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A Journal of the California Native Plant Society Special Issue $10.00 Vol. 29, Nos. 3-4 July/October 2001 FREMONTIA A Journal of the California Native Plant Society in this issue: Preface by Susan Britting / 3 • Introduction by David P. Tibor / 4 • Management of Rare Plants under State and Federal Endangered Species Law: A CNPS Perspective by Emily Brin Roberson / 5 • Understanding the Political Realities of Regional Conservation Planning by Allison Rolfe / 13 • The Future of Regional Conservation Planning by Carol W. Witham / 19 • How to Comment on a CEQA Document by Taylor Peterson / 27 • Impact of Timber Harvesting on Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Native Plants by Gregory A. Jirak / 38 • Monitoring Rare Plants by Roy A. Woodward / 51 • VOLUMEThe California 29:3-4, JULY/OCTOBER Natural Diversity 2001 Database by Roxanne Bittman / 57 • Field SurveyFREMONTIA Form / 63 1 • Botanical Survey Guidelines / 64 • Statement Opposing Transplantation as Mitigation for Impacts to Rare Plants / 66 • Resources for Rare Plant Conservation by David P. Tibor / 67 • Glossary / 69 California Native Plant Society FREMONTIA www.cnps.org MEMBERSHIP VOL. 29, NOS. 3-4, JULY/OCTOBER 2001, Dues include subscriptions to Fremontia and the Bulletin. distributed Sept. 2002 Life . $1,000 Supporting . $75 Copyright © 2002 Benefactor . $500 Family, Group, International . $45 California Native Plant Society Patron . $250 Individual or Library . $35 Linda Ann Vorobik, Editor Plant Lover . $100 Student/Retired/Limited Income $20 David P. Tibor, Convening Editor ADDRESSES CHAPTER COUNCIL Bob Hass, Copy Editor Memberships; Address Changes; Of- Alta Peak (Tulare) . Joan Stewart Beth Hansen-Winter, Designer ficers; General Society Inquiries; Bristlecone (Inyo-Mono) . CALIFORNIA NATIVE Fremontia Advertising: CNPS, 1722 J Stephen Ingram PLANT SOCIETY Street, Suite 17, Sacramento, CA Channel Islands . Lynne Kada 95814. Tel: (916) 447-CNPS (2677); Dorothy King Young (Gualala) . Fax: (916) 447-2727 Dedicated to the Preservation of Lori Hubbart Executive Director: Pamela C. Muick, the California Native Flora East Bay . Tony Morosco PhD, [email protected] El Dorado . Amy Hoffman The California Native Plant Society Fremontia: L.A. Vorobik, PhD, Edi- Kern County . Laura Stockton (CNPS) is an organization of laymen tor, c/o University and Jepson Her- and professionals united by an interest baria, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains in the native plants of California, open #2465, UC, Berkeley, CA 94720-2465. Halli Mason to all. Its principal aims are to pre- (510) 642-2465, [email protected] Marin County . Bob Soost serve the native flora and to add to the Bulletin: Steve Tyron, Editor, Bulletin Milo Baker (Sonoma County) . knowledge of members and the public [email protected] or US Mail to Lynn Houser at large by monitoring rare and en- CNPS Office (listed above) Mojave Desert . Tim Thomas dangered plants throughout the state; Rare Plant Botanist: David Tibor, Monterey Bay . Rosemary Donlon by acting to save endangered areas 1722 J St., Suite 17, Sacramento, CA Mount Lassen . Jim Bishop through publicity, persuasion, and on 95814. (916) 324-3816, dtibor@cnps. Napa Valley . Marcie Danner occasion, legal action; by providing org North Coast . Larry Levine expert testimony to government Vegetation Ecologist: Julie Evens, Orange County . Daniel Songster bodies; and by supporting financially CNPS, 1722 J Street, Suite 17, Sacra- Redbud (Grass Valley/Auburn) . and otherwise the establishment of mento, CA 95814. (916) 327-0714, Richard Hanes native plant preserves. Much of this [email protected] Riverside/San Bernardino counties . work is done by volunteers through Earth Share Liaison: Halli Mason, CNPS Chapters throughout the state. 4728 Rosita Place, Tarzana, CA 91356. Katie Barrows The Society’s educational work in- (818) 345-6749 Sacramento Valley . Jennifer Hogan cludes: publication of a quarterly jour- Legal Advisor: Sandy McCoy. (510) San Diego . Sara Steinhoffer nal, Fremontia, and a quarterly Bulletin 644-2900 x107; wbmccoy@earthlink. net San Gabriel Mountains . Lyn McAfee which gives news and announcements San Luis Obispo . Dirk Walters of Society events and conservation BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sanhedrin (Ukiah) . Chuck Williams issues. Chapters hold meetings, field Officers: Santa Clara Valley . Mary Simpson trips, and plant and poster sales. Non- President . Sue Britting Santa Cruz County . Janell Hillman members are welcome to attend. Vice President . Sandy McCoy Sequoia (Fresno) . Jeanne Larson Money is provided through member Secretary . Lori Hubbart Shasta . Dave DuBose dues and funds raised by chapter plant Treasurer . Steve Hartman Sierra Foothills (Tuolumne, Cala- and poster sales. Additional donations, Chapter Council Chair . veras, Mariposa) . Patrick Stone bequests, and memorial gifts from Lynne Kada South Coast (Palos Verdes) . friends of the Society can assist greatly Chapter Council Vice-Chair . in carrying forward the work of the Lori Hubbart Ellen Brubaker Society. Dues and donations are tax- Directors: Tahoe . Michael Hogan deductible. Carol Baird, Charli Danielsen, Greg Willis