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