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NEWSLETTER OF THE DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
CALENDAR
A Taste Of Spring wildflower slideshow
Sunday, January 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Gualala Arts Center -
cosponsored by RCLC and the California Native
Plant Society.
Join your friends and neighbors for an outstanding
wildflower slideshow, some fabulous desserts, and the
chance to bid on some very special silent auction items
at the Gualala Arts Center.
The evening will feature a slide presentation by Mary
Sue Ittner of California wildflowers photographed in the
spring of 2005, a year with above average rainfall. Mary
Sue, her husband Bob and two friends spent a week on
a road trip searching for spectacular flower displays --
and they were not disappointed.
Delicious homemade desserts will be served and you
will be able to bid on a number of unusual auction
items, offered by local experts and enthusiasts to
highlight the beauty and wonders of our natural
surroundings. Four of the nine items are: a gourmet
dinner for four served on the Gualala Bluff trail, a spring
bird walk for six followed by a home cooked Italian
lunch, whale watching above Hearn Gulch, and a
custom guided spring wildflower walk at Salt Point with
lunch in a special spot and a pot of flowers to take
home.
Native plants and sit-upons will also be available for
purchase. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children.
For more information, contact Mary Sue Ittner at
msittner@mcn.org.
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Annual Environmental Potluck
Monday, March 20
6:00 p.m. dinner, 7:00 p.m. program
Recreation Hall, Russian Gulch State Park
This year’s event, sponsored by the Mendocino Area
Parks Association, features Mike Wells, our own
Mendocino State Parks District Superintendent. Mike
has a doctorate in ecology (!), and will discuss his work
in the Tijuana Estuary, where the natural wonders are
many and the challenges immense.
The evening also includes presentation of community
environmental awards and a wine bar. CNPS is a co-
sponsor (along with the Audubon Society and the
Mendocino Land Trust) and we are expected to help
out, so please contact Lori at 882-1655 to volunteer.
To get to the Rec. Hall, go two miles north of the town
of Mendocino, turn west at the Russian Gulch State
Park entrance sign, turn left onto Point Cabrillo Drive,
and follow the signs to the Rec. Hall. Please bring
dishes, silverware, beverage and an appetizer, main
dish, salad or dessert to share. If you can’t make the
dinner, please join us at 7:00 p.m. for the program.
There is a small cover charge at the door to help pay for
rent and expenses.
Coming months:
April 29-30 - Anderson Valley Wildflower Show.
May 12 - We are planning a book signing and garden
lecture with Bart O’Brien, co-author of California Native
Plants for the Garden, in Fort Bragg.
PRESIDENTS CORNER
by Lori Hubbart
Well, it’s been a great two years for DKY with Jon
Thompson as chapter president – especially for me,
since that was a period when I got to do other things!
Jon really stepped up to the plate when he took on that
job. When decisions needed to be made, he was
always willing to make them, and to assume the
ultimate responsibility.
At the same time, Jon made a point of being democratic
and getting our board members involved in issues.
He’s also a gracious, generous guy who is a delight to
work with. Thank you, Jon, for a job well done. You
have set the bar very high, indeed.
Ah, yes – those golden days are behind us now, and
Jon’s two-year term is up. He and his partner, Roberta,
have full-time careers to attend to. Since no one else
was willing or able to serve as chapter president, I am
now president again.
I will still work on conservation issues, and Jon will still
be our plant sale chairperson, so in some ways things
will go on as always.
ANNUAL MEETING REPORT
by Julia Larke
Guest speaker, Ken Montgomery, gave an excellent talk
at the DKY Annual Potluck Meeting on December 10,
2005. Proprietor of Anderson Valley Nursery for 27
years and Director of the Mendocino Coast Botanical
Gardens in the mid 1990’s, Ken told us that the last time
he spoke at a DKY meeting had been 13 years ago,
when his hair was bright red! His hair may be greyer,
but he continues to inspire us with his dedication and
enthusiasm for native plant restoration.
