Arnold Arboretum updates 7/30/97

Anthony R. Brach (brach@oeb.harvard.edu)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 06:55:28 -0700

a couple of items from the Arnold Arboretum.

Anthony

>**** EXPEDITION TO YUNNAN AND SICHUAN
>Arboretum staff will be participating in an expedition to Yunnan and
>Sichuan this September (9/4/97 to 10/2/97). The expedition will be hosted
>by the Kunming Institute of Botany and will include Stephen Spongberg (AA),
>Kim Tripp (Smith College), Richard Schulhof (Descanso Gardens), Cliff Parks
>(UNC), Paul Manos (Duke University), Maurice Foster, and Andrew Bell.
>
>**** ANOTHER FIRE
>Yesterday (7/29/97) Arboretum grounds crew put out another fire on Hemlock
>Hill. This fire, the largest so far, burned an area of tinder-dry grass and
>moss on the bald at the summit of the hill.
>