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CALYPSO
NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY

PROGRAMS
Insects and Gardens--Slide Show and Book Signing
Thursday, October 11 6:30 PM
Gualala Community Center
Speaker: Peter and Judy Haggard
Pete and Judy Haggard will give a talk based on their
new book, Insects of the Pacific Northwest, published by
Timber Press.
Pete’s amazingly lovely photos are enough to get
anyone inspired about insects, which are vital to
gardens and wildlands The program will also look at
plants, especially native species, and gardening
techniques for attracting wildlife.
Insects of the Pacific Northwest describes over 450
species of common, easily visible insects found from
southwestern British Columbia to northern California.
Multitudinous photographs, a series of visual keys to
orders and families, and a clear color-coded layout
make this handy field guide an exceptionally useful
reference.
FALL PLANT SALE
Pete Haggard recently retired from the California
Be sure to mark your calendars for the native plant sale
Department of Agriculture – the better to devote time to
Saturday, October 13. The annual sale will be held at
pursuing his love of insects and gardening. He has
the Gualala Community Center from 9 AM to 2 PM.
collected, photographed, and identified thousands of
insects and maintained an ongoing insect database. He This event is a lot of fun and if you would like to help
has also taught classes and lead field trips for CNPS prepare for this important chapter fund raiser please
and other nature and plant organizations. contact Lori Hubbart 882-1655.
Judy Haggard has worked for state and federal natural
resource agencies and is now a consulting wildlife The Poetry of John Thomas Howell’s Marin Flora
biologist. Together with Pete, she has contributed Chapter Annual Meeting & Potluck Luncheon
articles on native insects and plants for Darlingtonia Sunday, December 2 12:00 Noon
(North Coast Chapter California Native Plant Society), Greenwood Community Center in Elk
The Dunesberry (Friends of The Dunes), and other local Speaker: Wilma Follette
publications, and contributed text and photographs to Wilma Follette will discuss the updating of the Flora of
the “Regional Reports Northwest” section of Fine Marin and John Thomas Howell, the remarkable
Gardening (June 2007 issue). botanist who wrote the original version. See the
November-December issue for further details.

Tellima grandiflora fringe cups
PRESIDENT’S CORNER
by Lori Hubbart
After the fall plant sale, we’ll start in growing plants for
next year’s sale. Anyone who has access to especially
nice forms of local native plants, please collect seeds.
Small manila envelopes, sold at Racine’s in Fort Bragg,
are ideal for plant seeds. White Douglas iris? Deep
blue Ceanothus griseus? We always need more plants
and more people to grow them.
Our chapter board has a couple of spending proposals
before it: Support for an illustration of a local plant in the
Flora of North America, and support for biological
control for Cape ivy. Someone has also suggested a
scholarship fund for local students. It is deeply
satisfying to give money to worthy, native plant-related
causes, but first we must earn the money.
Speaking of funds, I hope our chapter can pay for
contract growing of some shrubs that are difficult to
propagate in home garden situations. These would
include a light pink-flowered form of Arctostaphylos
columbiana.
I would like to extend a huge Thank You to all those who
helped with the fall plant sale! It is a lot of work, but so
much fun, once it gets under way.
CONSERVATION NEWS
by Lori Hubbart
Pygmy Forest – Little River Airport: Much of the
property owned by Mendocino County’s airport in Little
River is very degraded, but the Pygmy Forest Working
Group is trying to influence management practices at
the airport.
Suggestions to the airport administration include
restoration and retention of pygmy forest to prevent
further erosion and reduction in burning, which induces
germination of bishop pine seeds. Tall pines may
obstruct view corridors, but too-frequent burning also
alters the soil chemistry and composition of plants on
the site.
Members of the pygmy team toured the site, much of
which has suffered the degradation of poor
management practices over the years. The County
put into place a Non-industrial Timber Management Plan
(NTMP) in 1997, and was planning to log some old-
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growth forest on the property. The County has
withdrawn the plan for now, due to various
complications. The NTMP is still in place, so some sort
of timber operation will happen there at some point.
Stornetta Lands – CNPS will send a comment letter
about the design of the proposed new parking lot, which
is planned in the middle of a population of Gairdner’s
yampah, Perideridia gairdneri ssp. gairdneri, a CNPS
List 4 plant. Perhaps a federal agency need not
consider a plant in the “limited distribution” category, but
if projects like this keep happening, List 4 plants become
more rare and may end up on List 1B.
