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NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY

CALENDAR Primary workshop instructors are Julie Evens, CNPS

Field Trip to Glass Headlands & Ecologist, Todd Keeler-Wolf and Diana Hickson, State MacKerricher State Park Vegetation Ecologists with the Dept. of Fish & Game. Saturday, 19 March 10:00 AM We hope local people will enroll and thus activate an Spring wildflowers should be already be blooming in interest in mapping Sonoma County vegetation. You abundance along the Mendocino coast for this trip to may contact Kathleen Kraft, [email protected], about scholarships offered by the Milo Baker Chapter. coastal prairie and . We’ll explore the st riches of the coastal flora, including several rare plant Cost: $150 or $175 after March 1 . The field sampling species, and also discuss pertinent conservation and protocol, field form, and workshop announcement is available at www.cnps.org then click on “Vegetation”. restoration topics for coastal ecosystems.

Please join us at 10 AM at the parking area at the far Plant Propagation Work Party north end of Glass Beach Drive (right at the south end Sunday, March 20 10:00 AM of the Pudding Creek Trestle) in Fort Bragg. From Come join us at the propagation and transplanting points south of Fort Bragg, turn left from North Main work party in preparation for this year’s Fall Plant Sale. Street onto Elm St., at the last traffic light heading It will be held at Jon Thompson and Roberta Rams’ north out of Ft. Bragg; follow the right-hand turn at the home in Anchor Bay. For those interested and for more end of Elm onto Glass Beach Drive, then about 1/3 information please contact Jon at 884-4847. mile to the parking area. Bring water, lunch, field Annual Environmental Potluck guides, hand lenses, binoculars, and in optimistic Monday, March 21 anticipation, sunscreen. 6:00 PM – Dinner, 7:00 PM – Program In the morning, we'll explore the Glass Beach area, Recreation Hall, then carpool/caravan north to the Ten Mile , This year’s event, sponsored by the Audubon Society, probably arriving there about noon. To meet us there, features Steve Hampton, a Resource Economist with take Hwy. 1 north from Ft. Bragg just beyond the main the Office of Spill Prevention and Response, CA MacKerricher State Park entrance, and turn left just Department of Fish and Game. While the focus is likely past the Cleone Market onto Ward Ave. Follow Ward to be on birds, toxic spills along our coastline are a out to the coast to the parking area at the street's danger to all life forms. The Annual Environmental sharp left-hand bend. Call Peter Warner (707) 937- Potluck is sponsored by CNPS, Audubon Society, 2278 for further information. Mendocino Area Parks Association and Mendocino

CNPS Vegetation & Assessment Workshop Land Trust. The evening also features community environmental awards and a wine bar. Tuesday & Wednesday, March 15 & 16, 9 AM. Ocean Song Farm and Wilderness Center, 19100 Directions: go two miles north of the town of Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, CA. Mendocino, turn west at the Russian Gulch St. Park entrance sign, turn left onto Point Cabrillo Dr., and follow the signs to the Rec. Hall. Please bring an appetizer, main dish, salad or dessert to share, as well as your own dishes, silverware, and beverage. If you can’t make the dinner, please join us at 7:00 PM for the program. There is a small cover charge at the door to help pay for expenses. CNPS is expected to help out, so please contact Lori at 882-1655 to volunteer.

Field Trip to Skaggs Spring Road Sunday, April 17 10:00 AM Elaine Mahaffey will lead a field trip along Skaggs Springs Road. Meet at milepost 10 on Skaggs Springs Road (10 miles inland from Stewarts Point). This section of Skaggs Springs Road features breathtaking annual and perennial wildflowers, and, if we’re lucky, mountain dogwood in bloom. This is a short, slow, easy trip for people who want to study the plants close up. It’s also a chance for a walk with the author of the just-published, updated Wildflowers of The Sea Ranch

– our own Elaine Mahaffey! Call Elaine at 785-2279 or Calypso Orchid or Fairy Slipper, Calypso bulbosa. Photo [email protected], or contact Peter Warner taken near Gualala by Bob Rutemoeller, March 2004. at 937-2278/[email protected]. View in living color: www.dkycnps.org/

