| NATURE NOTES - 1976 | ||
| P. 1 of the Feb. 76 issue is designated as Jan. 76 | ||
| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| BOTANY | ||
| Jan. 76 | Christ, Art | The Grass Family |
| Feb. 76 | Christ, Art | The Sedge Family |
| Feb. 76 | Wiese, Mary | A Robin is Not a Robin: Problems of an American birder in Europe |
| Mar. 76 | Denison, Edgar | The Crowfoot Family (with illustrations) |
| Mar. 76 | Christ, Art | The Rush Family |
| Apr. 76 | Denison, Edgar | Ranunculaceae in Missouri |
| Apr. 76 | Christ, Art | The Birch Family |
| May. 76 | Christ, Art | Waterleaf Species in Missouri |
| Jun. 76 | Christ, Art | The Lady Slipper Orchid |
| Sep. 76 | Christ, Art | Interesting Plants of Taney County |
| Sep. 76 | Christ, Art | Queen of the Prairie (a rare plant found by John Molyneaux) |
| Oct. 76 | Christ, Art | August Field Trip to Southwest Missouri |
| Nov. 76 | Christ, Art | Hawkweed (Hieracium) |
| Dec. 76 | Delgnan, Gail | The North Woods with Peg (Feigley) and Lil (Nagel): Lower plants |
| along Minnesota's North Shore. | ||
| Dec. 76 | Christ, Art | Walnut (Juglans) |
| CONSERVATION | ||
| Feb. 76 | Denison, Edgar | Wilderness Endangered in Missouri: U.S. Forest Service has |
| scheduled immediate lumbering in areas to be designated as | ||
| wilderness areas; contact your representatives in Congress. | ||
| Mar. 76 | From the Open Space Council: The Alpha Portland Cement Co. | |
| has appealed a unanimous adverse decision of the St. Louis | ||
| County Planning Commission for a pemit to extract sand and | ||
| gravel from 500 acres adjoining the new State Park along the | ||
| Meramec River and Lone Elk Park. Write your Councilmen | ||
| Mar. 76 | Mastodon Park Benefit Dance | |
| May. 76 | Mastodon Park Update | |
| Sep. 76 | Mastodon State Park: History was made on Aug. 4 as | |
| Governor Bond presented a Check for $200,000 to members of | ||
| the Mastodon Park Committee (Mesdames Rita Naes, Marilyn | ||
| King, Hazel Lee and Dorothy Heinze) who spearheaded the | ||
| effort to preserve the site as a state park | ||
| Nov. 76 | Meramec Dam: Governor Bond's decision to support a referendum | |
| on the Meramec Dam is a major victory. | ||
| ORNITHOLOGY | ||
| Jan. 76 | Comfort, Jim | Effect of A.B.A. Checklist on One Man's Bird Lists (printed |
| posthumously) | ||
| Jan. 76 | Spener, Claudia | Where To Bird in Nassau |
| Jan. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area November Birding |
| Feb. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area December Birding |
| Feb. 76 | Erb, Frank J. | The Birds of the Month, July-Dec., 1975 (illustration) |
| Feb. 76 | Heinze, Dorothy B. | Notes from a Mt. Olympus Diary |
| Mar. 76 | Comfort,J. Earl | St. Louis Area January Birding |
| Mar. 76 | Spener, Claudia | Winter Birding in Chicago |
| Mar. 76 | Spener, Claudia | Guides to Chicago Area Birding |
| Apr. 76 | Hallett, Vi | Dotterel in the Bone Yard: On Gambel, St. Lawrence Island, |
| 45 miles from Siberia | ||
| Apr. 76 | Guide to Finding Birds in the St. Louis Area by Richard | |
| Anderson and Paul Bauer is available for $1.25 from the | ||
| Treasurer, John Molyneaux | ||
| Apr. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area February Birding |
| Apr. 76 | Anderson, Dick | Busch Wildlife Christmas Count (includes a detailed tabulation) |
| May. 76 | Laffey, Dr. Ralph | Birds in European Cities |
| May. 76 | Spaans, Arie L. | During 1976-77 the Surinam Forest Service plans to trap and band |
| large numbers of semi-palmated and least sand pipers. | ||
| May. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area Birding in March |
| Jun. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area April Birding |
| Sep. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | Summer Birding Around St.Louis |
| Sep. 76 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Ecuadorian Adventure |
| Oct. 76 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Magic of the Galapagos |
| Oct. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area August Birding |
| Oct. 76 | A Guide to Finding Birds in the St. Louis Area by Richard | |
| Anderson and Paul Bauer is available for $1.25 from the | ||
| Treasurer, John Molyneaux | ||
| Oct. 76 | Richardson, Marjorie | What Scenery! What Flowers! What Birds! A tale of a camping |
| trip. | ||
