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CALYPSO
NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
PROGRAMS
The April 11th program at the Botanical Gardens
with Reny Parker and her stunning wildflower
photographs was enjoyed by a number of people,
mostly from the Mendocino/Fort Bragg area. If you
missed Reny’s talk, she will be doing another at
Four Eyed Frog Books in Gualala, 39138 Ocean
Drive, 884-1333.
WILDFLOWERS AT FOUR-EYED FROG
BOOKS
On Saturday, May 12, 4:00, Reny Parker will give a
short presentation of the more unusual native
plants of the Sea Ranch/coastal area. She will also
be doing a book signing for her new photographic
guide Wildflowers of Northern California’s Wine
Country & North Coast Ranges. With 542 full color
images, it includes the familiar as well as those rare
and shy beauties that must be sought out.
This handy guide has flowers grouped by color with
glorious closeup photos to aid in identification.
Included are 358 species from 83 plant families.
Information on bloom times, habitats, garden tips,
native uses, natural history, and wildflower hot
spots is provided.
ADVENTURES OF A BOTANICAL
ILLUSTRATOR
Saturday, May 19, 6:30 PM. Please note date
change: previously listed as Friday, May 18.
Speaker: Dr. Linda Ann Vorobik
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Meeting
Room
What a treat to have one of the illustrators of the
Jepson Manual as our speaker! Linda Ann
Vorobik’s varied professional endeavors have taken
her into some of the west’s loveliest wildlands.
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A botanist, editor, and illustrator of numerous
botanical publications, Linda holds a PhD from the
University of Oregon at Eugene, conducts field
research and teaches in the Siskiyou Mountains of
southwestern Oregon, and is a Research Associate
at both the University of California, Berkeley, and
the University of Washington, Seattle. She lives at
her family home on Lopez Island, Washington.
Linda just finished up a stint of several years as
editor of Fremontia, the quarterly journal of CNPS.
During that time she put production systems in
place, updated the format of the journal and helped
usher in the new era of color publication.
She has been the principal illustrator for several
books, including Flora North America Volume 25
(Grasses), The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of
California, The Jepson Desert Manual, and A Flora
of Santa Cruz Island.
There is more, but no curriculum vitae could convey
Linda’s unique brand of joie de vivre. Come and
meet a botanist with attitude and share her
adventures stalking the wild plants of the west.
FIELD TRIPS by Peter Warner
May 5, Saturday. Sanhedrin Chapter trip to
Angelo Coast Range Reserve. Visit Douglas-fir and
coast redwood-dominated forests along the South
Fork Eel River. Contact: Marisela, (707) 459-2681.
May 12, Saturday. Mayacamas Audubon Sanctuary,
near Geyserville. Moderately strenuous. Sponsored
by Madrone Audubon Society, Sonoma County.
www.audubon.sonoma.net/; Contact Peter Warner,
964-8242.
May 19, Saturday - Ft. Ross State Park. Strenuous.
State Parks Environmental Scientists Brendan
O’Neil and Peter Warner will take you into the
nether reaches of the under-appreciated
backcountry of this park – it’s not just a fort!
Contact: Peter Warner, 964-8242.
May 20, Sunday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Mote Creek
Reserve. Moderately strenuous. 80 acres have
been set aside by Lori Hubbart and Greg Jirak for
protection of its diverse habitats and to offer
environmental education opportunities to the
Mendocino Coastal community. Join us in an
exploration of coastal grassland, Bishop pine forest,
wetlands, and a rich riparian corridor. Contact:
Peter Warner, 964-8242.
May 26, Saturday – Sanhedrin Chapter trip to
Rickabaugh Glade, South Cow Mtn. Moderately
strenuous. A little-known gem of native plant
diversity, including an upland vernal pool and
several ecologically transitional habitats. Contact
Vishnu: 467-1341, or www.cnps-sanhedrin.org.