2005 Anderson Valley Wildflower Show Speaking of flowers, I would like to thank Ramona Saturday & Sunday, April 23 & 24, 9 AM to 5 PM rain Crooks for her interesting, educational, and at times or shine! June Building, Mendocino County Fair humorous slide presentation on local wildflowers. Grounds, Hwy.128, Boonville, CA. FREE ADMISSION. What a great first program to start out the year! There Up to 400 plant specimens will be collected by was a great turnout and I must also commend members of the Garden Section of the Anderson everyone who braved the stormy weather to attend this Valley Unity Club. Botanists are invited to come program. Saturday to assist in identification and labeling of Thank You Dorothy Scherer! specimens. No endangered plants will be gathered for I am sorry to report that Dorothy Scherer has resigned display. Plants and books are for sale, and food at the as our Plant Communities Chairperson. Dorothy’s tearoom is available for purchase. Contact: Susan knowledge of our local flora and of vegetation survey Hopkins, Chairman at 707-895-3624 protocol was invaluable and our chapter is indebted to Field trip to the Galbreath Wildlands Preserve her hard work in organizing and participating in the Saturday, April 30 (date tentative - could be Sat. May pygmy forest vegetation surveys in 2004. We are very 7) with Milo Baker Chapter in Yorkville. fortunate that she will continue her position as our Please contact Peter Warner 937-2278 or Rare and Endangered Chairperson for Sonoma [email protected] for further information. Four- County. wheel-drive vehicles will help us with access to this Peter Warner has graciously volunteered to be our new acquisition of Sonoma State University. Field Trip and Invasive Exotics chair positions. Peter PRESIDENT’S CORNER is a Resource Ecologist for the North Coast Redwoods by Jon Thompson District of the California State Parks. He has previously filled these positions with the Milo Baker It seems that we may be finally getting the amount of Chapter and has led field trips for various CNPS rain we need for a good flower year on the chapters and other groups for the past 15 years. I am Mendonoma Coast, including places like Glass Beach, grateful to Peter for filling these important positions Skaggs Springs Road, and other locations that our and am looking forward to working with him in the chapter plans to visit this year. Some early bloomers coming year. that have already been spotted this year include milk maids (Cardamine californica var. sinuata), Indian And, Roz Bray, our vice president, decided to make a Warrior (Pedicularis densiflora), slink pod (Scoliopus stand against invading plants and has agreed to chair bigelovii) and hounds tongue (Cynoglossum grande). Jubata Eradication. Come join her and become a weed warrior! You can read her comments on page 4. 2 Mar-Apr ’05 Vegetation Chairpersons Needed project as long as certain mitigations are included. The The DKY Chapter has begun an exciting program of final plan includes creation of two new, small wetlands, vegetation surveys in the coastal belt. This is fieldwork, which will presumably include willows, since it is where you meet interesting people, learn more about intended as habitat for birds and other small animals. our local flora, and spend the day outdoors. Our rather It also includes fencing off the hillside and west-of- spread-out chapter needs two Vegetation Hwy.1 populations of Roderick’s fritillary, plus Chairpersons – one for the northern region, and one additional “potential habitat” for the lily. Communication for the south. with the local road maintenance station is also part of the plan. The CNPS Vegetation program works with the State Department of Fish and Game to develop an overall Our chapter has questions about the provenance of system for classification of California’s plant the new plants used to create the new wetlands, and communities. Native vegetation types may contain rare transplantation of doomed natives like the rare purple- plants, or may be unique in their own right. The stemmed checkerbloom, Sidalcea malviflora ssp. vegetation classification system expresses California’s purpurea, and tufted hairgrass, Deschampsia plant biodiversity, and can be used in conservation caespitosa var. holciformis. We requested that planning to insure the representation of all salvage rights be granted if these plants cannot be dug ecosystems, common-to-rare. up and re-used in the project. We also ask that any

