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ADV - MPS - Advanced Sedges of Minnesota Identification Workshop, East Bethel

MPS - Advanced Sedges of Minnesota Identification Workshop, East Bethel website

2660 Fawn Lake Dr NE
East Bethel, MN 55005

After 15 years of offering the Minnesota Sedge Identification Workshop, Critical Connections Ecological Services, Inc. is pleased to offer for the first time a three day advanced sedge identification workshop. The advanced workshop will be taught in early August to capitalize on the later season phenology of Carex section Ovales and the other non-Carex genera of the Cyperaceae in Minnesota. The workshop will be taught in the lab on Wednesday, August 5 and Thursday, August 6, 2026. On Friday, August 7, we will explore native sedge genera and species in diverse native wetland plant communities of the Anoka Sand Plain.

The advanced identification workshop will be taught by Dr. Anton Reznicek, Professor Emeritus of the University of Michigan and North American sedge expert. Jason Husveth will assist Dr. Reznicek with thw instruction of the workshop, collection of live specimen material, and selection of field sites. This workshop will build upon the format and structure of past Minnesota Carex workshops with two days in the lab and one full day in the field. At the request of past workshop attendees, the advanced workshop will focus on the most difficult group within the genus Carex (Section Ovales; 20 Minnesota species) as well as taxa within the non-Carex genera of Minnesota (e.g. Cyperus, Scleria, Eleocharis, Dulichium, Eriophorum, Scirpus, Schoenoplectus, Schoenoplectiella). The workshop will be taught within a modern plant laboratory at the University of Minnesota’s Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, and in the field at diverse native sites in northern Anoka and southern Isanti Counties. The lab curriculum will be taught using live and pressed specimens and our collection of mature perigynia and sedge achenes. Participants will have access to live specimens of dozens of species, dissecting microscopes, hand lenses, metric rulers, and electronic and printed keys.

The advanced workshop will be useful to a wide array of students, including novice and experienced field botanists, wetland ecologists, and wetland professionals with an interest in identifying Minnesota Carex Ovales and non-Carex sedge taxa to species. Those who have attended the Minnesota Sedge Identification Workshop (or similar) in past years and those with a firm knowledge of the genus Carex are encouraged to take the advanced workshop. As in the past, this course will be accredited 18 direct hours of continuing education units (CEUs) by the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resource’s (BWSR) Wetland Professional Certification Program (WPCP).

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The course cost is $650 and includes course manuals and supplies.

Course Dates:

Meeting from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 A.M. on:

Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Friday, August 7, 2026

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