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Volume 2009 Mar-Apr ‘09
CALYPSO
NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
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DKY Sponsors Vegetation Assessment Workshop

Date: Saturday and Sunday, May 2 & 3, 2009

Time: 10:00 AM—4 PM Saturday; 10:00 AM—2 PM Sunday
Place: Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens meeting room and Coastal Bluff

At the DKY Chapter‘s Strategic Planning meeting last June, the group came up with six Big Ideas that would help
achieve the CNPS mission to increase the understanding and appreciation of California‘s native plants and their
natural habitats through science, education, advocacy, horticulture, and land stewardship. The #1 Big Idea was to
take on restoration projects on the north and south coasts of the DKY chapter region. The first step for doing this is
to assess the current status of our plant communities, and in order to do that, we need training. We are thrilled that
the CNPS State Office has agreed to give a Vegetation Assessment Workshop for the DKY Chapter at the
Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden.

The California Native Plant Society has been developing protocols and, in collaboration with local Chapters,
mapping and inventorying millions of acres of California vegetation. The knowledge gained by these projects greatly
extends our understanding of the vegetation in the state and are essential for conservation planning. The CNPS
Vegetation Program has targeted some of the state‘s rarest vegetation communities for sampling. The DKY
Chapter can play a key role in prioritizing areas for sampling and collecting data in the CNPS Vegetation Program.
The two-day training program by CNPS ecologists Kendra Sykes and Julie Evens will equip DKY members to
assess and monitor some of the very special plant communities in our area. The Chapter will be systematic in its
assessment program and the data collected will be entered into the central CNPS Vegetation database.

To prepare for the Workshop, take a look at the Vegetation Assessment section of the CNPS website, where there
are forms and written protocols for Rapid Assessments as well as for the relevé survey method.

Space is limited for the Workshop, participants must be CNPS members (we will gladly sell you a membership) and
pre-registration is required. If the workshop fills we will have a waiting list. To register, call Mario Abreu, Mendocino
Coast Botanical Gardens, 707/964-4352 ext. 23.

