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CALYPSO $5.00 Per Year, Non-Members NEWSLETTER of the DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER Volume 2010 –May—June ‘10 CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY The P.O. Boxi 577, Gualala, CA 95445 CALYPSO $5.00 per year, non-members NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER Volume 2010 –May—June ‘10 CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY Printed on recycled paper Mountain Beaver, Gorse, Coastal Trails and More… Managing Natural Areas in State Parks by Julia Larke I am proud to live in a society that practices enlightened self-interest with respect to the management of common lands. The remarkable biological diversity of California is well known: the California Floristic Province is rated as one the world‟s top 25 biological hotspots. Guardianship of public lands is entrusted to many fine national, state, and local organizations and in our coastal Mendocino County region one of the best custodians of our natural heritage is the California Department of Parks and Recreation DPR (aka State Parks). OO Managing Natural Areas in State Parks was the subject of a recent talk by Renée Pasquinelli, Senior Environmental Scientist with State Parks in the Mendocino District. Her presentation was hosted by the Dorothy King Young Chapter at the Coast Community Library in Point Arena on April 13 and again at Russian Gulch Recreation Hall on April 14. Renée, who has worked as an Ecologist with State Parks for over 20 years, addressed various aspects of State Parks‟ mission to “acquire, protect, restore, maintain and sustain outstanding and representative examples of California‟s natural and scenic values for the benefit of present and future generations.” Renée Pasquinelli at work. Renée and only five other less-than-fulltime environmental staff members (2009/2010), including Bill Maslach, Angela Liebenberg, Robert Gaines, Louie Reynolds, and Seth Tsujimura, have their hands full managing natural resources in the Mendocino District. Projects range from inventory and monitoring (rare species as well as invasive species), planning and environmental compliance (a full-time job in itself), habitat restoration, and hazardous tree control. The Mendocino District consists of 17 units totaling 25,707 acres, including Glass Beach State Park, Jug Handle State Reserve, Mackerricher State Park, Mailliard Redwoods State Reserve, Manchester State Park, Mendocino Headlands/Big River Beach State Park, Montgomery Woods State Reserve, Navarro River Redwoods State Park, Russian Gulch State Park, and Van Damme State Park. Renée showed slides in her PowerPoint talk of inventory work with rare animal and plant species including the federally listed Point Arena Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa nigra) and Behren‟s Silverspot Butterfly (Speyeria zerene behrensii) whose larvae‟s sole food plant is early blue violet (Viola adunca). When asked by an audience member how DKY chapter members might help State Parks, Renée said that one way would be to help survey for occurrences of Viola adunca. She also spoke of research work with the Western Snowy Plover and Ten Mile Dunes and Inglenook Fen species. She showed images of plant regeneration after the 2008 fire at Montgomery Woods State Reserve. Teresa Sholars, Biology Professor at College of the Redwoods, noted from the Point Arena Mountain Beaver is federally listed audience that in a recent class field trip to Montgomery Woods as endangered and found only in a 24 square they had seen thousands and thousands of redwood mile area in western Mendocino County. Photo by Angela Liebenberg seedlings…it is a bumper crop this year because of the fire. Trail planning is another aspect of natural areas management. An ongoing project for Renée and her co-workers is Glass Beach State Park and the challenges of establishing a Coastal Trail through a relatively small area of species rich headland and perched dune habitat that harbors nearly a dozen rare plant species, including Blennosperma nanum var. robustum, Chorizanthe howellii, Agrostis blasdalei, and Campanula californica. Mackerricher State Park has its own set of management issues including revamping of park water supplies. The park‟s Lake Cleone is slowly becoming an estuary again as ocean waves relentlessly erode the man-made berm that maintains the lake. Weed management is an ongoing aspect of natural area protection. State Parks and partners such as the Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed Management Area and the Mendocino County Fire Safe Council work together to eradicate invasive species such as gorse (especially dangerous as a fire hazard), ice plant, European beach grass and blue gum eucalyptus (also a fire hazard). English ivy removal in the Navarro Riparian Area by high school students in the Student Conservation Association is a project that Renée is Bluff erosion at Glass Beach State Park is one of the proud to coordinate. reasons the Coastal Trail will be located away from the bluff edge. Photo origin not known. Natural Areas management also includes fish habitat restoration and State Parks works with partners such as Trout Unlimited, Department of Fish and Game, California Geological Society, NOAA Fisheries Restoration, State of California Department of Conservation, and Ross Taylor and Associated Fisheries Consultants. A current project is the Glenbrook Gulch Anadromous Fish Habitat Restoration. The last item Renée spoke about was the recent discovery of an infestation of Sudden Oak Death (SOD) on tanoak trees at Mackerricher State Park. If you visited the camping area this past winter and saw red and white syringes festooning tree trunks, these were the trees Ocean erosion of the berm at Mackerricher State Park. undergoing treatment. What a job Renée and her Photo by Renée Pasquinelli coworkers have…interesting and problematic issues is the name of the game in Natural Areas management. Thank you, Renée, for a great presentation. State budget deficits currently threaten State Parks funding, particularly those programs like Natural Areas management that are not considered high requirements for public health and safety. Without the support of outside sources our State Park system would be even more seriously jeopardized. Federal grants, including the NOAA Open Rivers Initiative Project, Coastal Impact Assistance Program, Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and US Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Agreements provide much needed monies for managing Park Natural Areas. The State Fisheries Restoration Grant Program and Caltrans Off-Site Mitigation also contribute funds as do direct donations from the public. Besides those partners already mentioned, State Parks also has collaborative partnerships with the California Native Plant Society, Audubon Society, Save the Redwoods League, Cal Fire, Mendocino Land Trust, Jug Handle Creek Farms, and Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. The California State Parks Foundation and partners, in an effort to establish long-term, sustainable funding mechanisms for State Parks, has proposed a statewide ballot measure for November 2010: California State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund Act of 2010. It calls on Californians to support their state park system and wildlife conservation areas by paying $18 annually for a State Park Access Pass surcharge on vehicle license fees. Support for the State Parks Access Pass is a simple but effective way citizens can assist the highly beneficial work of State Parks staff in concert with other agencies and partners to protect, restore, and maintain our natural heritage. When we protect the commons we protect ourselves and future generations. (cont‟d. p. 6) 2 May--June 2010 DKY May Field Trip May 18-20. Riparian Ecology and Restoration, Davis and various field sites. Bruce Orr, Amy Merrill. May 15th, Sat. 10:00 AM - Salt Point bluffs. June 1-3. Wetlands Plants and Ecosystems, Jon Thompson will lead this walk, where we will see Hopland Field Station, Hopland. Kerry Heise, Gerri many wildflowers and incredible rock formations. Meet Hulse-Stephens, Joel Butterworth. at the Stump Beach parking lot, on the west side of June 15-17. Treasures in an Ancient Landscape: Hwy. 1, south of Stewart’s Point. We’ll walk south to Rare Plants of the Eastern Klamath Ranges, Shasta. Gerstle Cove, then walk back by a different route. We Jim and Julie Nelson. will try to have a vehicle to take any one-way walkers back to the starting point. Bring lunch and dress in September 28-30. Legends of the Fall: exploring the layers. If you have any questions call Jon at 884-4847 clandestine flora of early fall in the eastern Mojave or email at [email protected] Desert, UC Granite Mountains Desert Research Center. Jim Andre and Tasha LaDoux. Join Neighbor Chapters AUDUBON WALKS to explore our Home Territory May 8, Field Trip: Navarro River and Beach. Meet at 8:00 am, south end of Navarro River bridge. May 28-31, Friday-Monday, all or part: May 19, Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast With Wilma Follette as your leader, explore many of Botanical Gardens. Mendocino's favorite botanical sites, including the Pygmy Forest and the Mendocino Coast Botanical May 23, Field Trip: Hendy Woods. Carpool from Gardens. This field trip is a joint Marin--North Coast Harvest Market (Fort Bragg) parking lot at 7:30 am. or Chapter event but members from Dorothy King Young, meet at Hendy Woods entrance at 8:30 am. Sanhedrin, and Milo Baker chapters are enthusiastically invited. Out-of towners will overnight in campgrounds July 3, Bird Walk: 9:00 am, Mendocino Coast or motels; the group will make short day hikes in the Botanical Gardens Fort Bragg--Mendocino area. Tell Carol Ralph if you are July 10, Field Trip: Lake Cleone and Laguna Point, interested: 707/822-2015. MacKerricher State Park. Meet at 8:00 am, Lake Cleone parking lot. DKY June Field Trip July 21, Bird Walk: 8:00 am, Mendocino Coast June 19th, Sat. 10:00 AM – Van Damme State Park. Botanical Gardens. Lori Hubbart will lead this walk through Fern Canyon in Van Damme State Park. Meet in the parking lot west of Highway 1. Participants will shuttle to the top of the Master Gardener Workshops at trail and walk down about 5 miles.
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