ABOUT THE BOTANY CLUB

Meetings: The botany club meets every other Thursday in 140 Robbins Hall at 5:15 pm. Meetings consist of discussions of club business, a food break, and then a featured speaker. Speakers range from students, faculty, staff, or anyone who has anything interesting to present about plants and places to see them. The first meeting of 2007 will be January 11th. To become a member, you must attend at least two meetings per quarter.

Listserv: The botany club maintains an email list for meeting announcements, trip notifications, and to disseminate job and internship opportunities. If you would like to subscribe to the listserv, contact or , Botany Club Co-Presidents.

T-shirts: Each year, the club designs and prints an original t-shirt. Past designs have included Bigelow's monkey flower, Hibiscus, live oak, "plantheads", pitcher plants, retted leaf, boojum tree, Japanese Cobra Lily, peltate scale trichome. The current design is an illustrated plant composed of nearly every major plant anatomy feature. Regular cut t-shirts are $12 for members and $15 for non-members, special cut or long-sleeved t-shirts are more. The club sells t-shirts at the meetings and at various campus fairs and events throughout the year such as picnic day. For more information on t-shirts, contact , Botany Club Treasurer.

Field Trips: The club makes regular foraging trips into Davis habitats, and trips nearly everywhere else in California. Believe it, the reason to join is the trips. This year's field trip coordinators are and .

Winter Break Trip: The club schedules trips for a week or longer between the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Past trips have included Baja California, the Grand Canyon, and southern California botanical gardens.

Spring Break Trip: In past spring break trips, the club has toured the Carrizo Plain, Morro Bay, Anza Borrego State Park, Mojave Desert, Santa Cruz Island, southern Arizona, and Baja California.

Orchid Fair: Every February, the club gets a group together to attend the Orchid Fair in San Francisco. The evening involves wine, classical music, and lots of orchids.

Picnic Day Parade: In 1999, the club received a grant from the Cal Aggie Alumni Association to create a float for the "Mooving into the Future" theme. The float featured rows of genetically modified tomato plants and club members dressed as scientists with large tomatoheads.

Fund Raising Events: Fund Raising Events include movie nights and plant sales. Volunteers needed!

Work Parties: Gives club members the satisfaction that only controlled shaping of the landscape can give. Tools such as shovels, and hula hoes are provided.

 


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