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DKY Field Trip: Fish Rock Road
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m.--noon
Place: 44811 Fish Rock Road (2 mi east of Hwy 1)
Contact: Nancy Trissel-- 884-9973
What we’ll see: This area is on soil similar to the
Blacklock terrace soils that support pygmy forest further
north. According to R. E. Sholars, 1982, The Pygmy
Forest, they are not as depauperate or as acidic as the
Blacklock/Aborigine soils, but the vegetation on them is
similar to that north of the Navarro River. According to
the California Consortium of Herbaria Database, plants
collected in this area include Ceanothus dentatus, C.
foliosus, C. gloriosus var. exaltatus, and C. velutinus
var. hookeri; Cupressus goveniana subsp. pygmaea,
and Quercus wislizeni var. fructescens. Wheeler and
Smith(1992) describe a hybrid swam of Arctostaphylos
columbiana x A. nummularia here, and we can expect
A. glandulosa. We‘ll see many other interesting plants.
Creating and Maintaining a
Wildlife Pond
--Kathy Biggs, the Dragonfly Lady
Date: Thursday, April 9th 7:00 p.m.
Place: Gualala Community Center
Contact: Lori Hubbart—882-1655
Find out more about the critters you see around natural
and manmade ponds, and learn how to create a watery
habitat yourself. Kathy will cover what to plant (with
emphasis on native plants, of course), pond
construction, maintenance, understanding the local
food web and more. Her book, Common Dragonflies of
California, will have an updated version out later this
year. Much of what Kathy has to say about ponds is
also useful for those who have natural wetlands and
want to maximize their wildlife value.
Libellula pulchella, ten-spot skimmer dragonfly, at
Carson Pass, photo by Gerald and Buff Corsi
©California Academy of Sciences
DKY Field Trip: Haven’s Neck
(Chapter Members Only)
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 10:00 a.m.--whenever
Place: Haven‗s Neck
This trip to a private reserve will not be advertised to
the general public. To reserve a spot and get meeting
place details, please call Lori Hubbart at 882-1655.
This year we return to Haven‘s Neck a month earlier
than last year‘s trip. We hope to catch some different
spring wildflowers this time around, though we may be
too early for the coast lilies. Again, our hosts will be
Laurie Schuyler and Robert Juengling, both members
of the Haven‘s Neck owners‘ consortium. They always
appreciate any plant identifications or ideas for good
land stewardship that we can provide. Pack a lunch and
dress in layers. It may be foggy, sunny or extremely
windy out there.
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Anderson Valley Wildflower
Show
Date: Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Place: Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville.
Wildflowers Galore, plants and books for sale; a
tearoom offering good food; and a raffle which funds
scholarships for high school students for college or
camp. Admission is free.
April 24: Plant collecting for the Anderson Valley
Wildflower Show with Peter Warner
Please contact Peter Warner (964-8242) if you‘re
interested in collecting wildflowers and other plants
from outside Anderson Valley for display at the show.
He would like to increase the numbers of species
represented, especially native grasses and sedges, and
to contribute specimens from a broader portion of
Mendocino County. Also, contact him if you‘re
interested in assisting in representing CNPS chapters
(DKY and Sanhedrin) during the show on April 25 or
26, where we‘ll have a table.
Celebrate Earth Day
Date: Saturday, April 25th
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 p.m.
Place: Gualala Arts Center
Celebrate Earth Day, make connections and learn
about the earth-friendly activities of others in our region.
DKY will have an information table at this showcase,
sponsored by Matrix of Change and Gualala Arts. Also
featured will be various allies like Friends of the Gualala
River, Sea Ranch Demonstration Garden, and
Redwood Coast Land Conservancy, as well as projects
by local schools and community groups. There will be
information on sustainable forestry, organic gardening,
solar power and much more.
The CNPS table will feature a membership drive,
with our state organization offering a free CNPS poster
with every new $45 membership. We will also promote
native plant gardening, with handouts and fliers for our
fall plant sale.
DKY Field Trip: Vegetation
Assessment on Gualala Bluff
Date & Time: May 10, 2009, 10 a.m.--?
Place: Meet at: Trink‘s in Gualala (south side of Hwy 1)
Contact: Lori Hubbart, 882-1655.
We will try out our new Vegetation Assessment Skills
and compare results with the veg assessment data
from the Botanical Gardens coastal bluff vegetation.
 John Muir Laws comes to the Coast
The wonderful Jack Laws is visiting the Mendocino Credentials aside, we know of no more inspired,
Coast. He will give a program for the Mendocino Coast animated and delightful ambassador for Nature than
Audubon Society on Monday May 11th, 7:00 PM at the Jack. Jack just radiates his love for the natural world,
College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. And, on May inspiring people to go out there and experience it and to
12th the DKY Chapter is channel their passion into political activism. Feel like a
sponsoring a program, kid again, as Jack takes you on his personal journey of
booksigning, and a potluck: discovery and wonder. You‘ll be glad you hauled
yourself out of the house for this one!
Becoming a Naturalist
Date: Tuesday, May 12 Bring a main dish, salad or dessert to share, bring your
Time: 6:00 p.m. potluck, own dishes, silverware (and wine!) and be prepared for
7:30 p.m. talk an evening of enchantment.
Location: Druids Hall/Senior
Center, Point Arena (on Main DKY is delighted to sponsor two school programs with
Street, south end of town, Jack Laws in Point Arena. On May 12, Jack will
west side) conduct a nature drawing class for students at Pacific
Community Charter High School – probably at the Point
John Muir Laws was raised Arena Lighthouse. Later that day, he will give a one-
by nature-loving parents, as hour talk to students at the Charter School and
you can tell from his name. additional students from the public schools. It will be
He also answers to ―Jack‖ great for the kids to learn about field work and meet
and is a naturalist, artist, someone who has turned his love of wild places into a
author and educator. viable career.
Jack spent six years
backpacking the Sierra Nevada to research and
illustrate The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada, a
pocket size field guide to over 1,700 species found in
the Sierra Nevada. The guide includes 2,710 original
watercolor paintings; it was peer reviewed and given
intensive field testing by adults and kids.
Jack has worked as an environmental educator for
over 25 years in California, Wyoming, and Alaska. He
teaches classes on natural history, conservation
biology, scientific illustration, and field sketching. He is
trained as a wildlife biologist and is an associate of the
California Academy of Sciences. His illustrations
capture the feeling of the living plant or animal, while
also including details critical for identification.
Another Laws field guide is Sierra Birds: a Hiker's
Guide. He is also a regular contributor to Bay Nature
Magazine with his excellent "Naturalists Notebook" Jack Laws doing field work in Glass Creek Meadow.
column.
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Manchester State Park has coastal wetlands, dunes,
Field Trip to Manchester State grassland, and scrub. In seeking out the colorful
Park—Mendocino Group of the Sierra flowering gems that illuminate the northern California
Club Redwood Chapter spring, we‘ll also look at overall plant composition,
Date & Time: Sunday, May 17, 9:30 a.m. habitat characteristics, and the ecology of individual
Place: meet at Kinney Road day use area just north of species. Please be prepared for wet ground walking, a
Manchester village off Hwy 1 few brambles (but little poison-oak), perhaps wind, rain,
Leader & contact: Peter Warner, 964-8242 or sun, and a moderately slow walking pace over about
5 hours. Bring Lunch.

