Balkar saheb, You , me and 30 people are already occupied for our VoF trek in August, hence July seems to be impossible. March, I am sure I shall be able to get leaves from my office to join in. But, still....lets see.
On 20 May 2012 09:50, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Garg Ji Chitra Ji and Rajesh Ji for nice words. Rajesh Ji why in > March 13, we are also planning again in July end this year and also in > November this year. Hope we will be able to cover maximum flora of this > region by 31st March 2013. Then we will start for Kumaon region and > Himachal Pradesh > > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Rajesh Sachdev <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Balkarsir, >> I am also passionate about Flora of Chakrata, may not be at par with you. >> But this part of Western Himalayas has fascinated me from 2009 and onwards. >> I look forward to join you in March `13. >> >> More discussion over the phone :) >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Rajesh Sachdev >> http://project-matheran.webs.com >> https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy >> >> >> >> >> On 20 May 2012 09:01, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear All >>> We reached back home on night of 18 May after an another successful >>> visit to Chakrata region. For the information of members I wish to share >>> some important things. >>> Chakrata is situated in Uttarakhand State in Dehradoon District. This >>> region is considered as a paradise of botanists due to many regions. This >>> place is still far away from general tourists and completely out of bound >>> for foreigners. Hotel facilities are still highly underdeveloped in the >>> area as only 3-4 hotels are there. Even forest rest houses are situated in >>> remote area and with lack of basic facilities like electricity, poor toilet >>> and bath facilities, non availability of water etc. So natural vegetation >>> is still intact and very very less plastic pollution. there are no much >>> places to visit for general tourist. Besides all this this is the best >>> place for nature loers. Budher is famous for beautiful butterflies. In this >>> dry season also we could saw 2-3 dozens type of beautiful butterflies. This >>> time we could saw many precious medicinal plants in budher and deovan area >>> naturally like Podophyllum hexandrum (in fruiting stage), Taxus baccata, >>> Polygonatum multiflorum (in flowering), Polygonatum verticillatum (in >>> flowering) etc. More than two dozens of trees were also seen in flowering >>> stage. This time we interacted with many locals there and after many >>> discussions we reached on the conclusion that Chakrata region must be >>> visited in the month of Feb/March (End of Feb to first week of March) then >>> in Mid of July to end of July then in september and also in November. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> >>> Dr Balkar Singh >>> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >>> Arya P G College, Panipat >>> Haryana-132103 >>> 09416262964 >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > -- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com https://www.facebook.com/leopardguy
