In particular, folks might want to take a look at the Wild Ones Web site at http://www.for-wild.org . The have chapters in at least 12 states.
Cheers, BILL =========== >At 08:28 PM -0500 12/15/07, Carrie DeJaco wrote: >>I recently bought a house with a decent sized yard that I am trying >>to convert from grass to native plants. It is very difficult to >>find nurseries that 1) have native plants, and 2) have employees >>who actually know which plants are native. I feel like I need to >>take my plant books with me every time I go! >> >>Carrie DeJaco >> >May I suggest finding, participating in and supporting your state >and local native plant societies, and your local tree-planting and >urban forestry groups? They're always great places from which to >get involved with activist change efforts. (Home Depot can be quite >receptive to organized calls for native vegetation-savvy staff at >specific locations, and certainly to offers of training initiatives >that would make their staff more systematically knowledgeable on >this issue. Offer to run a workshop, for instance.) And I have >found that there is a whole hidden (if microcosmic) world of >activist effort and dedicated commitment in many parts of the >country--folks that would dearly welcome the additional >participation of those savvy in ecology. > >Cheers, >- > Ashwani > Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (818) 677-6137 > http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth/ > http://www.myspace.com/ashwanivasishth -- RESEARCH PROGRAM c/o BILL HILTON JR. Executive Director Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History 1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED], (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845 Please visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net): Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History at http://www.hiltonpond.org "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project" at http://www.rubythroat.org **********
