2012 Chapter Annual Reports - California Native Plant Society

ALTA PEAK CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR 2012SUBMITTED BY Joan StewartWe are requesting a subventionWe began the year with a program that was a glorious introduction to the flora ofChile, a part of the world with many resemblances to our California Mediterraneanclimate and habitats. Maria Ulloa, recent arrival to Porterville as Forest Plannerfor the Sequoia National Forest, offered “A Cross Cultural Walk in SouthernChile”: Agriculture and Wildflowers”.Our first issue of the 22nd volume of our newsletter, the Insignis, also came out inJanuary. Cathy Capone, our ‘horticulture’ chair, began a series of articles onplanting and caring for gardens with native plants. She has a native plant nurseryin Porterville, and emphasizes that all propagation is from locally collectedmaterial. We are fortunate to have her in our area, as she supports, advises, andencourages all our native plant gardening projects. Melanie Baer-Keeley gave usan article on oak trees of the Sierra Nevada, very pertinent in view of theprecarious position of some of California’s oak species. And as did all of ourchapters, we announced the newly arrived 2nd Edition of Jepson Manual.The September Insignis announced the fall program, always scheduled to be “partof” the Annual Native Plant sale. This year Bart O’Brien from RSA talkedabout “Re-imaging the California Lawn and Garden using California native plants.Conservation issues, as reviewed for our members, were primarily focussed on theupcoming County General Plan which was later passed by the Board ofSupervisors in August. As true for many (all?) counties in the state, “sprawl”, themanagement of development near/away from existing urban centers, is thedominating question from the point of view of conservation of natural habitats (andplants) . In the case of Tulare County, one of the ‘goals”, listed in introductoryparagraphs, was to preserve natural resourses, but then nowhere in subsequentchapters of implementation were any programs or projects considered that wouldaccomplish this.A second conservation topic was the long awaited management plan andenvironmental documents for the Giant Sequoia National Monument whichbecame available late in the year. Our CNPS comments alluded to no majorconcerns ... national lands are everywhere under severely conflicting demandsfrom user groups.

4. Newsletter: 6 issues/year/150 volunteer hours to edit & distribute/annual cost $14725. Public Outreach Events: 4 events:March 27 DKY was a co‐sponsor of the Annual Environmental Potluck in March. Attendees ca. 50April and May Ongoing wildflower show at the Ford House Museum in Mendocino. Attendees everyonewho visits Museum/Visitor Center. Leader Julia Larke, hrs. probably 80.May 13 and 14 FIRST ANNAL WILDFLOWER SHOW. Attendees ca. 150. Volunteer hours? 100hrs.6. Education Efforts:Point Arena Light House Native Plant Interpretive Garden: The DKY Chapter worked with the Point ArenaLighthouse Keepers to maintain this native plant garden, designed by Scott Graf. The Chapter writes andprovides handouts for use in the garden describing native plants and plant communities in the area.Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens native plant demonstration garden: This garden was designed byDKY Vice President Mario Abreu and is maintained by him with help from MCBG volunteers and DKYchapter members.Helene Chalfin, our education chair and education director at Jug Handle Farm Reserve has an activeeducation program in both propagation and habitat restoration, and Mario Abreu, chapter vice presidentand naturalist at Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens does the same with adults. They are both activechapter members and their work clearly advances chapter goals, but we can’t really claim credit. DKYhelped support the cost of an additional instructor for larger groups.7. Conservation: 200 volunteer hours; the chapter is most concerned currently with incursions intoMendocino Cypress Forest and maintenance of Bishop Pine Forest.A letter of support sent to Coastal Conservancy and Wildlife Conservation Board expressing stong supportfor the acquisition of a 64.5‐acre parcel, referred to as the “Hunt Property,” which is adjacent to theInglenook Fen—Ten Mile Dunes Natural Preserve, in MacKerricher State Park, Mendocino County.A letter was sent to the Secretary of the Interior Society in support of permanently protecting the StornettaPublic Lands, which are adjacent to the California Coastal National Monument, the Manchester Beach StatePark, and the Point Arena Lighthouse. DKY, and particularly Lori Hubbart, have advised various groups,especially Conservation Lands and Trust for Public Lands, about the plant communities and rare plants thatmake protecting this property so important. DKY members participated in several public events for theCypress Abbey acquisition.A Pygmy Forest Working Group meets periodically to discuss issues relating to this rare plant community.DKY members participated in meetings discussing a dunes restoration project at MacKerricherState Park.DKY members participated in strategic planning for the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens as MCBGreconsidered its mission, values, and goals, serving as a resource for information on the plant communitiesand flora represented at the Gardens and advocating for environmental education and habitat protectionand restoration.DKY Chapter 2012 Report, p. 2