The Vegetation Coordinators work with state CNPS trees or shrubs planted as screening for nearby Vegetation Program staff to set up surveys and residences be locally derived native plants like wax myrtle. organize the data collected. The data we gather contributes to an understanding of our local vegetation The Caltrans study is available as a reference-only types and will be included in the Manual of California document at Coast Community Library and Fort Bragg Vegetation. We hope to continue our work in pygmy Library. We thank Rod Parsons of Caltrans for his forest and ridge scrub vegetation, types which are not helpful attitude and willingness to share information. adequately described in the Manual. We will then Stornetta Ranch move on to coastal bluff scrub and bunchgrass prairie. There has been much local concern about possible To volunteer, please call Jon Thompson at 884-4847. permits for drainage ditches in the floodplain wetlands. CONSERVATION NEWS As of this writing, no such permits have been issued, by Lori Hubbart and there may be no cause for alarm. Local river activists are studying the issue, hoping to forestall any Highway 1 – Schooner Gulch Bridge negative impacts to salmonids fish, migratory Yes, we’re finally going to be rid of the unattractive and waterfowl, or the Endangered Point Arena mountain rather scary temporary bridge on Highway 1 just north beaver. DKY has submitted a list of rare plants that of Schooner Gulch. Since the roadbed is falling away should be surveyed for in marshes and adjacent wet in that area, Caltrans must build a mini-bypass, called meadows. a re-alignment, bringing Highway 1 farther inland. This sounds good, but there are complications. Big River The Interim Management Plan for the 7,334-acre Big The very rare, taxonomically challenging Roderick’s River property has finally been released, but the fritillary, sometimes known as Fritillaria roderickii, is project has been dogged by controversy. Some of the growing right in the route of the intended re-alignment. grant funds for purchase and management of the Mary Rhyne and Jon Thompson met with property had to be given to the Mendocino Land Trust representatives of Caltrans and the CA Department of (MLT), rather than State Parks. Thus, MLT took on a Fish and Game to mark off the small population, and role that went far beyond brokering the land purchase. discuss its long-term preservation. There were no funds for a legal environmental review There are also wetlands at issue – jurisdictional process under the California Environmental Quality Act wetlands that are the province of the U.S. Army Corps (CEQA). Because MLT and the Coastal Conservancy of Engineers. Since existing wetlands, however small, wanted to proceed with the creation of an interim will be negatively impacted, the law requires management plan, MLT hired an outside consulting “mitigation” in the form of newly created wetlands firm to do studies and write a “Draft Interim where the abandoned roadbed will be. Management Plan” for Big River. Caltrans produced an Initial Study of the project, and This plan incorporated some biological surveys, though that study became the basis for a “Mitigated Negative not the much-needed complete biological and Declaration” allowing Caltrans to go forward with the 3 Mar-Apr ’05 environmental study of the property that would happen Comment letters should be addressed to: under CEQA. State Parks is under no legal obligation Circuit Rider Productions, Inc. to adopt the Interim Management Plan, and indeed, Attn: BRIMP cannot do so, legally. 9619 Old Redwood Highway Windsor, CA 95492 Meanwhile, a Citizens’ Advisory Committee for Big River seems to have been created with no provisions With copies to: for outside oversight, and vague operating rules. It is CA State Parks heavy on people representing strictly recreational Mike Wells, District Superintendent interests, who are advocating loudly for certain types of P.O. Box 440 trails, unrestricted access, and other practices that Mendocino, CA 95460 may not be compatible with resource protection. CA Dept of Parks & Recreation

