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Winter 2004 Issue LASTHENIA DAVIS BOTANICAL SOCIETY CALENDAR UPDATE LASTHENIA, the Newsletter of the Davis Botanical Society, is published by the Society in SPRING 2004 EVENTS - NOTE DATE CHANGES collaboration with the staff of the UC Davis Herbarium and Botanical Conservatory. Saturday, Feb. 14 Conservatory Open House OFFICERS President: Les Gottlieb Saturday, Feb. 28 Lichen Identification Workshop President-elect: Dan Potter Membership Vice President: Bill Saturday, Mar. 20 Plant Photography Workshop McCoy Secretary: Layne Huiet Treasurer: Emily Griswold Saturday, Apr. 17 Picnic Day displays Past President: Barry Rice Members at Large: Louise Jackson, Ernesto Sandoval Saturday, Apr. 24 Coast Redwoods Field Trip Student Member at Large: Rosa Scherson Thursday, May 13 Spring Meeting Ex officio: Ellen Dean, Tim Metcalf, Robert Avalos, Kate Mawdsley Saturday, June 12 Grass Identification Workshop Contributors: E. Dean, E. Sandoval, K. Mawdsley, T. Metcalf, G.L. Webster Design: Susan Gloystein Cotterel UC Davis Herbarium Section of Plant Biology One Shields Avenue University of California Davis, CA 95616 0942 8 No. 23 Winter 2004 LASTHENIA NEWSLETTER OF THE DAVIS BOTANICAL SOCIETY HERBARIUM MOVING THE HERBARIUM’S SIGNIFICANT THIS COMING FALL COLLECTIONS: THE OAKS The Herbarium team is gearing up Lasthenia has reported on Herbarium to move our specimens and library activities from a number of angles— to our new facility, the “Center for visitor and graduate student use, for Plant Diversity,” in the fall of 2004. example, or broad scale history. We’re As most of you know, the new initiating another open-ended series of facility will be located on the first articles that focus on significant floor of the Sciences Laboratory strengths of the collections, starting, Building, which is under fittingly enough, with the towering construction near Briggs Hall strength of the oak tree. between Storer Way and Hutchison The Quercus collection is the Drive. We have toured the new direct result of Prof. Emeritus John M. space to measure the walls and Tucker’s lifelong research. Dr. Tucker inspect for needed electrical came to the Davis campus as a teacher outlets. The new cases and and curator of the Botany Department compact storage system are out to Herbarium in 1947 while still a Ph.D. bid. student at UC Berkeley. His interest in The move will be done in oaks was already well established and several phases. As new cases are dates from his teenage years in Santa installed, we will move collections Barbara. An oak exhibit in the botanical into them. Then, the old cases will wing of the natural history museum be moved and incorporated, and there and the interest of the museum’s Director Emeritus John Tucker with the collections will be rearranged curator led him to hitchhike to the sites Quercus john-tuckeri yet again. We anticipate that the of the eight or nine oak species native herbarium will be unavailable for to the area. John’s growing interest led eminent and familiar faculty collectors much of the fall, and there may be to a part-time job at the Santa Barbara as Tracy Storer, Elliot Weier, Katherine a period of confusion afterward. Botanic Garden, although he reports he Esau, Alden Crafts and Leonard Day, as If you anticipate needing to was less than adept at a horticultural well as the Bay Area’s Mary Bowerman use the herbarium for a project, project there. But taxonomic field work continued on page 3 please plan ahead. If you have locating, gathering specimens and collections stored with us that you preparing good field notes on a rare IN THIS ISSUE will need to use during the fall, shrubby member of the heather family you may want to store them (Comarostaphylis) was another matter Herbarium Move .............................. 1 elsewhere during the move. entirely. John was urged to pursue Contact Jean Shepard at 752-1091 botany rather than his intended major Significant Collections ..................... 1 of forestry at UC Berkeley, and by July 15, if you have questions Directors’ Corner.............................. 2 about how your specimens will be scholarship, as well as the Davis affected ([email protected]). Herbarium, is the beneficiary of his Society Profiles ................................. 2 decision. Development News ....................... 4-5 E. Dean Dr. Tucker recalls finding six or seven cubbies of mostly California oaks Yolo County Bookshelves ................. 