Further, it is not clear why the parking lot is way in the
meadow, when it could parallel the existing row of
cypress trees. Nor is it clear why new shrubs and
landscape plantings are needed.
Another Stornetta issue is the need for a trail on the
ocean side of Lighthouse Road. There are some very
significant plant populations out there, including a famed
manzanita “hybrid swarm” with Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,
A. Columbiana and hybrids between the two. A well-
defined trail would do much to minimize damage to
plants by hikers.
Glass Beach – State Parks held a public input meeting
about the proposed new trail on the Glass Beach bluffs.
It was a rather unsatisfactory meeting, given that the
maps presented showed the proposed trail alignment,
but only one of half a dozen rare plants that occur on the
site. This made it impossible to judge the full impacts of
the trail.
The trail is currently shown running right through the
middle of the population of Blennosperma nanum var.
robustum, a state-listed rare daisy. The rationale for this
trail placement is that people do and will walk out there
anyway, and a trail will at least keep most of them on
one route.
Under the California Environmental Quality Act, there
will be “mitigations” to offset impact to rare plants and
other resources. CNPS will ask that mitigations focus on
weed abatement and enforcement of the dogs-on-leash
rule. These two major threats to the vegetation on the
bluffs must be addressed.
There is no guarantee that rare plant populations will
increase after weed removal, but the weeds are
currently taking over the habitat. While the City of Fort
Bragg should provide off-leash dog parks for its citizens,
State Parks are not appropriate places for free-roaming
pets.
Timber Harvest Plans – In addition to the airport plan
mentioned above, DKY has commented on two other
THPs. One is a timber conversion plan north of
Gualala, and the other is a THP in Gualala itself.
PLANT SALE LIST Mimulus cardinalis
Monardella villosa
streamside monkey flower
coyote-mint
Trees Penstemon heterophyllus blue bedder penstemon
Abies grandis grand fir Phacelia bolanderi Bolander’s phacelia
Crataegus suksdorfii California hawthorn Salvia clevelandii Cleveland’s sage
Pinus contorta ssp. contorta shore pine Salvia hybrid ‘Bee’s Bliss’ creeping sage
Salix lasiolepis arroyo willow Satureja douglasii yerba buena
Sequoia sempervirens coast redwood Sedum spathulifolium stonecrop
Sisyrinchium bellum blue eyed grass
Shrubs Sisyrinchium californicum yellow eyed grass
Arctostaphylos ‘Emerald Carpet’ manzanita Tellima grandiflora fringe cups
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi ‘Digger Creek’ Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata sugar scoop
Point Reyes manzanita Tolmiea menziesii piggyback plant
Artemisia californica California sagebrush Vancouveria hexandra inside-out-flower
Baccharis pilularis coyote bush Viola adunca western dog violet
Ceanothus gloriosus var. gloriosus Viola sempervirens redwood violet
Pt. Reyes ceanothus Whipplea modesta modesty
Ceanothus ‘Skylark’ etc. blue blossom
Fremontodendron californicum flannel bush Ferns
Galvezia speciosa showy island snapdragon Polystichum munitum sword fern
Holodiscus discolor cream bush
Lonicera involucrata twin berry Additional Plants We Hope to Offer
Lupinus arboreus bush lupine (purple) Myrica californica pacific wax myrtle
Rubus spectabilis salmon berry Pseudotsuga menziesii Douglas fir
Rhamnus californica California coffeeberry Artemisia pycnocephala sandhill sage
Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum Calycanthus occidentalis spice bush
pink currant Ceanothus – various Blue blossom
Rosa nutkana nootka rose Lepechinia calycina pitcher sage
Sambucus callicarpa red elderberry Rhododendron occidentale western azalea
Vaccinium ovatum California huckleberry Rosa gymnocarpa wood rose
Salvia species sage
Perennials Asarum caudatum wild ginger
Aquilegia formosa Western red columbine Dryopteris arguta coastal wood fern
Armeria maritima sea pink Fragaria chiloensis beach strawberry
Arabis blepharophylla purple rockcress Oxalis oregana redwood sorrel
Asarum caudatum wild ginger
Dudleya farinosa live forever
Epilobium sp. – various cultivars California fuchsia
Erigeron glaucus seaside daisy
Eriogonum latifolium coast buckwheat
Eriophyllum lanatum woolly sunflower
Eriophyllum staechadifolium seaside woolly sunflower
Erysimum menziesii ssp. concinnum MEMBERSHIP
coast wallflower New Members:
Eschscholzia californica – local form Mirka Knaster Sea Ranch
coast California poppy Teresa Beddoe & Asa Spade Fort Bragg
Festuca rubra ‘Jughandle’ red fescue Ann Cole Comptche
Fragaria vesca woodland strawberry Carla Shevchuk-Waltman Healdsburg
Grindelia stricta gum plant, gummy daisy Renewal – your renewal date is listed on the
Helenium bolanderi Bolander’s sneeze weed address label of your CNPS Bulletin; if you are
Heuchera micrantha alum root not sure of the date, please ask Bob Rutemoeller.
