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William (Bill) J. Cody: A Legacy of Contributions to Northern Canadian Botany
Author : Bruce A. Bennett and Paul M. Catling | BEN No. 410 | 3 July 2009
On Monday, March 24 2009, William (Bill) James Cody passed away following a stroke. Bill was a very good friend and a very valuable colleague in the study of Canada's northern flora. What he left behind for Canada and for botanical research was enormous, and much of it had to do with the Canadian north....
Mycologist Extraordinaire Robert J. Bandoni (November 9, 1926 - May 18, 2009)
Author : Jim Ginns - email: ginnsj@shaw.ca | BEN No. 409 | 1 April 2009
Robert (Bob) Bandoni was born November 9, 1926 in Weeks, Nevada to Giuseppe and Albina Bandoni, and graduated from high school in Hawthorne, Nevada. Awarded a Ph. D. from the University of Iowa in 1957, Bob in 1958 joined the Botany faculty at the University of British Columbia. He was an integral part of that department for 50 years and was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus in 1989....
Are There Invasive Mushrooms in the Puget Sound Region?
Author : Joe Ammirati, University of Washington | BEN No. 409 | 1 April 2009
Cronartium ribicola J.C. Fisch., the cause of white pine blister rust, was introduced into eastern North America in about 1900 and into British Columbia in 1910. It soon became well established on a number of native white pines and since that time has been considered a destructive forest pathogen. This is an instance where a plant pathogen was introduced onto a continent and established itself in natural ecosystems where susceptible hosts, white pines and species of Ribes, were available to complete its life cycle. It invaded forests of North America!....>
Long-term Survey and Inventory of Macrofungi on Observatory Hill, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (November 2004-March 2009)
Author : Oluna Ceska, P.O. Box 8546, Victoria, BC, Canada c/o aceska@telus.net | BEN No. 409 | 1 April 2009
Observatory Hill (a.k.a. Little Saanich Mountain) is a 224 m hill on the outskirts of Victoria, British Columbia. Renowned Canadian astronomer J.S. Plaskett selected this hill as a site for a large 1.83 m telescope. The telescope was finished in May 1918 and the observatory quickly became an important astronomical research and educational facility. Since 1975, Observatory Hill has been one of the sites of the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics that administers the 71.4 ha of the hill. This area represents the major part of the hill. ....
