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Annual Potluck Program: The Successful Lifestyle of Local Fungus-Robbing

Speaker: Tony La Banca

Sunday, December 14, 12:00 Noon Luncheon, 1:30 PM program, Greenwood Community Center, Hwy 1 in Elk.

Our Potluck Luncheon and Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, December 14 at the Greenwood Community Center in Elk. What a great opportunity to meet new plant people, and to catch up with old friends! This meeting is also our Chapter Board Election, so be sure to show up and vote. Gift books on native plants will be on sale at reasonable prices. We may have some used books, too.

The Community Center is at the south end of Elk, right off Highway 1, on the east side. We’ll try to have a CNPS sign out front. Please bring a main dish, salad or dessert to share, plus dishes and flatware if possible. Wine and festive non-alcoholic beverages are much appreciated.

Synopsis of program: The Successful Lifestyle of Local Fungus Robbing Plants “See what it is to play unfair! Where cheating is, there's mischief there.” - William Blake

Sometimes we find bizarrely beautiful plants on the forest floor – plants that are not even green! If you suspected that they are not quite like “normal” plants, you were right!

Most plants are green and work to make their own food. Others are red, white, or even purple and live together in symbiotic relationships with green plants. These relationships are often thought of as idyllic, mini-utopias where both parties’ needs are met. Hemitomes congestum, Gnome plant Allyn G. Smith © California Academy of Sciences

The reality is that there may be slackers lurking about. These “cheater” plants may give nothing, letting their neighbors do all the work, getting plenty from their hosts in return.

Indian pipe, pinesap, sugarstick, and the gnome plant are a few of the plants that have abandoned the photosynthetic lifestyle and instead “exploit” fungi and other plants. Join us as we take a closer look at the life history and conservation challenges of mycoheterotrophic plants, some of the most interesting members of the North Coast flora.

Tony LaBanca is a botanist with the California Department of Fish and Game’s Northern Region. He lives with his family in Arcata, and is active in the CNPS North Coast Chapter. Tony holds a masters degree in botany from Humboldt State University. He joined Fish and Game after 10 years with the National Park Service serving Redwood, Lassen Volcanic, and Crater Lake National Parks, Lava Beds and Oregon Caves National Monuments, and Whiskeytown National Recreational Area.

That’s the technical stuff. The important thing is that Tony brings an informed, sharp intelligence and objectivity to his work for Fish and Game. He is also a very witty guy, so his program should be entertaining as well as informative. Mushroom Workshops & Walks Mendocino Coast Botanical

Gardens for 2008-09

Introduction to Mushroom Identification workshops – with MCBG staff naturalist, Mario Abreu Saturdays, MCBG Meeting Room 10-1 PM November 22nd, 29th, and December 20th. Each workshop will be followed by a mushroom walk through the Gardens lead by Kristina van Wert.

Weekly MCBG mushroom identification walks – led by Mario Abreu alternating with Kristina van Wert. Walks begin at 1:30 PM, Mondays: November 17th,

24th, December 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, January 5th,12th, 19th, 26th. A sunny day for the 2008 DKY Plant Sale in Gualala. Nancy Morin (behind table) and Lori Hubbart (at right) agree that it was a successful fundraiser. Mysteries of Mushrooms for Kids The Botanical Garden will hold a mushroom workshop in addition to being a highly respected botanist, has for ten to twelve-year-olds on Sat., Jan. 3rd, from 10 AM considerable experience as a project administrator to noon with a walk led by Mario Abreu and a lab with and public garden director. Linda Foote. The workshop costs $5, supplies included; As Acting Director for the Garden, Nancy set a tone of a parent will also receive free admission. Class limited professionalism and conservation-mindedness. She to 20. Call 964-4352 ext.16 to sign up. then helped recruit Chris Woods as the Garden’s new For those who like to explore for mushrooms on their Director, and he has brought to the job the perspective own, there are interpretive signs where especially of a consummate plantsman. Chris has demonstrated good examples of different species occur -- MCBG is concern for native plants and an understanding of their one of the few botanical gardens to label its importance to the Garden and beyond. He is also a mushrooms! man of action, who is quick to implement conservation measures.

