| NATURE NOTES - 1980 | ||
| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| BOTANY | ||
| Jan. 80 | Christ, Art | Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum Thalictroides |
| Feb. 80 | Haller, Karen S. | Journey to the Sunklands |
| Feb. 80 | Christ, Art | Leaf-cup (Polymnia) |
| Mar. 80 | Christ, Art | The Rue Anemones |
| Apr. 80 | Clhrist, Art | And Now There Are 109: Announced discovery of a new species |
| of Carex, one not listed in Steyermark's Flora | ||
| Apr. 80 | Menke, Nell | Who Knows Where or When (the first spring flowers will emerge) |
| May. 80 | Christ, Art | Penny Cress (Thlaspi) |
| Summ. 80 | Christ, Art | Some Rare Plants of Southwestern Missouri |
| Sep. 80 | Christ, Art | Barbara's Buttons (Marshallia Caespitosa) |
| Oct. 80 | Christ, Art | Clammy Cuphea (Cuphea Petiolata) |
| Nov. 80 | Christ, Art | Rare Variety of Water Hemlock (Cicuta Maculata) Found in |
| Missouri | ||
| Dec. 80 | Christ, Art | Crested Coral Root Orchid (Hexalectris Spicata) |
| CONSERVATION | ||
| Feb. 80 | Curley, Pat and Hipps, Jane | Deer Creek Clean-up: The City of Webster Groves is planning to |
| clean up 2.8 miles of Deer Creek on April 19 as a potential site for | ||
| a St. Louis County linear park. | ||
| Feb. 80 | Mastodon Park Committee Seeks to Preserve (Victoria) Glade | |
| Apr. 80 | Suipport the Tsonga-Roth Bill on Alaska: Write letters of support | |
| to Senator John C. Danforth | ||
| ENTOMOLOGY | ||
| May. 80 | Coles, Richard | FRAS is a 4-Letter Word: The word for caterpillar excrement that |
| in May falls like a gentle rain on the forest floor. | ||
| Oct. 80 | Sullivan, Fr. Jim | New Species (--of Beetle) Discovered on Botany Trip |
| ORNITHOLOGY | ||
| Jan. 80 | Rudden, Bill | First St. Louis Sighting of a McCown's Longspur |
| Jan. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | November Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Jan. 80 | Color Marked Herring Gulls: The gulls have been marked with | |
| numbered and colored ribbons. Please report any you see. | ||
| Jan. 80 | Busch Shorebird Area Nears Completion: The 35 acre shorebird | |
| area…will cost $200,000 | ||
| Feb. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | 1979 Birding Has Few Highlights |
| Feb. 80 | Anderson, Dick | Squaw Creek and the Ross' Goose |
| Feb. 80 | Quest for 700 Birds Fall Sort of the Mark: James Vardaman, | |
| seeking to be te first birder to sight 700 species of birds in one | ||
| year in North America had to settle for 698 | ||
| Feb. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | December Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Mar. 80 | Rudden, Bill | There is a Jaeger at the (Alton) Dam |
| Mar. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | January Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Apr. 80 | Coles, Richard | Winter at Tyson |
| Apr. 80 | Kridelbaugh, Alan L. | Loggerhead Shrike Study: The Missouri Dept. of Fisheries and |
| Wildlife is planning a study of loggerhead shrikes, prompted by | ||
| a population decline. | ||
| Apr. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | February Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Apr. 80 | Spener, Claudia | Note from Texas (about birding with former WGNSS Editors |
| Kay and Ernie Mueller) | ||
| May. 80 | Bever, Emily | Birds of the City of St. Louis |
| May. 80 | The Steel Shot Decision: Protest action by Conservation | |
| Commissioners in overruling the MDC staff and rescinding the | ||
| state's regulations requiring steel shot for waterfowl hunting. | ||
