Dear Chandra, Yours is an excellent idea, to go about documenting in a comprehensive way !
Its a good idea to start before the end of rains because we may miss out rainy season mushrooms, ground orchids like *Habenaria roxburghii, *or seasonal herbs like *Gloriosa superba* etc. The sighted mosses, aquatic plants too may be considered, along the lake. Students, Naturalists, Birders, Entomologists, Wildlifers, Botanists, Ecologists, common man et al. are essential for the periodic surveys, documentation. To record History, Geology, Biogeography, Botany, Ethnobotany, Interdependence(flora/fauna) of all species recorded. Basically we can start with a Botany checklist of species, fixing dates like second saturday etc... or convenient dates for the mapping visits. During other times we can compile relevant data to associate with field work. Warm Regards. Sheshadri.R On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Chandra Ravikumar < chandraraviku...@hotmail.com> wrote: > With so many experts willing and wanting to extend their help, this is a > good time to begin on this project. > > I am not a botanist or academician, I reiterate, but here are some > suggestions: > > 1. First open a mail account into which people can begin to contribute > information. Different headings can be given, under which to file in the > info. eg. History, folklore, geology, biogeography, ethnobotany, etc.etc. > > 2. Meanwhile, a detailed land map of the garden must be obtained or drawn. > > 3. The whole area must be marked out in a fine grid pattern, with numbers > given to the grid squares. > > 4. When the fine Grid is super-imposed on the detailed land map, it will > be very clear just which area of the park falls under which grid. Make > large numbers of copies of this land map with the grid imposition. > > 5. Next, mark out each grid or few adjacent grids separately, enlarge each > one of them, and again mark out into small numbered grids about 1 or 2 or 3 > sq. ft to a grid. Print copies of these. > > 6. On a set of days stretching over a week or as required, call for > volunteers with cameras, pen, pencil, ruler, etc. Each group of volunteers, > not more than 3 to a group, will be given both the maps. > > 7. The group will make its way to the grid alloted to it and begin work. > > 8. From one end the members begin to work their way through the grid, > taking photos of every ground- creeper, fungus, lichen, grass, plant, > shrub, bush and tree. Mark each photo with the number of the grid sub-sect > in which it is found. Maybe two or three photos of each can be taken for > ease of identification. Submit the photos and maps to the organisers. > > 9. Now comes the work of the botanists and horticulturists. They look at > the photo, identify the plant, do a field check to ascertain that the plant > is present in the place mentioned. Seasonal plants will come and go and > have to be accomodated. > > 10. The cataloguing begins, in full earnest, by the experts. > > This whole process will take more than a year, I think. But the recording > should be done and over by the end of the rains, if possible. > Seshadri's idea to rope in botany, environmnt students is very good. > Cartography students too can be asked to help. Photography hobbyists can > pitch in, > > Just ideas. > Chandra > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:00:33 +0530 > Subject: Re: [bngbirds] Re: [HasiruUsiru] Catalogue of trees of Lalbagh > From: livewithtr...@gmail.com > To: ranjin...@gmail.com > CC: raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com; swamy.c...@gmail.com; > chandraraviku...@hotmail.com; jmga...@gmail.com; mohande...@gmail.com; > arunameth...@gmail.com; sangeetha.ka...@gmail.com; > indiantreepix@googlegroups.com; narayan....@gmail.com; > navendu.p...@gmail.com; vijay.botan...@gmail.com; giby.kuriak...@gmail.com; > varunvarm...@gmail.com; snmathap...@gmail.com; vbhaska...@yahoo.co.in; > ganeshkumarb...@gmail.com; rajkamalgosw...@gmail.com; chetana...@gmail.com > > > What can be the agenda for the meet ? > Compilation of available data etc. > I think we need one or two volunteer botanists working on this project, > which may take about a month of field study, photography and parallel > compilation of data. > Can we take this up as a project for MSc or BSc botany students ? > > Regards. > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Ranjini Kamath <ranjin...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hello all I am in the US at present.I can participate only in > August on a Sunday. > regards > Ranjini Kamath > > On Thursday, July 4, 2013, Raman Arunachalam wrote: > > I can also participate on saturday or sunday > > Raman > > On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:50 PM, M Swamy wrote: > > Yes, I am ready to participate. I have prior commitments on 20th and > 21st July. Any other day O.K. It is better to inform one week in > advance. > > Dr.Mahadeswara Swamy, Mysore. > > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Sheshadri Ramaswamy < > livewithtr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > We could all meet for a day at Lalbagh, have a meet at one of the > Horticulture buildings. > Depending on response from our group members, we can propose a day's meet. > > Warm Regards. > Sheshadri.R > +91 8050401866. > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:58 PM, M Swamy <swamy.