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 President’s Corner
by Lori Hubbart
I came back from the March
CNPS Chapter Council meeting
energized by a barrage of ideas and
information. It was an excellent
meeting, with lively and sometimes
intense discussions.
Arvind Kumar, of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter,
reminded us about the 2009 Gardening Outreach
Program. Chapters can get up to $200 to help them
promote native plant horticulture. Well, our April 9th
program in Gualala features the Dragonfly Lady, Kathy
Biggs, with a slide show on wildlife ponds. Then we
have an outreach opportunity – an Earth Day event on
April 25th. We could use the funds to help print
materials on local gardening, so your chapter president
isn‘t always printing them on her printer. Maybe we can
devise a color handout!
Another idea for a handout: Betsey Landis of the
LA/Santa Monica Mountains Chapter passed out her
―Survival Guide‖ to help gardeners ensure that native
plants will thrive in gardens. Adapted for our area, it
should be a useful resource for gardeners.
More news on the CNPS state front: The
Conservation Conference in Sacramento was a
resounding success. This three-day event was a
collaboration between CNPS staff and volunteers, with
many, many people working to make things happen.
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MAKING A CLEAN SWEEP
By Nancy Morin
There will be proceedings – probably published online –
and a post conference working group has been set up
to pursue partnerships and project ideas generated at
the conference.
The Chapter Council meeting featured some intense
deliberations on the fate of thousands of acres of desert
now slated for renewable energy projects. Vast swaths
of desert habitat on Bureau of Land Management lands
would be wiped out, which is just not necessary. We
agreed that these projects should be designed and
located in the least impactful way possible, with proper
environmental review. It is also true that the projects
will not be stopped or improved on the basis of plant
issues alone, so a coalition of groups is needed to work
on this huge issue. CNPS has a Conservation Director
position open, and we need to fill it fast!
Another topic of discussion at the C.C. meeting is
one that I now refer to you, our chapter members:
How should state CNPS use the $800,000 bequest
it received from a longtime member?
Invest the money and use the interest? Purchase
an older home converted to office space in
Sacramento, rent part of it, use it for training, events
and demo garden? Build up the CNPS Educational
Grants program? Provide long-term support for a
Conservation Director? Create a fund for chapters to
pay attorneys for consultation or litigation? Fund an
education program for kids? Start an endowment?
Other?
Please send your ideas (and supporting arguments)
to lorih@mcn.org and I‘ll pass them along.