| Nov. 76 | Haller, Chris K. | Growing up with the Bluebird Survey. (History of the bluebird house |
| survey at Sunny Ranch) | ||
| Nov. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area September Birding |
| Nov. 76 | Lammert, Warren | Agassiz (National Wildlife Refuge) in the Fall |
| Dec. 76 | Haller, Karen | On Suet, Etc. Dogs like it too! |
| Dec. 76 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area October Birds |
| PEOPLE | ||
| Feb. 76 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | St. Charles County in Winter: A poem |
| Feb. 76 | J. Earl Comfort | Mentions the death of his brother, James F. Comfort, on p. 9, |
| par. 3. | ||
| Feb. 76 | Magner, J. Marshall | James F. Comfort (extensive article) |
| Apr. 76 | Andy Bromet passed away on March 23, 1976. He was | |
| Editor in 1968, 1969, and 1973-74. | ||
| Jun. 76 | Spener, Claudia | Frank Erb, a Memorial |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| Jan. 76 | WGNSS Welcomes the Following New Members (15 total) | |
| Feb. 76 | Election of New Officers: The election will be held Mar. 12. The | |
| Nominating Committee has nominated the following slate: | ||
| President: Claudia Spener | ||
| 1st. V.P. - Karen Haller | ||
| 2nd V.V. - Tom Brooks | ||
| Secretary - Pat Summerfield | ||
| Treasurer - John Molyneaux | ||
| Editor - Sallie Phillips | ||
| Mar. 76 | Welcome to New WGNSS Members (19 total) | |
| Apr. 76 | "Nature Notes" Gestation and Birth: (How the issue is put | |
| together each month.) | ||
| Oct. 76 | A Partial List of New WGNSS Members (28 total) | |
| Oct. 76 | Executive Board: At its meeting in September the Board | |
| decided to contribute $150 to the Conservation Federation of | ||
| Missouri for advertising the conservation tax proposal to be on | ||
| the November ballot. It also voted to donate $100 to the Sierra | ||
| Club for the fight to stop the Meramec Dam. Amendments to | ||
| the WGNSS constitution re dues are also to be proposed. | ||
| Nov. 76 | New Members of WGNSS (17 total) | |
| MEETINGS | ||
| Jan. 76 | WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, Jan. 9, St. Louis | |
| County Library, Lindbergh at Clayton. Botany experts Art Christ, | ||
| Nell Menke, John Molyneaux, Betty Nellums and Father Sullivan | ||
| will talk about "Orchids and Lilies". | ||
| Feb. 76 | WGNSS Indoor Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, Feb. 13, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Tom Johnson of the St. Louis Zoo will lecture | ||
| and show slides of "Frogs, Toads of Missouri and Their Calls". | ||
| Mar. 76 | WGNSS Indoor Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, March 12, at St. Louis | |
| County Library. Mary Wiese will talk about "Ireland, that Ancient | ||
| Land | ||
| May. 76 | WGNSS Indoor Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, May 14, at St. Louis | |
| County Library. Walter Liddell will give the program: "The Great | ||
| American West". | ||
| Sep. 76 | WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Sept. 10, at St. Louis County | |
| Library. Program: A slide program of the slides of Dick | ||
| Grossenheider's water color paintings, by Jerry Emich, a | ||
| nephew of Dick's | ||
| Oct. 76 | WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Oct. 8, at St. Louis County | |
| Library. Joel Vance of the Missouri Dep. Of Conservation will | ||
| present a program related to the expansion purchases made by | ||
| the department. | ||
| Nov. 76 | WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Nov. 12, at the Clayton | |
| Federal Savings and Loan Bldg., Lockwood and Elm, Webster | ||
| Groves. Jerry Sugarman of the Sierra Club will give a slide | ||
| program explaining the "Meramec Alternative Plan" | ||
| BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS | ||
| Feb. 76 | WGNSS Annual Banquet, April 9 | |
| Mar. 76 | Brooks, Tom | Webster Goves Nature Study Society Annual Banquet: |
| Friday, April 9, 1975 at Heritage House Restaurant. Paul Bauer | ||
| will present a program entitled "Yucatan - Mayan Mexico". | ||
| Apr. 76 | WGNSS Annual Banquet, April 9. See above | |
| May. 76 | WGNSS Sunny Ranch Spring Outing, Sunday, May 16 | |
| Dec. 76 | WGNSS Christmas Party, 8 PM, Dec. 10, at the home of | |
| Karen and Albert Haller, 618 Spring Meadows Dr., Ballwin | ||