Westmoreland Conservancy News

   Photos from the Nature Walk at the Walter Nature Reserve

Well we had a great nature walk and identification on Saturday morning. I just wanted to thank everyone; it was a lot of fun for me. My daughter even had fun because one of her young friends showed up as well, but they were more interested in Pokemon than trees and plants. There were about 12 of us. The following list shows the many plants we identified at the Walter Reserve, in approximate order of finding:

Trees:
American Elm
Black Cherry
White Ash
Hickory, Shag Bark
Paw-Paw
Sassafras
Crab Apple
Hawthorne
Dogwood
Red Oak
White Oak (only one, at the top of the hill over the rise)
Black Locust
Black Oak
Pine, White
Pine, Red (? we were not certain)
Maple, Red
Hornbeam
American Basswood
Devil's Walkingstick (Hercules Club)

Plants:
Fern, Spinulose Wood
Fern, Christmas
Garlic Mustard
Japanese Stiltgrass
Ragweed
Foxglove Beardtongue
Black-eyed Susan
Daisy
Alfalfa (no flowers yet)
Mutltiflora Rose
Poison Ivy (some had never seen vines that big!)
Raspberry, Black
Raspberry, Purple Flowering
Virginia Creeper

This is a great botanical survey with many of the same plants I outlined. I used it to jog my memory, in case anyone was wondering:
http://www.westmorelandconservancy.org/WCBiosurC60.html
Doug Bauman, June 27th, 2005

   Annual Meeting and Elections held April 27^th
The Westmoreland Conservancy held it's annual meeting and Elections in the meeting room of the Murrysville Library to nominate and elect the 2005 Officers and Board of Governors. We were pleased to see a nice sized group of members show up for this important meeting. Here are the results of the election:

President: Mount Fitzpatrick

Vice President: Shelly Tichy

Secretary: Doug Bauman

Treasurer: Cindy McCormick-Werns through August

Additional Governors: Cary Bohl (newly elected), Hank Kendall (newly elected), Dick Byers (re-elected), Katie Blackmore, Charles Conway, Don Harrison, Theo van de Venne, Richard Wagner

  Westmoreland Conservancy Annual Banquet
The Westmoreland Conservancy Annual Dinner was held on Sunday, May 22, 2005 at the beautiful Grand View Golf Club. Many took part in a pleasant evening with great food and lively conversation. Dick Byers was the speaker. His talk and slide show concerned animal adaptations. Everyone delighted in the wonderful pictures of colors, behaviors, camouflage and other aspects of these wonderful adaptations in nature. We were joined by Bill Lord of the American Chestnut Foundation, who enjoyed the banquet, and spoke for a minute about his foundation and their effort to restore the American Chestnut tree.

The Conservancy Corner Collections has been reprinted!

    - Volume 1 reprinted.
    - Volume 2 first print just arrived
    - $12.95 per volume; $25 for both

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