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Vol. 29, No. 1 January 2001 FREMONTIA A Journal of the California Native Plant Society in this issue: Finding Home by David Fross / 3 • Thoughts on Gardening with Native Plants by Carol Bornstein / 9 • Connections—School Gardens and Native Plants by Carol J. Baird / 12 • The Intersection of Conservation and Gardening: An Overview of the Consequences of Growing California Native Plants by Bart C. O’Brien / 16 • Growing Listed Plants under Federal Law by Jim A. Bartel / 24 • Native Plant Horticulture Resources: A Starting Point for Native Plant Gardening by Sue Rosenthal and friends / 26 • Index to Fremontia: Growing California Native Plants, Volumes 1–28, April 1973–January 2000 Compiled by Vivian Parker / 28 • Natives for Your Garden by Marjorie G. Schmidt / 30 • Growing Coast VOLUME 29:1, JANUARY 2001 FREMONTIA 1 Redwood and Giant Sequoia by Lori Hubbart / 32 • California Redwood: What Is the State Tree? by Allan A. Schoenherr / 34 • Notes and Comments / 36 • Books Received / 36 California Native Plant Society FREMONTIA www.cnps.org MEMBERSHIP VOL. 29, NO. 1, JANUARY 2001 Dues include subscriptions to Fremontia and the Bulletin. Copyright © 2001 California Native Life . $1,000 Supporting . $75 Plant Society Benefactor . $500 Family, Group, International . $45 Patron . $250 Individual or Library . $35 Linda Ann Vorobik, Editor Plant Lover . $100 Student/Retired/Limited Income $20 Bart C. O’Brien, Convening Editor Bob Hass, Copy Editor ADDRESSES CHAPTER PRESIDENTS Beth Hansen-Winter, Designer Memberships; Address Changes; Of- (AND DIRECTORS) ficers; General Society Inquiries; Alta Peak (Tulare) . Janet Fanning CALIFORNIA NATIVE Fremontia Advertising: CNPS, 1722 J Bristlecone (Inyo-Mono) . Vacant PLANT SOCIETY Street, Suite 17, Sacramento, CA Channel Islands . Lynne Kada 95814. Tel: (916) 447-CNPS (2677); Dorothy King Young (Gualala) . Lori Fax: (916) 447-2727 Hubbart Dedicated to the Preservation of Executive Director: Allen Barnes, East Bay . Barbara Ertter the California Native Flora [email protected] El Dorado . Amy Hoffman Fremontia (Editor): Dr. L.A. Vorobik, Kern County . Laura Stockton The California Native Plant Society c/o UC & Jepson Herbaria, 1001 Val- Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains (CNPS) is an organization of laymen Vacant and professionals united by an interest ley Life Sciences Bldg. #2465, Berke- ley, CA 94720-2465. (360) 468-3188, Marin County . Robert Soost in the native plants of California, open Milo Baker (Sonoma County) . to all. Its principal aims are to preserve vorobik@ rockisland.com Bulletin: Steve Tyron, Editor, Bulletin Leana Sims the native flora and to add to the Mojave Desert . Tim Thomas knowledge of members and the public [email protected] or US Mail to CNPS Office (listed above) Monterey Bay . Rosemary Donlon at large by monitoring rare and en- Mount Lassen . Jim Bishop dangered plants throughout the state; Rare Plant Botanist: David Tibor, 1722 J St., Suite 17, Sacramento, CA Napa Valley . Marcie Danner by acting to save endangered areas North Coast . Kim Hayler through publicity, persuasion, and on 95814. (916) 324-3816, dtibor@cnps. org Orange County . Daniel Songster occasion, legal action; by providing Redbud (Grass Valley/Auburn) . expert testimony to government Vegetation Ecologist: Julie Evens, CNPS, 1722 J Street, Suite 17, Sacra- Karen Callahan bodies; and by supporting financially Riverside/San Bernardino counties . and otherwise the establishment of mento, CA 95814. (916) 327-0714, [email protected] Katie Barrows native plant preserves. Much of this Sacramento Valley . Jennifer Hogan work is done through CNPS Chapters Earth Share Liaison: Halli Mason, 4728 Rosita Place, Tarzana, CA 91356. San Diego . Sara Steinhoffer throughout the state. The Society’s San Gabriel Mountains . Lyn McAfee educational work includes: publication (818) 345-6749 Legal Advisor: Sandy McCoy. (510) San Luis Obispo . John Nowak of a quarterly journal, Fremontia, and a Sanhedrin (Ukiah) . Charles Williams quarterly Bulletin which gives news 