| NATURE NOTES - 2000 | ||
| NOTE: The June issue is incorrectly dated May 2000; | ||
| BOTANY | Items in this issue are dated May 00* | |
| Jan. 00 | Darigo, Carl | Summer Botany Trip |
| Feb. 00 | Darigo, Carl | Fall Botanizing--Sept.-Nov., 1999 |
| Apr. 00 | Get On-line with WGNSS Botany Group: The | |
| WGNSS Botany Group conducts field trips in the | ||
| greater St. Louis vicinity every Thursday | ||
| Apr. 00 | Darigo, Carl | Winter Botanizing - Dec.-Feb., 1999-2000 |
| May. 00 | On-Line WGNSS Botany Group; Group conducts field | |
| trips every Thursday | ||
| May. 00* | Get On-Line with WGNSS botany Group | |
| Sep. 00 | On-line WGNSS Botany Group | |
| Sep. 00 | Miles, Bill | The Hunt (for the Green Dragon, Arisaema dracontium) |
| Sep. 00 | Darigo, Carl | Spring Botanizing - March-May, 2000 |
| Oct. 00 | Darigo, Carl | Annual Botany Trip |
| Oct. 00 | On-line WGNSS Botany Group | |
| Nov. 00 | Berger, John | Thoughts about the Big Elm of Tower Grove (and its death) |
| Nov. 00 | Darigo, Carl | Wetlands Plant Inventory: By the Botany Group for |
| the Green Center in University City | ||
| Nov.00 | Darigo, Carl | Bryophyte Foray (at Watoga State Park in West Va. |
| Dec.00 | Darigo, Carl | Summer Botanizing - June-Aug., 2000 |
| CONSERVATION | ||
| Jan. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Issues dealt with: |
| Chip Mills in Missouri and proposal by U.S. Fish & | ||
| Wildlife Service to allow capture of wild peregrine | ||
| falcons for use in falconry | ||
| Feb. 00 | Benjamin, Dianne | Legislative Taskforce Report: Status reports on several |
| legislative issues | ||
| Feb. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Plans to create a |
| Butterfly Garden outside the new headquarters Bldg. | ||
| at Busch CA.; bird mortality caused by lighted | ||
| buildings during migration; bird electrocution by power | ||
| lines | ||
| Feb. 00 | ||
| Feb. 00 | Cornell's Top 10 Birds 1998: Project FeederWatch | |
| data for mid-central region | ||
| Feb. 00 | Frost, Robert | Dust of Snow (poem contributed by Dianne Benjamin |
| Mar. 00 | Rabenau, David | WGNSS and the Meramec Greenway Project: |
| Describes project objective. | ||
| Mar. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Covers chip mills, |
| and Benjamin, Dianne | ;plans for a Butterfly Garden at Busch CA, assistance | |
| by WGNSS in gathering data on birds, plants, and | ||
| butterflies on county park lands, including Little Creve | ||
| Marsh/Lake, and the sharing of WGNSS expertise in | ||
| the design and management of Little Creve Coeur/ | ||
| Marsh Lake | ||
| Apr. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Topics dealt with are |
| Heron rookery on East side in danger; birds killed | ||
| by communications towers/lighted buildings, the | ||
| Dick Anderson Memorial Fountain in Forest Park | ||
| completed; planning continues on Butterfly Garden | ||
| at Busch CA outside the new headquarters bldg. | ||
| Apr. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Secret MDC Chip Mill Study |
| May. 00 | Fish & Wildlife Habitat Restoration at Swan Lake; | |
| Lake drawdown this summer will affect fishing and | ||
| boating. | ||
| May. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Topics dealt with |
| Include Butterfly Garden at Busch CA, parking lots | ||
| at Gateway International Raceway affect wetland | ||
| birding areas | ||
| May 00* | Benjamin, Dianne | Creve Coeur Park--A Cautionary Tale: The |
| effect of building a road through the park, from a Post- | ||
| Dispatch article | ||
| May. 00* | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Covers the Busch CA |
| butterfly garden, the Rookery near Alorton/Centreville, the | ||
| tower kill of birds, and request for Important Bird Area | ||
| listing for several local birding spots | ||
| Sep. 00 | Korotev, Randy | 2nd Annual "free the Kennedy Woods" (of bush |
| honeysuckle) on November 12 | ||
| Sep. 00 | Benjamin, Dianne | Excerpts from Desert Solitaire: A Season in the |
| Wilderness, by Edward Abbey, 1968: The National | ||
| Audubon Society listed Abbey as one of their 100 | ||
| Conservation Champions of the 20th Century | ||
| Oct. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Kennedy Woods Honeysuckle Harvest |