Iris douglasiana Douglas’ Iris
Lewisia cotyledon Lewisia Gift Memberships - Give a friend or neighbor
Lonicera hispidula var. vacillans honeysuckle a gift membership!
Madia madioides woodland madia Contact: Bob Rutemoeller at 884-4426 or
Mimulus aurantiacus – sticky monkey flower-local form brutem@mcn.org if you have questions.
Mimulus aurantiacus – hybrid sticky monkey flower
various color forms
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GARDEN NOTES: SAPSUCKER BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
MYSTERY SOLVED? The Flora of North America (FNA) created a set of 12
by Lori Hubbart note cards (4 X 6") featuring FNA plants, artists, and
With the article on the mysterious behavior of the red- authors. Each card reproduces the botanical illustration
breasted sapsucker, I was hoping that one of our of the taxon on the front, and a distribution map,
knowledgeable local bird authorities would offer an taxonomic placement, and notes about the taxon,
answer. author, and artist on the back.
Well, Toby Tobkin, birder extraordinaire, came through
for us. She cited the book, Life of the Woodpecker, by
Dana Gardner and Alexander Skutch. The explanation
contained therein is that sapsuckers normally do not
girdle trees except when they are breeding.
While the birds are incubating eggs and feeding young
chicks, they stay close to the nest, which has been built
in proximity to several trees or large shrubs. These
plants become the birds’ local “orchard” from which the
parents seek nourishment while nesting.
This is when the girdling behavior takes place, and it
may have some particular advantage to breeding birds.
Closely-spaced holes in a ring around the trunk may
bring about some advantageous result like more of a
certain type of insect. Then again, the birds may simply
be conserving their energy.
Thanks are due to Toby not only for ferreting out this A “set “ includes 12 different cards + envelopes.
information, but for reminding us of the works of To order: Send Name, Address, Phone Number
Alexander Skutch. He was a tropical ornithologist who (in case of questions), number of sets, @ $12.00
spent most of his life in Costa Rica, dying in 2004 at the per set. Checks only please.
age of 100. After authoring many classic treatises on Send order and payment to:
birds, he turned later in life to philosophical issues. He Nancy Morin, FNA Business Office
published many provocative, and sometimes outrageous P. O. Box 716
ideas, and was never afraid to call it as he saw it. He is Point Arena, CA 95468
certainly an author worth reading, and one who also
made significant contributions in the fields of
entomology and botany.
If you have any gardening questions or tales to tell
please contact Lori at 882-1655 or lorih@mcn.org.

BIG RIVER STEWARDS CALYPSO IN COLOR!

Please contact Bob Rutemoeller (brutem@mcn.org) if
Join the Big River Stewards, a program of the
you wish to receive email notification that the Calypso
Mendocino Land Trust, for our monthly invasive plant
control workday on October 20th from 9am to 1pm.
has been posted on the DKY website. You will
continue to receive the printed version.
Dress warmly and wear sturdy shoes or boots,
long pants and long-sleeved shirts and bring
work gloves and a bag lunch. Water, tools and
snacks will be provided. Jepson Herbarium Workshop
For more information:Cynthia Perrine (510) 643–7008
Please RSVP to Big River Stewards Volunteer
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/workshops/2007/index.html.
Coordinator Matt Coleman at the Mendocino Land
Trust office at 962-0470 or by e-mail at November 9 - 11: Mycorrhizae at Albion Field Station
mcoleman@mendocinolandtrust.org. with Teresa Sholars and Matteo Garbelotto. Course fee
of $350/$375 includes private ranch lodging and meals.