June 2, Saturday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Salt Point State
Park. Moderately to quite strenuous. The past
several years of walks in this park have continually
provided botanical delights and surprises. We’ll
revisit some of these shrines to wonder, and
anticipate discovering more! Contact: Peter
Warner, 964-8242.
June 9, Saturday, 10 a.m. Gualala River Estuary
with ecologist Peter Baye. Meet at Gualala Point
Regional Park (in parking lot closest to beach.)
Wear clothing suitable for river and marsh walking
and being out in the sun; also bring a
lunch. Contact: Peter Warner 964-8242.
June 16 & 17, Saturday & Sunday. Sanhedrin
Chapter trip to Howard Lake, Mendocino National
Forest. Aquatic habitats, Brewer’s oak woodlands,
and great Inner Coast Range plant diversity. Bring
kayaks or canoes; 4-wheel drive vehicles are
recommended. Contact: Geri: 459-3689, or
www.cnps-sanhedrin.org.
June 29 - July 1 The Lassics, weekend botany &
camping trip. For details, contact Peter Warner
964-8242.
The Warner Mountains, extended camping trip,
botany and birding, July or early August. Contact
Peter Warner for date, time & meeting place.
PRESIDENT’S CORNER
by Lori Hubbart
The natural environment is in the spotlight right
now, in terms of conservation, restoration and the
potential for attracting tourists. Just look at the
enthusiastic public participation in the nascent
restoration coalition and the Bureau of Land
Management’s Coastal National Monument and
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Gateway initiative. I see some great opportunities
for native plant outreach here!
In this spirit, the March Environmental Partners
Potluck at Russian Gulch State Park, drew a lively
crowd. There was plenty of delicious food, and lots
of interesting news reported by various local
conservation groups.
Local Environmentalist Award to Helene Chalfin
CNPS was delighted to present this year’s Local
Environmentalist Award to Helene Chalfin of
Jughandle Creek Nature Center. Helene has
worked long and hard growing native plants for
local projects and educating local children about
the wild habitats around us. In the past decade she
has worked with students from several school
districts in Mendocino County, all while building
community partnerships and writing grant
proposals.
We managed to keep the award a secret from
Helene, so she was quite flabbergasted to realize
that she was the recipient. Let’s hope that this
honor will enhance her ability to solicit funds for her
projects.
Environmental Award for Ray Van de Water
The Mendocino Coast Environmental Partnership
has posthumously honored Ray Van de Water with
its Local Environmentalist Award.
Ray was known for his love of nature and for his
ability to motivate people to get involved in nature-
related community projects. He was a founding
director of the Redwood Coast Land Conservancy,
and remained active in that organization for many
years.
He also served as secretary of the Dorothy King
Young Chapter of the California Native Plant
Society, longtime author of the Conservation News
column for its newsletter, and was a member of the
Gualala River Watershed Council.
Ray and his wife, Florence, were frequent
participants on wildflower walks and camping trips
and enthusiastic participants in two local hiking
groups. He was truly a man of honor, and the
courtesy and respect with which Ray treated
everyone were not assumed, but intrinsic.
The award presentation was made at the
Environmental Partnership’s Annual Potluck Dinner
on March 19th. The Partnership is composed of
the Mendocino Land Trust, Mendocino Coast
Audubon Society, California Native Plant Society
and the Mendocino Area Parks Association.
Irene Leidner wrote a very moving tribute to this
remarkable man, which she read aloud at the
ceremony. Her tribute can be read on the
Redwood Coast Land Conservancy’s website at
www.rc-lc.org under “News.”
“A model for how to live in harmony with the earth
and its current inhabitants. Fighting to keep the
wonder of it all from disappearing;
Where age is no handicap, but instead a melting
pot of wisdom accumulated over the years.”