L. Jepson (Solano) . Fremontia logo (by L.A. Vorobik) reprinted Jirak, Lynne Kada, Betsey Landis, Mary Shaw from The Jepson Manual, J. Hickman, David L. Magney, Patt McDaniel, Yerba Buena (San Francisco) . Ed., 1993, with permission from the Jepson Carol Witham Randy Zebell Herbarium, UC. © Regents of the Univer- MATERIALS FOR PUBLICATION sity of California. Members and others are invited to submit material for publication in Fremontia. Instructions for contributors can be found on the CNPS website, www.cnps.org, THE COVER: Santa Cruz tarplant or can be requested from Fremontia Editor, Linda Ann Vorobik, vorobik@rock (Holocarpha macradenia) is state-listed island.com, or c/o University and Jepson Herbaria, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. as Endangered and federally-listed as #2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2465. Threatened. Photograph by J. Game. Prepress by ScanArt / Printed by Craftsman Trade Press 2 FREMONTIA VOLUME 29:3-4, JULY/OCTOBER 2001 Preface by Susan Britting alifornia—a hotspot of into due to its beauty was being presents such information and Cbiodiversity, a rich and di- degraded and lost. more, creating a “toolkit” for con- verse landscape ranging It was through the Society’s serving rare plants. The following from coastal shores to desert washes various programs that I learned articles characterize the challenges to alpine meadows, a plant lover’s what could be done to protect the before us today, and I invite you to paradise. California—the most native plants and habitat around join me in using this issue to sup- populous state in the nation, a land me. Knitting together information port native plant conservation in of opportunity, a place where many provided by the Society on species California. people wish to live. Where these conservation, public policy, and two aspects of California intersect laws, I was able to present a rea- Susan Britting, CNPS, 1722 J Street, Suite lies the threat to the natural fea- soned view in support of plant con- 17, Sacramento, CA 95814. britting@ tures that define this glorious state. servation. This issue of Fremontia innercite.com So then, how do we support human communities while protecting na- Lemon lily (Lilium parryi). Illustration by L.A. Vorobik. tive plants and their habitats? Providing information to inves- tigate this question has been at the heart of the Society’s programs for over 30 years. In 1974, the first edi- tion of the Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California as- sembled all we knew at the time about the distribution, abundance, and threats to rare plant species in the state. Subsequent editions of the Inventory and publication of A Manual of California Vegetation have added to our knowledge about the status of California’s flora. In turn, the Society’s Conservation Program was developed to use this and other information to seek increased pro- tection for native plants based on principles of conservation biology. Ten years ago, when I set my sights on living in the Sierra Ne- vada foothills, I knew little about plant conservation in California. Until that time, I was myopically focused on questions of plant physi- ology and biochemistry. Yet not long after moving to my new habi- tat in the foothills, I realized that this was a troubled place. A new dam threatened miles of unique canyonlands and chaparral. Hous- ing projects proposed to pave over many acres of rare plant habitat. The very landscape that I moved VOLUME 29:3-4, JULY/OCTOBER 2001 FREMONTIA 3 Introduction by David P. Tibor alifornia’s native plants, and endangered flora when properly a key component in the assembly of Cthose who work to conserve implemented. Emily Roberson pro- this knowledge base. Roy Wood- them, are facing unprec- vides an overview of the state and ward discusses the monitoring pro- edented challenges. CNPS recently federal Endangered Species Acts, cess, including the designing of released the sixth edition of its com- as well as the lesser known Native monitoring projects and marking pendium of information on rare Plant Protection Act. of plant populations. Data accumu- plants, the Inventory of Rare and En- Regional conservation planning lated from monitoring need to be dangered Plants of California. This via Natural Communities Conser- made widely available to support edition documents 2,045 imperiled vation Plans and Habitat Conserva- conservation planning decisions. vascular plants in California, which tion Plans is spreading rapidly across The Department of Fish and constitute nearly a third of an esti- the developing areas of our state. Game’s Natural Diversity Database mated total of 6,300 natives. Of Allison Rolfe provides a cautionary provides this service for data on rare these imperiled taxa, over 1,000 are discussion of the political realities plants, animals, and natural com- placed in our highest endangerment of this type of broad scale planning, munities, and Roxanne Bittman ex- ranking (CNPS List 1B). Clearly, including informative details on plains this valuable program. an alarming percentage of Califor- the San Diego Multiple Species Lastly, CNPS has developed a nia’s flora is at risk.
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