| Oct. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne | Conservation Committee Report: Covers blackbird |
| poisoning campaign, the coastal plain of the Arctic | ||
| Refuge as a National Monument, chip mills | ||
| Nov. 00 | Renick, Susan | Hog Island (nature camp) |
| Nov. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Kennedy Woods Honeysuckle (Harvest) |
| ENTOMOLOGY | ||
| Apr. 00 | Sullivan, Fr. James | Butterfly Update: Correction of earlier report about |
| butterfly reported in Greensfelder County Park | ||
| May. 00 | North American Butterfly Association: The | |
| St. Louis area now has a chapter; schedule of | ||
| events given | ||
| May.00 | Entomology Events this Summer | |
| May 00* | Butterfly Counts: Volunteers needed for the | |
| Annual Statewide Butterfly Count | ||
| May 00* | Homeyer, Yvonne | Butterflying Takes Flight: NABA now has a St. Louis |
| Chapter | ||
| ORNITHOLOGY | ||
| Jan. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Busch Xmas Count |
| Jan. 00 | Bauer, Paul | Join the Mingo Xmas BirdCount--Can We Beat 101? |
| Jan. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | November 1999 Birding Report |
| Jan. 00 | Mondhink, Irene | Birds of Nov. at Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge |
| Jan. 00 | Hanes, Lou | Ground Hawks of Dobbs Road |
| Jan. 00 | Widmann, Otto | Some Bird Lore from 1907: Covers Leconte's Sparrow, |
| Nelson's (Sharp-tailed) Sparrow | ||
| Jan. 00 | Korotev, Randy | For Sale--Bird Books & Spotting Scope (donated by |
| Nancy Van Benthuysen), proceeds to be used for | ||
| a memorial to Jack | ||
| Jan. 00 | Bauer, Paul | St. Louis Area Bird Book, rev. Edition: Where they |
| can be purchased in the St. Louis area | ||
| Feb. 00 | Malone, Charlene | Calling all Bird Sightings: Query about whether a |
| specified list of birds was seen in 1999 | ||
| Feb. 00 | McCormack, Anne | Year List brings 15 Minutes (of fame, if your name is |
| added; includes name of past record holders) | ||
| Feb. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Orchard Farm Xmas Bird Count |
| Feb. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | December 1999 Birding Report |
| Feb. 00 | Cornell's Top 10 Birds 1998: The top ten feeder | |
| birds of the mid-central region | ||
| Feb. 00 | Widmann, Otto | Some Bird Lore from 1907 - Covers the Bald Eagle |
| Mar. 00 | Berger, Torrey | My Year List '99 |
| Mar. 00 | Year Lists of Birds Seen in the St. Louis Area '99 | |
| (lists for sixteen individuals) | ||
| Mar. 00 | Benjamin, Dianne | King Rail Rules--Best Bird of 1999 |
| Mar. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Boschertown Eurasian Tree Sparrows: Farmer upset |
| by birders on his farm | ||
| Mar. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Bird Book Update: $10,000 loan from Audubon for |
| publishing revised edition of Birds of the St. Louis | ||
| Area repaid in full | ||
| Mar. 00 | Widmann, Otto | Some Bird Lore from 1907 - Covers the American Crow |
| Mar. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | January 2000 Birding Report |
| Apr. 00 | Flier, Vicki | Get Connected To The Earth with Audubon: Become |
| a volunteer for the 30th Anniversary of Earth Day | ||
| observance | ||
| Apr. 00 | Oops! I make the faux-pas! (Corrected year lists for '99) | |
| Apr. 00 | McFall, Bob & Frances | Winter Birding in Texas |
| Apr. 00 | Malone, Jim & Charlene | St. Louis Audubon Joint Bird Walks with WGNSS |
| this spring (schedule) | ||
| Apr. 00 | Mondhink, Irene | Pere Marquette and Mark Twain NWR (birding there |
| in February; sightings) | ||
| Apr. 00 | Widmann, Otto | Some Bird Lore from 1907: Covers the Canada Goose |
| Apr. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | February 2000 Birding Report |
| Apr. 00 | Miles, Bill | Yes, Spring Has Now Begun!! (Observations of a |
| woodcock) | ||
| Apr. 00 | Cohen, Ken | FLAP: Fatal Light Awareness Program: hazards of |
| lighted buildings to migrating birds. | ||
| From the Outermost Houses: A Year of Life on the | ||
| Apr. 00 | Beston, Henry, 1927 | Great Beach of Cape Cod (contributed by Dianne |
| Benjamin) | ||
| Apr. 00 | Bauer, Paul | Revised St. Louis Area Bird Book Now Available |
| Apr. 00 | Homeyer, Yvonne & | Identifying Trumpeter and Tundra Swans (sketches at |
| Ziebol, Jim | rear of issue) | |