The catch is that the original purchase agreement Ruth Coleman, Director stipulates the main reason for purchase and P.O. Box 942896 Sacramento, CA 94296 management of the Big River property was the preservation and enhancement of natural resources. California Coastal Conservancy All other activities are to be compatible with those Moira McEnespy primary goals. 1330 Broadway, 11th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2530 MLT may have succumbed to pressures from some quarters to implement a trails plan and a management Mendocino Land Trust plan. Yet, as part of the State Parks System, planning James Bernard, Matt Gerhart and management activities must accord with state P.O. Box 1094 rules of operation, as well as the terms of the purchase Mendocino, CA 95460 agreement. Forestry News Then there is the issue of the logging road easement, The Eureka Times-Standard recently featured an which was such a disappointment to local article on Pacific Lumber (PL) and its impacts on the environmentalists who worked so hard for the north coast economy. It cited an article in the L.A. purchase of this property. A lawsuit over the log road Times claiming that PL’s parent company, Maxxam, issue was brought by Friends of Big River and another has every intention of declaring bankruptcy for PL, local group. A judge threw it out, but an appeal has regardless of the outcome of current legal wrangling been filed. There is a danger that the easement could over logging. Maxxam CEO, Charles Hurwitz, is said be interpreted to allow even more log road easements. to have met with Governor Schwarzenegger to discuss State Parks officials in Sacramento declined to the planned bankruptcy. challenge the easement. The Times-Standard writer called for various segments The Draft Interim Management Plan for Big River is of the community to put aside their differences and posted on the Mendocino Land Trust’s website, work toward purchase of PL through an Employee www.mendocinolandtrust.org so please do read it. Stock Ownership Plan. Though it would mean fewer And, I hope you can join me at the Big River Interim timber jobs, and a slowdown in the rate of cutting, it Management Plan Workshop on Saturday, March 5th, would be better for the community in the long run. at the Mendocino Community Center, from 9:00 AM to What if PL could be operated in a more sustainable 12:00 Noon. The Center is at School & Pine Streets in manner – much as it was before the hostile takeover Mendocino Village, reached via Little Lake Rd., west by Maxxam? It would be a brave new experiment, with from Hwy 1. many risks, but Humboldt County residents stand to Speak out, emphasizing these points: Proper CEQA lose both forests and jobs as things now stand. process is essential. State Parks cannot adopt a non- CEQA plan, and the Interim Plan should include a plan NEW JUBATA ERADICATION CHAIR - Roz Bray: for implementing a full CEQA process, leading to a I have decided to take on this onerous task because it State Parks-initiated General Plan. Resource disturbs me to see our natural flora being squeezed protection should be the driving force behind planning out by jubata grass (Cortedaria jubata). Besides, it efforts, as stated in the purchase agreement. Ask that doesn't look fitting on our coast because it is native to Argentina, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador! the key players support community efforts to resolve the log road easement issue in favor of resource Since our Chapter covers such a large area I would protection. like to see us concentrate on removing jubata from 4 Mar-Apr ’05 along Hwy. 1. If we can focus on manageable sections @[email protected] or 884-4834 for further that can be weeded and monitored by small groups of information or a more complete schedule. people perhaps we won’t become overwhelmed by the March 17 Tallgrass Variation task. Carpool at pullout for Gualala business directory just I will be contacting various agencies about support for north of bridge at 9:45 AM. Start at 10:00 AM at Del this effort, but it is early days yet. I would be very Mar Center on TSR. Parking hang tags are needed for happy to hear from anyone interested in reducing the non-Sea Ranchers. Walk on Leeward north, turning amount of jubata grass on or very near Hwy 1. If you onto Tallgrass and continuing until you come to the know of a section you would like to monitor, please let spot where the golf cart path passes under Highway me know (mile post to mile post or some other One. Hike under the Highway and continue on the trail landmark). I would like to hear any helpful ideas you until you intersect the Saloon Trail. Turn left and walk might have on eradicating jubata. Please contact Roz north on the trail ending at Screech Owl. From there Bray (707) 785-2694 or [email protected] take the lower loop of Creekside Trail to see the ~~~~~~~ early blooming flowers and then reverse steps except Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands by Carla C. for taking the left fork of the Saloon Trail to the end and Bossard, John M. Randall, Marc C. Hoshovsky, checking out the dog park. Walk south on Deer Trail, editors. 360 pages, 133 color photos, 76 line crossing the highway there. Lunch is optional, but illustrations, 79 maps. University of California Press, those who bring their lunch can eat at the "Secret 2000. Paperback: $29.95. This book presents species Place" by the school. accounts for 79 of the worst invasive species in the Leaders: Roz and Derek Bray, 785-2694 state. Accounts include distribution maps, drawings, March 24 Ocean Ridge Drive - Bower Park Bulbs photographs, detailed descriptions, natural history -- New Variation information, ‘how to get rid of it’, and more! The book is Meet at 9:50 at pullout for Gualala business directory online and can also be ordered at the California north of bridge to carpool and at Mary Sue's house at Invasive Plant Council (CAL-IPC) website: 38240 Ocean Ridge Drive at 10:00 (Turn left off Old http://groups.ucanr.org/ceppc/Invasive_Plants_of_Calif Stage Road past Pacific Woods going north). Hike on ornia's_Wildlands/ From the book: Ocean Ridge Drive and on informal trails surrounding “Jubata grass is native to northern Argentina and the Bower Park and the area for the proposed recreation Andes of Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador (Costas- center. Eat lunch (optional) at end in Mary Sue's Lippmann 1977). In its native range it can be found garden where there are bound to be bulbs in bloom. from sea level to elevations greater than 11,000 feet Leader: Mary Sue Ittner, 884-4824 (3,400 m). It was first cultivated in France and Ireland April 7 Salt Point Bluffs from seed collected in Ecuador (Costas-Lippmann Carpool at the pullout for Gualala business directory at 1977). It is not clear how or when it was introduced into 9:45 and 10:00 at The Sea Ranch Lodge parking lot. California, but it may have come through France via Start at 10:15 at . Turn west at the horticultural trade (Madison 1992).“ Main Entrance and follow road to large parking lot and “Jubata grass was first reported as a weed in California restrooms. If the kiosk is manned there is a fee per car in logged redwood forests of Humboldt County in 1966 (no fee if it’s not manned, which is usually the case). (Fuller 1976). Since infestations exist only in coastal Hike the coastal trail along the bluffs starting at left areas of California, it is likely that the origin of this side of parking lot. Continue north until you are at trail weed is a low-elevation biotype from South America.” which descends into Stump Beach. This section of Salt