Bob Rutemoeller reminds us that this is the best time to be pulling out Scotch Broom plants, especially seedlings.
This time in the season, Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius, looks like green sticks with large golden-yellow pea
flowers stuck on them. Small leaves are just appearing. Native to southern Europe and
Northern Africa, it was introduced into the United States as an ornamental and used to
stabilize roadcuts. It produces huge numbers of seeds, which have a hard seed coat
and can remain viable for up to 80 years. The seeds are easily transported in mud on
vehicles, equipment, shoes, and animals. Often the seeds are carried from roads into
streams and gullies, and transported by water. Broom forms dense brush over six feet
tall in which native plants are unable to compete.
Cytisus scoparius is one of the species of shrubby legume weeds with yellow flowers
(but lacking thorns), and with a broom-like appearance, that occur in our area. Scotch
broom is deciduous, has 1—2 flowers per cluster, a glabrous calyx that is barely lobed,
and the upper petal (banner) 15—18 mm long. The earliest herbarium specimen from
the DKY area recorded in the California Consortium of Herbaria database was collected
by Joseph Burtt Davy and Walter C. Blasdale sometime between May and July, 1899,
in Mendocino City. The next specimen is dated 1914 and is from Fort Bragg; then 1925
from Jughandle Creek, 1933 from Caspar, 1936 from Noyo, 1948 from Anapolis, and
Cytisus scoparius © Keir Morse the rest is history. In A Flora of the Vascular Plants of Mendocino County, California
(1992), Smith and Wheeler noted that Scotch Broom ―had become a noxious weed from
the mouth of the Navarro River northward along Route 1.‖
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 French broom, Genista monspessalana, was introduced in the Bay Area in the 1880s; it has been collected less
here but has become very common. It is evergreen in coastal areas, has 4—10 yellow flowers per cluster, a deeply
lobed silky-hairy calyx, and banner 10—15 mm long. Its seed pods open explosively.
To get rid of Scotch or French broom, it is important to pull out the entire plant, including roots. This is done fairly
easily for small plants when the soil is moist. If you are removing larger plants, use something like a Weed Wrench
and get the whole plant—broken stems re-sprout and the plant becomes even harder to remove. Prescribed burns
in the fall can reduce a broom infestation but keep in mind
that plants in the shade are too moist to carry the fire, and
a head fire will only burn off the tops and the plants will
survive. Advantages to a slow, hot fire are that the plants
are either burned entirely or die later from their injuries
and the fire will either consume the seeds or break the
seed coats leaving the seeds vulnerable to pathogens.

Pickeringia montana, Chaparral Pea.

The GOOD Pea Shrub
Lest you think that all shrubby peas are bad, look for
the beautiful Chaparral Pea, Pickeringia montana. This
genus has only the one species (it is monotypic) and was
described first by Thomas Nuttall, famous plant explorer,
in 1840. It occurs from the north Coast Ranges to Baja
California. Although mostly found south of us in Coastal Pickeringia montana, Santa Ynez Mountains, photo by Lynn Watson
Scrub and inland of our area, Smith and Wheeler noted
that they found it in thickets along Fish Rock road and Iverson road, 4—5 km east of Highway 1.