President’s Corner The Garden has many outstanding staffers, including by Lori Hubbart Mario Abreu, Tom Tillotson, Lily Richardi, Janet Rain, glorious rain, is here Brunner-Caldeira and Paulette Cooper. It is always an at last! Conditions couldn’t be better honor to work with such dedicated people. for planting all those items from our Speaking of dedication, I would like to thank ALL our fall plant sales. A lot of people got DKY Chapter volunteers. Whether your job is themselves some very nice plants straightforward and finite, or ongoing and time- this year. Things went very well, although we will need consuming, you are all just splendid! Any potential to be more organized next year. What a marvelous chapter volunteers out there – please consider that you crew of plant sale volunteers we have. My heartfelt have an opportunity to work with and learn from some thanks to Mario Abreu, Mary and Dard Hunter, Nancy superlative individuals! Morin, Lynn Tuft (and her husband, Mike), Bob Rutemoeller, Mary Sue Ittner, and anyone else I might Where have All the Butterflies have forgotten. You folks are terrific! Gone? by Louise Hallberg This was the second year we had a sale at the printed with permission from the Hallberg Butterfly Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden, and the weather Gardens newsletter, The Pipevine, Spring 2008. cooperated beautifully. There was no great morning rush, but over the entire day, sales went very well. It’s In the spring of 2006 concern about the decline in always a fun place to be, with new people to meet. butterfly populations was in the headlines. At the Gardens in 2007, the lack of butterflies was very CNPS members from further inland showed up, and it was good to see some of those folks. noticeable. No West Coast Ladies, no Veined White for two years, no Purplish Coppers for two years and since The Botanical Garden (not plural, but singular) is 2003 only three have been seen. The Purplish Copper undergoing something of a renaissance these butterfly was common in the Gardens with many days. It was a lucky day when the Garden acquired nectaring on the October Glory every fall. Nancy Morin as a board member, because Nancy, 2 Nov-Dec ‘08 One question about 2007 Pipevine Swallowtails has not been answered. Why did the adults lay eggs on the Pipevine blossoms rather than the ’s leaves? The blossoms matured and dropped off the plant, carrying the butterfly eggs with it to the ground.

It has been said that loss of habitat, pesticide use, and global warming might be causes for population decline. Here we have added habitat every year since 1990. We have more host plants and more nectar plants. Pesticides are not used and the orchard is now in it’s second year toward organic. Nearby habitat has changed – two houses next to the northwest side were built.

Deer and wildlife have lost some areas, neighbor’s nearby apple trees are gone and the vineyards have taken their place. Deer are forced to spend more time Pipevine Swallowtail () nectaring on blue dicks in the Gardens. Their meals include Ceanothus, (Dichelostemma capitatum). April 2, 2005, Folsom Lake, El Mallow, Clarkia, and Sedums. Some lucky school Dorado County. Photograph by Dee E. Warenycia of the Redbud children enjoy seeing the deer in the orchard. Chapter. Is it Global Warming effecting wildlife?

Even the numbers of the Pipevine Swallowtail A Butterfly Plant: butterflies that used to be seen—maybe 40-50 in the spring—have declined to 10-15. Sightings of the Anise Californica Torrey Swallowtail, which commonly lays eggs on Fennel, have decreased. The butterfly seems to show later and Dutchman’s Pipe by Julia Larke disappear earlier in the year.

For the first time since 1997, when 108 Monarchs were released, Monarchs did not lay a single egg on milkweeds in the north garden, pond area or meadow. There have been none to count during the annual North American Butterfly Association, NABA, November butterfly count in Bodega in three years. I used to release late hatches from the Garden on small trees in Bodega. Hundreds of Monarchs weathered over in the big cypress trees. In 2007 an increase of Azure Blues and Lorquin’s Admirals were observed here at the Gardens.

Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia californica). Folsom Lake SRA,

Placer County, CA, March 20, 2008. Photo by Dee E. Warenycia.

Aristolochia belongs to an ancient group of “primitive” plants, known as , with lineages that link them to the earliest angiosperms. There are approximately 300 species worldwide, with12 in North

Pipevine Swallowtail eggs laid on Aristolochia blossom America. Aristolochia species have formed two very rather than on the leaves © 2007 John Hendrikson interesting relationships with . One is a (reprinted from The Pipevine Spring 2008) pollination trapping mechanism, 3 Nov-Dec ‘08

