[SEMCO] CCMNH Mario DiGregorio: A vanishing Heritage: Wildflowers of cape Cod

[The Gilligans]

The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Presents

A Vanishing Heritage: Wildflowers of Cape Cod

With Mario DiGregorio, author and Falmouth representative on the Cape Cod
Commission

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 1:30pm

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

869 Rte 6A, Brewster, MA 02631

508-896-3867 x 133    www.ccmnh.org

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21, 2011

Contact: Gayle Kenerson 508-385-2192 or gck1 at comcast.net 

 

Friends of CCMNH monthly program & Pot Luck will be held on Tuesday, April
12, 2011 at 12:30pm

Followed by a talk & book signing at 1:30pm 

A Vanishing Heritage: Wildflowers of Cape Cod

With Mario DiGregorio, author and Falmouth Representative on the Cape Cod
Commission

 

Mario DiGregorio, author and Falmouth Representative on the Cape Cod
Commission, talk will center on our native flowers and how the invasive,
non-native plants are threatening them.  There are approximately 2700
species of plants in Barnstable County, of which 1700 are native
(pre-colonial). Our community of natives is now being threatened by invasive
non-native plants, including the recently discovered kudzu which is
migrating rapidly from the south. Many of our native flowers cannot compete
with these invasives and have diminished in number in the past 20 years.
"VH" will display those that were once common and are among our most
beautiful and graceful species.

 

Mr. DiGregorio is an Emerson College graduate and first Conservation
Administrator for the town Brewster. He served as a federal park ranger for
the National Park Service for ten years, is a member of the Bourne and
Falmouth Conservation Commissions and is currently the Falmouth 

Representative on the Cape Cod Commission. He is the author of three books
focusing on the botany of New England and was the recipient of the MA State
Award from the New England Wild Flower Society in 2001.

 

 

12:30 Friends Meeting/Pot Luck

1:30 Talk by Mario DiGregorio & Book Signing

Friends/free, Guests/$3

 

 

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