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More Notes from the 2009

CNPS Conservation Conference
DKY Chapter members Lori Hubbart, Nancy Morin,
Julie Verran, Peter Warner, and Chris Woods attended
the conference—the following is a compilation from
their notes and the abstracts (abstracts are available on
the CNPS website).
CLOSE TO HOME
PATTERNS OF PLANT DIVERSITY IN NORTHERN
COASTAL SCRUB.
Eric Wrubel and V. Thomas Parker say in their abstract:
―Levels of plant diversity in northern coastal scrub are
correlated with environmental gradients of climate,
continentality, topography, and substrate. Northern
coastal scrub is a vegetation type that co-occurs with
coastal prairie along the California coastline in a
narrow, discontinuous band from the Oregon border to
at least Point Sur.‖ Wrubel and Parker have been
sampling floristic diversity, community structure, and
environmental variables and find that native plant
diversity is much higher on coastal bluffs than further
inland, and this diversity is associated with northern
exposures, steep slopes, and rock outcrops. Diversity
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is highest within the first 20 m inland from the edge of
the bluffs. Of 252 species found in the coastal scrub
and coastal prairie, 62% were found only on the bluffs.
CALIFORNIA‘S FADING WILDFLOWERS: LOST
LEGACY AND BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
Richard Minnich called into question many of the
assumptions that have been made about California‘s
grassland wildflowers. Packrat middens show that the
displays of California wildflowers in grasslands date
back at least to the last glacial maximum, but contrary
to common belief neither grazing nor fire were
responsible for the decline of wildflowers that peaked in
the 1940s. He reported that 19th century writings show
that invasive species spread across California much
earlier than cattle grazing. He concludes that the
reason non-native plants came to predominate is
because they could thrive in the absence of pathogens
that existed in their native habitats and suggested that
effective management and conservation may need to
include spring burning, seasonal grazing by
domesticated livestock, and use of old world pathogens
as biological controls of invasive species.
 DESERTS has a wealth of information for you. The San Diego
Several interesting floristic studies are underway in Natural History Museum (SDNHM), which has provided
California‘s deserts. a model for citizen scientists to conduct a floristic
inventory of San Diego County, has begun
THE FLORA OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK. computerizing its specimens, field books, and photos
from Baja California. SDNHM has digital images of
Tasha La Doux reported on her work on the flora of more than 4200 specimens and data from 30,000
Joshua Tree National Park, which covers 800,000 specimens from Baja California available online, and
acres and includes the southeastern end of the Little now specimens from the California Academy Sciences,
San Bernardino Mountains, where Mojave and Sonoran the Jepson and University Herbaria at University of
Deserts form a broad area of transition. The park is California, Berkeley, and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic
home to some 850 vascular plant species. 77% are Garden have been added. More than 13,000 35 mm
plants of the Mojave (6% exclusively Mojavean), 52% slides (of a collection of over 40,000) have been
from the Sonoran Desert (only 3% exclusively digitized and are available online at www.bajaflora.org.
Sonoran), and some from chaparral of the Transverse All of DKY Chapter member Reid Moran‘s 17 volumes
and Peninsular Ranges; 47% are annuals. Only 7% of of field books are being scanned and indexed (many
flora is non native. The park has 37 rare plants are already online).
including two that are federally listed: Astragalus The bajaflora website tells you why this is important:
tricarinatus and Erigeron parishii. ―The geographic position, latitudinal span, and
topographic heterogeneity of the Baja California
peninsula give the region a diverse assemblage of
A PROFILE OF RARITY AND RARE PLANT weather regimes including a Mediterranean-type, winter
CONSERVATION IN CALIFORNIA DESERTS rainfall climate; extremely arid, hot desert conditions;
and tropical, summer rainfall patterns. In addition, the
James Andre reported that California deserts, which
occupy about 28% of California‘s landmass, are home
to some 2,300 vascular plants—about 37% of the
state‘s native flora. He noted that only 10% of the flora
was assigned conservation status by CNPS, versus
35% statewide. He suggested that this was due to a
number of factors. There are fewer endemics, less
habitat fragmentation and disturbance, and much of the
area is federally owned—therefore assumed to be
protected. However, distribution and taxonomic
information is incomplete or absent, the plants are
harder to work with, and conservation attention tends to
decrease as one moves away from populated areas. In
addition, there are geographic voids—areas that have
been little collected, especially mountain ranges;
taxonomic bias—desert taxa are harder to study;
temporal voids—times of the year when few collections
are made; curatorial backlogs; decline in expertise; and
lack of knowledge of basic biology such as flowering
phenology, reproductive biology, and dispersal. To
improve knowledge of the Mojave Desert flora, Andre
has been studying the plants of the Mojave National
Preserve. Between 1996 and 2008 he has added 102
new taxa. He found that 12% of the rare plants in the
desert are in alpine meadows, 8% are on gypsum, 15%
on dunes, and 17% are on limestone. Andre estimates
that at least 10% of the desert flora is still undescribed
and we should expect another 120—200 species to be
discovered.