Ken’s talk focused on his involvement with the Navarro
River Watershed Restoration Plan of 1998 that led to
his current directorship of the Mendocino Natives
Nursery Program. Ken was part of a citizens advisory
committee for the plan consisting of environmentalists
and landowners. He was asked to create a native plant
project in the Navarro River watershed and he wanted
to involve the community.
By year 2000, Mendocino Natives Nursery was up and
running, with 2 or 3 paid student interns each working 3
to 4 hours a week. He admitted that convincing high
school students to meticulously collect wild seeds in
favor of sex, drugs, and rock & roll is not always an
easy task!
The students collect seeds and cuttings for propagation
from a restoration site or nearby the site. Because
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collection is from wild material, not every year is optimal
for viable seeds. Ken said native Indians would climb
trees to collect acorns if the fallen ones were of poor
quality. He has students float acorns to find those that
are not viable. He recommends collecting fresh seed
each new season and he gets better germination when
seed is under-ripe rather than over-ripe.
At the nursery, they sow seed within a week of
collecting, sometimes on the same day. They use an
accession number on plant tags as a way of tracking
what part of the watershed the seed came from. In this
way, they can organize an order for plants because they
know the source of the plant and where to return it.
The most limiting aspect of plant restoration is the need
to get a request for plants a year ahead. The problem is
that most agencies and landowners do not know what
plants they want that far in advance. To do the job right,
you need to collect the year before and plant in the fall.
Because of this lack of lead-time, Ken has started
speculative growing at the nursery. This is more
expensive, and they have to throw away plants if they
are not used.
The student training program has evolved into a
demonstration site at Robinson Creek near AV High
School. The project received an Urban Stream Grant in
2003. Ken showed photos of the site and of the
propagation methods used there. In restoration planting,
they try to mimic natural conditions as much as
possible; no fertilizer is used when watering and the soil
is not improved.
He noted that Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, a native
of the Mediterranean, is a bad invasive at the site. To
counteract weeds they use weed mats with a slit, they
mulch using native materials, and they hand weed. The
result is an approximate 75% survival rate. Local
landowners along Robinson Creek and Anderson Creek
are supporting the effort.
Local area landowners have been encouraged to join
the watershed restoration program in stewardship of
their land. Commenting on loss of stream habitat, Ken
said old time landowners would take a D9 Cat and strip
streams of debris! People would dump old cars and
trucks in streambeds. The watershed restoration plan
suggests leaving large woody debris in place to create
pools for fish to breed.
Landowners that wish to repair damage to their land,
such as poorly designed culverts, pesticide
contamination, or cut and fill systems that dump
sediment into streams have adopted parts of the plan.
An aspect of the plan that some landowners have
trouble accepting is excluding livestock on a rotating
basis from creek beds using simple lightweight plastic
fencing. Livestock exclusion can result in an incredible
flush of regrowth of native plants and animals.
The Mendocino Natives Nursery Program is supported
by the Mendocino County Resource Conservation
District (RCD) with funding provided by the State
Coastal Conservancy and the Anderson Valley
Educational Foundation. The Navarro River Center is
open three days a week manned by RCD staff who
answer questions for landowners and other visitors. Our
DKY chapter has flyers on display there.
Live plants from Mendocino Natives Nursery were on
display, including interior live oak, tan oak, bigleaf
maple, box elder and bay laurel. Ken showed us the
narrow seedling containers with open bases that he
uses for trees and shrubs. These containers allow the
taproot to be air-pruned as it reaches the bottom and
this promotes lateral root growth. In restoration work,
you want a sturdy plant with a compact top (vs.
commercial nursery plants which often have a pumped
up leaf system and undersized root system).
The restoration nursery uses polymer coated time-
release fertilizer pills with a 9-month release period
such as Osmacoat, Apex, or Nutricote. This type of
fertilizer is a closer imitation of nature because as
temperatures rise more fertilizer is released.
Ken displayed an attractive snowberry, Symphoricarpos
albus, which prompted Jon Thompson to tell us that
during a recent trip to Germany with Roberta Rams,
they saw numerous plantings of Symphoricarpos sp.
used throughout the city of Berlin. Ken also presented
one of his favorite shrubs, the often overlooked, coyote
bush, Baccharis pilularis. He mentioned a Marin
County group, the Friends of the Coyote Bush, started
by Judith Larner Lowry, author of Gardening With a
Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at
Home.