644-2900 x107; email: wbmccoy@ earthlink.net Santa Clara Valley . Mary Simpson and announcements of Society events Santa Cruz County . Kim Hayes and conservation issues. Chapters hold EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Sequoia (Fresno) . Jeanne Larson meetings, field trips, and plant and President . Sue Britting Shasta . Craig Martz poster sales. Non-members are Sierra Foothills (Tuolumne, Cala- welcome to attend. VP, Administration . Jim Bishop VP, Finance . Steve Hartman veras, Mariposa) . Patrick Stone The work of the Society is done South Coast (Palos Verdes) . Ellen mostly by volunteers. Money is VP, Conservation . David Chipping VP, Rare Plants . Ann Dennis Brubaker provided by the dues of members and Tahoe . Michael Hogan by funds raised by chapter plant and VP, Vegetation . Deborah Hillyard VP, Education . Carol Baird / Willis L. Jepson (Solano) . Mary poster sales. Additional donations, Shaw bequests, and memorial gifts from Lorrae Fuentes VP, Publications . Greg Jirak / Yerba Buena (San Francisco) . Randy friends of the Society can assist greatly Zebell in carrying forward the work of the Susan D’Alcamo-Potter Society. Dues and donations are tax- VP, Legislation. David Magney MATERIALS FOR deductible. VP, Development . Sandy McCoy PUBLICATION VP, Chapter Relations . Patt McDaniel Fremontia logo (by L. Vorobik) reprinted Members and others are invited to Recording Secretary . Joan Stewart submit material for publication in from The Jepson Manual, J. Hickman, Past President . Jake Sigg Ed., 1993, with permission from the Jepson Fremontia. Instructions for contribu- Herbarium, UC. © Regents of the Univer- DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE tors can be found on the CNPS web page, www.cnps.org, or request this sity of California. Charlice Danielsen, John Game, information by contacting Fremontia Diana Hickson, Janell Hillman, Mary Editor, Linda Ann Vorobik, vorobik@ Simpson, Dirk Walters. THE COVER: Native plant garden rockisland. com, or c/o UC and Jepson with leafy reed grass (Calamagrostis CHAPTER PRESIDENTS are also Herbaria, 1001 Valley Life Sciences foliosa). Photograph by D. Fross. members of the Board. Bldg. #2465, Berkeley, CA 94720-2465 2 FREMONTIA VOLUME 29:1, JANUARY 2001 Upper Salinas Valley. Photograph by D. Fross. Finding Home by David Fross eturning home last spring I ing a long, steep slope up to the longing drew them up that hill? Rtook back roads to the Cen- larger drifts of flowers. Groups com- What is it we seek from these wild tral Coast looking for wild- ing down the hill offered encour- places? flowers. Near Gorman, just beyond agement to those just beginning. I We might take this thought fur- the intersection of Interstate Five watched this procession for a while, ther and ask ourselves another fun- and Highway 138, I stopped to ad- catching pieces of conversation and damental question. Why do we con- mire the broad fields of California laughter on the wind. In their slow, tinue to encourage and promote the poppies covering the hills. Car af- deliberate movements up the slope, use of native plants in our gardens ter car stopped to view the poppies they appeared as pilgrims crossing and landscapes? The question is es- on that windy afternoon. After brief a great floral tapestry, their labor pecially relevant in light of the conversations, the people who were taking them ever closer to some wealth of non-natives available, gathered near the cars began climb- distant shrine. I wonder still, what their clear suitability in our climates VOLUME 29:1, JANUARY 2001 FREMONTIA 3 and soils, and the ubiquitous ex- names: Theodore Payne, Lester remain at the edge of our commu- amples of their successful use in the Rowntree, Howard McMinn, Louis nities and most Californians must California landscape. Certainly Edmonds, Ken Taylor, James Roof, travel for miles to see spring wild- there are compelling ecological, aes- Gerda Isenberg, Austin Griffiths, flowers. thetic, and functional reasons for Dara Emery. Of course there are Why do generic landscapes, the use of California natives, but