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CHAPTER MEETING Nativescapes – Greg Rubin November 2013 6:00-7:00 p.m. Natives for Novices. Lawns in CHAPTER MEETING Nativescapes – Greg Rubin. 7:00 p.m. – refreshments, book browsing, and Tuesday, November 19; 7 p.m. socializing. Room 104, Casa del Prado 7:30 p.m. – presentation. Balboa Park Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D., has been the Mary and Dallas The Plants of Baja California: Clark Endowed Chair/ Diverse, Beautiful, & Fascinating Curator of Botany at the San Diego Natural History by Museum (SDNHM) since Jon Rebman 1996. Dr. Rebman is a plant taxonomist and conducts The Baja California peninsula is a narrow strip of land extensive floristic research stretching for approximately 1,300 km in length and in Baja California and in San ranging from 45 km to 240 km in width. Its geographic Diego and Imperial position, latitudinal span, and topographic heterogeneity counties. have conferred a diverse assemblage of weather regimes He leads various field classes and botanical expeditions including a Mediterranean-type, winter rainfall climate; each year and is actively naming and describing new extreme arid, hot desert conditions; and tropical, plant species from our region. His primary research summer rainfall patterns. In addition, the region's interests have centered on the systematics of the Cactus biogeographic history and physiognomy have resulted in family in Baja California, especially the genera a wide range of vegetation types including coastal sage Cylindropuntia (chollas) and Opuntia (prickly-pears). scrub, chaparral, oak woodland, conifer forest, many However, Dr. Rebman also does a lot of general floristic desert scrub types, and tropical deciduous forest. The research and he co-published the most recent edition of peninsula is also characterized by the presence of several the Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Diego County. islands varying in distance (<1 km to 240 km) from its He has over 23 years of field experience with surveying coast, which are located in the Gulf of California (Sea of and documenting plants including rare and endangered Cortés) and the Pacific Ocean. This piece of land and its species. As a field botanist, he is a very active collector of adjacent islands support a wealth of species diversity in scientific specimens with his personal collections many different plant families. It is estimated that the numbering over 27,000. He is the director of the San flora consists of more than 4,000 plant taxa with Diego County Plant Atlas project and identifies/verifies approximately 30% of these known only from (endemic all of the new specimens (currently over 62,000) coming to) the Baja California region. Many of the plants from into the herbarium through this scientific endeavor. As the peninsula and its islands are distinctive and stretch the curator of the SD Herbarium at the SDNHM, he is in the imagination in respect to plant form and structure, charge of this dried plant specimen collection that including the bizarre boojum tree/cirio (Fouquieria contains over 228,000 specimens dating back to the columnaris), the giant elephant cactus/cardón 1870s. Dr. Rebman recently finished a new edition of the (Pachycereus pringlei), and elephant trees (Pachycormus Baja California Plant Field Guide with co-author Norman discolor and Bursera spp.). Roberts that was published in June 2012. He is in the chapter money. It is also easier to save them into an process of finishing another book entitled Ferns and accessible computer file than to have them pile up in Lycophytes of San Diego County that is co-authored with stacks. All we ask is that you consider receiving a digital Annette Winner. copy instead of a paper copy. Thanks very much. PREZ SEZ ~ Tom Oberbauer, Chapter President We are reminded with practically everything we do today that we live in a digital age. At my place of work, I use the internet continually for research and looking for BOARD MEETING photographs of plants to help with their identification. Many people have great web sites as resources for plants Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. 