Ken showed a blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium sp. that
had been propagated by division. He said blue-eyed
grass and California poppy were important in his
restoration work because they tend to grow in clumps
and colonies and can stand against invasive grasses.
Peter Warner also noted that blue-eyed grass helps
stabilize slopes.
A few final tips from Ken: willows are difficult to tell apart
because they intergrade, except for two that are easy to
identify, Scouler willow and Longleaf willow. Teresa
Sholers agreed. For Scouler Willow, Ken suggested
taking cuttings when the plant is dormant, in the winter
through the end of January. He said you can make
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summer cuttings by removing the top half of the cutting
and using the lower part.
Clare Wheeler-Sias proposed that the chapter plan a
fieldtrip to Ken’s Mendocino Natives Nursery and the
Robinson Creek restoration site. Great idea!
Thank you, Ken, for your informative talk.
For more information you may contact Ken at:
Mendocino Natives Nursery
P.O. Box 784, Boonville, CA 95415
(707) 895-3853
CONSERVATION NOTES
by Lori Hubbart
Pygmy Forest: A local development company owns
about 500 acres on Albion Ridge that includes
timberlands and pygmy forest. To review a local
conservation issue, the term “pygmy forest” used here
refers to a unique, local plant community dominated by
both Mendocino pygmy cypress and Bolander pine. It
could more properly be called the “Mendocino
cypress/Bolander pine Alliance,” and includes a suite of
plants adapted to saturated soils, nutrient deprivation,
and high acidity.
The County of Mendocino would like to treat
occurrences of pygmy forest as isolated wetlands or not
as wetlands at all. This is very convenient, since most
of this plant community is found outside of the Coastal
Zone, where it is not subject to land-use restrictions or
regulatory scrutiny.
So, here we have a plant community and underlying
geology and soil structure that are unique and rare in a
worldwide context. Pygmy forest is valued by scientists
for its potential to contribute to humanity’s
understanding of plant-soil-hydrology dynamics.
However, it has long been held in low regard by many
local residents, who use it as a place to dump their
trash and dead vehicles.
Back to Albion Ridge: The DKY Chapter commented
on a plan to subdivide this land for home sites, since the
plan did not adequately protect the pygmy forest.
CNPS believes this pygmy forest complex is a wetland,
and should be designated as such under federal law.
We also noted the untrustworthiness of the
development company, based on its implementation of
a Timber Harvest Plan elsewhere on its land. The THP
looked OK on paper, but the proponents failed to follow
their own plan and bulldozed rare native plants, created
soil erosion zones, spread slash containing seeds of
noxious macro-weeds and field hay containing seeds of
weedy-perennial grasses like sweet vernal grass and The CNPS Botanical Survey Guidelines can be found
velvet grass. on the state website at:
http://www.cnps.org/programs/Rare_Plant/inventory/gui
The subdivision plan came before the County Planning
delines.htm.
Commission, with almost an entire day’s worth of
testimony from various factions. The Commission An excellent article illustrating the reasons for the
denied the project, not so much on the basis of Guidelines is posted on the Channel Islands Chapter
environmentalists’ testimony, but because the project website at:
proponents refused to accept any limitations on the http://www.cnpsci.org/Misc/AuditinigCEQA_documents-
number of homes that could be built on its parcels. The Professional_Botanists.htm. It is titled, “Auditing
would-be developers appealed this decision and their Environmental Documents: Why Some Environmental
appeal will be heard by the County Board of Assessments Can Be As Flawed As Corporate
Supervisors on January 24. Stay tuned… Financial Statements” by Pete Holloran, Jim Bishop,
Jen Kalt, David Magney, and Barbara Sattler.
BOTANICAL SURVEYS Practices like incomplete, targeted surveys, inadequate
by Lori Hubbart documentation and off-season surveys continue to
What is the purpose of botanical surveys, and how cause problems for CNPS chapters. Many people
should they be conducted? The harm caused by believe that botanists who do not follow the CNPS
inadequate, inconsistent surveys was the driving force Guidelines should not hold positions as chapter officers
behind the creation of the CNPS Botanical Survey or chairpersons, nor hold positions in state programs.