Family: ; the Pipevine Family. Ecology: riparian areas, open woodlands, mixed forest, , anywhere host plants occur. Elevation: < 700 m. Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, n&c Sierra Nevada Foothills, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, n Outer South Coast Ranges. Etymology: From the Greek: “best birth”, from use as a medication in childbirth. Derived from the Doctrine of Signatures, because the shape of the flower resembles a birth canal. Ethnobotany: California Dutchman's Pipe – plant was steeped and the decoction was drunk as a cold remedy by Miwok Indians. Horticultural information: A great plant for a butterfly garden, but on the coast, it will not attract pipevine swallowtails…they are not coastal butterflies. From Calflora Nursery: “Adaptable, but best with a little shade and moderate water. Slow to establish, we offer this

adage to encourage patience: “The first year it sleeps, A massing of Dutchman’s pipes! Aristolochia californica, flatlands the second year it creeps and the third year it leaps”. of Las Gallinas Valley, Marin Co., March 2005 © Doreen L. Smith. Once established it will put on ample growth, easily employed by the California endemic, Aristolochia covering a trellis or fence. Deer resistant. californica, and other Aristolochia species. Lured into USDA Center for Food Safety: The use of products flowers by the scent of decay, fungal gnats (Diptera sp.) containing aristolochic acid, including botanical search in vain for their food source of fungi or decaying products marketed as traditional medicines, organic matter. When they finally make their way out of is associated with permanent kidney damage. the curved tubular flowers they transport from plant to plant. Sources include: www.calfloranursery.com/pages_plants/pages_a/arical.html The relationship between Aristolochia species in North http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/butterfly/Battus/philenor America with the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus http://herb.umd.umich.edu/ philenor, is an interesting example of co-evolution. www.marin.cc.ca.us/cnps/Pipevine.html Members of the Aristolochiaceae contain aristolochic www.natureserve.org/ www.tolweb.org/magnoliids acids, toxic alkaloids that protect the plant from http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/ herbivory. Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly larvae (in California, Battus philenor subspecies hirsuta) have CNPS 2009 evolved to withstand the toxins of their host plant. CONSERVATION As they feed on the plant, caterpillars sequester the aristolochic acids and become inedible to their natural CONFERENCE enemies. Adult butterflies (and the eggs!) are also Strategies & Solutions January 17-19, 2009 protected by the toxins. How the plant benefits from this relationship is not clear. Perhaps other herbivores steer Sacramento Convention clear when they see the plant crawling with brightly Center & Sheraton Grand colored “toxic” caterpillars. Hotel, Sacramento, CA.

Another remarkable fact about Dutchman’s pipes and Keynotes speakers are: Pipevine swallowtails in North America is that environmental justice & antipredator Batesian mimics (named for naturalist clean energy advocate, Henry Bates) have developed. The term applies to non- Jerome Ringo; Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, toxic species that mimic the protective coloration of a Professor Steven Hopper; and naturalist, educator, “toxic” species. An example is the Red-Spotted Purple artist, and author, John (Jack) Muir Laws. butterfly that looks like a miniature Pipevine To register and to learn more about topics, keynote Swallowtail except it lacks the tails. That California speakers, sponsorship and volunteering opportunities, Pipevine Swallowtails do not have any mimics is see www.cnps.org. thought to indicate a relatively recent arrival from populations to the east. 4 Nov-Dec ‘08 Gorse Removal Project at Caspar reports, unverified at the time of printing of this article, that gorse has spread onto the State Parks property. Waste Transfer Station Our goal is to eventually eliminate the entire gorse by Tara Athan patch from the neighborhood so there is no A guided tour of the gorse removal project at the reinfestation. This will be necessarily be a long process Caspar Waste Transfer Station was held Sunday, Nov. because of the longevity of the gorse seeds (30 years 16th 1-4PM. Tour leaders were Tara Athan, coordinator or more), and will require cooperation from every of the Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed neighbor. Management Area, and Peter Warner, ecologist. They reviewed the work performed so far and talked about the next steps in the project.

The Gorse Removal Project on the Caspar Waste Transfer Station "broke ground" on October 15th, 2008. We started by uprooting gorse with a pair of Takeuchi machines, similar to Bobcats, equipped with brush- rakes. Great Tree Tenders, from Redwood Valley, performed the work. We thought it might take 4 days with the 2 machines to tackle most of the brush in the main patch, a 5 -acre mass of 100% mature gorse 6-10 feet in height just off the northwest corner of the landfill. However, the soil was more friable than expected, and they were able to finish in 3 days, with time to spare to also tackle the larger outlier patches towards the southern end of the station.