The evening’s featured speaker was the
redoubtable Dr. Peter Baye, whose program was
titled, “Coastal Habitat Restoration in Northern
California: A Short History of Applied Science, Trial,
Error, and Luck.” He gave an entertaining and
richly nuanced overview, which I have attempted to
summarize:
Coastal Habitat Restoration: Restoration
science, which uses ecological principles to replace
degraded or lost natural habitats, is a relatively new
and still evolving discipline. Early restoration efforts
were driven by human needs, using management-
intensive practices from the Old World, where
natural ecosystems were depleted centuries ago.
Technologies for holding water back or stabilizing
soils were not always suited for the re-creation of
wild habitats.
The first environmental laws began to challenge the
“reclamation” ethic, but regulations also ushered in
mitigation-based projects, usually done permit by
permit. Such piecemeal restorations may fail
because they lack a broad, whole-system
approach. Nor is it helpful for the science and
technology to be driven by the regulatory process.
Even when good scientific knowledge is available,
there may be no real-world model on which to base
a restoration project. Then designers must make
educated guesses as to what will work, or use a
model that doesn’t really fit the situation.
This has led to projects that failed to help their
target species, though they sometimes benefited
another, rare species through happy accident.
One very costly Bay Area restoration had as its
goal the re-creation of tidal mudflats. The
environment was characterized by deep water and
strong tidal currents, not conducive to mudflats.
The end result was a lagoon, though it is a high-
quality, functioning lagoon.
Restorations should be self-sustaining, not
dependent on intensive human maintenance. In
non-technological societies, human-maintained
systems can succeed over time because
maintenance is driven by strong traditions.
However, we are not living in a tradition-based
society. It is also very hard to build in enough
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diversity. Some native plants are adventitious,
colonizing dominants, and if planted early in a
project, may overwhelm the slower, more fragile
species.
Restoration projects don’t go well when people try
to speed things up too much, take shortcuts, or go
in for showy effects. Generally, less engineering
works best. Designers should avoid “static”
planting plans that fail to take natural change into
account.
Restoration need not be about exact replication,
which is not even possible, but about processes.
We should always ask, “What models are we
using?” “Where are we improvising?”
Peter thinks projects often turn out better when
those involved are not too optimistic. A healthy
dose of skepticism gives rise to constructive
criticism as the project moves along. He also
endorses citizen involvement in restoration
projects.
CONSERVATION NEWS
by Lori Hubbart
Rare Plant Communities: The CNPS Vegetation
Program, conducted in partnership with the state
Department of Fish and Game, is charged with
publishing an updated version of the Manual of
California Vegetation.
The new version of this book will include listings
and descriptions of rare vegetation assemblages.
This is really exciting, because it means that rare
vegetation types will be listed in the Natural
Diversity Database, and eventually given
consideration under the California Environmental
Quality Act.
Local botanists have been concerned that these
well-intentioned and knowledgeable vegetation
professionals did not know our coast well enough to
accurately identify our local rare plant communities.
Lori Hubbart has been asked to represent our
chapter at a meeting of the state Vegetation
Committee to convey our concerns and learn more
about the committee’s process.
This general meeting will be followed by several
regional meetings, following the model established
by the Rare Plant Program. Teresa Sholars, and
perhaps other local botanists, will attend that
meeting and help work out the specifics for our
coast’s rare vegetation types.
Gualala Plant List: The Gualala Municipal
Advisory Council (GMAC) has created a Gualala
Town Plan, and associated with this plan is a list of
recommended landscape plants for Gualala. This
list was reviewed by several botanists in our
chapter, who identified several invasive, exotic
plants that should be removed from the list.
Lori Hubbart spoke at a GMAC meeting and was
able to convince the GMAC board to vote “yes” on
the recommended changes to the list. It was clear
that some members of the audience did not
understand that this list is advisory only. It is
mostly non-natives, not a complete list of what
might be grown in Gualala, and the GMAC has no
authority over what people plant.
Ecotourism: A consortium made up of business
promotion groups and the Mendocino Land Trust
put on a two-day conference on Eco-Tourism in
March. It featured some thought-provoking
presentations and lots of networking in between.