| May. 00 | McCormack, Anne | Big Day 2000: Comparison with prior years back to |
| 1986; sightings by team | ||
| May. 00 | McCormack, Anne | WGNSS is Famous! Recently WGNSS has been |
| getting lots of good press; several examples cited. | ||
| May. 00 | McCormack, Anne | WGNSS Member Alerts Authorities to Oil Spill |
| May. 00 | Mondhink, Irene | Illinois Birds - March 2000 - Mark Twain Refuge & |
| May. 00 | Pere Marquette Park | |
| May. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | April 2000 Birding Report |
| May. 00 | Widmann, Otto | Some Bird Lore from 1907: Covers the Chimney Swift |
| May. 00 | Leonard, Peggy | Legs, a story about identifying birds by their legs. |
| May. 00 | Lowell, James Russell | June, poem excerpt from "The Vision of Sir Launfal" |
| May. 00* | Bauer, Paul | Some WGNSS History: Bluebird--Missouri State |
| Bird: How it happened | ||
| May 00* | Widmann, Otto | Some Warbler Lore from 1907: Information about |
| Cerulean Warbler, Hooded Warbler, and Prairie | ||
| Warbler | ||
| May. 00* | Ziebol, Jim | March 2000 Birding Report |
| May. 00* | Malone, Jim & Charlene | WGNSS/St. Louis Audubon Joint Bird Walks: Schedule |
| May. 00* | Flier, Vicki | Get Connected To The Earth with Audubon: Become |
| a volunteer for the 30th Anniversary of Earth Day | ||
| May. 00* | Bauer, Paul | Revised St. Louis Area Bird Book Now Available |
| Sep. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | May 2000 Birding Report |
| Sep. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | June 2000 Birding Report |
| Sep. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | July 2000 Bird Report |
| Sep. 00 | Mondhink, Irene | Pere Marquette and Mark Twain NW Refuge Bird Reports |
| Sep. 00 | Berger, Torrey | Short Grass: Pawnee National Grasslands May 29-31, |
| year 2000 | ||
| Sep. 00 | Malone, Jim & Charlene | Come Float with Us on Carlyle Lake! |
| Oct. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | August 2000 Birding Report |
| Oct. 00 | Mondhink, Irene | Pere Marquette-Mark Twain NWR (Report) |
| Nov. 00 | Winter, Pete | Bluebirds for the Next Century |
| Nov. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | September 2000 Birding Report |
| Dec.00 | McCormack, Anne | Christmas Bird Counts |
| Dec.00 | McCormack, Anne | No Peace in the Barnyard: This rufous humming bird is |
| still hanging around my feeder. | ||
| Dec. 00 | Pere Marquette Xmas Count | |
| Dec. 00 | Orchard Farm Xmas Count | |
| Dec. 00 | Reeves, Bill | Mingo Bird Count |
| Dec. 00 | Busch Xmas Count | |
| Dec. 00 | Herweg, Dottie | Thursday Birding Group Changes Meeting Area |
| Dec. 00 | Flier, Vicki | Let's Get The Rats! (bird predators) |
| Dec. 00 | Mondhink, Irene | October Birding at Mark Twain NWR & Pere Marquette |
| Park IL | ||
| Dec. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | October 2000 Birding Report |
| Dec. 00 | Conservation Committee Report: Covers Holnam water | |
| permit application, Sect. 404 (wetlands), Gateway | ||
| International Raceway road application | ||
| PEOPLE | ||
| Jan. 00 | Richardson, Marjorie | Little Adventures Make Warm Memories: Notes from |
| trips with Phoebe Snetsinger in the '60's and '70's | ||
| Jan. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | Letter from David Snetsinger about memorial fund |
| honoring Phoebe Snetsinger | ||
| Feb. 00 | McCormack, Anne | Milk Way vs. Randy's Donuts: Experience working at |
| youth camp in the Ozarks in 1972 | ||
| Feb. 00 | McCormick, Pat | A Phoebe Adventure: Owl watching with Phoebe |
| Snetsinger | ||
| Feb. 00 | Phoebe Snetsinger Memorial Fund: Contributors | |
| Mar. 00 | Recent Donors to the Phoebe Snetsinger Memorial | |
| Fund ($13,045 to date) | ||
| Mar. 00 | Publications Remember Phoebe: Memorial article | |
| in January issue of Winging It, p. 7; mention in | ||
| other publications as well | ||
| Mar. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | WGNSS website visited by former WGNSS member |
| Richard L. Cunningham; birded with Dick Anderson and | ||
| J. Earl Comfort; mini-biography of Cunningham | ||
| May. 00 | Invitation to dedication of Richard A. Anderson | |
| memorial bird fountain in Forest Park on June 24 | ||
| (Includes Map) | ||
| May. 00* | Cohen, Ken | Richard A. Anderson Memorial Bird Fountain in |