“…It is a significant weed problem in forestry Point has interesting rock formations and often operations and conservation areas in other countries, spectacular waves and wonderful flowers in the spring. particularly New Zealand and Australia.” Turn around and walk back by jeep trail, inland of the ~~~~~~~ coastal trail. Leader's choice for lunch: Gerstle

picnic tables south of the Visitor Center along the trail. THURSDAY RAMBLERS HIKES Dogs not allowed on Salt Point trails. Leader: Doug Patterson, 785-2118 Thursday Ramblers walk each Thursday for a couple of hours on trails between Fort Ross and Manchester, April 14 Alder Creek-Manchester Beach most of the time stopping to eat a bag lunch during the Carpool at Anchor Bay (west side of Hwy 1) at 10:00 hike. Below are some of the scheduled hikes in March and start hike at the end of Alder Creek Beach Road at and April where there might be flowers. CNPS 10:30 (mile marker 22.50 if road sign is missing). We members are welcome. Contact Mary Sue Ittner will hike on the trail that leads to the environmental 5 Mar-Apr ’05 campground hoping to see iris, poppies, and baby blue CAMPING eyes along the way and walk back via the beach with Plan to join the DKY Chapter at Angelo Coast more flowers at the end. We will have lunch afterwards Preserve at Branscomb for the May 13 -15 camping at Jim and Beverley Thompson's lovely garden. trip. We are registered to stay at Fox Creek Lodge Leader: Mary Sue Ittner, 884-4824 cabins. You may bring tents if you wish (mice have

April 21 Black & Bihler Footpaths & Bluff been known to inhabit the cabins!) It is our intent to Carpool at pullout for Gualala business directory just explore the Reserve to seek out native plants in north of bridge at 9:45 and meet at the Sea Ranch unlogged and undisturbed areas. No species will be Lodge at 10:00. We will be exploring the marvelous collected. For further information and Reserve gate wildflower displays this time of the year on the Black lock combination, contact Diane at 884-4556 or and Bihler foot paths finally intersecting with the [email protected]; Blufftop Trail and heading north. At post 7 we take the Angelo Coast Range Reserve 707-984-6653; Sea Meadow Trail and when it intersects again with http://nrs.ucop.edu/reserves/Angelo/Angelolinkingpage.html the Blufftop Trail we turn south. Lunch at the old Barn Directions to Angelo Reserve: where weddings are often held. Take Hwy 101 north to Laytonville and turn west onto the Leader: Nancy Killian, 785-2695 Branscomb Rd. Travel about 13 miles to the little mill town of Branscomb. Continue another 3 miles to fork in April 28 Moat Creek #3 -- New variation the road and go right. This is Wilderness Lodge Rd. but Carpool at Anchor Bay at 9:45 south side of town on there is often no road sign there. Don’t panic, it is the west side of highway. Start 10:00 at Moat Creek (mile only paved road branching off of Branscomb Rd. between marker 12.77 on way to Pt. Arena). Hike bluff south to Branscomb and the coast. Wilderness Lodge Rd. will be Bowling Ball Beach and Schooner's Gulch and then paved the first 2+ miles, turning to gravel just after return via beach and bluff to Moat Creek for lunch. crossing the Eel River and continuing another 1.4 miles to Mostly level, but two short steep stretches. The beach Angelo Reserve headquarters building and visitors kiosk. can be rocky and a bit challenging to walk on in a few Fox Creek Lodge and Wilderness Lodge are 2.8 miles into the reserve from headquarters. stretches. There is a minus tide this day so we will be starting early to take advantage of this. There are often From the coast take Hwy 1 north out of Ft Bragg to nice wildflowers this time of the year along the bluff Branscomb Rd. 1 mile north of Westport. Turn right and and Schooner's Gulch at a low tide is a sight to behold. travel just short of 10 miles to Wilderness Lodge Rd. Leader: Gary Sprague, 884-4888 Turn left and follow above directions. Trail Map: (these links take some time to load) BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES GARDEN TOUR http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/power/angelo_reserve_map.pdf Hillshaded Map: Sunday, May 1, 10 AM - 5 PM. http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/power/angelo_reserve_shaded_m Free, self-guided tour of showcase native plant ap.pdf gardens in the East Bay. Below are photographs by Ramona Crooks of a The outstanding collection of gardens on the free, self- previous DKY camping trip to Branscomb in 1998. guided Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour range from Jenny and Scott Fleming's 50-year-old collector's garden to several that are newly installed, from five- acre lots to small front gardens in the flats, and from gardens designed and installed by owners to those designed and installed by professionals. More than 40 gardens located throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties will be showcased, including the Alameda Butterfly Habitat Garden, the California Native Bee Garden in Berkeley, and El Cerrito Library’s Native Plant Demonstration Garden.