Guidelines. CNPSers tend to be an idealistic lot, and idealism is
These Guidelines are based on core values shared by seldom convenient. We ask that everyone who
all CNPS members: The qualifications of people doing performs botanical surveys and assessments will do so
surveys must be more than academic, and must include in an ethical manner. Rather than practicing “rogue
a working knowledge of the local flora. All biological science,” follow the CNPS Botanical Survey Guidelines
surveys should be treated as valuable contributions to to produce work of which you can really be proud.
humanity’s scientific knowledge. Clear records with
transparency and accessibility of scientific data are
cornerstones of good science.
These principles underlie the CNPS Guidelines, which
specify complete floristic surveys, including seasonally
appropriate surveys, voucher specimens, site history
and plant associations, documentation of any wetlands
or rare vegetation types, and other practices consistent
with sound science. Targeted searches, for individual
taxa only, are used to augment, rather than replace
complete, floristic surveys.
When are targeted surveys for specific taxa
appropriate? An example would be when there is
suspicion that additional populations of rare plants exist
in an area, or that taxa new to an area might be found.
In other words, to add data to existing, publicly
accessible scientific records.
Asclepias californica ,California Milkweed, growing along
It is also important not to rely solely on plant occurrence
bank near Lake Isabella, Kern County. Mary Sue Ittner
databases. Tools like the Natural Diversity Database
2005
and Rare Find are useful, but do not necessarily
represent real site conditions. As compilations of Mary Sue Ittner used an Olympus Camedia digital
reported plant finds, their value is limited in an area camera D-40 Zoom in the above photo. See additional
where many private lands have never been surveyed. photographs by Mary Sue Ittner in color on the DKY
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. When website at www.dkycnps.org.
on the lookout for rare taxa, consider their habitat first.

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INVASIVE PLANTS
by Peter Warner
Weed Management Area update - The Mendocino
Coast Cooperative Weed Management Area (MCWMA)
hosted community meetings in Caspar, Mendocino, and
Gualala from late October into December. The
MCWMA is a community-based organization of private
and public land managers committed to education and
action for the conservation of native plant communities
and working landscapes in our region. At these
meetings, the MCWMA is seeking information and
opinions from local residents concerned about coastal
weeds and interested in formulating plans for
maintaining and restoring local ecosystems.
At the Caspar meeting, participants initiated projects for
the management of Scotch broom and bluegum
eucalyptus at Caspar Headlands and adjacent
properties. Those attending expressed concerns about
gorse, yet they also understand that a more concerted
and deliberate planning effort is essential. State Parks
has agreed to support the Caspar community in
addressing gorse, broom, eucalyptus and other
encroaching weeds.
In Mendocino, participants provided information on local
weed infestations and completed an exercise in
identifying threats posed by invasive plants and
ecological and economic values that are threatened.
However, despite the overwhelming dominance of
invasive plants throughout the community and on public
property, no plan of action was proposed.
Gualala participants readily identified the need for a
local person to lead renewed efforts to control the
advance of weedy plants, most notably jubata grass. In
the past, the community had curtailed its spread, but
this plant is well adapted to move into areas of
disturbance, such as developments and roadsides, and
since the 1990’s has re-invaded many areas.
Opportunities abound in all coastal communities for
willing volunteers to assume stewardship responsibility
for areas overrun with non-native, invasive plants. If
anyone is interested in initiating projects, joining existing
stewardship projects, or developing plans for action
close to where you live, please contact me, Peter
Warner (937-2278; 937-9176) for further information.
In the meantime, here are some upcoming events:
21 January: Big River Stewards workday, Big River
(contact: Matt Coleman, Mendocino Land Trust;
962-0470)
22 January: Albion Ridge Road broom removal
(contact: Shirley Freriks; 937-1677)
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18 February: Big River Stewards workday (as above)
18 March: Big River Stewards (as above)
15 April: Big River Stewards (as above)
Other events to be scheduled this winter and spring:
Earth Day at Big River; Jug Handle State Reserve;
Caspar Headlands; Albion Ridge; north Mendocino
Headlands.