| May. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | March Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| May. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | The William Rudden Heron Colony: So designated by Cornell |
| University | ||
| Summ. 80 | Ulmer, Blaine A. | Baja for Whales (and birds) |
| Summ. 80 | Coles, Richard | Standing on the Corner (of Highways W and FF, south of Eureka) |
| Summ. 80 | Rudden, Bill | Missouri Year List Record Broken (by Tim Barksdale, with 283 |
| species) | ||
| Summ. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | Spring Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Summ. 80 | Bever, Emily | Squaw Creek Treasurer's Report (of the WGNSS Rail Group |
| field trip) | ||
| Summ. 80 | WGNSS Contributes ($500) to Eagle Propagation Program | |
| Sep. 80 | Wiese, Mary | Ecuador - February, 1980 (with Phoebe Snetsinger) |
| Sep. 80 | Cary, Diana | Pheasant Project at Marais Temps Clair Wildlife Area |
| Sep. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | Late Spring and Summer Birding |
| Oct. 80 | Wrischnik, Lucas | 1980 Heron Rookery Census (by Illinois Audubon Society, Dick |
| Anderson and Phoebe Snetsinger) | ||
| Oct. 80 | Wiese, Mary | The Rockpile in October |
| Oct. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | August Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Oc. 80 | Denison, Edgar | Birding in a (Yard) Shower. Birds reaction to a shower is |
| close to orgiastic. | ||
| Nov. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | September Birding |
| Nov. 80 | Wuestenfeld, Helen | Broadwing Big Day |
| Dec. 80 | Hallett, Floyd | (Birding at) Yellow Dog Plains (in Michigan) |
| Dec. 80 | Cary, Diana | Volunteers Needed (by Mo. Dept. of Conservation) for Pheasant |
| Research | ||
| Dec. 80 | Bodman, Rose Ann | October Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| PEOPLE | ||
| Feb. 80 | WGNSS members Bertha and Joel Massey were recently given | |
| the Oak Leaf Award by the Nature Conservancy | ||
| Apr. 80 | Pickel, Frances | Happy 60th Birthday WGlNSS!! Historical musings by a lady |
| who attended the first meeting of the Society in 1920 | ||
| May. 80 | The William Rudden Heron Colony: So designated by Cornell | |
| University | ||
| Summ. 80 | Pickel, Frances | Thanks for the honorary membership in WGNSS; it has been a joy |
| to be associated with a group which has worthy priorities…. | ||
| Summ. 80 | Rudden, Bill | Missouri Year List Record Broken (by Tim Barksdale, with 283 |
| species) | ||
| Sep. 80 | Magner, J. Marshall | Burrell Lawlass Pickering - 1905-1980 (Excellent biography) |
| Oct. 80 | Eisendrath, Erna | Excerpt from letter of Jan Saunders of the Missouri Botanical |
| Garden who was sent by the Mo. Bot. Garden to work under | ||
| Julian Steyermark's supervision and his delight with a trophy | ||
| awarded him by WGNSS | ||
| Dec. 80 | Magner, J. Marshall | Jennie Baker Comfort - 1893-1980 (with biographical data) |
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||
| Sep. 80 | Denison, Edgar | Volcanic Ash - What Is It? |
| Oct. 80 | A new kind of sunflower seed (black oilseeds) has recently | |
| become available. Birds at Cornell's Lab have shown a preference | ||
| for them (and they're cheaper). | ||
| Nov. 80 | Coles, Richard W. | On the Identification of Road Kill: A Monograph |
| Nov. 80 | A collection of Animal Collectives (e.g., a murder of crows) | |
| Dec. 80 | More DOR, "The Dude": More about roadside viewing, inspired | |
| by Richard Coles's monograph about identifification of | ||
| road kill; deals with identification of inanimate species such as | ||
| Fanbeltus inerruptus and Semihemisphere tyrensis. | ||
| ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| Jan. 80 | Amendment to By-Laws Proposed: The WGNSS Executive Board | |
| is recommending an amendment to the by-laws whereby group | ||
| chairmen (currently botany, lower plants and ornithology) may | ||
| vote on board actions. | ||
| Jan. 80 | Welcome to New Members (8 total) | |
| Feb. 80 | Welcome to New Members (8 total) | |
| Mar. 80 | Report from tnhe Nominating Committee: The Committee, | |
| Majorie Richardson, Chair, plus Ernestine Magner and Fred | ||
| Rueggseger, proposed the following slate: | ||
| President - Blaine Ulmer | ||
| First V. P. - John Molyneaux | ||
| Second V. P. - Marilyn Higgins | ||
| Secretary - Eugenia Larson | ||
| Treasurer Audrey Anderson | ||
| Editor - Claudia Spener | ||
| Mar. 80 | New Members 15, including William Knowles, a future Nobel | |
| Laureate in Chemistry and husband of Nancy Cherbonnier Knowles | ||
| May. 80 | Welcome New Members: (14 total) | |
| Summ. 80 | Welcome New Members (24 total) | |
| Sep. 80 | WGNSS Welcomes the Following Members (11 total) | |
| Nov. 80 | New Members (21 total) | |
| Dec. 80 | Membership Survey: To determine what changes, if any, you | |
| would like to be incorporated in WGNSS programs. To be returned | ||
| to Treasurer with membership renewal. (At rear of issue) | ||
| SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | ||
| Jan. 80 | Haller, Karen | WGNSS Offers Scholarship to Audubon Camp |
| May. 80 | Mandelstamm, Ann | Thanks for the 1980 Scholarship to the Audubon Ecology Camp. |
| It was spent in Wyoming. | ||
| Nov. 80 | Mandelstamm, Ann | How I Spent My Summer Vacation (at the Audubon Ecology Camp |
| in Wyoming) | ||
| MEETINGS | ||
| Jan. 80 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Jan. 11, St. Louis | |
| County Library, Lindbergh at Clayton ; Dr. Richard Coles, | ||
| Dir. of Tyson Research Center, will present: Bird Banding, | ||
| Bat Hibernation, and Snake Thermal Regulation | ||
| Mar. 80 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, March 14, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Jim Jackson, author and biology teacher at | ||
| the Washington, MO high school, will talk on "Life of the White | ||
| Oak" | ||
| May. 80 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, May 9, St. Louis | |
| County Library; Dr. Owen Sexton of Washington University will tell | ||
| us about Salamanders. | ||
| Sep. 80 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Sept. 12, St. Louis | |
| County Library; Dr. Gail Ludwig of the Geography Dept. of | ||
| the University of Missouri will speak on "1980 - The Year of the | ||
| (Missosuri) River". | ||
| Oct. 80 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday Oct. 10, St. Louis | |
| County Library; speaker will be David Tylka, Urban Biologist for | ||
| the Missouri Dept. of Conservation, who will give a slide show | ||
| on "Backyard Wildlife". | ||
| Nov. 80 | Joint Meeting with St. Louis Audubon at the Ethical Society, | |
| 9001 Clayton Road. Program will be an Audubon Wildlife film | ||
| entitled "Galapagos". 8:15 PM, Friday, Nov. 14 | ||
| BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS | ||
| Mar. 80 | April 11 - Save This Date - April 11: for the WGNSS annual dinner | |
| at the Swiss Inn. Walter Liddell will show us slides on his recent | ||
| trip to Argentina. | ||
| WGNSS Annual Banquet at The Swiss Inn, 2401 Brentwood. | ||
| Apr. 80 | Douglas, Victor | Walter and Vivian Liddell will present program: Iguacu Falls |
| (Argentina) to Tierra Del Fuego | ||
| Dec. 80 | WGNSS Annual Christmas Party, Friday, Dec. 12, 7:30 PM, at the | |
| home of Karen and Albert Haller | ||