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GORSE THE INVADER
by Julia Larke
How sweet furze became gorse the invader is a story
of humans and the land, where settlers carried valued
plant seeds to their new homes with unintended results.
The evergreen shrub, gorse (Ulex europaeus), was
introduced by 19th century immigrants to the New World,
Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere and it soon
escaped cultivation. Today, it is one of the top 100 worst
invasive species worldwide according to the World
Conservation Union (ICUN).
(www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=69&fr=1&sts=)
Ulex europaeus, gorse, Jughandle State Reserve
south, near Caspar, CA © 2005 Michael Potts.
Also called furze and whin (and many other names),
gorse is native to central and western Europe where it is
often a dominant species in fire-adapted heathland plant
communities. Harsh climate, poor soils, native insects,
as well as grazing and burning practices combine to
contain gorse. For example, in Wales: “A good battering
by the winter gales keeps the gorse in check and leaves
the soil suitably thin and salt-stung for the special plants
of these rocky slopes”. (www.eco-city.co.uk
/ecotrail/ecotrail_sitecontent.asp?siteid=21&langid=1)
Gorse is valued in its native lands as a ‘living fence’
where it is planted in hedges to control livestock. It is a
legume that is used as fodder, as fuel, and as a spiny
nurse plant to protect young trees. It improves low
fertility soils and is a soil stabilizer. Soap is made from
its ashes and it is a dye plant. The flowers make a pickle
and they are used to flavor beer and whiskey and to
make gorse wine. Gorse provides pollen for insects
(it’s bee pollinated) and protective habitat for wildlife.
(http://www.druidry.org/obod/trees/furze.html)
(www.the-tree.org.uk/BritishTrees/MrsGrieve/mggorse.htm)
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In the mid-1800’s gorse was taken to New Zealand and
Australia for sheep forage and hedgerows and by 1900
was declared a noxious weed in these countries. It has
naturalized in temperate mostly coastal areas
throughout the world (including Chile and Sri Lanka),
where it is an unmanageable invasive costing millions of
dollars each year to combat.
Gorse was introduced to the eastern US in the early
1800’s but it never became extremely invasive.
However, on the West coast, where it was introduced
in the mid-1800’s as a hedge plant and as forage,
environmental conditions were such that gorse
successfully colonized areas in Oregon, California,
Washington, and Hawaii. Recently, it has invaded British
Columbia where ten percent of Vancouver Island is now
infested with gorse and broom.
(www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/uleeur/all.html)
In California, gorse occurs in coastal counties from
Santa Cruz to Del Norte and in the foothills of the
northern Sierra Nevada. In Mendocino County, gorse
has an unrelenting grip on the lands in and around the
town of Caspar.
“The legend of gorse's arrival in Caspar has several
versions, but in every one, gorse escapes from its
keepers and takes over acres of previously lovely
rangeland and bluff. Some diligent stewards have
kept gorse at bay, but they will tell you that the cost
of freedom from gorse is constant vigilance!”
(Caspar News 2003 http://casparcommons.org)
Gorse currently infests hundreds of acres within and
bordering Caspar with much of this land owned by the
State of California and managed by State agencies
who are struggling to successfully control the spread
of gorse on Jughandle State Reserve and on the
Caspar Headlands.
According to the Marc Hoshovsky1 “Gorse is a
successful invasive plant because it grows on a variety
of soil types, fixes nitrogen, and may impoverish soil of
phosphorus. It produces copious amounts of heat-
tolerant seeds with long-term viability, and regenerates
rapidly from seeds and stumps after disturbances such
as brush clearing or fires…seeds may remain dormant
yet viable in the soil up to thirty years, with reports
of up to seventy years” http://www.cal-ipc.org/
ip/management/plant_profiles/ Ulex_europaeus.php.
Hoshovsky1 notes that ”Gorse may be slow in becoming
established and spreading, but where it gains a hold,
there are few other plants that will so completely
dominate an area. Besides being a significant fire
hazard, it can successfully outcompete native plants.”
This plant outcompetes humans! Land managers
throughout the world have battled gorse the invader
for over 100 years with limited success. There is a lot
of information available on what has been tried, what
seems to work, what not to do.

