| NATURE NOTES - 1984 | ||
| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| BOTANY | ||
| Jan. 84 | Heinze, Dorothy | The Trees of the U. K., or The Education of a Tourist |
| Jan. 84 | Christ, Art | Puncture Vine or Caltrop (Tribulus terrestris) |
| Feb. 84 | Christ, Art | Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) |
| Mar. 84 | Christ, Art | Miterwort (Mitella diphylla) |
| Apr. 84 | Christ, Art | Wild Hyacinth (Camassia scilloides) |
| May. 84 | Christ, Art | Zizia or Thaspium? |
| Summ. 84 | Christ, Art | Myosotis Stricta Found In Missouri |
| Sep. 84 | Christ, Art | Anemone Quinquefolia Found in Missouri |
| Oct. 84 | Christ, Art | False Aster (Boltonia) |
| Nov. 84 | Christ, Art | Verbesina (Crown-Beard) |
| Nov. 84 | Smith, Winnie | Lichens |
| Dec. 84 | Wiegman, Paul G. | Galaxies of Starflowers |
| Dec. 84 | Christ, Art | Parthenium (Feverfew) |
| CONSERVATION | ||
| Jan.84 | Clean Air Act: Efforts to improve have stalled. Grassroots | |
| support needed to budge Congress off center | ||
| Feb. 84 | Sutherland, Carol S. | The Need for Wilderness |
| Feb. 84 | Now Available: Proceedings of the Seventh North American | |
| Prairie Conference, held Aug. 4-6, 1980 in Springfield,Missouri | ||
| Feb. 84 | Turner, Joanne | Wanted: Letters from WGNSS members to show interest in and |
| support for proposed state legislation to protect threatened and | ||
| endangered animals and plants in Missouri. | ||
| Feb. 84 | Inman, Virgil | Smoke-Life Threatening-Then and Now: Carrier of acid rain. |
| Mar. 84 | Coles, Dick | Should St. Louis "Adopt a (Wildlife) Refuge?" |
| Mar. 84 | Population Workshop, Saturday, March 21, Missouri | |
| Botanical Garden | ||
| Mar. 84 | Forest Park Nature Trail Clean-up Day (March 17, sponsored | |
| by WGNSS for a Kennedy Woods Trail) | ||
| ORNITHOLOGY | ||
| Jan. 84 | Why Do Most White Birds Have Black Wingtips? | |
| Jan. 84 | Peters, Mark | Fall 1983 Raptor Migration-St. Louis Area |
| Jan. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | November Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Jan. 84 | Swan's Song: Mute swan shot over Sousley Lake, Ind. | |
| Jan. 84 | Blaine Ulmer has Backyard-Bird-of-the-Year: An American coot. | |
| Feb. 84 | Russell, Skip | A Look Back at 1983 Birding |
| Feb. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | December Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Feb. 84 | 1983 WGNSS's 200 Bird Club: Forty-two members; Viola Bucholtz | |
| on top wih 270 species sighted.in the 50 mile area. | ||
| Feb. 84 | Wiese, Mary | The Suet-eaters - Jan. 1, 1984 |
| Mar. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | January Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Apr. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | February Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Apr. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | Documentation of Extraordinary Sight Records: List of |
| species that need adequate documentation. | ||
| Apr. 84 | Heinze, Dorothy | Our Jefferson County Free Loaders: Birds at feeders. |
| Apr. 84 | Ziebol, Jim | Sharp-shinned or Cooper's Hawk? |
| May. 84 | Cary, Diana L. | A Stronghold for Pheasants: In St. Charles county |
| May. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | March Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Summ. 84 | Coles, Richard W. | All That Jizz: About bird identification |
| Summ. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | April Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Summ. 84 | Big Day - May 5 | |
| Summ. 84 | Peters, Mark | Spring Hawk Migration - 1984 |
| Summ. 84 | Struckhoff, Joe | What WGNSS Means To Me |
| Sep. 84 | Hallett, Floyd P. | Alle Die Gestalt, or Twinkle, Twinkle Little Lania: About bird |
| identification | ||
| Sep. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | Late Spring and Summer Birding |
| Sep. 84 | Peters, Mark | Hawkwatch |
| Sep. 84 | Loss of Rare Bird (Whooping Crane) Raises Question | |
| Sep. 84 | Laffey, Dr. Ralph W. | The Almost-Silent Spring: Deplores the absence of bird singing. |
| Oct. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | August Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Oct. 84 | Hallett, Floyd P. | Along the Rio Grande |
| Nov. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | September Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Nov. 84 | Rudden, Bill | East St. Louis Heron Colony Report |
| Dec. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | October Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Dec. 84 | Bodman, Rose Ann | Note From Rose Ann Bodman: Road kill can provide information |