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Conservation Task Force: DKY members served on this Task Force toadvise the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens about plant communities, habitat restoration, rare plantprotection, and the design if a native plant garden.8. Work Parties: 2 work parties/weed removal/ 6 participants/ 30 volunteer hours.Weed Removal: May 19 Volunteer work day, weed removal from bluffs at Mendocino Coast BotanicalGardens with Master Gardeners. Mario Abreu leader, 20 participants, 30 hrs9. Legislative Activity: No legislation this year.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramBarbara Rice has lead an effort to protect and restore populations of Blasdale’s Bentgrass at The Sea Ranchand associated lands.Barbara Rice created a poster and handout about the rare plants found at The Sea Ranch.11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: 2 fall plant sales/year. / 400 volunteer hrs./ don’t know how manypeople attended each event/we grow most plants, purchase and repot some.Our two fall plant sales, co‐chairs Lori Hubbart and Mario Abreu, were held in Gualala and the MendocinoCoast Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg. Thanks to all the great volunteers who helped out! Generousdonation of plants from Anderson Valley Nursery in Boonville really helped. The results:retail plants $1935Expenses $1199Net after expenses $ 73612. Other Activities:HonorsNancy Morin, DKY Chapter President, received a Volunteer Recognition Award.Invasive ExoticsDKY Chapter members are active in Cal IPC.General Chapter Concerns1. Too few active members. We can blame this on how thinly spread our membership is and that themembership is aging, but I don’t believe this really explains the current situation. In the early daysof the DKY Chapter it was the only environmental group going, and it had a very social quality. Nowthere are land trusts, local groups that do regular nature walks, etc. I think we need to figure outhow to create a new dedicated membership, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, find waysthat members who don’t want to go on field trips or attend meetings or programs can participate.2. Lack of knowledge about our local rare or uncommon plant communities. We need to do muchmore to characterize the local plant communities and we need to keep educating our building andplanning agencies and the consultants who contract to do the EIRs about what characterizes thesecommunities.3. Lack of knowledge about our local flora: Most of the herbarium specimens documenting the DKYarea flora are deposited at the California Academy of Sciences and at the Fort Bragg campus of theCollege of the Redwoods. The CAS specimens are now being computerized, which is a great thing,DKY Chapter 2012 Report, p. 3

ut even these collections would show that the local flora has been poorly surveyed. An updatedFlora of Mendocino County (possibly with Lake County added) would be a great help in monitoringand conserving the plant diversity of our area.4. Future of botanical education in the area: Teresa Sholars at College of the Redwoods teaches everyplant‐related course in the area and many of the ecology courses. She is near to retirement and itis uncertain that her position will be replaced. Beyond Fort Bragg the nearest botany courses aretaught at Santa Rosa Community College (2 hr drive), universities in the Bay Area (3 hr drive), andCalifornia State University Humboldt. Given items 2 and 3, above, this is a very serious issue for thefuture of our region.Volunteer Hours summary (Numbers include estimates for all hours put in by all volunteers)Conservation 200Programs 40Wildflower shows 180Invasive Exotics 20Education 100Field Trips 50Plant Sale 450Newsletter 200Website 10Secretary 60Treasurer 100President & CC delegate 120Books and Posters 20Membership 70Board meetings 215TOTAL 1,835DKY Chapter 2012 Report, p. 4

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME___________EAST BAY ________ YEAR____2012________David John Bigham, ASA, Chapter President 2011-2012WE ARE REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTEREast Bay Chapter’s strength is in its dedicated volunteer base, which contributed14,305 hours in 2012. We consider plant science conservation in Alameda andContra Costa Counties to be our most important charge. We support a half-timeprofessional Conservation Analyst with contribution from our members via ayearly appeal. Our plant science based conservation action is supported withpublished data following the CNPS modelSteady financial support is provided by our large nursery where plants are grownand sold to the public and agencies for landscaping and restoration projects inresidential, parks and reserves. Native Here Nursery features plants only fromAlameda and Contra Costa Counties and is o0en year round.We participate in and give financial support to the “Bringing Back the NativesGarden Tour”., and annual event in each May that brings over 6000 people intogardens and native plant nurseries within the two counties. In October, ourannual Plant Fair draws newcomers and members into the nursery.Our members are informed of chapter activities via a monthly newsletter, andannouncement list serve and website. Programs, field trips, work parties, nurserywork and outreach activities bring members together.