Some local business owners may not realize that
businesses alone, no matter how stellar, will never
make the Mendocino coast a tourist destination.
Whether people want luxury lodging, fine wines,
gourmet restaurants, boutique shopping, art
galleries or a quaint village ambience, all these
things can be found much closer to urban centers.
The thing that really makes the Mendocino coast a
visitor destination is its natural beauty. Towering
forests, miles of open space, unspoiled beaches
and bracing fresh air are getting harder to find, and
make the trip to our remote coast worthwhile.
Many visitors do want all those deluxe goods and
services once they get here. Of course, too many
human-engineered experiences and facilities could
spoil the natural beauty that draws people here in
the first place. How can we encourage a
conservation ethic while boosting local economies,
yet keep people from loving the natural
environment to death?
Garcia River Lands: CNPS was represented on a
guided tour of the Garcia River property managed
by The Conservation Fund for sustainable logging
and habitat preservation. The forested area we
toured was so overlogged in the past that it is not
all that floristically diverse now. The Timber Harvest
Plan there will be messy – they always are – so it’s
hard to tell what the ultimate result will be.
It was heartening to learn that The Nature
Conservancy, a conservation easement holder and
funder for the land, is also an active partner.
Several young TNC staffers were present, as well
as a student from San Francisco State University.
The involvement of younger people is important, as
the results of this grand experiment probably won’t
become apparent until today’s twenty-somethings
are senior citizens.
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Stornetta Public Lands: As you know, the federal
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) owns some
1,100 acres of the Stornetta Public lands and holds
a conservation easement on about 500 additional
acres there. The BLM is also in charge of the
California Coastal National Monument – the rocks
and sea stacks off our coast. The agency has now
linked the Monument with its mainland holdings,
and is working to create “Gateway” communities to
promote the associated nature appreciation and
recreation opportunities.
Having Point Arena as a Gateway will provide a
new outlet for educating people about the local
flora. BLM is busy forging community partnerships,
and would like to include CNPS, with a
memorandum of understanding. This will be
evaluated by volunteers and state staff.
Point Arena Lighthouse: Happily, the new
lighthouse Executive Director, Rae Radtkey, was at
the BLM Gateway meeting, and is very interested in
re-establishing a working relationship between DKY
and the Lighthouse Keepers. The Lighthouse Point
has a beautiful and diverse natural garden, so it is
fun and rewarding to work there. We may be able
to schedule another weeding party behind the
museum building. Other projects could include
CNPS-led nature walks, a plant brochure,
information for a self-guided plant walk, a
permanent native plant kiosk or display, spreading
the on-site native flora to damaged areas, and
articles for the Lighthouse Keepers’ newsletter.
Lori Hubbart will meet with Rae Radtkey for further
discussion.
Pygmy forest update: Linda Perkins and Lori
Hubbart of the Pygmy Forest Working Group
attended a meeting about vegetation management
at Little River Airport. The airport is owned
Mendocino County and administered by the County
Department of Transportation.
Federal aviation rules mandate heights for
vegetation at prescribed distances from the runway.
This is not negotiable, but we are trying to
persuade the County to do a better job of managing
pygmy forest around the airport where low mowing
is not required. It is also possible that a small
amount of restoration might be done.
Caltrans–Highway-One: Many people are asking
about the flags and planting along the Schooner
Gulch Hwy.-One realignment project south of Point
Arena. Please be aware that not all of the little flags
are for plants. Wetland areas will be planted in the
fall with species deemed appropriate by Caltrans.
The upland areas have been hydroseeded with an
“erosion control” mix that includes sterile forms of
wheatgrass and barley. These should not reseed or
persist after the first year. The upland areas were
also planted with “landscape plants” for which we
don’t yet have details. CNPS will be evaluating this
situation very carefully.
