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Rick Speer <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:19:33 -0500
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This field workshop sounds wonderful for those that have the time, interest
and $$$:

ISLE ROYALE BOTANY WORKSHOP THIS COMING JUNE 15-20!!  Experience four days
in Lake Superior's Isle Royale National Park and learn to identify the
diverse plants that live on this incredible island!

BOTANY WORKSHOP INFORMATION
This special botany workshop, sponsored by the Isle Royale and Keweenaw
Parks Association (IRKPA), and taught by botanist Janet Marr, is open to
anyone with beginning/intermediate knowledge of plant identification and who
is interested in learning to identify the early summer native flora of this
species-rich Lake Superior island.

Workshop participants will spend four days on Isle Royale learning native
plant species, using such tools as a dichotomous key and hand lens to
identify plants.  Other topics will include discussion of island plant
communities, rare species, ecology, and invasive species.

Workshop activities will take place mostly outdoors.  Optional evening
sessions will also be offered to review plants learned earlier.  Field trips
will include Tobin Harbor, Scoville Point, and Raspberry Island, places that
are all located in the vicinity of Rock Harbor.

Workshop attendees will meet in Houghton, Michigan, on Monday (15 June)
afternoon and travel from Houghton to Rock Harbor (on Isle Royale) on the
Ranger III boat on Tuesday (16 June).  Participants will return to Houghton
on the Ranger III on Saturday (20 June).

REQUIREMENTS
Workshop participants should be able to hike up to 7 miles in one day with a
daypack on rocky, sometimes steep, trails and bedrock, sometimes slippery,
shoreline.

INSTRUCTOR
Botanist Janet Marr, the workshop instructor, has had many years of
experience studying plants across Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Isle
Royale.  Janet taught the 2007 and 2008 Isle Royale botany workshops as well
as many botany and aquatic plants workshops in Michigan's Keweenaw
Peninsula.  She is co-author of the Isle Royale Natural History
Association's Island Life, an Isle Royale Nature Guide.

ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS.  Last year's botany workshop
filled up very quickly so sign up soon!  Contact Jill Burkland at
906-482-7860 or [log in to unmask]  for more information or to register for
the workshop.  PARTICIPANTS NEED TO PRE-REGISTER AND SEND A $100 DEPOSIT TO
BE RECEIVED BY 1 MAY 2009 to Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks Association,
Attn:  Jill Burkland, 800 East Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, MI  49931  in
order to attend this workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
A four-day long photography workshop taught by professional photographer and
IRKPA Board President Bob Guiliani immediately follows the botany workshop.
Contact Jill Burkland at 906-482-7860  or  [log in to unmask]  for
information on the photography workshop.  Costs for the workshops are
below.  Consider taking both the botany and photography workshops!

FEES
Botany workshop:  $600 ($575 for IRKPA members;
see http://irnha.org/  for information on becoming a IRKPA member)

Photography workshop:  $600 ($575 for IRKPA members;
see http://irnha.org/  for information on becoming a IRKPA member)

Both workshops:  $1100 (for everyone)

The fee for the botany workshop covers instruction, camping, meals on the
island, hand lens, notebook, Slavick/Janke's Flora of Isle Royale, and
transportation to and from the island on the Ranger III.  Participants may
travel from Grand Portage, Minnesota, on the Voyager at their own expense.
See  http://www.isleroyaleboats.com/ for Voyager info.

LODGING/CAMPING
Participants may camp for free at a Rock Harbor group site for the four
nights on the island.  You may also stay in the Rock Harbor Lodge or
Housekeeping units at your own expense (consider sharing a room with another
participant or friend to reduce your lodging cost).  For information about
lodging (at Rock Harbor Lodge or Housekeeping units), boat rentals, etc.,
please see:  http://www.isleroyaleresort.com/  or call  866-644-2003 (winter
season) or 906-337-4993 (summer season).

For information about Isle Royale National Park, see their home page at
http://www.nps.gov/isro/  or call  906-482-0984.


If you know of someone who may be interested in hearing about these Isle
Royale workshops, that would be great if you would be able to pass this
announcement on to them.  A color flier showing a calypso flower
photographed by a participant in last year's botany workshop is attached and
could be posted.  Thank you!

If you would prefer not to receive any emails in the future about this
workshop, please reply to this email, and we'll remove your name from the
mailing list.

Janet Marr

email:  [log in to unmask]  or  [log in to unmask]
phone:  906-337-5529
23180 Highway Rd.
Calumet, MI   49913

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