CHAPTER ACTIVITIES1. Board Meetings:Officer preparation and special meetings Volunteer hours 1309The Board of Directors held 10 regular meetings. The officers met one time atthe beginning of the year. The budget committee met once. A meeting of theEBCNPS Board with the CNPS Executive Director and CNPS Boardmembers was held December 12.President: email and phone correspondence, board meeting preparation andattendance, budget meetings, annual report preparation- 684 hoursVice President: meeting preparation and attendance, email correspondence,document review- 275 hoursThese activities included, serving as delegate to Chapter Council meeting,participating in East Bay Chapter board meetings and email discussions oflocal and state level issues and conducted email votes in absence ofPresident David Bigham, serving as liaison to CC leadership for the June2012 CC meetings which our chapter hosted and arranging home stays forattendees, serving on the CC Logistics Committee which supports chapters inmaking arrangements, attending 4 state board meetings as an observer andvolunteering at the Plant Fair.Treasurer: record keeping, dealing with vendors, reporting, dealing with theSate Office on financial matters, Board meetings, more reports to the Board,Annual Report- 200 hoursRecording secretary: preparation and editing of minutes, attendance at BODmeetings and online vote recording -70 hours. Labor and delivery -3 hours.Corresponding Secretary: 77 hoursBoard meeting participation 20 hoursPick up mail at Berkeley PO box 1-3 times a week: 20 hoursThank you letters to donors to the Conservation Analyst Fund- 25 hoursDeveloped and printed new stationary for EB Chapter of CNPS- 5 hoursCollected and tallied votes for election- 5 hoursForwarded mail address changes to Stacey Flowerdew at the State office- 2hours

2. Field trips Volunteer hours 199Frances Dalhquist: 14 hoursJanet Gawthrop: 35 hoursBritt Thorsnes: 6 hoursDavid Margolies: 10 hoursGregg Weber: 134 hoursNot reported here, but nonetheless valuable, was the time and cooperation ofstaff from East Bay Regional Parks and US Fish & Wildlife Service.3. Restoration Volunteer hours 1983The East Bay Restoration program continues its impressive work at many sites,such as Point Isabel, Redwood Park, Point Pinole, and others.Sue Duckles: 240 hours, at Redwood and Huckleberry parksMarcia Kolb: 500 hours at Huckleberry ParkDorothy Frantz: 42 hours at Huckleberry RPBarbara Leitner: 200 hoursJocelyn Truitt: 14 hours weeding D. graveolens.Janet Gawthrop: 150 hoursWendy Tokuda: 350 hoursJane and Tom Kelly: 487 hours4. Programs Volunteer hours 1050Membership Meetings Volunteer 70 hoursPrograms Chair—organizing and hosting program meetings for the yearJanuary 25, 2012 Bruce Baldwin, “What Does the New Jepson Manual Meanfor California Floristics?,” ~90 attendees (OPL-T--$279 [room] + 49 [podium +microphone])February 22, 2012: Ted Kipping, “California Native Shrubs for the Garden,”~70 attendees (OPL-GR--$246)March 23, 2012: Daniel Gluesenkamp, “Calflora's Expanding Role in NativePlant Conservation,” ~45 attendees (OCC-FA--$246)April 25, 2012: Lech Naumovich, “Restoring Oakland's Historic Population ofPresidio Clarkia, an Endangered Annual Wildflower,” ~15 attendees (OPL-GR--$246)--First meeting with online-only Bay Leaf newsletter; attendancewas much lower for this reason.September 26, 2012: Katherine Greenberg, “Growing California NativePlants”, ~45 attendees (OPL-T--$243 [room] + $31 [podium + microphone])October 24, 2012: John Taylor, “The Secret Life of Fungi,” ~45 attendees(OPL-GR--$150)

November 28, 2012: Margareta Séquin, “Defensive Plants: Sticky Resins,Milky Saps, and Potent Poisons,” ~55 attendees (OPL-GR--$150)Venues (room rental fees decreased beginning in September 2012)OPL-GR=Orinda Public Library Garden RoomOPL-T=Orinda Public Library TheatreOCC-FA =Orinda Community Center Founders’ AuditoriumAttendance15-90 per meetingPrograms at the Native Plant Fair, October 27-28, 2012 Volunteer hours 83 hours for Programs Chair—arranging for speakers2 hours each for two volunteers hosting speakers at the fairSaturday, October 27“Deep Roots: Poetry and Plants”: Starting with an open reading for 30minutes on native-plant-related themes followed by 1.5 hours of readings byfeatured poets Kim Shuck, Lucille Lang Day, Chris Olander, Kirk Lumpkin,and Dennis FritzingerSunday, October 28“Native Plants for Butterflies in Your East Bay Garden”--Liam O’Brien,lepidopteristVenueOutdoor classroom at Native Here Nursery (talks were al fresco withoutslides)Attendance20-30 per talkHospitality Volunteer hours 190Membership Meetings: Volunteer hours 25February 22nd with Ted KippingMarch 28th with Dan GlusenkanpApril 25th with Lech NaumovichOctober 24th with John TaylorNovember 28th with Margureta Sequin2012 Annual Hospitality Budget Membership Meetings: $800Actual Costs: $600.Chapter Picnic June 3 rd