Legislation and agency activity: CNPS is
supporting a state bill, AB 1457, that is meant to
keep our State Parks safe from road incursions and
such. CNPS legislative analyst, Vern Goehring, is
reviewing bills dealing with OHV programs; GMOs;
wildlife corridors; a state wildlife action plan;
surface mining recreation; timberland conversions;
CESA; flood and land use relationships; and bonds
to build dams. In addition, there are numerous bills
to direct spending of Prop 84 and other bond funds.
Meanwhile, the California State Water Resources
Control Board has formulated a series of options for
wetlands protection and asked the public for input.
Our chapter has commented in favor of the option
that would best protect our state’s wetland
resources.
New Feature @ CNPS Website!
It is now easier to renew your membership and to
donate regularly using new options! At www.
cnps.org you’ll find a brand new poppy icon that
links you to a page where you can donate to CNPS
in installments: monthly, yearly, or whatever suits
your schedule and budget! Several members
wished it could be “as easy as public radio” for
renewing memberships and making regular
contributions to CNPS; now it is! Tell your friends,
and check it out before your membership expires.
Your donations are tax-deductible and can make a
real difference for our flora. Thank you!
Lynn Houser, Milo Baker Chapter
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BIG RIVER STEWARDS
May 19, 2007, 9 AM to 1 PM. Big River Stewards
Monthly Invasive Plant Removal Workday. Meet at
the Big River Haul Road parking lot. RSVP to
mcoleman@mendocinolandtrust.org.
June 3, 2007. Land Trust Annual Meeting.
1:00 to 3:00 PM in Saint Anthony's Hall in
Mendocino.
June 16, 2007 Invasive Plant Removal from 9 AM
to 1 PM. Please RSVP to Matt Coleman at
mcoleman@mendocinolandtrust.org.
Hopefully we'll soon be having native seed
collection days at Big River for propagation in a
restoration greenhouse at MacKerricher but
specific plans have not yet been made.
NAVARRO POINT STEWARDS
Navarro Point Stewards will meet Wednesday May
9th and Wednesday June 13th from 8:45-11:45 AM
to pull invasive plants (bull thistle, New Zealand
fireweed, and others) and picking up trash. Come
join us all are welcome. Contact: Louisa Morris,
Conservation Project Manager, 962-0470,
lmorris@mendocinolandtrust.org.
Jepson Herbarium Workshops
May - August
For more information on the workshops, or to register,
contact Cynthia Perrine (510) 643–7008,
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/workshops/2007/index.html.
Unless specified, workshops are held at UC Berkeley.
May 4 – 6: Shasta/Trinity Limestone Endemics at
Shasta Recreation Area - John Sawyer
May 10 – 13: White Mountains Flora at White Mountains
Research Station - Jim Morefield
May 12 – 13: Poaceae - Travis Columbus
June 1 – 3: Eriogonum at James Reserve (Jim Reveal)
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June 8 – 10: Mimulus at Sequoia & Kings Canyon
(Steve Schoenig)
June 20 – 23: Panamint Range Flora at Death Valley
(Dana York)
June 30: Ecology and Epidemiology of Lyme’s Disease
in the West (Bob Lane)
July 12 –15: Great Basin National Park (David Charlet,
Pat Leary, Jim Holland)
July 20 – 22: Lupinus at Sagehen (Teresa Sholars)
July 28 – 29: The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
“Method” (Monica Albe and Jeffery T Wilcox)
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BLUE BLOSSOM SPRING
by Lori Hubbart
Weren’t the Ceanothus along Highway One
gorgeous this year? Most of what we see along the
immediate coast is Ceanothus griseus, though I am
told that C. griseus has been merged taxonomically
with C. thyrsiflorus. What we might call “the plant
formerly known as Ceanothus griseus” has
considerable, untapped garden potential.
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus in coastal scrub habitat near
Alder Creek, Mendocino County © Mary Sue Ittner.
One reason for this deficit is the inaccessibility of
some of the choicest specimens. No one can get
cuttings from shrubs that are up there hugging a
steep cliff. Nonetheless, our chapter will continue to
try to propagate local plants with large, deep blue
flower clusters, plus some useful low, creeping
forms. Let us know if you find a white form!