6 when he arrived in Davis, from such 1 DIRECTORS’ CORNER Herbarium Two of our mounters are now hanging color-coded tags; it is much We are truly fortunate to have so many helping our wonderful volunteer, easier for us short folks to see what the dedicated undergraduates working in Denny Nolet, refolder the main upper cabinet cubbies hold. This is the herbarium this year. Our NSF collection. This entails separating our going to be even more important next summer interns have continued with us California collections from the North year, after we move, when the cases will for the academic year. They have America collections, adding folders be mounted onto compact storage identified and labeled hundreds of older where necessary, and stapling color- carriages. Separating out the California collections, including the 1940s era coded tags to all the folders (the specimens will also make it easier for us Mexican oak collections of Alfred California specimens are coded yellow). to digitize them as part of our Kinsey (yes, the author of…). We have Denny has been checking the names of participation in the California Digital four new mounters working with us, all all the specimens, updating Library project. of whom are great. We are very lucky to nomenclature, and printing family and Jean and I have been kept busy have six returning experienced generic names on the tags. Thank you, attending Yolo County hearings on mounters as well. crew! We are really enjoying having the proposed management plans for Yolo County Grasslands Park, home to Crampton’s Tuctoria (see update on SOCIETY PROFILES Robert Avalos following page). We have also been spending much of our time planning Meet Robert Avalos, the upcoming herbarium move, our new Center for Plant including coming up with a way to cart Diversity Campaign Director 250,000 specimens two blocks over to the new facility, researching how to We are very lucky to have a new move our plant drier (which may not be development officer working with feasible), and getting a handle on how us; Robert Avalos was hired in June many cases of what types of specimens 2003 by the Division of Biological we have currently. If you are interested Sciences to successfully complete in helping us move next fall, please let the fundraising campaign for the us know; we can use your help! Center for Plant Diversity I spent several weeks this past fall (herbarium). Robert has worked working on a project for the US Forest locally as a development officer for Service, identifying plants collected the past 15 years, first with the from various parts of the Sierra Nevada. American Heart Association and Kate Mawdsley and Jean Shepard then with Special Olympics. He is helped as well. The income will be used excited to be part of this campaign, Robert Avalos to help us move the herbarium this because one of his first loves was coming fall. We are grateful for Kate’s agriculture and he is still an avid gardener. continued volunteer help with so many Robert grew up in the Alkali Flats section of downtown Sacramento. projects; thanks also to Bill McCoy for His high school had a program to introduce city teenagers to agriculture. continued help with our library and to Robert helped the school construct a screen house for plant propagation, Linda Wheeler for creating the most filled his bedroom with grow lights and flats of seedlings, and raised beautiful showcase specimens we have chickens (he constructed the coop at the school). Upon graduation, Robert ever seen. majored in agriculture for his first semester at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. E. Dean However, after one semester in a program full of farm-raised students, Robert switched to a double major of political science and business. He says that he Conservatory didn’t enjoy a course in Swine Production and realized that no matter how Botany is the subject of concentration hard he tried, he couldn’t see the xylem and phloem (vascular system) of for the Academic Decathlon this year, plants through the microscope. Agriculture’s loss, our gain. and who could better help orient In addition to a life-long interest in growing plants, Robert is an avid California teachers and students to the fan of libraries and books. Some of the herbarium’s staunchest supporters are topic than the Conservatory’s Ernesto librarians, and so it is interesting to discover that Robert supported himself Sandoval? At the end of summer he as a student by working in the university’s library, and his first job post- gave a lecture-workshop to Southern graduation was to organize a toxics library for the Department of Health in California teachers. Two weeks later he Sacramento. He bought the shelving, set up the database, etc. But once that spoke to the Northern teachers and project was done, he moved on to a totally different career. Currently, he more recently to a group of the lives in Elk Grove, with his lovely wife and two beautiful daughters. students. Secondary schools in the If you haven’t yet met Robert, look for him at most Botanical Society surrounding area from Marysville to functions. He is a delightful, friendly person with a genuine curiosity about Vacaville have been sending their teams the history of agriculture and botany on the UCD campus. E. Dean continued on page 7 2 HERBARIUM’S SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS (CONT FROM PAGE 1) and John Thomas Howell.
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