Annual Seed Collecting Walk

Rain Date is Oct 24th, same time. 

Learn to identify plants from dried leaves and seed heads. We collect seeds for use by the Cornell Botanic Gardens' Mundy WIldflower Garden, for the FLNPS seed exchange, and you can take some home for your own use. We will likely meet and do a bit of carpooling, but you can always drive yourself if you prefer not to share or if you might need to leave early. This walk usually takes ALL afternoon. 

FOR ALL FLNPS WALKS AND RAMBLES 

Required COVID-related safety protocols

    - If you are feeling ill, or have a fever, or have recently tested positive for COVID-19, please do not attend the walk!  (And if possible, give the leader/organizer some advance notice that you'll not be attending in case there is a wait list.)

    - You must wear an appropriate COVID mask (over mouth AND nose) at all times during the walk, with the following exception: If you need to remove your mask momentarily, please step away from the group (about 10 feet or more).

   - Please maintain social distance (6 feet or more) whenever possible.  Exceptions can be made—for example, when the group is looking closely at specimens—as long as everyone not maintaining social distance is properly masked.

   - If any items have been handled by multiple members of the group, hand washing or sanitizing during or soon after the walk is strongly encouraged.

   - The group may consist of both vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals.  Leaders will not attempt to determine vaccination status (nor entertain anyone's claims about their own status), so safety protocols most appropriate for unvaccinated people (as stated above) must be adhered to by all participants.

Risk management agreement and release 

By requesting registration for this Finger Lakes Native Plant Society (FLNPS) event, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

    All activities such as those offered by FLNPS involve some degree of physical risk to participants, despite the reasonable and prudent efforts of FLNPS organizers to reduce risks.  Such risks, especially of illness, may be greater during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite appropriate COVID-related safety protocols implemented by FLNPS organizers.  To participate in this event, you agree to adhere to all COVID-related protocols stated above.  Furthermore, you agree to assess and manage, to the best of your ability, all risks of injury, illness, and other harm to which you and any others on whose behalf you are registering are exposed.  In the unlikely event that you or any others in your party sustain injury, illness, or other harm during or as a result of this FLNPS activity, you agree to hold FLNPS and its organizers harmless to the fullest extent allowed by law.