Ceanothus, also known as wild lilac or blue
blossom, is usually a blue-flowered shrub. Flowers
can also be lavender or white, and the plants occur
all over California in the form of groundcovers, low
mounding plants, billowing large shrubs to single-
trunked, small trees.
In a garden the white forms assort beautifully with
other white flowered plants, but perhaps their
greatest use is as a contrast to the blues. The
demonstration garden at Yerba Buena Nursery
used to have a “Ceanothus Hill” where a large
mound was covered with Ceanothus of different
shapes, sizes and flower tones. From a distance,
the springtime effect was just stunning.
Our local Ceanothus species include C. griseus
with largish leaves and fairly large blue flower
clusters. The traditional C. thyrsiflorus is a taller
plant with smaller leaves. Around here its flower
clusters tend to be small, and the plant functions as
an early successional species after logging or a
forest fire. Right near the coast it seems to live for
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10 or 12 years, though in the Bay Area, plants
become quite arborescent, reaching 25 feet and
living as many years.
Another local Ceanothus is C. foliosus, with very
small, wrinkled leaves and small clusters of
intensely blue flowers. It ranges from a little 1’ high
mound near the coast to a shrub of 4 feet or so
further inland.
Often found growing with it, C. gloriosus, has small,
holly-like leaves, lavender flowers and also comes
in lower and taller forms. Near the coast is variety
gloriosus, which is low and spreading. The variety
exaltatus (gotta love that epithet!) is an upright,
twiggy shrub that can be 12 feet tall.
On the ridges we see a local form of the whitethorn,
Ceanothus incanus. It never gets as white-
stemmed and picturesque as plants in Humboldt
County do. Here, this white-flowered species
always seems like the plain-Jane cousin of another,
grander white-flowered species.
Ceanothus velutinus, or varnish leaf, is a
spectacular plant, large and tree-like, with showy
clusters of creamy-white flowers in late spring. The
leaves are very large and shiny, exuding a bracing,
resinous fragrance. People either love or hate this
scent, which can fill the air on a warm day.
Since we had less than our usual rainfall this year,
Ceanothus and other native plants in the garden
may need extra water. It is often a good practice to
water during the months when plants would
normally get rain. One gardener claimed that this
should not be necessary, as the plants don’t use
water from winter and spring rains anyway. Really?
I always thought plants used that water to put on
root growth. How would native plants survive the
long, dry summers unless they utilized the water
from winter and spring rains?
Ceanothus gloriosus var. gloriosus in coastal
grassland, Marin County, 2001 © Doreen L. Smith.
BOOK, BOOKS, BOOKS!

David Fross & Dieter Eilken provide a complete
horticultural and botanical treatment of the genus
aimed at both gardeners and botanists. This book
finally gives Ceanothus…the recognition it
deserves. Timber Press, 2006.
With the instincts of a detective, Michael Pollan
explores the ecology of eating, examining what we
eat and how it is produced. His travels take him
from the industrialized monoculture of cornfields in
Iowa to locally grown alternative farming in Virginia
and finally to hunting and gathering in the forests of
Northern California. The Penguin Press, 2006.

Judith Larner Lowry, author of Gardening with a

Wild Heart, celebrates the beauty, rewards and
We’re running out of dirt and it’s no laughing
challenges of gardening with native plants in this
matter! In this fascinating yet disquieting book,
practical guide to backyard restoration gardening.
David Montgomery explores the compelling idea
Restoration gardening is a way to honor Native
that we are--and have long been--using up Earth's
American traditions, protect biodiversity, and better
soil. University of California Press, due May 2007.
understand our relationship with the earth.
University of California Press, April 2007.
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OFFICERS 2007
President: Lori Hubbart 882-1655
fax 882-1645
Vice President: Mario Abreu 937-3155
Secretary: Nancy Morin 882-2528
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Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150

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