You can view photos and plant lists of the tour gardens, at www.BringingBackTheNatives.net. If you have questions, please contact Kathy Kramer - [email protected] or call (510) 236-9558 between 9am and 9pm. Flo Van de Water with big tree at Branscomb Preserve, 1998. Photo by Ramona Crooks.

6 Mar-Apr ’05 Forest losses at Yellowstone National Park are linked by scientists to the expulsion of the gray wolf some 70 years ago. Predators play a crucial role in the structure and function of entire ecosystems and when the predators disappear, consequences can be dramatic.

Episode 4: Troubled Waters In the American heartland frogs are vanishing without a trace. Further north, in the green waters of Canada’s St. Lawrence River, beluga whales are mysteriously dying. A world away on the Great Barrier Reef, swarms of sea stars are overrunning this marine paradise. Scientists suspect these events may be brought on by toxins in the water. And are some of these poisons reaching our faucets?

Website:

http://www.pbs.org/previews/natgeo_strangedays/ & Gang of 16 at Branscomb Preserve, 1998. Photo by www.pbs.org/strangedays Ramona Crooks.

STRANGE DAYS ON PLANET EARTH COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS–SHORT COURSES

On Wednesday, April 20 & 27 (9–11 PM, check local  listings), PBS will premiere a four-part program on Biology 19 Rare Plants: Species of Special Concern compelling issues facing our environment. NATIONAL Thurs. 1:00–5:00 PM beginning March 24 to May 19. 9 classes. Teresa Sholars GEOGRAPHIC'S STRANGE DAYS ON PLANET EARTH is a science program with the look and style of  Biology 35 Marine Ecology of the Mendocino Coast the X-Files. It won an award for Best Series at the March 11 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12th 6:00 AM-2:00 PM, Wildscreen 2004 Film Festival and was given the 13th 6:00 AM-2:00 PM, 14th 7:00 AM-3:00 PM, Natural History Museum One Planet Award for its look 15th 7:00 AM-3:00 PM, 16th 8:30 AM-3:00 PM, at global warming. 17th 8:00 AM-2:30 PM. 7 classes. Greg Grantham

