Know Your Mushrooms
Directed By Ron Mann

From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Go
Further and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters
of popular culture. Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret
world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema. Filmed in Telluride during
Mushroom Festival, Know Your Mushrooms follows uber myco visionaries Gary
Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably
mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the
wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experience attached to the
mysterious fungi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVx9R7nNe4A

Other Telluride films at:
http://www.mountainfilm.org/festival/2009/weekend/films.asp

Jil wanted attention to be called to the topic of the next ESW meeting -
see flyer for info:

http://www.entsocwash.org/flyers/ESW1126.jpg


Next BSW meeting is also coming up soon - March 3. (1st Tuesday)

   Date:Tuesday, March 3rd 7:00 PM

Speaker: Elizabeth Kellogg

Topic: Grasses and Their Flowers

Details for meeting: see webpage.

http://www.botsoc.org/

BTW - You should have seen the great cake that Jil brought to the last BSW
meeting in honor of 900th meeting.  It had lots of dogwood flowers as well
as May Apple flowers.  I think she said she'd send me a photo of it - but
I never got one.  :-(   I wanted to post it.

Who cares???????????????

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I will be out of the office starting  01/02/2009 and will not return until
01/12/2009.

I will respond to your message when I return.

Came across this and thought it might be of interest...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07squirrel.html

Happy New Year to all!

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Came across this and thought it might be of interest...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07squirrel.html

Happy New Year to all!

Lynn wanted to post this to the list:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.cabin02oct02,0,1599495.stor\
y


      Hodgepodge Lodge begins new life

        Former MPT children's show set moved to county conservancy and
        restored as nature exhibit

By Tyeesha Dixon

October 2, 2008

For more than 30 years, the Hodgepodge Lodge endured a battering from
the elements.

The floor was missing, the stone chimney destroyed, and the roof bore a
large hole.

But with the recent efforts of volunteers and donors, and months of
hammering and painting, the cabin that was the iconic namesake of a
popular public television show has been relocated and restored. The
8-by-10-foot structure was moved from its longtime home in Owings Mills
to the Howard County Conservancy, where it will serve as an interactive
nature exhibit for children.

"It's going to be interesting and inviting to kids," said Meg
Schumacher, executive director of the conservancy. "And so many parents
have really fond memories of [the show]."

The project suits the conservancy's goal of providing youngsters a
chance to explore the outdoors, Schumacher said. "There's been an effort
to get children to go outside and play in the natural world," she said.
"The idea is that we want hands-on environmental activities."

The restoration was completed Friday, and the cabin is set to be
dedicated to Jean Worthley, aka "Miss Jean," the friendly and familiar
former host of the Maryland Public Television show Hodgepodge Lodge. The
dedication is scheduled for Saturday as part of the conservancy's Fall
Festival.

Hodgepodge Lodge was a popular children's show that ran from 1970 to
1977, according to MPT. The show was syndicated nationally and carried
on education-oriented stations from Maine to the District of Columbia.

Miss Jean took children - and cameras - on field trips to explore
nature, visiting places such as cliffs and swamps.

"Every day, we were learning about something new, and that was pretty
impressive," said George Beneman, MPT's vice president of technology.

Beneman was in his 20s when he was part of the studio crew for the show.

"There are lots of adults now who grew up on Hodgepodge Lodge and
hopefully are sharing that with their children," he said.

The conservancy is the county's only environmental education center,
made up of 232 acres donated by Frances and Ruth Brown, sisters who
wanted the land to be donated and used for educational purposes after
they died, Schumacher said.

Even Worthley is surprised by the cabin's longevity.

"It was built to be a set in 1969, and it was only supposed to last for
a few years," she said. "I think it's pretty amazing."

James and Dessie Moxley of Clarksville, the leading donors for the
restoration, according to Schumacher, have longtime ties to Worthley,
which is one reason they were motivated to support the project.

"Our oldest child used to watch [her] on television," Dessie Moxley said.
James Moxley has known Worthley for more than 60 years - she was one of
his 4H leaders when he was a child, his wife said. And Worthley was the
guide and teacher for a nature camp held by the Federated Garden Clubs
of Maryland, a group for which Dessie Moxley has served as president.