| May 00* | Forest Park (history of project) | |
| Sep. 00 | Virga, Linda | Willis Schott Remembered |
| Sep. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | WGNSS Van Benthuysen Memorial Project |
| Sep. 00 | Jack Van Benthuysen Memorial Fund | |
| Oct. 00 | Rabenau, David | Dick Anderson Memorial: The dedication, history, |
| location, etc., and Dick's service to WGNSS as | ||
| president and author | ||
| Dec. 00 | Fortner, Elaine | Elizabeth Goltermann, Thank You (with biography) |
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||
| Mar. 00 | Shikibu, Murasaki | The Tale of Genji (contributed by Dianne Benjamin) |
| (974-1031) | ||
| Apr. 00 | Special Request: A Bobcat (small bulldozer) is | |
| needed to help create a pond in Tower Grove Park as | ||
| a memorial to Jack Van Benthuysen | ||
| Nov. 00 | Ziebol, Jim | Request for (help with a water problem) at the Van |
| Benthuysen Memorial | ||
| Nov. 00 | Corbett, Doug | Wish List (for equipment needed for meetings) |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| Jan. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | Volunteers needed for Nature Notes mailing on Jan. 17 |
| Welcome to new members | ||
| Mar. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | Get Involved with WGNSS! (Officer election coming up |
| this spring; officers to be elected and their duties) | ||
| Mar. 00 | Welcome to a new member | |
| Mar. 00 | Corbett, Doug | Special Thanks to Ann Johanson for donating a |
| Mar. 00 | slide projector for use at meetings | |
| Apr. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | Officer Elections: The nominating committee has |
| Apr. 00 | presented the following slate: | |
| President: David Rabenau | ||
| 1st VP - Doug Corbett | ||
| 2nd VP - Pat McCormick | ||
| May. 00 | Welcome new members | |
| May. 00 | Virga, Linda | Membership Renewals |
| May. 00 | Welcome New Members! | |
| May. 00* | Virga, Linda | Membership Renewals |
| May 00* | Welcome new members! | |
| Sep. 00 | Rabenau, David | A Word from the (new) President |
| Sep. 00 | Welcome to new members… | |
| Sep. 00 | Virga, Linda | Membership Renewals |
| Oct. 00 | Rabenau, David | The WGNSS Year: Invites WGNSS members to all |
| meetings and to contribute to Nature Notes. Gives | ||
| dates of General Meetings, Board Meetings, and | ||
| Nature Notes deadlines | ||
| Oct. 00 | Korotev, Randy | Check Your (Nature Notes) Address Label |
| Nov. 00 | Welcome New Members | |
| SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | ||
| Mar. 00 | Kellerman, Betty | Help Wanted!!! (in identifying candidates for the |
| WGNSS-sponsored Audubon Ecology Camp | ||
| scholarships for summer 2000) | ||
| Sep. 00 | Kellerman, Betty | Audubon Ecology Camp Scholarships Awarded |
| MEETINGS | ||
| Jan. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | Jan. 03 meeting canceled because of the possibility |
| of inclement weather | ||
| Jan. 00 | Joint Meeting of St. Louis Audubon & WGNSS in | |
| February: Speaker, Jim Wilson, State Ornithologist | ||
| Feb. 00 | Joint Meeting of St. Louis Audubon & WGNSS in | |
| Feb.: Speaker will be Jim Wilson of the MDC | ||
| Mar. 00 | Corbett, Doug | March General Meeting: Speaker will be Nadine |
| Varner, who will talk about bird banding in Alaska | ||
| Apr. 00 | Corbett, Doug | Ted McRae to speak at April General Meeting (about |
| his natural history expedition to South Africa) | ||
| May. 00* | WGNSS Spring Dinner, Thursday, May 4 Eden Commons | |
| Sep. 00 | Corbett, Doug | September General Meeting: Paul Johnson to talk about |
| his recent trip to Alaska | ||
| Oct. 00 | Corbett, Doug | Fr. Jim Sullivan will talk about his favorite Missouri |
| wildflowers | ||
| Nov. 00 | Corbett, Doug | David Ziolkowski, Jr. will talk about the natural history of |
| the West Indies on Nov. 10 | ||
| BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS | ||
| Mar. 00 | 80th Birthday of WGNSS to be celebrated at the | |
| Eden Commons on May 4. | ||
| Apr. 00 | 80th Anniversary Dinner: At Eden Commons on | |
| May 4. Speaker will be Ron Goellner. | ||
| May 00* | WGNSS Spring Dinner, May 4, Eden Commons | |
| Sep. 00 | Gustafson, Sue | Spring Banquet May 2000 (a report) |
| Dec. 00 | McCormick | Holiday Open House (at Tyson Research Center) |