6. Conservation Committee Volunteer hours 3790The East Bay Conservation Committee’s new Chair Jean Robertson hasrefocused and energized the committee. Working with the long active volunteers,Peter Rauch, Laura Baker, Janet Gawthrop, Jim Hamson, David Bigham, HeathBartosh, and many other dedicated members, Jean oversaw the continued majorfocus on preserving Knowland Park and many other significant issues notedbelow.Laura Baker issue lead reports on the park in the following…Winter has come again to Knowland Park--the second since we began our fullscaleattempt to save critical native plant and wildlife habitat there. Since thatfirst winter many people have joined us in our efforts to champion the park. Wesaid that we would build a constituency for the park, and we have. We said thatwe would document and catalogue as many of the species that make their homein Knowland Park as we could. We are well along our efforts, but Knowland isrich and diverse so we have a long way to go.Critter cameras capture brief moments in the lives of the animals that pass--onlya small fraction of the true numbers of wildlife. Plant lists have grown, our storeof photos continues to swell, and this spring promises to be a banner year for thewildflowers we hope to photograph. Mycologists are identifying the abundantfungi that have sprouted under the oaks, on logs, under the manzanitas, and inthe grasslands, and just yesterday a lichen expert joined the effort to documentthe park, intrigued by the photos that we've sent him of the lichen-encrustedmaritime chaparral and rock outcrops.Thanks to your efforts and votes, we defeated Measure A1 and were able toshine a light on Knowland Park for the majority of the public who had never evenheard of it. We've taken well over a hundred people into the park, and we canattest that all but a few who visited with us left with an expressed deepenedappreciation for the park's splendors. Of the few who remained unmoved, onewas a man who professes to be interested in native plant conservation but findsKnowland Park expendable. A fortunate man, he has the means to fly to moreexotic land where his conservation interests lie. I mention him because, though Ifound his opinion incomprehensible, it represents a small but powerful point ofview that has traction in some circles. The private wealth and power that fuelsthe zoo's expansion expresses an unspoken belief that privatization of publicresources is a public good, and through often anonymous donations thesepowerful interests aim to help the zoo capture more of the public wealth despitethe defeat of Measure A1.What will the public lose if the zoo succeeds in building its expansion? Imagine

driving to Huckleberry Botanic Preserve and finding that you can't get in becausethe park has been permanently enclosed behind an 8-foot chain link fence.Beyond the fence, but in full view, massive grading of dozens of acres of highquality habitat has begun, to be followed by the erection of more than 30buildings, many the size of the homes in the surrounding neighborhood, as thezoo's latest drawings show. Roads constructed, lighting installed, water pumpedin. It's a large subdivision, except that the residents of each 2-acre plot are a pairof grizzly bears or mountain lions, newly installed in 1500-square foot homes witha bay view. Looming over the now carefully pruned maritime chaparral whereyou once roamed freely is a 3-story building with executive offices that havetaken your view and your access to that favorite trail you followed through thechaparral. You won't be able to visit, study, and enjoy what you paid for as amember of the public and for which you continue to pay through your taxes. Butyou can pay again through admission to ride the aerial gondola up to see the oldHuckleberry Botanic Preserve re-born as the California Trails exhibit. What adeal.Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public land has been hijacked from thepublic, and it's more than real estate with spectacular views that's being yankedfrom the public's hands. Those who have spent the last two years feverishlydocumenting the remarkable biodiversity of those 56 acres reckon the loss to thepresent and future community to be incalculable in terms of destroyed orinaccessible resources and the opportunity to study and enjoy them. Moreimportantly, for those children who can't afford to fly to Baja or even drive to theCalifornia desert, they will have lost the opportunity to find inspiration from theirnatural heritage not by "touching a dead grizzly bear's paw", as one of the zoo'sgrant applications describes, but by actually experiencing the wholeness ofnature. They will have been cheated out of what's rightfully theirs throughsenseless destruction repackaged as conservation.We are at a critical juncture: the regulatory agencies have not granted the zoo'spermits yet, and the zoo did not get the public funding it sought. It is entirelyconceivable that, should the regulatory agencies agree to grant the permits, thezoo could erect the perimeter fence, grade the site, build the roads, and let thedestroyed site sit awaiting funding. They have threatened to break ground thisMay. At that point, public outrage would come far too late.It's winter and a new year has begun, the traditional season for contemplationand for hope of things yet to come. Our vision endures of a free and wholeKnowland Park permanently protected. Please help us to animate that visionwith your efforts. Below are ways that you can be a part of the movement to saveKnowland Park.Mack Casterman, Conservation Analyst, represented CNPS on the Amsinckiagrandiflora Working Group, which is a collection of local groups/agencies trying