others—parents who encouraged with no reference to place, domi- something more is at work here. gardening, botanists who coaxed us nate our communities? In much of There is a dimension to this topic over the next hill, or the enthusiastic California we are forced to look to that remains largely unspoken and neighbor with the muddy clump of the distant hills to experience this yet can be found in the ordinary bulbs she insists you must have. I innate sense of belonging. desire to be among the poppies on a suspect we are all linked in this and I believe the answer to these hillside near Gorman. like Antaeus1, we are lost without a questions is clear: we have yet to There are groups and institu- fundamental connection to the earth. make California, or the rest of the tions dedicated to the work of pro- With such a rich history and West, home. We came to this di- moting the use of native species, as evolved wisdom to draw on, why verse and fragile landscape from well as individuals who have been at does so much of the cultivated Cali- earlier frontiers where conditions this work most of their lives. Collec- fornia landscape look like some were not unlike those of northern tively this work has encompassed other place, or like no place at all? Europe. We found this place dif- every habitat and soil imaginable in Why haven’t the medians of our ferent from our experience and were a state famous for its diversity. This highways been filled with native quick to misinterpret and misuse lineage of knowledge is even more grasses? In our Mediterranean cli- the landscape because we entered it comprehensive when the influence mate, with its long summer drought, carrying habits that are inappropri- of teachers and mentors is consid- why does turf cover hundreds of ate and expectations that have ered. Their wisdom and influence is square miles? Why haven’t we fea- proven excessive. We set about re- memorialized in some of our culti- tured the majesty of our native oaks interpreting the landscape in an ef- var names.
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    Classification of the Vegetation Alliances and Associations of the Northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, California Volume 2 of 2 – Vegetation Descriptions By Anne Klein Josie Crawford Julie Evens Vegetation Program California Native Plant Society Todd Keeler-Wolf Diana Hickson Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program Biogeographic Data Branch California Department of Fish and Game For the Resources Management and Policy Division California Department of Fish and Game Contract Number: P0485520 December 2007 This report consists of two volumes. Volume 1 contains the project introduction, methods, and results, as well as literature cited, and appendices. This volume (Volume 2) includes descriptions of the vegetation alliances and associations defined for this project. This classification report covers vegetation associations and alliances attributed to the northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, California. This classification has been developed in consultation with many individuals and agencies and incorporates information from a variety of publications and other classifications. Comments and suggestions regarding the contents of this subset should be directed to: Anne Klein Julie Evens Vegetation Ecologist Senior Vegetation Ecologist California Dept. of Fish and Game California Native Plant Society Sacramento, CA Sacramento, CA <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Todd Keeler-Wolf Senior Vegetation Ecologist California Dept. of Fish and Game Sacramento, CA <[email protected]> Copyright © 2007 California Native Plant Society, 2707 K Street, Suite 1 Sacramento, CA 95816, U.S.A. All Rights Reserved. Citation: The following citation should be used in any published materials that reference this report: Klein, A., J. Crawford, J. Evens, T. Keeler-Wolf, and D. Hickson. 2007. Classification of the vegetation alliances and associations of the northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, California.