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April 20th, 7:30 p.m.
04/13 Board Meeting Join us
for our
4/15 Field Trip: Tolay
monthly
Creek
general
04/15 Submissions deadline: meeting
May Newsletter featuring
Glenn
4/17 Field Trip: Jenner Keator
Headlands and his
talk:
04/20 General Meeting, Inspiring
Luther Burbank Art & California
Garden Center Locations
We will
spend the
evening
In This Issue exploring
some of
Calendar & April Speaker 1 the amazing and wonderful botanical treasures of California. Glenn Keator is a field
President’s Corner 2 botanist and the author of numerous books on California native plants, including
State CNPS News 2 Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological
Gardening with Natives 4 Gardens (co-authored with Alrie Middlebrook).
Invasives Corner 4
Plant Sale News 5
Events/Items of Interest 6
Field Trips 7 Join us for Dinner before the Meeting:
Board Contacts 8 We'll gather for dinner at 6PM at Kirin Restaurant, 2700 Yulupa Ave. We hope our
speaker will join us, but we always have an enjoyable group of fellow members and a
delicious Northern Chinese meal in any case. Please contact Liz Parsons, 833-2063,
lizpar8993@aol.com by April 19th if you plan to attend.
Plant ID Hour
Arrive at 6:45 before the General Meeting and bring specimens of plants you want to identify. We will feature plants
of interest from the local area, see them through a dissecting microscope, and discover the differences between our
many native species. Along with some fresh plant material, I’ll bring field guides and botany books. I can help you
work through the keys in The Jepson Manual and A Sonoma County Flora or answer your questions. Come talk plants
with plant people. The best-learned plants are those learned with friends!
General Meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa.
Milo Baker Chapter Board meetings start at 7:00pm, 2nd Tuesday nine months of the year, Environmental Center, 55 Ridgeway Avenue,
Suite A, Santa Rosa. The next Board meeting is April 13th. Anyone interested in the work of the chapter is welcome to attend!
Special thanks to Liz Parsons and Becky
resident's Report
P
The wildflowers will be up and blooming this
Montgomery for hosting and closing up the
meeting as I had to leave early.
Hope to see
you out in
month, as the sunny days and cool nights of spring the field
follow a very wet winter compared to recent years. this spring!
Illustrated here by Slow is scarlet fritillary, Fritillaria Check the
recurva, which is field trip
blooming in the hills schedule
of Santa Rosa now. and
A great place to see website
lots of diversity is link for
Pepperwood details and
Preserve, on Franz come see
Valley Road, off of the local
Mark West Springs flora. If
Road. They offer you’d like to lead a field trip or have ideas of where
many classes and to go, please contact Cindy Tancreto and Cassandra
opportunities, Liu. The board contacts are on the back page.
including a Lynn Houser
wildflower festival
this year, scheduled
for April 10th. It is tate News
free and open to the
public, so bring your family and friends. Our
S
chapter will have a booth there to recruit new Excerpted from the Mount Lassen Chapter, The
members and show them what we do. Also, on
Pipevine, March 2010. By David Anderson
May 7th we will be co-hosting a CNPS vegetation
All of the 2009 bills supported by CNPS, but not
sampling workshop with Pepperwood, so sign up
given final action in 2009, have died in the
soon if you are interested: see details in the events
California Legislature. According to the
section of this issue.
Senate/Assembly 2010 calendar, January 22 was
We had plenty of early wildflower specimens to see
the last day for any committee of the Senate or
at the March general meeting, but no slide
Assembly to hear and report to the Floor bills
projector! My thanks to Liz for trying, to Kate for
introduced in 2009. January 31 was the last day for
letting me use her laptop, and especially to the
the Assembly and Senate to pass bills introduced in
audience for being so agreeable and interested. If 2009.
any of our members or friends has a digital As yet (i.e., Feb. 10), CNPS has not taken a
projector that they can donate to the Milo Baker position on any 2010 bills. Indications are,
Chapter, please let me know at housers@sonic.net
however, that this period of inactivity may not last
or 568-3230. A tax-deductible donation of a digital
for long. The Capitol Weekly reports that the
projector would save us the need to borrow the one
Schwarzenegger Administration is planning to
at the EC, (which was not available in March) and
seek exemption from California environmental
would help a lot! Renting one for a few hours costs
laws for large construction projects throughout the
$125! Nevertheless, it was a fun meeting with
State. The proposed exemptions are expected to
many new faces and we covered 15 plant families. I
include transportation, refinery, water, sewage
made at least one error: I got axile and parietal
and other projects. It was expected that the
placentation (of the ovary) mixed-up. See the
Governor's exemption plan would be put in a
diagram here to get it straight- axial has an axis.