In November, we plan to burn the gorse debris in an air curtain burner, a type of incinerator that is designed to

produce a very hot fire to completely combust Removal of the introduced plant species in the MCBG materials, even green vegetation, with minimal smoke. Coastal Bluff/Scrub plant community. MCBG Natural The burner will be made available to us courtesy of Areas Coordinator, Mario Abreu, tackles the job of State Parks, who are using it now at Jughandle State Monterey Cypress Removal. Reserve to burn the piles they have accumulated there. We don't know the exact date of our burn, as we have Habitat Restoration at to wait until State Parks is finished with the incinerator. Mendocino Coast Botanical In the spring, resprouts, seedlings and the remaining Garden by Nancy Morin outlier patches will be spot-sprayed with a glyphosate- based herbicide. This approach was recommended by Most people think of rhododendrons and a stunning our technical advisors as the most effective approach perennial garden when they think of Mendocino Coast possible given the limited funds that were available to Botanical Garden, but in fact most of the 47 acres are us for this project through the California Department of natural plant communities. Staff and volunteers have Food and Agriculture, and has been approved by the been restoring the Bishop Pine Forest and Riparian Mendocino County Board of Supervisors. Forest for years. This year the Garden’s Board established a Conservation Task Force, on which DKY The Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed Management Chapter Board Members Lori Hubbart, Mario Abreu, Area is reaching out to the neighbors of the Caspar Nancy Morin, Teresa Sholars, and Peter Warner serve, Waste Transfer Station, to provide assistance in to advise it on conservation efforts. The Task Force removing gorse from their property. Some neighbors recommended removing non-native trees and shrubs are amenable to approaches that include herbicide; from the Coastal Bluff area, reducing foot traffic along others are not. Creative approaches are necessary in the bluff, and mowing or removing non-native grasses the latter case; we are considering a follow-up strategy from the Coastal Terrace Prairie; Garden staff have that uses tarping. Although this approach is already taken steps to implement these considerably more expensive than the chemical follow- recommendations. The DKY Chapter has offered to up on a per acres basis, it should be feasible to help with assessment, weed removal, and monitoring implement on small areas. over the coming years.

Adjacent property of the Caspar Waste Transfer Station also includes Russian Gulch State Park. There are

5 Nov-Dec ‘08 Conservation Notes Please let us know if you DO NOT wish to be included by Lori Hubbart in the directory by contacting Bob Rutemoeller: PO Box 577, Gualala, CA 95445; [email protected]. Also, Gualala retaining wall – this project is still with the please send your email address to Bob Rutemoeller if Coastal Commission, which has been severely you would like to receive email alerts. impacted by state budget cutbacks. Many staffers decided to quit before losing their jobs, and these Membership Survey Results positions are not being replaced. It is unfortunate that by Nancy Morin dragging this issue out has resulted in a halt to Twenty members responded to the questionnaire that development of the Gualala Bluff Trail. All stakeholders was distributed earlier this year—a 13% response, are hoping for a resolution early in the New Year. which is very good as surveys go. Members Sonoma County issues – these include Preservation overwhelmingly were pleased with the chapter’s Ranch near Annapolis, expansion of the Sea Ranch newsletter, The Calypso, and said they especially liked Lodge and ongoing construction at the Ratna Ling articles about conservation and botany. There was property near Seaview. The good news is that our satisfaction with programs, again with higher interest in chapter can team up with the Milo Baker Chapter of conservation topics, with slide shows about plants and Sonoma County to work on these issues that are in the places ranking second. Most people responding said border area between our two chapters. they attend programs or field trips occasionally. The

Michael Hogan, the new conservation chair for Milo main reason they belong to CNPS is to support a cause Baker, is well versed in CEQA and other conservation they believe in and to learn about plants in the wild. regulations. Michael, a representative of Friends of the Half of the people responding lived from The Sea Gualala River and Lori Hubbart visited the Ratna Ling Ranch to Manchester, and the other half lived from Elk site it October. Our conclusion was that environmental to Fort Bragg, and most people said they would travel concerns would be best addressed by having an about 20 minutes to a program; some were willing to overall, master plan, rather than considering small travel as much as 2 hours for a field trip. This pieces of related projects on a case-by-case basis. information will help your DKY Chapter Board plan activities and publications for the coming years. Many The other two projects will be addressed at a later time. thanks to all who responded. Preservation Ranch, which involves development and vineyard conversion near Annapolis, is particularly Botany & Agriculture classes worrying. For more information, please visit the Friends at College of the Redwoods of the Gualala website: http://www.gualalariver.org. th Classes start January 20 .Taught by Teresa Sholars: Membership Directory and Email 962-2686 or [email protected]

