers , etc.. as show-and-tell that they can touch-and-tear with the use of magnifying lens. I will also have Monique’s taxonomy book as the real-one to show.
Then the audience will be divided into five groups (I have double-flag staked five area on Iron Bridge Trail), each group will have one (or 2) student (From Blinn Botany classes of Dr. Amanda Chan - as my Botany students are in the prison can’t get out) to help them. I have request 5-9 students from her for both independent plant walk on Friday (need info with map flier at the information booth on Fridayfor the audience?). Each group will have a hand-out of Family description (again, simple version and some drawing but still retain morphological terminology) and a page in which they can mark off what they have observed. Each plant will already have a pink ribbon (separate them from the orange ribbon in the eq. plant walk) already have botn sc. and common name and family name. Student volunteer just have to help them to link between the description in the paper and the real part they can observe with help of lens. I think they will enjoy more. What do you think? Since I was tied up in Dallas for half of the week I have not yet finished the description paper, but will in a day or two.
This is my plan A if Monique will be kind to take the eq. plant walk part as she has done greatly in the past and she can extend it any which way and mark them with orange tapes (except from the booth paking lot on Iron Bridge to the area passing the bridge (I need a sycamore) and a 50-100 yards away to the drainage pipe - identification areas).
Plan B is that if Monique will continue as before I can keep this plan A for next year with a relief (not that I am lazy!) and will be there to help her.
This year, I think all the booths are going to be in the main parking lot and no car allowed. All the parking will be done at the eqi. parking. I do not know whether there will be an information booth there or not, but I would like to have a table (if a booth that will be better) in which we will inform the visitors about the independent plant walk which will start from the eq. parking all the way to the left Post Oak Trail and then they could join the Plant Talk and Plant Walk in the main parking lot at 1:00 PM. I have about 8-9 volunteer from Amanda Chao’s Botany classes to help with that, we only probably need two (the members of TMN would have been better, I could use students somewhere else.)
On the main booth in other parking lot we will have a booth in which all the activities aimed at children will be handled. We will have, as far as I know, leaf-bubbing activity and coloring and stamping. Other activity could be : (1)can the TMN do the pine cone bird-feeder?; (2) can the Master Gardener have something fun for children?. For adults we will have books (Texas) , some herbarium specimens (I will bring those ), my plant picture (from Lick Creek and from everywhere that I have traveled) collection, display of collection equipment (plant press with newspaper and large phone book, etc..)and have them try to do one (need volunteer for that) from the flowers that I will have already collected tomorrow from the highway 40 for that Saturday. That may not be enough activity so I will need the Master Gardener help from you. Thank ahead for that alone.
For the speaker booth, I will have some poster of plant morphology. I will tell the audience about how we identify plants (only up to families) and what criteria we use. All of these has to be scale down in scientific terminology so that a ten-year-old can follow (probably better athan adult!!). I wll have lots of leaves, flowers al show-and tell and the audience can have their hand on tearing them apart to see what does petal, sepal, stamen, and ovary , etc.. look like. All of these for 30 minutes. Not much. After that, the visitors will be divided into groups, no more than five groups (I have marked the five areas for this) and each grou will have a student volunteer with them. if not enough volunteers show up, some of us can replace them and we just have to change the number. No big deal on that. Each group will have a hand-out of the description of 8-10 families of plants in Lick Creek that I have marked with pink (not orange or yellow) ribbons. I try to keep the colors apart since on Friday after noon I will meet Monique in the park at 2:30 PM. She will be marking plants for the independene trail walk in orange ribbons. I will have to spend time to map her trail as a hand-out we will give to every family that park the car in eq. parking on Saturday from 10:00 AM on. Will need help on that too, but if every body is busy on that evening then it is OK, I could do it. Or, if someone already has the map for Lick Creek please give me one copy. That would have been a great help for me. Map would tell the visitors where and which and what they can look and observe the plants on that Post Oak trail.
If I miss anything please let me know, or see you tomorrow at the park at 2:30. Thank you .
Punnee
Sorry. The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I am from Macedonia and learning to write in English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “The advantage is the largest verification that is repaid to points and fees and well their biggest name.”
THX :-D, Brentan.