AND EVEN FURTHER SOUTH

If you are interested in the flora of Baja California
there is a new online resource (www.bajaflora.org) that
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region's biogeographic history and physiognomy have
resulted in a wide range of vegetation types which
include: coastal chaparral, conifer forest, low desert
scrub, and tropical deciduous forest. As a result, this
arid piece of land and its adjacent islands support a
wealth of plant diversity. It is estimated that the flora
consists of more than 4,000 plant taxa with
approximately 30% of these known only from Lower
California, Mexico (the states of Baja California and
Baja California Sur). Many of the plants from the
peninsula and its islands are unique and can stretch
one's imagination in respect to plant form and structure
including the bizarre Boojum Tree/Cirio (Fouquieria
columnaris); the giant Cardón cactus (Pachycereus
pringlei); elephant trees (Pachycormus discolor and
Bursera spp.).; and large, succulent caudiciforms
(Ibervillea sonorae).‖
Pachycormis discolor, Cedros Island, photo by George Lindsay,
1981, © San Diego Natural History Museum
Joint DKY and Sanhedrin
Chapters Field Trip: Unique
Alkali Meadows in Jackson State
Forest
Date: June 13
Place: Sanhedrin Chapter members are meeting in
Willits; DKY Chapter meeting spot TBD.
Join wildlife biologist and botanist Tina Fabula and
forester Lynn Webb of Jackson State Forest for a one-
mile hike in the redwood forest, into a mineral spring
and alkali meadow. This meadow is rich with native
grass species. We can also visit a burn site from last
year‘s lightening fires
OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT MAY
INTEREST YOU
Audubon Bird Walks at Mendocino Coast Botanical
Gardens 1st Saturday at 9 a.m., third Wednesday
at 8:30 a.m.
7 Mar.-Apr. ‗09
April 11, 9 a.m., Audubon field trip: Sea Ranch.
Meet at Knipp Stengle Barn, west side of Hwy 1,
Mile Post 53.76
April 18, Saturday: Pieta Creek watershed,
southeastern Mendocino County: Peter Warner is
organizing fellow botanists for a tour of a private
property in southeastern Mendocino County,
where they will compile a plant inventory as they
explore several vegetation types. Located on the
upper Pieta Creek watershed at about 2000 feet
elevation, the area includes chaparral, oak and
mixed hardwood forest, riparian woodland, rocky
outcrops, some grassy openings, and numerous
seeps. The terrain is rugged in places, but access
is fair, with numerous trails across the land -- and
lots of poison-oak and rattlesnake habitat. He
thinks the chances are good that they will see
some interesting plant life. Bring lunch, water, field
guides, hand lenses. The group will meet at an
undetermined location near Cloverdale at 9 a.m.
for the 40-minute drive to Pieta Creek – the route
is complicated, on narrow roads and through a
locked gate; a vehicle caravan will be in order.
Plan to stay until at least 4 p.m. Call him between
April 12 and April 16 for final details: Peter, 964-
8242.
May 9, 8 a.m., Audubon field trip: Navarro River
and Beach. Meet at south end of Navarro
River Bridge
May 30, Saturday: Ecology and Identification of the
Grasses. College of the Redwoods
(http://www.redwoods.edu/). This course will
afford the student an opportunity to experience the
amazing diversity of grasses that grow along the
Mendocino Coast. Please refer to the College‘s
summer 2009 course catalog for further
information.
The DKY CHAPTER NEEDS YOUR
HELP!
We have WAY too many open positions on the
DKY Chapter team! Please consider volunteering for
(1) Programs (this year is partially organized already,
the Programs chair would just make sure final
arrangements are set and would oversee setup). (2)
Field Trips (again, partially organized, we need
someone to be point person). (3) Invasive Plants—
keeping your ear to the ground, weed-wise, organizing
weed removal parties or educational activities, keeping
your fellow chapter members alert to weed issues. (4)
Education—providing leadership for educational
activities that the chapter should have. Contact any
DKY Chapter officer if you might be interested.
 Dorothy King Young Chapter CNPS Membership Drive