Our Chapter Needs You!
Chapter Vegetation Coordinator Needed! We
could even have north and south vegetation
coordinators. What would these people do? They
would arrange and help conduct surveys of plant
communities. It’s fun, its educational, and it will help
convince the CA Department of Fish and Game that
Mendocino Pygmy Cypress Forest needs special status
and more protection than it currently gets! Call Lori at
882-1655 to sign up.
FIELD TRIPS
by Peter Warner
I’ll be assembling a spring field trip schedule for the next
issue of Calypso. I will lead a few weekend trips, as yet
unscheduled, to the following locations: Glass Beach
and MacKerricher State Park, Manchester State Park,
Van Damme State Park, and undetermined inland
locations. Please contact me if you’re interested in
leading a walk, or know of someone else who’d like to
do so. Contact me at P. O. Box 603, Little River, CA
95456; corylus@earthlink.net
GARDENING NOTES
by Lori Hubbart
After the December deluge it will be interesting to see
how the rain patterns develop, and how our native
plants respond. We may very well expect a good spring
for meadowfoam.
2005 was quite a year for gophers…at our place, you
could scarcely walk about without sinking into one of
their holes. The rain may set their populations back
somewhat, but they have still wrought havoc in the
garden. One chapter member recommended the “Black
Hole” gopher trap for those who are willing to kill the
burrowing rodents outright.
While your plants are being inundated and munched on,
and it’s too wet to garden anyway, you can retreat to
that idealized native plant garden in your mind.
Transport yourself there by curling up with a good book
like California Native Plants for the Garden by Carol
Bornstein, David Fross and Bart O’Brien. This lovely Galvezia speciosa showy island snapdragon
and useful book from Cachuma Press was published in Physocarpus capitatus nine bark
December 2005. Our chapter has ordered more of the Rhamnus californica California coffeeberry
softcover version, which we expect to sell for $28.00.
Ribes sanguineum ssp. glutinosum pink-flowering
The wisdom of California’s gardening superstars is currant
being captured in print, so we can look forward to a
Salix lasiolepis arroyo willow
wealth of books on native plant horticulture in the next
couple of years. Timber Press is updating the classic Salix scouleriana Scouler’s willow
treatise on the genus Ceanothus, with scientific Perennials
contributions from the redoubtable Dr. Dieter Wilken, Aquilegia formosa western columbine
and growing information from renowned horticulturist, Artemisia pycnocephala sand hill sage
Dave Fross. Eriophyllum staechadifolium golden yarrow
UC Press will publish a collection of essays on Erysimum menziesii concinum coast wallflower
gardening with native plants by another horticultural Eschscholzia caliph -- local yellow headlands poppy
guru, Nevin Smith. UC will also re-issue Lester
Helenium bolanderi Bolander’s sneezeweed
Rowntree’s classic, Hardy Californians, and publish
Judith Larner Lowry’s long-awaited new book on natural Heuchera micrantha cliff alum root
inspirations for landscaping. Heuchera pilosissima coast alum root
Iris douglasiana Douglas’ iris
Botanist and teacher, Glenn Keator, has teamed up with
landscape designer, Alrie Middlebrook, for a book on Lupinus arboreus – purple bush lupine
using plant communities in garden design. A pastiche Mimulus aurantiacus sticky monkeyflower
of native plant topics will make up the proceedings of (various forms)
the Rancho Santa Ana horticultural symposia, numbers Mimulus bifidus (hybrids) monkeyflower
4 and 5, now in the mill. Meanwhile, it keeps on raining,
Mimulus guttatus seep monkeyflower
and I wish I had all these books before me right now!
Polystichum munitum western sword fern
NATIVE PLANT CONSULTATION Ribes sanguineum pink flowering currant
- free to DKY members Rosa nutkana Nootka rose
Are you wondering which plants in your yard are native? Rubus parviflorus thimbleberry
Would you like to learn which native species might grow Salvia sonomensis Sonoma sage
well in your garden, or which are least attractive to Salvia sonomensis Sonoma sage- upright form
deer? Satureja douglasii yerba buena
Lori Hubbart will visit your property and provide one to Tellima grandiflora fringe cups
two hours of landscape consultation – a service Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata sugar scoop
available only to DKY members. Call 882-1655 to
Tolmiea menziesii ‘Gold Splash’ piggy back plant
arrange a visit.