Hosted by Edward Norton, the series takes a hard look  Biology 120E Intertidal Ecology at the cause and effect relationship between what we Friday May 6, 6:00 PM–9:00 PM, Sat. May 7, as humans do to the Earth and what that in turn is 6:00 AM–noon, Sun. May 8, 6:00 AM–11:00 AM doing to our environment. Each of the four one-hour Greg Grantham episodes is constructed as a high-tech detective story,  Biology 120K Marine Mammals of the North Coast with the fate of the planet at stake. Sat. April 2, 9:00 AM–4:30 PM, Episode 1: Invaders Alien species of plants and Sun. April 3, 9:00 AM–4:00PM Greg Grantham animals have invaded every continent. They have  Biology 120M Introduction to the Identity of North enormous powers; they spread disease; they devour Coast Birds Saturday, April 16 9:00 AM–4:30 PM buildings; some destroy the land under our feet. What Sunday, April 17 8:30 AM–3:30 PM is causing this invasion and what can we do to stop the Greg Grantham rising tide?  Episode 2: Global Climate Change The One Degree Biology 120O Mosses and Their Allies - North Coast Factor…see the connections among seemingly Wednesday, April 27 6:00–8:30 PM unrelated clues. Dust clouds are building high over the Saturday, April 30 9:30 AM–4:00 PM Atlantic, an entire population of caribou is declining, a Sunday, May 1 9:30 AM–4:00 PM Don Kowalski respiratory illness, once uncommon among children in Trinidad, is now widespread. These disparate  Geology 130E Geology of the North Coast Range phenomena may be linked to global climate change. Tuesday, May 10 6:00–9:00 PM Thursday, May 12 6:00–9:00 PM Episode 3: Predators Deep in the wilds of Venezuela, Saturday, May 14 8:00 AM–5:00 PM the natural order is being turned inside out. Bands of voracious howler monkeys, a glut of iguanas and Call (707) 962-2680 for more information, or hordes of ravenous ants are over-running some areas. http://www.redwoods.edu/mendocino/ A team of scientists believes that life here is running amok, in large part because its top predators are gone. 7 Mar-Apr ’05

Calypso Deadline: If you wish to submit material to OFFICERS 2005 Calypso the deadline for the next issue is April 21st. President: Jon Thompson 884-4847 Vice President: Roz Bray 785-2694 The DKY Chapter webpage at www.dkycnps.org Secretary: Rich Schimbor 785-9626 offers a variety of useful information such as Activities Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150 & Events, What’s Now Blooming, Native Flora Plant lists, Useful Field Guides and Reference books, as well as links to CNPS chapters and other environmental organizations. The current issue and past issues of the STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Calypso can also be viewed. Check out the AT LARGE OPEN wildflower photographs in color! The webmaster, CAMPING Diane Wickstrom 884-4556 Norm Jensen, encourages you to report on what’s CONSERVATION Lori Hubbart 882-1655 blooming in your neck of the woods and to send in fax:882-1645; photographs. Greg Jirak 882-1660

EDUCATION Heidi Marshall 884-383 CNPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FIELDTRIPS OPEN DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER HISTORIAN Ramona Crooks 884-3585 HOSPITALITY: Membership in the California Native Plant Society is open to all. The task and mission of the Society is to increase North Coast OPEN awareness, understanding, and appreciation of California South Coast Beverly Sloane 785-3134 native plants. The challenge is to preserve their natural Roberta Rams 884-4847 habitat through scientific educational, and conservation INVASIVES OPEN activities. Membership includes subscription to the JUBATA ERADICATION Roz Bray 785-2694 quarterly Fremontia, as well as our local chapter LEGISLATION OPEN newsletter, the Calypso. MAILINGS Linda Jones 785-1743 MEMBERSHIP Bob Rutemoeller 884-4426 Name ______Address ______NEWSLETTER Julia Larke 964-2845 City ______Zip ______PLANT SALE Jon Thompson 884-4847 Tel ______e-mail ______PLANT WATCH Heidi Marshall 884-383 POSTERS Lynn Tuft 785-3392 I wish to affiliate with the DKY Chapter ______PROGRAMS OPEN; Lori Hubbart (pro tem) or, other chapter ______PUBLICITY OPEN (Please check, or name a chapter; CNPS will make RARE & ENDANGERED: assignment if none is specified by applicant.) North Teresa Sholars 962-2686 MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY Inland Clare Wheeler-Sias 895-3131 Sea Ranch Elaine Mahaffey 785-2279 Limited Income $20 Sonoma Co. Dorothy Scherer 882-2850 Individual $35 South Coast Mary Rhyne 884-3043 Family/Group $45 VEGETATION Supporting $75 North OPEN Plant Lover $100 South OPEN Patron $250 WEBMASTER Norm Jensen Benefactor $500 [email protected] Mariposa Lily $1000

All phone numbers are Area Code 707. Make Check out to the California Native Plant Society, mail check and application to:

Next Board Meeting will be held 10 AM Weds. April Bob Rutemoeller, Membership Committee 20, at the Pt. Arena Record Building, or, if it is DKY Chapter, CNPS available, in the new Community Room at Coast PO Box 577 Community Library. All members are welcome. For Gualala CA 95445 information, please contact Jon Thompson 884-4847.

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