| about birds not commonly seen in the St. Louis Area | ||
| Dec. 84 | Anderson, Dick | Arctic Loon - First Record for St. Louis Area |
| PEOPLE | ||
| Feb. 84 | Balsiger, Yvonne | Mildred M. Scudder 1922-1983: We knew her as Mickey |
| Mar. 84 | James P. Jackson has completed a new book to be published | |
| in February 1984. It's title is "Passages of a Stream: A | ||
| Chronicle of the Meramec". | ||
| May. 84 | Denison, Edgar | Review of "Passages of a Stream, A Chronicle of the Meramec, |
| by James P. Jackson, published March 1, 1984. | ||
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||
| Feb. 84 | Curtis, Jim | Forest Park Master Plan |
| Mar. 84 | Heinze, Dorothy | No Paleolithic Vibes (Megaliths, etc., in Ireland and elsewhere) |
| Apr. 84 | Curtis, Jim | Time to Stand Up and Be Counted: On the St. Louis City |
| Zoo-Farm Bill | ||
| Oct. 84 | Sutherland, Carol S. | The Missouri Natural Heritage Survey: What it is and how it works. |
| Oct. 84 | Wegmann, Larry | In Memory of Hidden Valley |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| Mar. 84 | Nominations for WGNSS Officers (for 1984-85) | |
| President: David Ulmer | ||
| 1st. Vice-President - Richard Coles | ||
| 2nd Vice-President - Carol Loewe | ||
| Secretary - Carol Sutherland | ||
| Treasurer - Katherine Chambers | ||
| Nominating committee comprised of Dorothy Cole, Eugenia | ||
| Larson and Mary Wiese; election will take place at the March | ||
| general meeting. | ||
| Sep. 84 | What You Get For Your Bucks in WGNSS | |
| Oct. 84 | Constitutional Amendment: Draft of amendment to WGNSS | |
| Constitution to allow WGNSS to seek tax exempt status; | ||
| action precipitated by Scudder gift of more than $10,000 to | ||
| establish a memorial scholarship for Mickey Scudder | ||
| Dec. 84 | Sutherland, Carol S. | Notes from the Editor: I am taking over editorship of Nature |
| Notes from the Hallets. | ||
| SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | ||
| Mar. 84 | Michael Skinner, WGNSS Audubon Camp scholarship recipient, | |
| presented a program at the WGNSS general meeting on Mar. 9; | ||
| see below. | ||
| Oct. 84 | Feldman, Tracy | Audubon Camp - West: Tracy, our scholarship recipient, sends |
| a letter of thanks and a description of Audubon Camp West | ||
| MEETINGS | ||
| Jan. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, Jan. 13, 8 PM, St. Louis | |
| Couny Library, Lindbergh and Clayton. Dr. Ted Anderson, Dean | ||
| of McKendree College wll speak on "The Eurasian Tree Sparrow -- | ||
| A St. Louis Bird". | ||
| Feb. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, Feb. 10, 8 PM, St. Louis | |
| County Library. J. Marshall and Ernestine Magner will present: | ||
| "Nesting Birds and Spring Wild Flowers in Alaska". | ||
| Mar. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, March 9, 8 pm, St. Louis | |
| Country Library: Two parts: First Part, by Michael Skinner, | ||
| recipient of WGNSS Audubon Camp Scholarship, entitled: | ||
| "An Experience at the Audubon Nature Camp in Connecticut"; | ||
| Second Part: National Audubon Society's slide program - | ||
| "Adopt-a-Refuge" | ||
| May. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, May 11, 8 PM, at St. Louis | |
| County Library. Eugenia Larson and Carmen Patterson will | ||
| present a slide show: Mono Lake - A Special Ecosystem | ||
| Under Siege | ||
| Sep. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, Sept. 14, 8 PM, at St. Louis | |
| County Library. Dr. Bill Tietjen, Asst. Prof. of Biology at | ||
| Lindenwood College, will talk on "The World of Spiders". | ||
| Oct. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, Oct. 12, 8 PM, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Tim Barksdale will speak on the birds of the | ||
| Missouri Floodplain at Overton and plans to establish a Missouri | ||
| Bird Observatory at this location | ||
| Nov. 84 | WGNSS general meeting, Friday, Nov. 9, St. Louis County | |
| Library, Ron Goellner of the St. Louis Zoo will present "A Visit | ||
| to Stephens Island, New Zealand, the Home of the Tuatara" | ||
| BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS | ||
| Mar. 84 | Richardson, Marjorie | WGNSS Annual Banquet, Flaming Pit Banquet Center, 11715 |
| Manchester Rd.; Speaker, Dr. Peter Raven, Dir. of Missouri | ||
| Botanical Garden, to speak on "Drifting Continents, Biota in | ||
| Motion". | ||
| Apr. 84 | Richardson, Marjorie | WGNSS Annual Banquet (same as above) |
| Dec. 84 | Annual Christmas Party! At Albert and Karen Haller's house, | |
| 618 Spring Meadows, 8 PM | ||