BORROW A CHAPTER VIDEO
NATIVE PLANTS STILL FOR SALE! The DKY Chapter has the following VHS videos
Please call Jon Thompson at 884-4847 or Lori Hubbart available for chapter members to borrow:
at 882-1655 to inquire. Our chapter has the following • Hardy Californian by Lester Rowntree, 1981, 30 min.
plants available: • March of the Killer Plants Conference, 1996, 1hr 57 min.
Trees • Desert Under Siege, 1991, 27 min.
Lithocarpus densiflora tan bark oak • Rare and Endangered Plants of California, CA Dept. of
Sequoia sempervirens coast redwood Fish & Game, 1990, 18 min.
Shrubs
• The Beautiful Tree – American Indian series
Calycanthus occidentalis spice bush • National Wildflower Research Center – Texas
• Spring Wildflowers of Marin County, CNPS, 1995, 20 min.
Ceanothus ‘Concha’ California lilac
Ceanothus hearstiorum Hearst's California lilac Videos can be picked up at the home of our Chapter
Ceanothus ‘Joyce Coulter’ Joyce Coulter ceanothus Historian, Ramona Crooks, in Anchor Bay. Doing so
will also allow you to view Ramona’s delightful and
Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’ Ray Hartman ceanothus eclectic garden. Call her at 884-3585
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NEWS FROM STATE CNPS Coastal Geology - Springer 3 day short course
TTH 6:00-9:00 p.m. & Sat. fieldtrip 9:00 a.m. - 4:40 p.m.
The Chapter Council has elected a new State The nature of the coastal environment is examined in
President, Brad Jenkins, from Orange County. He is a terms of landforms, resources & geologic hazards. Focus
native plant lover with a business background and he’s is on the marine terrace landscape of Northern California,
a really nice guy, too. Brad was the driving force behind its geologic development and water resources.
the Orange County Chapter’s brochure on gardening
with native plants. He saw the need for horticultural
outreach material, and just did it. This brochure
became the template for the statewide brochure on
gardening with natives. We wish Brad well in his new
position.
Brad also served on the selection committee charged
with finding a new Executive Director for CNPS. The
committee has narrowed its list of candidates, and we
eagerly await an announcement. The new ED and the
new state president can help each other find their way
in their challenging, yet interesting jobs.
The state Vegetation Program actually deals with plant
communities and some of us think “Vegetation” is too
generic a word to describe the program. Nonetheless,
there is a new, expanded vegetation section on the
state website.

COURSES of INTEREST at COLLEGE OF

THE REDWOODS – Spring Semester
Spring semester begins January 23, 2006,
for more information call the college at 962-2600.
California Plant Identification - Sholars
M 9:30 a.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Introduction to plant taxonomy with emphasis on keying
species using a California Flora. Covers introductory
concepts and characteristics of the common flowering
plant families in California. Learn sight identification of
families and how to key out local plants.
Natural History - Sholars
F 9:30 a.m. - 3:10 p.m. An introduction for non-science
majors to the identification, natural history, and ecological
relationships of plants and animals. Learn techniques for
sampling organisms and collecting field data.
Introduction to Organic/Sustainable Agriculture - Sholars
T 10:00 a.m. – noon Provides a working knowledge of
all phases of production of vegetables, fruits, and flowers.
Principles of sustainable production will be emphasized.
Students will prepare soil, plant, weed, and harvest
vegetables that grow well on the north coast.
Marine/Coastal Field Biology - Grantham
F 9:00 a.m. - 3:10 p.m.
A field orientated introduction to the inter-relationships
between marine and estuarine organisms and their
environment. Emphasis is on field methods, sampling
techniques and quantitative data collection and analysis.