Alerts by Nancy Morin AG. 63 Sustainable Agriculture Tues 10:00-12:00 Have you been interested in a program or field trip but An introduction to gardening and farming without the not wanted to go alone? Wondered who else in your use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Emphasis is area is interested in native plants? Most membership placed low maintenance, use of varieties that grow well organizations produce a directory of members as a on the coast, and sustainable production. Field trips will benefit of membership. One of the conclusions of the be taken to local gardens and farms. Include topics membership survey (see related article) was that such as: proper cultivar selection, basic soil problems, people are reluctant to drive more than about 30 amendments, pest and disease problems, harvesting and other related topics. minutes to attend a program or field trip. The DKY chapter is smaller than many but it covers a lot of Ag. 63L Sustainable Agriculture Lab Tu 12:30-3:55 territory—about 100 miles north to south, mostly along Students will grow crops on grounds provided by the windy Highway 1. This suggests that encouraging college. Students will prepare soil, plant, weed, and local activities in the south, central, and northern parts harvest cultivars of vegetables that grow well on the of the chapter might be a good idea, and a membership north coast. Techniques of organic and sustainable directory would help with that. agriculture will be emphasized. Ag 63, 163 or similar course is a prerequisite or co-requisite. We also realize that plans for field trips or programs sometimes come together or change after the deadline Ag. 19 Weeds Identification & Control M 1-3; W 1-4 for an issue of the Calypso. We would like to alert Identification and control of common, noxious and members to such breaking news and we promise to be poisonous weeds in California, with emphasis on our very sparing in sending notices about programs and local area. Weed control in cropland, pastures, field trips via email. landscaping and wild-land communities will also be covered. Learn to identify those unwanted plants in

6 Nov-Dec ‘08 your garden, landscape and natural area. Management strategies for controlling individual plants will be discussed. Labs will be spent in the field identifying local weeds.

Bio 20: Natural History Friday 9:00-3:55 pm An introduction to the identification, natural history, and ecological relationships of plants, animals (birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects) and fungi (mushrooms, lichens). Emphasis will be placed on organisms native to the Mendocino Coast. Species will be studied by community and where possible, in their native habitat.

Biology 19 Rare Plants: Species of Special Concern Thursdays, 1-5:30 in room 120 Note: March 26th to May 14th. This course will cover the identification and ecology of Mendocino Coast plants of special concern as defined by the Department of Fish and Game and the California Native Plant Society. Key features used in identification will be covered as well as identifying plants that are often mistaken for rare species. Habitat preference as well as other ecological features such reproductive ecology will be discussed. References sites will be visited.

Jepson Field Notebooks Bob Rutemoeller explored the Jepson field notebooks and happened upon this 1926 page: “I wonder who picked all those huckleberries?” DKY member Bob Rutemoeller read an interesting story in the May ‘08 issue of The Jepson Globe: A Weather Eye

60 volumes of Willis Linn Jepson's field notebooks are Send to the Calypso newsletter any news or comments in the process of being scanned and many are already you have about the weather. It’s one of your favorite available for viewing at the Jepson Herbarium website. topics! From sunspots to pole reversal, from climate

change to climate modification, send it in. Willis Jepson, University of California botany professor and author of the multi-volume Flora of California, kept Bob Rutemoeller sent in an article from the UC field books for 45 years, from 1895 to 1940. Mostly he Berkeley News by Robert Sanders from June 24, 2008: documented botanical collecting trips, but…“At various “The native plants unique to California are so places in the accounts, Jepson intersperses botanical, vulnerable to global climate change that two-thirds of geographical, or weather details, and comments on these “endemics” could suffer more than an 80 percent people met along the way.“…from Jepson Globe article reduction in geographic range by the end of the about the field books that is posted online at: century, according to a new University of California, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/images/fieldbooks/about_jfb. Berkeley study” … “projects that climate change will html profoundly impact the future of the native flora in

According to Richard Moe, Technical Specialist with the California” … “The magnitude and speed of climate Jepson Flora Project (email 11/11/08), volunteers have change today is greater than during past glacial transcribed more than 1000 pages and there are lots of periods, and plants are in danger of getting killed off pages left to do, with many pertaining to Mendocino before they can adjust their distributions to keep pace.” and Sonoma counties. Anyone can transcribe a page. See entire article with illustrations and photos: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/ To view pages by volume or browse keywords: 24_plants.shtml http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/images/fieldbooks/jepson_fie ldbooks.html. See bottom left corner to "Browse And what about this rather frightening idea to fertilize transcribed words". Richard Moe is happy to answer vast areas of the ocean to stave off global warming: any questions people may have regarding the field “An international body has for the first time placed books scanning project: [email protected]. restrictions on experiments designed to fertilize large swaths of the world's oceans with a view to combating

global warming.”