Scanned stem of gorse, x .7
Stuart Tregoning, whose family settled in Caspar
during the 1860’s has experience with various gorse
management strategies, including the use of fire and
herbicides. (Patty Madigan interview June 1999 -
http://casparcommons.org/Press/News9906.htm)
In Stuart’s opinion: “The only way to get rid of it is to
remove it mechanically. There is no simple approach
that doesn't involve a lot of work. My neighbor Ralph
Eagle and I developed a mechanical system of mowing
and tilling that, within a few years, encourages the
grass to dominate… In another interview with Stuart
and Caspar resident Caroline Schooley, also a long-time
gorse fighter, they reiterate: ”What really works…is
cutting, plowing, and perseverance” (Jerry Juhl interview
Nov. 1999 - http://casparcommons.org/Press/News0305.htm).
Currently, the California Department of Parks and
Recreation is removing some of the gorse infestation
at Jughandle State Reserve. Gorse thickets have been
bull dozed into piles for burning later in the season
when there will be less danger of fire spreading.
Gorse is exceedingly flammable because volatile oils
are concentrated in the spiny foliage and branches.
The story of the Bandon Fire of 1936 in Oregon inspires
uneasiness because of its resemblance to the town of
Caspar. An Irish immigrant introduced his favorite furze
hedge to Bandon in1873 and 63 years later the plant
infested the town to such a degree that firefighters were
unable to save the town when a nearby wildfire ignited
the gorse. Gorse is blamed as the primary fuel source
in the devastating fire that killed 10 people.
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This is what it takes to remove gorse thickets. Jughandle
State Reserve just north of Caspar, CA. Photo by Peter
Warner, CA Dept. Parks & Recreation © 2007.
One of many gorse piles on Jughandle Reserve headlands.
Peter Warner, CA Dept. Parks & Recreation © 2007.
From the Oregon History Project: “Remembering his
childhood visits to Bandon in the early 1930s, historian
Thomas McClintock wrote that gorse filled the spaces
between the town’s scattered buildings…Bandon
resident D.H. Woomer told a Coos Bay Times reporter
shortly after the fire: “That Irish hedge was the worst
thing—when the fire hit it right across from my house,
the flames shot up high into the air. It was just as though
there had been gasoline poured on the fire”. Ironically,
just a week before the fire Frank P. McWhorter, the
state plant pathologist, had warned Bandon’s residents
of the fire hazards posed by the gorse.”
www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/
dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=9326D333-960F-57C1-
C7CB9A48D590224F
In a recent meeting of the Mendocino Board of
Supervisors Public Resources Committee, September
10, 2007, there was discussion of the Bandon Fire by
Guil Dye, Caspar homeowner, during a review of the
gorse issue in the coastal region.
From the minutes of the meeting: Dave Bengston,
Agricultural Commissioner, reported that gorse is now
starting a stage of rapid growth on the Mendocino Coast
in Jughandle State Reserve. He said it has spread over
nearly 1,000 acres and continues to spread, taking over
state park lands, and negatively impacting agriculture
and tourism.
Tara Athan, Coordinator of the Mendocino Coast Weed
Management Area noted that gorse burns at such
extreme temperatures that crews are unable to conduct
controlled burns, and that fire actually strengthens and
revitalizes gorse.
Julie Rogers, of the Mendocino County Fire Safe
Council, advised that passing ordinances that recognize
gorse as a public nuisance and fire hazard are strong
tools for legitimizing it for attention in FEMA and other
funding agencies. She also noted that the seeds of
gorse are viable for 30 years. Recommendations were
that Mendocino County adopt a Weed Ordinance,
similar to Marin County’s Weed Policy, to discourage
sale, landscape use, and willful spreading of gorse.
Mr. Bengston also commented on the use of seed
weevils and spider mites, noting that their impact was
marginal, given that there are approximately 2,000
seeds per square foot.
The gorse seed weevil (Exapion ulicis) and gorse
spider mite (Tetranychus lintearius) were introduced as
biological controls into the United States, the weevil in
1953 from France and the spider mite in 1994. Neither
of these species were USDA approved biocontrol
insects according to Hoshovsky1.
In addition to the seed weevil and spider mite, in Hawaii,
a moth, a gall-forming weevil, a thrip and a rust fungus
have been introduced to control gorse. Seven biocontrol
species have been introduced into New Zealand.