"trailer bill" to the annual budget bill, but no such
Even with some snafus, we always have fun at our
"trailer bill" has appeared to date. Of course, bills
general meetings. We are still looking for a
for exemptions from the California Environmental
Program Chair to schedule and announce the
Quality Act (CEQA) and the California
speakers. Please let me know if you can help out
Endangered Species Act (CESA) do not have to be
General Meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa.
Milo Baker Chapter Board meetings start at 7:00pm, 2nd Tuesday nine months of the year, Environmental Center, 55 Ridgeway Avenue,
Suite A, Santa Rosa. The next Board meeting is April 13th. Anyone interested in the work of the chapter is welcome to attend!
tied to the annual budget bill. They could be
entirely unrelated.
As a practical matter, meaningful protection of Vocabulary Crossword puzzle for botanists
California's native plants on non-federal land is
1 2 3
afforded only by CEQA. CESA, as it applies to
plants, is so riddled with exemptions that it has 4 5
little protective value.
6
Environmentalists have their work cut out for them
in defending against ill thought out federal and 7
state proposals to combine economic recovery
programs with exemptions from environmental 8
laws. We do need to streamline and speed up
9 10
environmental review procedures, but exempting
important projects from environmental laws could
have devastating long term effects.
12
F ield Trips
With Dr. Michael Barbour and Dr. Ayzik
Solomeshch
Both programs take place in Davis and the
surrounding Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley Tolay Creek
vernal pool terrain. For more info: Thursday, April 15, 5pm – 8pm
http://cnps.org/cnps/education/workshops/inde An awe-inspiring display of native wildflowers and
x.php grasses in the springtime.
This hike is limited. RSVP to receive additional
California Native Plant Sale information. Cindy Tancreto,
April 17 cindytancreto@pacbell.net, 528-9225
Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley
The Botanic Garden is located at the intersection of Jenner Headlands
Wildcat Canyon Road & South Park Drive near the Saturday, April 17, 10-30am – 2pm
Brazil Building in Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley Join us in experiencing the amazing wildflower
(admission is free)Find many plants that are not displays found on serpentine soils of the coastal
available in a commercial nursery. Horticultural headlands. This hike is not for inexperienced
advice gladly given! Come and explore the Garden. hikers and is limited to 20 participants. Bring lunch
Buy some plants to take home. Please bring boxes and water. RSVP to receive additional information.
to carry home your treasures and an umbrella if it Cindy Tancreto, cindytancreto@pacbell.net, 528-
rains. Refreshments available. 9225
Proceeds directly benefit the Garden. Crossword Puzzle Answers
http://ebparks.org/parks/vc/botanic_garden M R L
510-544-3169 C A E S P I T O S E F
http://nativeplants.org R O A C O R M
S C A N D E N T V U
Boonville Flower Show Botanizing E E S I
April 24 and 25
S U F F R U T E S C E N T
CNPS Sanhedrin (Interior Mendocino) Chapter
C U U E
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in
E G G L O C H I D A T E
appreciation of Mendocino County’s diverse flora.
N A O
I’ll spend April 22 (Thursday) looking for plants of
T G S E R I C E O U S
aesthetic and botanical interest for the Anderson
Valley Flower Show in Boonville, April 24 and 25. If I E E T
you’re willing to collect plant specimens (rare O P F L O W E R
plants are generally excluded) on April 22 or 23, S U B U L A T E M
just let me know so we can coordinate our S N M A L E
explorations. Peter Warner: (707) 829-1183; B U D A
phytopagan@gmail.com F L O R A
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NON-PROFIT
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY ORGANIZATION
Milo Baker Chapter www.cnpsmb.org U.S. Postage Paid
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