4010 Morena in San Diego County and Southern California in general Blvd, Suite 100, San Diego (Thomas Guide 1248 C4). Board including Tom Chester and Wayne Armstrong. The San meetings are always the first Wednesday of the month. Diego Natural History Museum plant atlas site, the Future 2013 Board Meeting dates are Nov. 6 and Dec. 4. Jepson Manual site with links to a variety of plant Members are welcome to attend as observers. If you wish collections, and the Calphoto and Calflora sites are to discuss an issue, please email [email protected] to additional resources of great value to name just a few. get your issue on the agenda. Many of us have come to rely more on digital information on our computers, i-pads and cell phones than on paper documents. The convenience of being able to search for data on a web site or database is much FIELD TRIPS AND greater now than sorting through a pile of papers. As much as I myself like paper, as many people know, it is often easier to search on the internet for a scanned copy PUBLIC WORKSHOP of a document than to try to find it in a stack of reports and references even when I know that I have a copy. The reforestation project in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is described in a video produced by the Disney In light of the digital age, it is also less costly to create Worldwide Conservation Fund, which has provided files and place them on a web site or disperse them substantial financial support to sequester carbon. The through an E mail list than to print paper copies. The video is posted on the website of Climate Action cost of paper is increasing, even with recycling to reduce Reserve, the organization that brokered the funding for reliance on harvested wood products. Postage for those this work with the various parties for California State paper products is also another cost. For conservation Parks to implement: groups that are reliant upon donations and dues, that cost is not insignificant. Our chapter newsletter has http://www.climateactionreserve.org/?video=true been available through digital dispersal for some time. Interested? Want to see it in person? Here's an Yes, the newsletters are part of the core purposes of opportunity: conservation groups like the San Diego Chapter of CNPS, but the cost of producing paper documents and mailing Saturday, November 2, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. CNPS-SD them is one of the greatest costs that we have. One field trip to look at and discuss some reforestation plots other thing to think about is the clarity of the in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park (CRSP). Our CRSP photographic images that are included in the newsletter. subcommittee of CNPS-SD’s Conservation Committee They are much more clearly observed in digital copies intends to contribute input to the CRSP's reforestation than in paper copies. project. Meet 8:00 in the parking lot north of Denny's on Friar's Road just east of SR 163; a second meeting Some conservation groups have switched over entirely to location is at 8:30 at the Park & Ride on the SOUTH side digital newsletters. The San Diego Chapter of CNPS is of I-8 at the Severin/Fuerte Exit (between Grossmont not proposing to do that. However, we would strongly Center Exit and Chase Exit). The final meeting place is at encourage those who can receive a digital copy to select 9:30 a.m. in CRSP along parking shoulder at the Milk that option by sending a message to [email protected] Ranch Road junction with SR 78, 1/2 mile south of Lake and asking to be placed on the digital newsletter list. Cuyamaca and 1 mile north of Paso Picacho That not only provides a better copy for reading and Campground. North County members who want to ride- allows one to receive it quickly but it also saves our share, let me know and I'll put you in contact with each 2 other. We will cover a total of six miles by the end of the (and I) decided it was time to create a native garden of day, gaining around 800' of elevation gradually and beauty at our recently purchased home in North Park. returning to the lower elevation on our return. Bring We found out that many of our neighbors were plenty of water, lunch, and snacks, and wear good hiking volunteers in CNPS and Switzer Canyon activities - and I, boots with ankle support, and wear appropriate clothing too, wanted to participate. For the Chapter's annual based on the weather. Rain at 7:00 a.m. will cancel the Native Plant Sale in 2008 and 2009, I volunteered to be a field trip. cashier, and in early 2010, there was an unexpected vacancy on the Board - a need to fill the Treasurer Tuesday, November 12, 6-8 p.m. The final Cuyamaca position and I accepted this appointment. For nearly four Rancho State Park Master Plan public workshop will be years, I have helped the Board establish an annual held in San Diego at the Marriott Hotel, 8757 Rio San budget, have maintained financial records for the Diego Drive, at the corner of Qualcomm Drive, in the Chapter, and report financial activity to the Board Cabrillo Room. Frank Landis, our chapter Conservation monthly and to the State annually. I have agreed to Chair, is working on a statement from CNPS consider an additional two-year term, and would about why the reforestation project must be included in appreciate your support! the CRSP Master Plan.
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