(http://www.hawaiiag.org/hdoa/newsrelease/00-01.htm)
(http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/28505)
(www.marlborough.govt.nz/enviromonitoring/plants.cfm)
Goat grazing is effective in checking gorse although
goats are best used to graze young regrowth after the
removal of mature thickets. At least two years of grazing
is required to significantly reduce gorse (Hoshovsky1).
Gorse is difficult to kill with a single application of
herbicide and spraying alone is not a solution for control
according to Hoshovsky1 and others. Combination
methods are recommended, first mechanically removing
plants followed by herbicide applications ("cut and paint"
use of glyphosate) or grazing.
Management efforts must be ongoing in scope in order
to be successful, due to the longevity of buried seeds.
In addition, gorse seed can travel extended distances
on contaminated machinery. Significant long-distance
dispersal in Australia occurred when seeds were carried
on vehicles and machinery and in topsoil and fill.
(http://www.weeds.org.au/WoNS/gorse/ …See Chapter 1)
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Gorse spider mite (Tetranychus lintearius) at Jughandle
Reserve headlands off Jefferson Lane © Julia Larke 2007.
How can the spread of gorse be prevented?
• Early detection and prompt eradication of gorse in
newly infested areas.
• Sites prone to gorse infestation should be planted with
preferred vegetation without delay after disturbance.
• Inform others about the danger that gorse poses to
plant communities and to human communities.
www.cal-ipc.org/ip/management/plant_profiles/ Ulex_europaeus.php
www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/publications/00177/gorse.htm
Caspar residents have established a Gorse Campaign
link on the CasparCommons website where they post
gorse resources, including fire prevention resolutions,
invasive species information and gorse removal
techniques (http://www.casparcommons.org).
Gorse was recently found in Ukiah and plants are
growing on property near Point Arena. If you know of
additional populations please contact Tara Athan,
Mendocino Coast Weed Management Area, (707)
485-1198 or (tara_athan@safe-mail.net). Preventing
the spread of gorse outside the Caspar area is currently
one of the Mendocino Coast WMA’s top priorities.
Sources: (also see citations in text)
1
Hoshovsky, M. 2000. Ulex europaeus L. profile.
Pp. 317-321 in Bossard, C., Randall, J. & M. Hoshovsky,
eds. Invasive Plants of California Wildlands. University
of California Press, Berkeley, CA. http://www.cal-ipc.org/
ip/management/plant_profiles/ Ulex_europaeus.php.
Additional information:
Integrated Vegetation Management:
http://www.efn.org/~ipmpa/Noxgorse.html
Mendocino Coast Weed Management Area:
http://www.alt2is.com/mcwma/
Contact Peter Warner: pwarn@parks.ca.gov
Young, S. 2003. Exploring alternative methods for
vegetation control and maintenance along roadsides.
Caltrans Report, Hopland Research Center, CA.
http://www.dot.ca.gov/newtech/researchreports/reports/2003/
alternative_vegetation_control_final_report.pdf
OFFICERS 2007
CNPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
President: Lori Hubbart 882-1655
DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
fax 882-1645
Vice President: Mario Abreu 937-3155 Membership in the California Native Plant Society
Secretary: Nancy Morin 882-2528 is open to all. The task and mission of the Society
Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150 is to increase awareness, understanding, and
appreciation of California native plants. The
challenge is to preserve their natural habitat
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS through scientific, educational, and conservation
activities. Membership includes subscription
AT LARGE OPEN
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CAMPING Diane Wickstrom 884-4556
chapter newsletter, the Calypso.
CONSERVATION Lori Hubbart 882-1655
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FIELDTRIPS Peter Warner 964-8242
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NEXT BOARD MEETING: The next meeting of the

Executive Board is scheduled for mid-October at the
Point Arena Library. For details, please contact Lori
Hubbart at 882-1655.
CALYPSO DEADLINE: Send newsletter items by
Sunday, October 14th to: Julia Larke, P.O. Box 1631,
Fort Bragg, CA, 95437; 964-2845, jlarke@mcn.org.
CHAPTER WEBPAGE: www.dkycnps.org.
If you have any nature photographs or articles Ulex europaeus, gorse. Britton, N.L.& A. Brown. 1913.
for posting on the website, please send them to Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 349.
Norm Jensen, webmaster@dkycnps.org. USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database.

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