The restored lodge is filled with nature activities for children,
including skulls and antlers that youngsters can touch. To get to the
lodge, visitors use a map that includes clues to two routes, one longer
and one shorter.

Bert Rankin, MPT's director of development who started working at the
station almost 20 years after watching the show as a child, said he was
surprised to see that the lodge was still standing, untouched. With the
coaxing of his supervisor, Rankin began seeking a new home for the cabin
that would allow it to serve as an exhibit for children.

"I used to watch the show as a kid," Rankin said. "The Howard County
Conservancy was so ready, willing and able to work together in
fundraising and moving a structure."

In June, with the volunteer help of builder Ron Shaw, the deconstruction
of the lodge began. Then, two businesses - Maryland's Best Sheds and
Play n' Learn - moved the pieces to the conservancy, where Shaw rebuilt
the lodge.

Since then, volunteers and MPT and conservancy staffers have repainted
the lodge to replicate its original look from the 1970s, including red
trim and stained cedar shingles.

Another business, fauxwoodbeams.com, whose owner watched the show as a
youth, offered to custom build a replacement stone chimney, Rankin said.

"It's really interesting how all these people had a connection with Miss
Jean," Schumacher said.

Many former fans of the show predict that the restoration will bring
back a flood of memories and perhaps a renewed interest in the
environment for the next generation.

"I think what Jean started 40 years ago is going to continue so that
these memories are going to continue," Beneman said. "There will always
be this fond remembrance of what's been started, something to continue
for a very long time to come."

Copyright © 2008, The Baltimore Sun <http://www.baltimoresun.com/>

Sorry - the previous mail was not meant to go to the list. In my
frustratingly slow internet connection - i inadvertently did not change
the to: line.

Anyway - here's a link I meant to also include - but did not - to a story
last week on NPR.


Column by Robert Krulwich
Krulwich on Science
by Robert Krulwich

What Goes Into Naming A New Species? A Lot

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94886658

Today, at about 09:48, Louisa Rogoff Thompson averred:

:
:Kathy,
:I can't find the link.
:Louisa
:
:Kathy Bilton wrote:
:
:      Hi -
:
:      Just letting you know that the new schedule is online.
:      (at http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html)
:
:      On October 4 - Hodgepodge Lodge is going to be dedicated at the HCC
:      during
:      the HCC's Fall Festival. There is a link to a flyer for the festival
:      on
:      the schedule page.


Did you look at the schedule page?? Link for it given above.

--Kathy


:
:      HCC webpage: http://www.hcconservancy.org
:
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Hi -

Just letting you know that the new schedule is online.
(at http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html)

On October 4 - Hodgepodge Lodge is going to be dedicated at the HCC during
the HCC's Fall Festival. There is a link to a flyer for the festival on
the schedule page.

HCC webpage: http://www.hcconservancy.org

.

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Hi -

Just letting you know that the new schedule is online.
(at http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html)

On October 4 - Hodgepodge Lodge is going to be dedicated at the HCC during
the HCC's Fall Festival.  There is a link to a flyer for the festival on
the schedule page.

HCC webpage:  http://www.hcconservancy.org

BTW - I recently saw a plant of Polygonum virginianum which had red
flowers.  I see that Cronquist says they can be "suffused with pink" so
maybe that is what they were.  I'll have to go back and take a pic and
look at them a little more closely.  There were a lot of other plants in
the same vicinity - but all the rest looked "normal."

--Kathy

Kathy,

Glad its on the web. It's not in the mail. I've had zero time to work on it
and will be away this weekend. Hope to get it ready and mailed next week.

Thanks,

Jil





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  URL for the WBC page:

  http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html

URL for the WBC page:

http://www.potomacaudubon.org/wbc/wbc.html

Hi -

Sorry if anyone went to the page and saw the "April" at the top and didn't
look further down the page to see that July and August events were
actually posted there.

I just learned that "April" had been left there by mistake.


A class is scheduled for tomorrow:
August 2    10 am  Two Below Allelopathic Plants. Do a little research and bring
some.

