Current Events Calendar

The following is a list of events sponsored by White Pine Chapter or in collaboration with other organizations because our members have an interest. Please check with a contact if you have a specific question or wish to confirm event information.
For a list of events for other INPS chapters, please click on INPS.

Please mark your calendar with the dates of these meetings, presentations, and field trips. Additional information may also be communicated through chapter email notices, newsletters, and postcards and via public flyers and press releases. We look forward to seeing you on these educational excursions.
The public is welcome to attend our meetings. Want to join INPS?If you are not a current INPS member you can join or renew here: INPS Membership.

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2026-2027 Schedule

Upcoming Events

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More information on upcoming events will be posted when information becomes available. It will also be sent to members via email. Virtual programs are generally recorded and posted on our You Tube channel. Please see the left navigation bar for a link.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 7:00 pm PST. White Pine Chapter in person meeting with zoom option
Location: Lecompte Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1912 Center, 412 E. 3rd St., Moscow, Idaho
Zoom id will be sent to members and friends in an email and appears on the poster.

Speaker: Pamela Brunsfeld, Botanist and Retired Director of the University of Idaho Stillinger Herbarium

Presentation: Pamela will give a short presentation, followed by book release and signing of the new book "The 150 Best Native Plants for Pollinators in the Inland Pacific Northwest - a Field Guide and Garden Reference Book."

The book features 150 plants arranged by flower color, with photos, descriptions, blooming season, growing tips, pollinator information and fun facts for each species. Her Botanist's Bees honey includes nectar from over 60 of the species in the book that Pamela grows in her yard. The book and honey will be available for sale; great for holiday gifts! Cash, check, and Venmo are accepted.

Pamela Brunsfeld has been a professional botanist for over 50 years. She is the retired Director of the University of Idaho Stillinger Herbarium, a Systematic Botany and General Botany instructor, a Forest Service botanist, and currently is owner of the Brunsfeld Botanical consulting firm.

Poster: Pamela Brunsfeld presentation

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Thursday, November 19, 2026, 12:00 pm -7:00 pm PST.
Location: University of Idaho Stillinger Herbarium, U of I Mines Building, rooms 116-117A, Moscow, Idaho

This open house is in partnership with the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Department of Natural Resources.

Herbarium specimens of plants from the native Palouse will be on display, along with items made from them. Representatives from the Coeur d'Alene Tribe will share their history and relationship to these plants and the threatened ecosystem in which they are found.

Guided Herbarium tours will be available at 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm.

Poster: Herbarium Open House

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December, 2026 No meeting is scheduled at this time.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2027, 7:00 pm, White Pine Chapter meeting. Speaker will present via Zoom.
Location: Lecompte Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1912 Center, 412 E. 3rd St., Moscow, Idaho
Speaker: Owen Baughman
zoom information will be added here when available.
Topic will be announced later on website and via email

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Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 pm, White Pine Chapter meeting. Speaker will present via Zoom.
Location: Lecompte Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1912 Center, 412 E. 3rd St., Moscow, Idaho
Speaker: Stephen Paulson, CEO Founder, Native Roots, LLC
Topic: Native Habitat Restoration

Steven Paulsen has spent 30 years restoring native habitats and growing native plants.

Discussion on how Native Roots, LLC came to be, why native plants are such a challenge in traditional vendor outlets, and the work being done to make them available.

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Sunday, October 18, 2026 3:00-6:00 pm, White Pine Chapter Annual Meeting
Location: Robert Edwin Lloyd Park, 2370 N. Polk Ext., just past the Moscow, ID city limits

3:00 We will tour native forb and shrub plantings (partially funded from White Pine chapter grants). These are accessible from sidewalk and pavilion.
4:00 Annual meeting - presentation of past year's chapter accomplishments, election of proposed slate of officers, plans for coming year

Dinner will be provided by our chapter: Pizza (some gluten free, some vegetarian), Vegetables on trays, cookies
Chapter will provide plates, utensils, and napkins.
Please bring your choice of beverage and a chair if you wish - the park pavilion has tables and benches

PREF Creek May 0501012: Western white pine at
Priest River Experimental Forest taken by Russell Graham.