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ISLE ROYALE BOTANY WORKSHOP THIS COMING JUNE 10-15, 2013!!  
Experience four days in Lake Superior's Isle Royale National Park and learn
to identify the diverse plants that live on this incredible island!  
 
BOTANY WORKSHOP INFORMATION:
This special botany workshop, sponsored by the Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks
Association (IRKPA), and taught by botanist Janet Marr, is open to anyone
with beginning/intermediate knowledge of plant identification who is
interested in learning to identify the early summer native flora of this
species-rich Lake Superior island.  
 
Workshop participants will spend four days on Isle Royale learning native
plant species, using such tools as a dichotomous key and hand lens to
identify plants.  Other topics will include discussion of island plant
communities, rare species, ecology, and  invasive species.  
 
Most workshop activities will take place outdoors.  Optional evening
sessions will also be offered to review plants learned earlier.  Field trips
will include Tobin Harbor, Scoville Point, and Raspberry Island, places that
are all located in the vicinity of Rock Harbor.  
 
Workshop attendees will meet in Houghton, Michigan, on Monday (10 June)
afternoon and travel from Houghton to Rock Harbor (on Isle Royale) on the
Ranger III boat on Tuesday (11 June).  Participants will return to Houghton
on the Ranger III on Saturday (15 June).
 
REQUIREMENTS:
Workshop participants should be able to walk up to 7 miles in one day with a
daypack on rocky, sometimes steep, trails and bedrock, sometimes slippery,
shoreline.  
 
INSTRUCTOR:
Botanist Janet Marr, the workshop instructor, has had many years of
experience studying plants across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Isle
Royale.  Janet taught the 2007 - 2012 Isle Royale botany workshops as well
as many botany, aquatic, and wetland plant workshops in Michigan’s Keweenaw
Peninsula.  She is co-author of the Isle Royale Natural History
Association's Island Life, an Isle Royale Nature Guide.  
 
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS.  Past botany workshops have filled
up very quickly so sign up soon! Contact Kristine Bradof at 906-482-7860 or
kbradof@irkpa.org    for more information about workshop registration or to
register.  Contact Janet Marr at 906-337-5529 or jkmarr@mtu.edu for details
about the workshop itself.
 
MICHIGAN K-12 TEACHERS will earn 20 SCECHS by participating in this
workshop.
 
BOTANY WORKSHOP FEE:
$699 per person if registered by March 5, 2013 ($25 discount for IRKPA
members; 
see http://irkpa.org/ for information on becoming a IRKPA member).
 
$725 per person if registered after March 5, 2013 ($25 discount for IRKPA
members; 
see http://irkpa.org/ for information on becoming a IRKPA member).
 
A $200 deposit is required to reserve your place in the workshop and may be
sent to the Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks Association, Attn:  Kristine
Bradof, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Houghton, MI  49931.  The balance is due by April
17, 2013.
 
A cancellation fee of $75 will be charged for cancellations between May 1
and May 23, 2013.  There will be no refund for cancellations made on or
after May 24, 2013 (although partial refunds after May 24 will be issued if
a replacement participant is available).
 
The fee for the botany workshop covers instruction, camping, meals on the
island, notebook, Slavick/Janke’s Flora of Isle Royale, and transportation
to and from Houghton, MI on the Ranger III.  Participants may travel from
Grand Portage, Minnesota, on the Voyager at their own expense.  See
www.isleroyaleboats.com for Voyager info.
 
LODGING/CAMPING:
Participants may camp for free at a Rock Harbor group site for the four
nights on the island.  You may also stay in the Rock Harbor Lodge or
Housekeeping units at your own expense (consider sharing a room with another
participant or friend to reduce your lodging cost).  For information about
lodging (at Rock Harbor Lodge or Housekeeping
units), boat rentals, etc., please see:  www.isleroyaleresort.com or  call
866-644-2003  (winter season) or 906-337-4993 (summer season).
 
If you wish to share a lodge or housekeeping room, contact Kristine at
906-482-7860 or  kbradof@irkpa.org   .
 For information about Isle Royale National Park, see their home page at
www.nps.gov/isro/   or call  906-482-0984.
 
If you know of someone who may be interested in hearing about this Isle
Royale botany workshop, that would be great if you would be able to pass
this announcement on to them.  A color flier for posting is attached to this
email.  Thank you!!
 
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP:
A  four-day long photography workshop taught by professional photographer
and former IRKPA Board President Bob Guiliani immediately follows the botany
workshop.   Contact Kristine Bradof at 906-482-7860 or  kbradof@irkpa.org
for more information on the photography workshop

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