Jack O’Rourke  2005
SEED PREEMPTION UPDATE
A legislative showdown to protect local control of food
and farming is underway. Two California bills (AB1508
and SB1056) that will strip local regulation of food crops
will be taken up in the 2006 legislative session. To stay
updated on the progress of AB1508 and SB1056 please
go to http://www.calgefree.org/preemption.shtml
• To contact your legislator:
www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html
• Toolkit on fighting Preemptive Legislation in your
state, by Environmental Commons:
www.environmentalcommons.org/local-control-
toolkit.pdf
For additional information, see:
• “Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers” (2005). Documents
Monsanto's lawsuits against American farmers. Center
for Food Safety,
www.centerforfoodsafety.org/Monsantovsusfarmersrepo
rt.cfm
• “Gone to Seed,” Union of Concerned Scientists,
www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/genetic_engin
eering/gone-to-seed.html

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OFFICERS 2005
DKY CHAPTER WEBPAGE at www.dkycnps.org
President: Lori Hubbart 882-1655 includes Activities & Events, photos of What’s
fax 882-1645 Blooming, and links to related sites. You can view the
Vice President: OPEN current issue of Calypso (with color photos!) as well as
Secretary: Rich Schimbor 785-9626 archived newsletters. Please send in photographs and
Treasurer: Mary Hunter 785-1150 articles for posting on the webpage to DKY webmaster,
Norm Jensen.
STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
AT LARGE OPEN
CAMPING Diane Wickstrom 884-4556
CONSERVATION Lori Hubbart 882-1655
fax:882-1645;
Greg Jirak 882-1660
EDUCATION OPEN
FIELDTRIPS Peter Warner 937-2278
HISTORIAN Ramona Crooks 884-3585
HOSPITALITY:
North Coast OPEN CNPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
South Coast Beverly Sloane 785-3134 DOROTHY KING YOUNG CHAPTER
Roberta Rams 884-4847
INVASIVES Peter Warner 937-2278 Membership in the California Native Plant Society is open
JUBATA ERADICATION: to all. The task and mission of the Society is to increase
awareness, understanding, and appreciation of California
At Sea Ranch Roz Bray 785-2694
native plants. The challenge is to preserve their natural
LEGISLATION OPEN
habitat through scientific educational, and conservation
MAILINGS Roberta Rams 884-4847
activities. Membership includes subscription to the
MEMBERSHIP Bob Rutemoeller 884-4426 quarterly Fremontia, as well as our local chapter
NEWSLETTER Julia Larke 964-2845 newsletter, the Calypso.
PLANT SALE Jon Thompson 884-4847
PLANT WATCH Heidi Marshall 884-3831 Name ______________________________________
POSTERS Lynn Tuft 785-3392 Address ____________________________________
PROGRAMS OPEN; Lori Hubbart (pro tem) City ________________________ Zip ___________
PUBLICITY OPEN Tel. ___________ E-mail _____________________
RARE & ENDANGERED:
Coordinator Teresa Sholars 962-2686 I wish to affiliate with the DKY Chapter _______
or, other chapter _____________________________
Inland Clare Wheeler-Sias 895-3131
Sea Ranch Elaine Mahaffey 785-2279 (Please check, or name a chapter; CNPS will make
Sonoma Co. Dorothy Scherer 882-2850 assignment if none is specified by applicant.)
South Coast Mary Rhyne 884-3043 MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY
VEGETATION
North & South OPEN Student/Retired/Limited Income $20
Individual/Library $35
WEBMASTER Norm Jensen
Family/Group $45
webmaster@dkycnps.org
Supporting $75
All phone numbers are Area Code 707. Plant Lover $100
Patron $250
NEXT BOARD MEETING: The next meeting of the Benefactor $500
Executive Board is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday, Mariposa Lily $1000
February 16, 2006 at the Point Arena Library. For Make check out to the California Native Plant Society;
information, please contact Lori Hubbart at 882-1655. mail check and application to:
Bob Rutemoeller, Membership Committee
CALYPSO March - April Deadline: Send in newsletter DKY Chapter, CNPS
items by Saturday, February 18, 2006 to: Julia Larke PO Box 577
P.O. Box 1631, Fort Bragg, CA, 95437; 964-2845. Gualala, CA 95445

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