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Trying to identify an unknown invader in your East Austin garden? Looking for a new wildflower app for your iPhone? Want to enroll in a taxonomy class? How about trading for some fringed puccoon seeds?
Those are just some of the posts that I’ve come across in the NPSOT-NPAT Yahoo Group in the past few weeks.
With over 600 members and about 30 posts a month you never know just what you are going to find. The Yahoo Group is an email-list. Any member may post there and when they do the mail goes out to all the group members. Anyone may join the group as long as they have an interest in native plants. Some members are experts in the field and others are just getting interested.
Don Richardson and Kunda Lee Wicce are the current list “owners” who make sure that emails stay on-topic and keep away spam. Just recently Cathy Lustgarten agreed to join them to moderate the list. Although the list is supported by the Native Plant Society and the Native Prairie Association of Texas, anyone with an interest in native plants is invited to participate.
Kunda, a former president of the Native Prairie Association, told me the current list was created when NPAT proposed to join a list that was already in existence. So I don’t know exactly when that predecessor list was first set up or by whom. Brad Smith was the moderator before Don and Kunda took over. The list has entries going back all the way to 1999. I only wish there was an easy way to search the old entries by topic.
Both Don and Kunda told me that chapters are welcome to announce organization activities there, as well as post information about other events related to Texas native plants. Many of the emails deal with plant identification, advice about landscaping or gardening, tips on propagation, where to buy natives and all kinds of things of interest to native plant enthusiasts.
If you want to try it out you can subscribe here. There are options to get emails “real-time” as they are sent out, or you can choose to receive a synopsis. Myself, I’m one of the few who like RSS and I’ve found I can follow the list in my Feedly RSS reader. If you happen to have a Yahoo home page you can easily get the latest posts to show up on there as well.
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