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think it is time to have a meeting or a symposium on the subject limited > to like minded interested persons (botanists and non botanists), so that > we can discuss and chalk out a time bound strategy to consolidate the > data and publish a book. E flora is an excellent platform to bring all > the members who are genuinely interested. I am ready to participate and > do my best , though I am stationed in Mysore. Hope somebody from Bangalore > would take initiative and organise the meeting for a day or two. I am > positive that the suggestion would be taken positively by the members of > the Bangalore group interested in trees. > Dr.Mahadeswara Swamy > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Chandra Ravikumar < > chandraraviku...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I personally have no knowledge of the Botanical names of any plant. I am > just a little conversant with the common names and folk lore. But I am > willing to extend whatever help I can to a systematic, dedicated and > urgently needed mapping and cataloguing. As Mr. Raman Arunachalam says, we > could begin with the pooling together of all info. and knowledge, now > scattered among the public, and not wait for the actual project to take > off. > Chandra > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:16:14 +0530 > Subject: Re: [bngbirds] Re: [JLRNTP-1] Re: [HasiruUsiru] Catalogue of > trees of Lalbagh > From: livewithtr...@gmail.com > To: jmga...@gmail.com; chandraraviku...@hotmail.com; mohande...@gmail.com; > arunameth...@gmail.com; sangeetha.ka...@gmail.com > CC: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com; narayan....@gmail.com; > navendu.p...@gmail.com; vijay.botan...@gmail.com; giby.kuriak...@gmail.com; > varunvarm...@gmail.com; raman_arunacha...@yahoo.com; snmathap...@gmail.com; > ranjin...@gmail.com; swamy.c...@gmail.com; vbhaska...@yahoo.co.in; > ganeshkumarb...@gmail.com; rajkamalgosw...@gmail.com; chetana...@gmail.com > > > Dear All, > > A lot of persons have compiled data about Lalbagh Flora, independently. > A lot of mails in eflora of India are about the same. > One Mr Srinivas has a checklist of flora and fauna too, of Lalbagh. > Mr Thiruvady's book contains a lot of information. > Last week our group, HU added 2 species to the Lalbagh collection viz. > Harpulia arborea and Dimocarpus longan. > > We need to pool data and make a flora map of Lalbagh. > Regards. > Sheshadri.R > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:46 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Forwarding pl. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Ajit A* <forestow...@yahoo.com> > Date: 26 June 2013 23:04 > Subject: Re: Re: [JLRNTP-1] Re: [HasiruUsiru] Catalogue of trees of > Lalbagh > To: > > ** > > Hi Vinaya, > > There is a book called Heritage trees in and around Bangalore by Vijay > Thiruvady. This book is published by Bangalore Environment Trust. This book > has a map of Lalbagh with location of approx 100 odd heritage trees of > Lalbagh. > > Rgds > Ajit > > ________________________________ > > From: Vinaya Kumar Thimmappa <vinaya.kuma...@gmail.com> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 11:30 AM > Subject: Re: Re: [JLRNTP-1] Re: [HasiruUsiru] Catalogue of trees of Lalbagh > > > > Hello, > > I did try to find out if they had a road maps of where/which tree is found > in lalbagh. But my search did not yield me any results. > I had seen an excellent map of about various trees in NGMA ( i think > karthik helped them to make this). Below is the email that i had sent last > year > on a similar topic. > > -vinaya > > --------- > From: Vinaya Kumar Thimmappa <vinaya.kuma...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:02 PM > Subject: Arboretum at NGMA > To: > Hello All, > > I happened to see a chart called Arboretum at National Gallery for Modern > Art [http://ngmaindia.gov.in/ngma_bangaluru.asp] (my lunch place). > Arboretum means "collection of trees". > > This chart had map of ngma campus and also the names of trees (in several > languages) found in the campus. This is an awesome chart. > > As anyone else seen similar chart for any other campus ? I > > wish we had similar one for lalbagh too. > > -Vinaya > ---------------------------------------- > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Uma Bharath <uma.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ** > > > > > > Hi, > > > > The Marigowda library is open to public and is supposedly one of the > > richest collections of Botanical references in the country. > > When I asked in the library a few months ago if there had been a tree > > census or inventory of sorts, post 1891, I drew a blank. Would appreciate > > any information in this regard. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Uma Bharath. > > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > ** > > > > > > > > > > > > Chandra, an active volunteer at Hasiru Usiru, has unearthed this > > > treasure...can someone answer the questions? > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Chandra Ravikumar < > > > chandraraviku...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> ** > > >> > > >> > > >> I was able to find a 1891 catlague of the trees of Lalbagh from Wiki. > > >> This is the lInk. Does any one know > > >> Whether a later one is available, or has even been compiled? > > >> Is the Marigowda Library open to the public? > > >> Chandra > > >> > > >> http://archive.org/stream/cu31924000622252#page/n4/mode/1up > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > __,_._,___ > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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