Thank you all members in making the 'Kas Week' a success though I was afraid that it would turn out to be a 'Kash Week' or a 'Kas Weak'. I will soon post the analysis of species but by and large the species that featured in posts represented the typical habitat of a lateritic plateau. This location is now a natural heritage and documentation of this site is vital in its preservation. Statistically Kas would not compare with V0F but diversity is distinct. I am extremely thankful to all those who contributed or appreciated the posts thogh personally I did not acclaim each post. I have documented 175 species from Kas but I posted only those 'out of box' species. I am thankful to all those who compensated for my physical absence during the episode. With best regards,
On Monday, October 15, 2012 2:13:20 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > Dear Members > Special fortnight episode on Kas was another great achievement of the > Group immediately following the VOF episode. Kas episode has special > importance because in addition to our regular contributors we also saw some > other members contributing in a big way, an encouraging trend that should > motivate other members. > The episode saw more than 390 uploads of rare and interesting plants, > mostly endemic to Western Ghats, backed up by nearly 1200 responses from > members (including their own). Although most plants were new for me and > some of the other members, but we thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful uploads. > Thanks to Shrikant ji for agreeing to coordinate this episode, providing > important information, useful feedbacks and uploading some of the very rare > plants from the area and giving very useful information based on his > personal experience of the area. > Thanks to all contributing members, and congratulations for > another success story. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > --
