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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. Dress in layers, Mendocino Coast Botanical bring water and lunch. If you have any questions call Lori at 882-1655 or email [email protected]. Gardens
We have no programs organized yet for May or Workshops are in the MCBG meeting room. Cost is June. $5.00 for Garden Members, $10 for non-members. Contact Kristina Van Wert at 707/964-4352 ext. 13 for questions or ext. 16 to reserve your space. For more CNPS Plant Science Workshops information see the website www.gardenbythesea.org. These workshops take you to floristically fascinating places with amazing botanical specialists. For more May 15, Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon. Seaside information contact Josie Crawford at (916) 447-2677 Gardening, led by Lily Ricardi, MCBG horticulturist. or email: [email protected] June 5, Saturday, 10 a;m. to noon. Greywater May 4-6. Measuring & Monitoring Plant Populations, Systems for the Home Garden, led by Bruce Los Angeles Nat’l Forest. J. Willoughby. Broderick of local green business „Being Water‟.
June 12, Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon. Water Wise Gardening. Led by Master Gardener Louisa Aronow.
3 May--June 2010 Stinging Nettle – Urtica dioica by Jon Thompson
The stinging nettle is a plant that has been highly hydroxytryptamine, choline, and acetylcholine. They regarded by some and much maligned by others. In also have iron, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, the U.S. it is considered a weed by farmers and home calcium, boron, silica, and albuminoids. gardeners alike. But for thousands of years it has been It has also been reported that regular ingestion of known to be a nettles can help grow thicker hair, clearer skin, and virtual treasure stronger nails. Indeed, a quick search on the Internet trove of medicinal, yielded many products with nettle for nails, hair, and nutritional, and skin. textile value. Nettles can be used in any recipe to replace This California spinach and are delicious when steamed or boiled and native plant is also served with butter, salt, and pepper. native to much of Europe, where it Fiber and Dye has a long history of Nettle stems contain a bast fiber that has been use as an herbal traditionally used for the same purposes as linen and is remedy, a nutritious produced by a similar retting process. In recent years a addition to the diet, German company has started to produce commercial and a fiber plant for nettle textiles. A yellow dye is produced from the roots, making paper and and a yellowish green die from the leaves. cloth. In the Garden/Wildlife Medicine This is not a plant that you would want by a
Urtica dioica, photo by Gerald According to walkway or any other place someone might accidentally and Buff Corsi, California James P. Duke, get “stung”, but if you have a moist to wet, out of the Academy of Sciences Ph.D, author of the way place for a plant that will keep giving for years to Green Pharmacy come, give this plant a try. The best way to keep the Herbal Handbook, stinging nettle contains natural anti- nettle patch under control in the garden is to plant it in a inflammatory and antihistamine agents that open up submerged tub so that the roots can't spread. I have it constricted bronchial and nasal passages. It therefore in a naturally moist area on the perimeter of our has the capacity to provide natural relief for allergies backyard and it is doing quite nicely. It has been like hay fever without harmful side effects often growing there without a container for about 4 years and associated with pharmaceutical antihistamines. is not quickly spreading. The pain of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis can be Growing a patch of stinging nettles in the garden, eased by the anti-inflammatory properties mixing with especially in a warm, sunny spot, is a sure-fire way to the rich concentrations of the minerals boron and attract ladybugs, shieldbugs, and butterflies. Butterflies silicon. Boron helps our bones retain calcium and lay their eggs on nettles and the resulting caterpillars nettle has also shown some benefit against eat the leaves. The nettles may provide a deterrent osteoporosis due to the high amount of this element in against predators. This plant also produces a large stinging nettle. amount of seeds in late summer that are a great food The stinging nettle has recently been found to be source for seed eating birds. effective in the treatment of prostate enlargement, also Nettle leaves are also a great addition to the known as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). compost pile. They are rich in nitrogen, which is Although it has not been as well studied as saw required by the bacteria that break down the more palmetto or pygeum, the root is a popular European woody material in the pile. treatment for BPH. In a double-blind placebo-controlled study performed in Iran, 558 people were given either The Sting placebo or nettle root for 6 months. The results The tip of the stinging hair breaks off upon slight indicated that nettle root is significantly more effective contact, leaving a sharp point that readily pierces skin than placebo on all major measures of BPH severity. and allows fluid contents of the hair to enter flesh Benefits were seen in three other double-blind studies through the body of the hair, which acts as a miniature as well, enrolling a total of more than 150 men. hypodermic needle. It used to be thought that the main constituent of the sting was formic acid, which is the Nutrition same chemical produced by ants. Although formic Nettles contain formic acid (fresh plant only), acid is present in the sting, research has shown that the galacturonic acid, vitamin C, A, and D, histamine, 5- main chemicals include histamine, acetylcholine, and 4 May--June 2010 serotonin. The leaves of the dock (Rumex species) contain Propagation chemicals that neutralize the The best way to propagate this plant is by seed. sting and also cool the skin You can find nettle seeds at Johnnyseeds.com. You when stung; it is often found can buy dried nettle leaves from mountainroseherbs.com growing in the same habitat as Now, when you see this plant you will at once be nettle. The plant loses its sting reminded that it is one of the most undervalued of when steamed, boiled or dried. economic plants and that the usefulness of this plant much outweighs its inconveniences. The stinging nettle Collecting has a wide range of uses, for food, medicines, and Be sure to wear gloves fibers as well as being a very important plant for when collecting stinging nettle. wildlife. Thick dishwashing gloves work great. Detail of Urtica dioica from Volume 3, Flora of North America. .
President’s Message Currently CNPS is developing a horticultural database that will allow you to enter information specific by Nancy Morin to your site and get recommendations for plants to use;
through a consortium of botanically related The big news for the DKY Chapter is organizations it is developing a certification program for that we will host the September 10—12, botanists; it will soon unveil a curriculum package for 2010, Chapter Council Meeting, which will classroom use for younger students; it is extending its focus on conservation. It has been about 15 years mapping and assessment to include locally rare plants; since DKY has hosted a meeting. The Chapter Council and it is protecting our natural heritage through is composed of one delegate from each chapter advocacy and education, just to mention a few CNPS (usually the president) and the Chapter Council officers. activities. The Chapter Council has responsibility for basic If you are reading this and aren‟t a CNPS member, governance of CNPS, including electing the Board of please consider joining. If you are a member, please Directors and reviewing its work; establishing the take a look at the membership directory included in the strategic direction for the Society, establishing native last Calypso—are there people you know who share plant policies and resolutions, and maintaining strong your interests but are not members? Please consider relationships throughout the organization and especially giving them a gift membership, or bring them to a with the chapters. Council meetings typically have program or field trip. 50—60 people attending, and local members are welcome. I am very glad to say that Julia Larke, longtime editor of the Calypso (and who still helps with it), has We are working to find a suitable meeting space in agreed to serve as Publicity Chair for our chapter. Fort Bragg. Attendees will camp, stay with local CNPS Helene Chalfin, long-time director of education at members, or stay in local motels. We will be Jughandle Farm, has agreed to be our Education Chair. responsible for organizing meals, snacks, and field We still need a hospitality host for the Fort Bragg trips. We need volunteers to help with organizing (1) area—especially now that we are trying to have accommodations, (2) food, (3) field trips, (4) programs in both north and south coast venues. Let miscellaneous logistics. If you would be willing to help, me know if you would be willing to organize please contact me, [email protected], 882-2528. refreshments for programs in Fort Bragg.
The March Chapter Council meeting at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden was the first I had attended, and it really brought home what a great organization Chorizanthe CNPS is. It has an incredibly talented, dedicated, hard- howellii, working staff and Board, but its great strength is in its Howell‟s membership. Like most membership organizations, spine-flower. Photo by Vern CNPS has been seeing a steady attrition of members Smith. and currently has about 9,400, but it provides more to members than ever before. 5 May--June 2010 Jenner Headlands Field Trips
Partipants in the field trips April 17 and 29 to the Jenner Headlands, recently acquired for preservation by the Sonoma Land Trust, reported that they had a wonderful time, seeing great views and interesting plants. Our thanks to Brook Edwards and Kristin Martinez and their colleagues for making this field trip possible. Becky and Win Bowen reported that, in addition to the views and plants, they saw several Cliff Swallows, a Northern Harrier, hummingbirds, Western Bluebirds and the first Cedar Waxwings they have seen in several years. A peaceful moment on Jenner Headlands, photo by B. & W. Bowen
Field Trips with Peter Warner
Peter Warner is planning the following field trips to fascinating places and invites you to join him. If you are interested, contact him at 707/829-1183, [email protected]
May 15 and 16: Cache Creek and Walker Ridge: a two-day adventure into the recently designated Cache Creek Wilderness.
May 30: Salt Point State Park: Meet at the Woodside campground parking lot, east side of Highway 1, at 9 a.m. Contact Peter first in case plans change.
June 25—27 (date tentative): Plaskett Meadows, Black Butte, Anthony Peak. Call Peter for more information.
Call for Photos of Coastal Plants
Point Cabrillo Light House volunteers refurbished the educational displays in the old smithy for their 100th anniversary, celebrated last year. There are two rooms, one has a large marine aquarium and the other has space for exhibits. Photo topics so far have been marine mammals and coast birds. The Light House would like to have a show on coast wildflowers, possibly sometime in 2011, that could also be exhibited in the Fort Bragg library and College of the Redwoods, and presumably in south coast venues as well. The photos must be of very high quality and would be displayed as 5 x 7” or 8 x 10”. If you are interested in helping organize such an exhibit, please contact Nancy Morin, [email protected]; 882-2528.
(State Parks, continued from page 2) Sources:
Renée Pasquinelli, Managing Natural Areas in State Parks - Presentation to the California Native Plant Society, April 2010. Protecting the Commons: A Framework for Resource Management in the Americas. Editors Joanna Burger, Elinor Ostrom, Richard Norgaard, David Policansky, and B. D. Goldstein, 2001 http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/Pages/default.aspx http://www.parks.ca.gov http://mendoparks.mcn.org/Index.htm http://www.mendoparks.org/
Campanula californica, swamp http://www.calparks.org/takeaction/#Advocacy_efforts harebell. Photo by Doreen Smith http://yesforstateparks.com/get-the-facts/initiative-text 6 May--June 2010 Arbutus menziesii, Pacific Madrone, our Woodland Queen by Nancy R. Morin
The stately trees that grace our roadsides and hills are now bearing their creamy clusters of flowers. Handsome all through the year, with their elegant, smooth/shreddy, reddish-brown trunks and stems and their large, simple, glossy leaves, they seem to outdo themselves in flower. Our species of madrone, Arbutus menziesii, grows from San Diego County (where it is rare), north along the coast to British Columbia, and west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascades It grows with tanoak, douglas fir, and sometimes redwoods; it resprouts and is an early colonizer after logging or fires. Madrone wood is hard-grained and heavy and is prized by wood-workers. Native Americans used an infusion of bark, roots, and leaves to treat colds and brewed a tea from the bark to relieve stomach-ache. A lotion made using leaves and bark helped sores heal faster. The berries were eaten fresh or cooked. Even the charcoal was used to make gunpowder (Ball, 1962). Marjorie Schmidt (1980) gave instructions for propagation, cautioning that young plants are susceptible to fungal infection. She noted “In autumn the glowing berries enliven the forests and bring flocks of Robins, Cedar Waxwings, and Bandtailed Pigeons to dine. In former days some large old specimens were known as council tree, and were the meeting place of Indian tribes.” Arbutus is one of the six genera that make up subfamily Arbutoideae in the heath family Ericaceae. Arctostaphylos is another genus in the subfamily, with its 66 species. The rest are, like Arbutus, graceful trees Illustration of Arbutus menziesii, by Yevonn Wilson- or tall shrubs. Comarostaphylis has one species in Ramsey, Volume 8 of Flora of North America. southern California (the other nine in Mexico and Central America, Diggs, 2009). Ornithostaphylos has only one species; only 103 individuals are known in the Arbutus menziesii was discovered by Archibald U.S., all in the Tijuana Hills in San Diego County Menzies when he was the naturalist under Captain (Diggs, 2009). Xylococcus, also just one species, George Vancouver on the ship Discovery. It was grows on the coastal plain and Peninsular and named for him by Frederick Pursh, a botanist in Transverse ranges in Los Angeles to San Diego Philadelphia, in 1813. counties and on Santa Catalina Island (Dorr, 2009). Arctous, the last genus, is circumboreal and doesn‟t References: reach California. Treatments in Flora of North America Volume 8, 2009, Of the 10–11 species of Arbutus , five are edited by the Flora of North America Editorial neotropical, mostly growing in montane areas. Arbutus Committee: Sorensen, Paul D., Arbutus, pp. 398– unedo, the strawberry tree, which is cultivated in 400; Diggs, George M., Jr., Comarostaphylis pp. California, and A. andrachne are from the eastern 401–403, Ornithostaphylos, p. 403: Dorr, Laurence Mediterranean, and A. canariensis is endemic to the J., Xylococcus, p. 404. Canary Islands (Sorensen, 2009). Balls, Edward K., 1962. Early uses of California Plants, The other two North American species of Arbutus University of California Press. are A. arizonica, found from 1500—2400 meters in Schmidt, Marjorie G. 1980. Growing California Native Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, and A. Plants. University of California Press. xalapensis, from the Edwards Plateau in Texas and west into southwestern New Mexico. 7 May--June 2010
Dorothy King Young Chapter CNPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OFFICERS 2010 DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER President: Nancy Morin 882-2528 Membership in the California Native Plant Society is open to all. [email protected] The task and mission of the Society is to increase awareness, Vice President: Mario Abreu 937-3155, understanding, and appreciation of California native plants. The [email protected] challenge is to preserve their natural habitat through scientific, Secretary: Lori Hubbart (temp) 882-1655 educational, and conservation activities. Membership includes [email protected] subscription to the quarterly Fremontia, as well as our local chapter newsletter, the Calypso. Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150, [email protected] Name______Address______COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS City ______Zip ______CAMPING Diane Wickstrom 884-4556 Tel. ______E-mail______CONSERVATION Lori Hubbart 882-1655 EDUCATION Helene Chalfin I wish to affiliate with the DKY Chapter______FIELD TRIPS Mario Abreu & or, other chapter ______Nancy Morin(temp) (Please check, or name a chapter; CNPS will make assignment if none is specified by applicant.) HISTORIAN Ramona Crooks 884-3585 HOSPITALITY: North Coast - OPEN MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY South Coast Roberta Rams 884-4847 Student/Retired/Limited Income $25 INVASIVE PLANTS Julia Larke 964-2845 Individual $45 JUBATA ERADICATION OPEN Family/Group/Library $75 MAILINGS Roberta Rams 884-4847 Plant Lover $100 MEMBERSHIP Bob Rutemoeller 884-4426 Patron $300 NEWSLETTER Nancy Morin 882-2528 Benefactor $600 Mariposa Lily $1,500
PLANT SALE Mario Abreu 937-3155 PLANT WATCH OPEN Make check out to the California Native Plant Society; mail check and application to: POSTERS Lynn Tuft 785-3392 PUBLICITY Julia Larke 964-2845 Bob Rutemoeller, Membership Committee PROGRAMS Lori Hubbart (pro tem) DKY Chapter, CNPS PO Box 577 RARE & ENDANGERED: Gualala, CA 95445 Coordinator Teresa Sholars 962-2686 Inland Clare Wheeler-Sias 895-3131 Sea Ranch Lynn Tuft Calypso notes South Coast Mary Rhyne 884-3043 VEGETATION Rhiannon Korhummel Do you want to see the Calypso photos in color? WEBMASTER Norm Jensen:[email protected] You can by viewing them at the www.dkycnps.org
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