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Habitat and Wildlife Keepers

Habitat and Wildlife Keepers is committed to preserving, protecting and restoring wildlife habitat in the SE area of the Charlotte Metro area. We meet the first Tuesday of each month (Sept-May) at 7pm at the Matthews Community Center.

Location: Matthews, NC
Members: 42
Latest Activity: Oct 26

The HAWK's Nest


ATTENTION: SEE BELOW FOR A NEW LOCATION FOR THE NOV MEETING!!!

Join HAWK at 7pm on November 3, 2009, to hear Dr. Larry Mellichamp explain how plants manipulate animals to do their bidding!

Have you ever seen a flower banner or a fruit flag? They don’t wave in the breeze, but they do send signals. Native trees and shrubs interact with animals and wind for pollination and seed dispersal. Woody plants produce flowers that are shaped just right for the perfect pollinator, and timed for their interaction. Then later, when the seeds get ripe, animals (birds, squirrels, mammals) are again employed for efficient dispersal – the right nut or berry for the right animal. Plants do several things that help animals to do the right thing. Some of these interesting aspects of plant behavior will be explored. Remember: “the flowers and the trees need the birds and the bees…in fact, they need each other.”

The meeting is free and open to everyone.

NEW LOCATION NOVEMBER MEETING
Because of local elections, we will be meeting at the Matthews Library located at 232 Matthews Station.


Dr. Larry Mellichamp is a Professor of Botany at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he taught botany and horticulture courses for over 32 years. He is currently director of the UNCCharlotte Botanical Gardens. He writes and speaks on such topics as pollination biology, bog gardening, native orchids and wildflowers, endangered species, and landscaping with native plants. He is one of the world’s experts on North American native pitcher plants. Dr. Mellichamp has traveled and collected plants in Mexico, Costa Rica, Borneo, Hawaii, South Africa, China, and Australia. He has received several prestigious teaching awards, was the 2003 recipient of the Thomas Roland Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the 2009 (first) recipient of the B.W. Wells award for educational efforts from the N.C. native Plant Association. He is co-author of the textbook Practical Botany (1983) and the books The Winter Garden (1997, with Peter Loewer) and Wildflowers of the Western Great Lakes Region (1999).
The meeting begins at 7pm and is free and open to everyone.


HAWK WANTS TO HELP YOU REDUCE, REUSE AND RECYCLE

Please save and bring with you to the HAWK meetings the following items. We will make sure they are reused, recycled or disposed of properly! Save them during our summer break or drop off items at the Matthews Community Center at 100 McDowell Street, Matthews, NC

Batteries - A, AA, AAA, C and D
Cell phones
Eyeglasses
Aluminum pull tabs
Water and soda bottle twist off caps
Inkjet cartridges
Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs
Egg cartons
Wire Coat hangers

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HAWK OFFICERS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
President, Carol Buie-Jackson, GardenHabitat@gmail.com 704 814 0877
Vice President, Debbie Foster, FostDebbie@gmail.com
Treasurer, Frank Hughes, Dfuse180@yahoo.com
Secretary, Joan Melville, Melville@bellsouth.net


MATTHEWS MINT HILL MAGAZINE HAWK ARTICLE FEB 2009
MMHArticle.pdf

MMM Flyer-pdf.pdf

Discussion Forum

Ernie McLaney

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Ernie McLaney Comment by Ernie McLaney on April 8, 2009 at 5:23pm
Images from our HAWK meeting on April 7th, in Matthews:


Debbie Foster Comment by Debbie Foster on September 22, 2008 at 8:15pm
Chris,

Good to see you at the HAWK meeting. Come again!
Christopher North Comment by Christopher North on September 3, 2008 at 10:19am
GREAT meeting last night and a huge turn out. Good luck with the Park & Rec Land Bond Public Hearing!!!!!
 

Members (42)

Ernie McLaney Olga Schilligner Carol Buie-Jackson Debbie Foster Dee & Frank Hughes Joan Melville Leslie Wieser Mary Bures Cindy Kanelos Pat Robinson Lisy McLeod Christopher North Nancy DeVries dhijana scott-harmony christy napier Mary Rutherford Vernette Price Tim Gestwicki Greta Salem Travis Dickerson Sandy Pawlowski Erin Singer Sandy Yakob Carly Orlando Renee Garner Jill Palmer Will Stuart Brian Hochmuth Robin Bailey Katie Lindsay
 
 

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Invasive Plants of North Carolina

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