Articles from Past Issues of Kelseya, Our Quarterly Newsletter

Spring 2008 Montana’s Fossil Forest Journey by Robyn Klein Project Budburst by Paul Alaback Winter 2008 Opinion: Beartooth Travel Management DEIS by Don Heinze Will Plants Run Your Car? by Peter Lesica Windflower Native Plant Nursery: Re-establishing Native Plants in NW Montana by Betty Kuropat Spring 2007 20th Anniversary Celebration: MNPS Annual Meeting at Georgetown by Scott Mincemoyer Focus on Westscape Wholesale Nursery: Native and Adapted Plants for the Northern Rockies by Linda Iverson Stuck Between a Squirrel and a Hot Place by Peter Lesica

Winter 2007 Kelseya uniflora and Francis Kelsey by Kathy Ahlenslager and Peter Lesica Phylogenetic position of Kelseya based on molecular data by Dan Potter and Shannon Still

Fall 2006 Fabulous, Fantastic Frasera Facts by Kelly Chadwick Natural Prairie Holds Key to Sustainable Fuels by Deane Morrison Montana Conservation Assessment for Spalding's Catchfly from the Montana Natural Heritage Program

Summer 2006 Can Botanists Be Bought? by Jim Habeck Focus on Valley Nursery by  Patrick Plantenberg and Kathy Lloyd What's a Tree to Do? by Adam Siepielski

Spring 2006 Auspicious Beginnings by Rebecca Durham Jove's Buttercup Found in the Pryors by Clayton McCracken My Favorite Garden Plants by Sheila Morrison

Winter 2006 Montana's Plant Species of Concern: From Acoris to Zizia by Scott Mincemoyer Natives in the Winter Garden by Linda Iverson

Fall 2005 Al Joyes Receives the MNPS Outstanding Service Award by the Awards Committee Flower Creek Restoration Project: A Small Grant Report by Vicky Lawrence A Book Reviewof Wildflowers of Glacier National Park and Surrounding Areas (S. Fitzpatrick Kimball and P. Lesica; Published by Trillium Press)  by Annie Garde & Diane Hafeman The Da Vinci Code in Gardening by Steven Bartlett

Summer 2005 Landscaping with Native Grasses by Mark Majerus MONTU Awarded National Science Foundation Grant by Peter Lesica and Elizabeth Crone UM Native Plant Gardeners Honored by Kelly Chadwick

Spring 2005 Orchid Seed Longevity by Dee Strickler Are Spring Flowers Blooming Earlier in Montana? by Sharon Eversman Pollinators and Predators by Peter Lesica Prunus pensylvanica at the Lewis and Clark Herbarium by H. Wayne Phillips Winter 2005 Riparian Forests of the Upper Missouri Wild and Scenic River by Greg Kudray Weed Watch List by Kathy Lloyd New Native Plant Display Garden at ZooMontana by Sandy King Fall 2004 A Little Mustard that Looks for Land Mines by Peter Lesica Peatlands Need Bigger Buffers to Protect Species by Marc Jones SW Montana Plant Surveys Yield New Finds by Sue Crispin Summer 2004 Asters retreat to Eurasia by Robert Dorn Spring 2004 Chapter Reports from the Chapters!   Spring 2004 MNPS Encourages the Forest Service to Limit Roads and Weeds by Kathy Lloyd Lewis and Clark Plants Coming to Montana Historical Society Native Landscape News by Linda Iverson Tree Planting Group Makes Committment to Native Plants by Janet Ellis Winter 2004 An Agropyron by any other name... is still a wheatgrass by Peter Lesica and Matt Lavin Green Wheatgrass: Reclamation Savior or Ecological Demon? by Garth Wruck, reprinted from Native Plant News, the newsletter of the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan Inc. Seed and Restoration Special Edition, 2003 Fall 2003 Native Plants and Agriculture...Can they co-exist? by Helen Atthowe Did Native Americans Have Use For Algae? by Johan H. Dormaar Montana's National Forests... Natives and Weeds by Anne Banks Summer 2003 Owl clover leads a complex life by Jim Habeck Line Creek Plateau Research Natural Area by Steve Shelly Montana Native Plant Society and the Nursery and Landscape Association team up to stop the introduction of invasive plants by Peter Lesica

Spring 2003 Who says plants don't move? by Peter Lesica The release of three native plants announced by Leslie Marty Small grants advance conservation of Montana's native flora by Cathie Jean

Winter 2003 Mosses- Biological antifreeze? by Joe Elliot Keeping Track- notes on keeping an illustrated journal by Lyn Baldwin

Fall 2002 Range extensions for two Montana plants by Matt Lavin and Robyn Klein Of moss and men by Joe Elliot Summer 2002 What good is a sterile stamen? by Peter Lesica Protecting our natural heritage by Kim Goodwin and Roger Sheley