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/322/5 903/835 7 Nov-Dec ‘08 NEXT BOARD MEETING: The next Board is meeting is Farewell from the editor: December 14th at the Annual Potluck Meeting in Elk, noon for After five thoroughly enjoyable years, I am retiring luncheon, 1:30 for meeting and program. All are welcome to attend. Contact Lori Hubbart for more information 882-1655. as editor of The Calypso. I need to have eye surgery and this is a good time to hand over the CALYPSO DEADLINE: Send newsletter items to Lori Hubbart @ [email protected], 882-1655. editorship to someone interested in doing the job. I want to especially thank Lori Hubbart for being a MEMBERSHIP: Renewal - your renewal date is listed on great chapter President and supporter of the the address label of your CNPS Bulletin. Give a friend or newsletter and Bob Rutemoeller for his excellent neighbor a gift membership! If you have any question, please contact Bob Rutemoeller at 884-4426 or [email protected]. reviewing of the issues as well as his contribution of photographs and articles. There are many people I New Members: wish to thank for their stories, photographs, and other Leslie Hoppe Greenbrae items, including Mario Abreu, Tara Athan, Roz Bray, Robert Sowers Navarro Chris Woods Fort Bragg Mary Hunter, Mary Sue Ittner, Nancy Morin, Jack

O’Rourke, Teresa Sholars, Jon Thompson and

Peter Warner. Thanks also to Roberta Rams and Jon Thompson for getting the newsletter mailed, to CNPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER Norm Jenson for posting it on the website and to Membership in the California Native Plant Society is open to all. David Goretsky at Copy Plus for printing it. The task and mission of the Society is to increase awareness,

Julia Larke understanding, and appreciation of California native plants. The challenge is to preserve their natural habitat through scientific, educational, and conservation activities. Membership includes

subscription to the quarterly Fremontia, as well as our local chapter newsletter, the Calypso. OFFICERS 2008 President: Lori Hubbart 882-1655 fax 882-1645 Name______Vice President: Mario Abreu 937-3155 Address______Secretary: Nancy Morin 882-2528 City ______Zip ______Tel. ______E-mail______Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150

COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS I wish to affiliate with the DKY Chapter______CAMPING OPEN or, other chapter ______CONSERVATION Lori Hubbart 882-1655 (Please check, or name a chapter; CNPS will make EDUCATION OPEN assignment if none is specified by applicant.)

FIELD TRIPS Peter Warner 964-8242 MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY HISTORIAN Ramona Crooks 884-3585 Student/Retired/Limited Income $25 HOSPITALITY: North Coast - OPEN Individual $45 South Coast Roberta Rams 884-4847 Family/Group/Library $75 INVASIVE PLANTS Peter Warner 964-8242 Plant Lover $100 JUBATA ERADICATION Patron $300 at Sea Ranch Roz Bray 785-2694 Benefactor $600 Mariposa Lily $1,500

LEGISLATION OPEN

MAILINGS Roberta Rams 884-4847 Make check out to the California Native Plant Society; MEMBERSHIP Bob Rutemoeller 884-4426 mail check and application to:

NEWSLETTER OPEN Bob Rutemoeller, Membership Committee PLANT SALE Mario Abreu 937-3155 DKY Chapter, CNPS PO Box 577 PLANT WATCH OPEN Gualala, CA 95445 POSTERS Lynn Tuft 785-3392 PROGRAMS Lori Hubbart (pro tem) PUBLICITY OPEN RARE & ENDANGERED: Coordinator Teresa Sholars 962-2686 Inland Clare Wheeler-Sias 895-3131 Sea Ranch Elaine Mahaffey 785-2279 Sonoma Co. Dorothy Scherer 882-2850 South Coast Mary Rhyne 884-3043 VEGETATION North & South OPEN WEBMASTER Norm Jensen:[email protected]

All phone numbers area code: 707

CHAPTER WEBPAGE: www.dkycnps.org. Send in photos and articles to Norm Jensen. Jepson’s field books at UC Berkeley.

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