Bear Walk in Rhode Island, Tuesday, October 30, 2001

cation will be given approximately two weeks before the walk.  Hiking will be easy to moderate, please wear appropriate clothing.

A delectable boxed lunch will provided (but, please do not feed the bears!!).

Fee is $100 with profits going to the North American Bear Center.

Please contact Matt Largess to register.  Tel:  423-0508 or largesstree@aol.com.

Dawn Redwood (continued)

botanist, completed an expedition to collect more material samples.  In 1946, Professor W.C. Cheng of the National Central University journeyed to the same area to complete a census of known live trees.  He also assigned the Metasequoia the botanical species name of glyptostroboides.
     A third botanist, Dr. H.H. Hu, trained at Harvard, conducted a third, more extensive, expedition to the Szechwan Province.  He learned

local farmers had named this tree shui-san, or water larch because it lived close to the edges of water.
     He collected seeds and sent them to the Arnold Arboretum, where the seeds were propagated.  Seedlings were distributed to botanists and organizations throughout the northern hemisphere. These original offspring have reached 90 - 100 feet in height and continue to grow.
     This species has earned its com

mon name Dawn Redwood because of its extensive history dating back to the "dawn of time" when dinosaurs roamed the earth.