OFFICERS 2009 CNPS is running a membership promotion through

President: Lori Hubbart 882-1655 fax 882-1645 June 30! New members who sign up during this period
Vice President: Mario Abreu 937-3155 at the $45 level and above will receive their choice of a
Secretary: Nancy Morin 882-2528 free CNPS wildflower poster with their membership.
Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150 Members can sign up and indicate their poster
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS choice on line, or by writing it on a paper membership
CAMPING Diane Wickstrom 884-4556 form that is mailed to the State office. The unlaminated
CONSERVATION Lori Hubbart 882-1655 posters eligible for this promotion are:
EDUCATION OPEN Wildflowers of the Desert
FIELD TRIPS Mario Abreu & Wildflowers of the Redwood Forest
Nancy Morin(temp) Wildflowers of the Coast
HISTORIAN Ramona Crooks 884-3585 The CNPS administrative staff will handle the
HOSPITALITY: North Coast - OPEN
mailing of posters in response to this promotion. Only
South Coast Roberta Rams 884-4847
INVASIVE PLANTS OPEN new memberships at the $45 levels on up are eligible
JUBATA ERADICATION for this promotion. Further details will also be posted on
at Sea Ranch Roz Bray 785-2694 the CNPS web site.
LEGISLATION OPEN
MAILINGS Roberta Rams 884-4847
MEMBERSHIP Bob Rutemoeller 884-4426 CNPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
NEWSLETTER Nancy Morin(temp) 882-2528 DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
PLANT SALE Mario Abreu 937-3155 Membership in the California Native Plant Society is open to all.
PLANT WATCH OPEN The task and mission of the Society is to increase awareness,
POSTERS Lynn Tuft 785-3392 understanding, and appreciation of California native plants. The
PROGRAMS Lori Hubbart (pro tem) challenge is to preserve their natural habitat through scientific,
PUBLICITY OPEN educational, and conservation activities. Membership includes
RARE & ENDANGERED: subscription to the quarterly Fremontia, as well as our local
chapter newsletter, the Calypso.
Coordinator Teresa Sholars 962-2686
Inland Clare Wheeler-Sias 895-3131 Name_____________________________________
Address___________________________________
Sea Ranch Elaine Mahaffey 785-2279
City _______________________ Zip ___________
Sonoma Co. OPEN Tel. ___________ E-mail_____________________
South Coast Mary Rhyne 884-3043
VEGETATION North & South OPEN I wish to affiliate with the DKY Chapter___________
WEBMASTER Norm Jensen:webmaster@dkycnps.org or, other chapter ____________________________
All phone numbers area code: 707 (Please check, or name a chapter; CNPS will make
assignment if none is specified by applicant.)
CHAPTER WEBPAGE: www.dkycnps.org. Send in photos
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY
and articles to Norm Jensen. Student/Retired/Limited Income $25
Individual $45
NEXT BOARD MEETING: The next Board is meeting is Family/Group/Library $75
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 10:00 a.m. at the Coast Community Plant Lover $100
Library Patron $300
MEMBERSHIP: Renewal - your renewal date is listed on Benefactor $600
the address label of your CNPS Bulletin. Give a friend or Mariposa Lily $1,500
neighbor a gift membership! If you have any question, please Make check out to the California Native Plant Society;
contact Bob Rutemoeller at 884-4426 or brutem@mcn.org. mail check and application to:
Bob Rutemoeller, Membership Committee
CALYPSO DEADLINE: Send newsletter items to Nancy DKY Chapter, CNPS PO Box 577
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