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CALYPSO PO Box 577, Gualala CA 95445 $5.00 Per Year, Non-Members Volume 2005, Mar-Apr 05 Printed Onne Recycled Paper NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID GUALALA CA PERMIT THE CALYPSO PO Box 577, Gualala CA 95445 $5.00 per year, non-members Volume 2005, Mar-Apr 05 Printed onNE Recycled Paper NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY CALENDAR Primary workshop instructors are Julie Evens, CNPS Field Trip to Glass Beach 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 dune habitats. 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 restoration topics for coastal ecosystems. available at www.cnps.org then click on “Vegetation”. 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, Russian Gulch State Park then carpool/caravan north to the Ten Mile Dunes, 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 & Habitat 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.
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