Also - Jean wants people to know that Corliss Glennon is accepting
donations for a bench for Roger Redden in Elmer's Garden at Cylburn. It
will cost over 2000 dollars as Cylburn is very particular about benches
now and their installation. My niece, Constance, wants to pay for the
plaque and Mac has already come up with the wording. Corliss's address is
14014 Triadelphia Mill Rd. Dayton Md.20136


Some fun videos:

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000086?v=3184811&l=100000085

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000086?v=3156921&l=100000085

http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000086?v=2369949

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U



--Kathy

Hi Connie -

Please send an email to:

	 WorthleyBotany-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


and then I can approve the subscription with your new address.  I don't
see a way for me to be able to change it myself.

Hope you're having a good summer.

--Kathy

Constance L. Etzler
Professor of Reading and ESL
RD101 Course Coordinator
Department of Reading, ESL, Philosophy & Foreign Languages

Hi Suzy

Besides the fact that it's a fiddlehead, I can't id it much more until it
unfurls. Its very fuzzy and cinnamon color so it might be cinnamon fern -
Osmunda cinnamomea.

Jil





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  Can anyone identify this for me?


  Susan




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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 06:17:44 -0400
From: ecuebel@...
To: carolebergmann@..., jeanw@..., jil_swearingen@...,
      kathy@...
Subject: Re: Weeding and observing at Liberty Reservoir

Everyone in the Worthley group should see the Oplismenus hirtellus subsp.
undulatifolius?and be able to recognize it without hesitation.? No one knows for
sure where this stuff is growing and where it isn't. We do know that it was
found in the Little Paint Branch Park in Beltsville and on the nearby Beltsville
Agricultural Research Center.

Charlie Davis found this grass at the Hernwood Landfill and thinks that this is
source of the massive infestation in the northern section of the Patapsco Valley
State Park and Liberty Reservoir.

But there is no guarantee that it is confined to this area. One might expect to
find it almost anyplace, including the Parks of Montgomery County.? So wherever
the Worthley Class goes, they should make a conscious effort to look for it.?
Soldiers Delight joins Liberty Reservoir, so there is a possibility that this
grass in growing there; especially in the northern section, north of Wards
Chapel Road.

This grass somewhat resembles a Panicum, but all of the Panicums grow in a
caespitose clump.? The Oplismenus grows from an above ground stolon, which makes
it easy to identify in any season of the year.


There are several places where this grass can be found without much trouble: 1)
McKeldin Area of the State Park off Marriottsville Road, 2) the horse trail
south of Old Court Road in Woodstock, 3) in the pines near the boat ramp off of
Oakland Mill Road.

I don't know of any invasive plant that has been eradicated once it has become
established, so if the Oplismenus can be eradicated, it may be the first.

Perhaps, the Wavyleaf Basketgrass people, should have their own listserver or
Yahoo or Google group, so they can discuss this exciting project.? What do you
think about that?

- Ed
(of the Evasive Plant group)



-----Original Message-----
From: Carole Bergmann <carolebergmann@...>
To: ecuebel@...; jeanw@...; jil_swearingen@...; kathy@...
Sent: Fri, 30 May 2008 9:37 am
Subject: Re: Weeding and observing at Liberty Reservoir



Hello Ed,

I know that everyone is appreciative of your letting us know about the wavy
leaved basket grass site.

I personally have not responded to your email because I am not leading the
class, and I don't think I am going to be able to join the class on Saturday at
all, no matter what the activity is.

?

Though this Saturdays Botany class may not be the best way to get a handle on
controlling this particular outbreak of Oplismenus, I do have two ideas as to
people you might contact for help in dealing with it:

?

1) Marc Imlay has lead several group volunteer efforts on outbreaks in the
Prince Georges County area. Would you like me to put you in touch with him?
Perhaps he can organize something soon.

2) Kerrie Kyde who works for Maryland DNR as an Invasive Specialist is also very
interested in controlling this species on a statewide basis. I could put you in
touch with her...

?

Would either of these ideas work for you?

Carole

?

----- Original Message -----


From: ecuebel@...

To: ecuebel@... ; jeanw@... ; jil_swearingen@... ;
kathy@... ; carolebergmann@...

Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 6:12 AM

Subject: Re: Weeding and observing at Liberty Reservoir




For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

In the case of Oplismenus, the nail is stopping it at Liberty Reservoir and the
Patapsco Valley State Park.? If it gets beyond that, the kingdom is lost!

Since I have not heard from anyone, I assume that you do not want to switch the
Saturday meeting from Soldiers Delight to Liberty Reservoir and you don't need
my assistance.

I want to get back to my work area on the petroleum pipe line trail sometime in
the near future. I have learned one thing--? I need to be more careful about
pulling up those poison ivy vines, because I have a poison ivy infection on my
hands. Weeding?can be dangerous work.

Ed Uebel
Evasive Plant Specialist


-----Original Message-----
From: ecuebel@...
To: jeanw@...; jil_swearingen@...; kathy@...;
carolebergmann@...
Sent: Mon, 26 May 2008 3:13 pm
Subject: Weeding and observing at Liberty Reservoir



Greetings:

?

I was wondering if the field trip to Soldiers Delight could be changed to
Liberty Reservoir to see the O. hirtellus ssp. undulatifolius in its late spring
development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oplismenus_hirtellus_subsp._undulatifolius


This would involve car pooling to the trail head on Ward's Chapel Road and
walking up hill for about 30 minutes. This location is about midway along the
fire road trail between Ward's Chapel Road and the Old Liberty Road. This is
where I found it growing in 1996 and is about the worst area at Liberty
Reservoir.


It is extremely important that?people learn how to recognize it, and also see
how devastating it can be to the natural environment.


Sunday, I went to section of Liberty Reservoir that is south of the end of
Bollinger Mill Road parking area and pulled up some of this grass. Here is my
report for that day.

http://home.comcast.net/~ed_uebel/WLBG.html


This is first time that I have tried pulling it up. And I did clear several
small areas, but it was slow going. The next time that I go there, I want to
take a garden rake along and try that.


The Wavyleaf Basketgrass, an invasive species of National Prominence in your own
neighborhood, surely you want to take advantage of the opportunity to observe
it.


Thank you,

Ed Uebel

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For those who think it would be scientifically adequate to substitute
human for groundhog in the annual seasonal ritual, you obviously are not
aware of the theological underpinnings of groundhog as ultimate
predictive source.  Please consult with Dave Pile.  I think some other
kind of marmot might work, but nothing as evolutionarily advanced as
human.

It is obvious that we need to get these "scientists" more edumacated, and
this is another excellent arguement for why we need the teaching of
creation theory and intelligent design in the classroom.  Remember, each
creature has its chosen place in the Grand Scheme, and n'er the twain
shall meet.

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From: TorResInc@...
Sent: Feb 4, 2008 12:11 PM
To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [WorthleyBotany] Groundhog siting

You all know you can just look for your own shadow and predict the same thing. So much simpler. Dave

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Hi Suzy,

Thanks for sending these great pics. Those cupcakes are absolutely adorable. What a cute idea!! We wanted to come to that class but wanted to go to the shore for a bit. Our groundhog did not emerge from under the house so weren't able to predict the rest of winter. We took a beetle hunting walk along a DNR site on the Choptank across from Cambridge. Was such fabulous day after the really ugly Friday we had.

Take care and hope to see you soon.

Jil

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Rudy
Sent: Feb 2, 2008 3:41 PM
To: WorthleyBotany@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WorthleyBotany] Groundhog siting

 

 

 

The groundhogs saw their shadows at Two Below this morning, and then were enjoyed as a tastey morsel.

 

Many thanks to Bill and Jody for their many labors to prepare Groundhog Cupcakes, following the recipe provided by Waive...

 

And if you were there, you heard the story of what actually happens when the groundhog sees his shadow.

 

Happy winter botanizing to all.

 

Hi -

Just thought I'd wish a Happy New Year to all - and send along this link
that someone recently sent me.

http://environment.independent.co.uk/nature/article3286813.ece

I just noticed the HCC has a little page about the dedication of the
garden: http://www.mdflora.org/worthleygarden_update.html

Also - I recently discovered a guy called the Lion Whisperer. There
are a number of videos of him with the lions at YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWHvdTye5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67e2qJEDrs&feature=related

--Kathy