to ensure the long-term survival of this Endangered plant species.Attended regular conference calls as a member of the Mt. Diablo BuckwheatWorking Group, a collaboration of agency and NGO stakeholders working todevelop and implement strategies for the long term survival of Eriogonumtruncatum and to study its ecology and physiology.Attended two meetings of the state CNPS Rare Plant Program Committee(RPPC) at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. As a part of this committee alsoprovided support to the Rare Plant Botanist, Aaron Sims, as needed. The RPPCis consulted on issues that would benefit from RPPC member’s experience andexpertise, which may involve (but is not limited to) issues related to planttaxonomy, rare plant status review procedures, changes to the CNPS Rare PlantSurvey Protocols, or changes to the CNPS.Provided plant science perspectives for local native plant outreach efforts in thecity of Martinez spearheaded by EBCNPS BoD member Elaine Jackson. Theseefforts include: creating a creek/botanical trail in collaboration with the city ofMartinez, Martinez Unified School District, National Park Service, and Friends ofAlhambra Creek, and providing plant palette input on various developments inthe city.Monitored various rare plant populations within the chapter area and providedupdates to the CNPS Inventory and California Natural Diversity Database;completed a draft state listing petition for Deinandra bacigalupii, contributedinformation on the Chapter’s unusual and significant plants that wereencountered throughout the year; represented CNPS in various capacitiesworking with the Friends of Springtown and Save Mount Diablo (SMD) byproviding technical expertise on botanical related issues and provided commentson development proposals and prospective acquisitions; assisted the EBCNPSconservation committee by providing plant science expertise to comment letterson environmental review documents; provided maintenance recommendationsfor a native plant restoration on one of SMDs Marsh Creek Properties; and ledlocal hikes to raise awareness of California’s native flora.2011 was a heck of a year for the East Bay Chapter's Conservation Committee.We said a fond goodbye to Lech Naumovich, our Conservation Analyst for 5years, and happily welcomed Mack Casterman as his successor. We have beenincredibly fortunate to have had wonderful people to fill this role, including Jesse,our first CA. Without the Funds Development Committee and our generousdonors, we would not be able to have a staff person to fulfill this critical role.A second portion of our Richmond Shoreline BPPA is the UC Field Station. Thispast year the Lawrence Berkeley Lab engaged in a site selection process for itssecond campus with 5 cities vying for the development. While 5 different siteswere examined, UC selected the Field Station as its new home. At risk there isremnant coastal prairie and a number of locally rare plants. We will be looking at

mitigation possibilities.

In addition to the legal portion of our campaign to save Knowland Park, we havecreated a new website with Friends of Knowland Park at www.saveknowland.org.The website is dedicated to bringing the public vital information about theimportance of Knowland Park. Because the City has chosen to hide the parkfrom the public in order to keep it as surplus land for the zoo, we have dedicatedourselves to displaying the natural wealth of the park so that the public can enjoyit as was originally intended when the state dedicated the land to the city.Fuels Management Project in the East Bay Hills: Committee members havebeen following the complex and difficult issue of vegetation management toreduce fuels in the East Bay hills for many many years. Two years ago the EastBay Regional Park District approved its EIR/Vegetation Management Plan forfuels reduction in over 100 different sites. EBRPD was sued by the HillsConservation Network, a small but vocal group opposed to removal of eucalyptustrees. EBRPD settled the suit, but out of the turmoil CNPS insisted that apermanent public forum be created to follow plans each year for the District'sprojects and to be able to comment upon them. The process has been painfullyslow, but we are making headway.Networking: In addition to working on specific high priority projects, theCommittee also networks with state CNPS and with other environmental groupsand agencies. Among these are the California Native Grassland Association, theSierra Club Public Lands Committee, Golden Gate Audubon Society, OhloneAudubon, the Bay Area Open Space Council, Save Mount Diablo, the EastContra Costa Habitat Conservancy, Friends of Springtown, the East BayRegional Park District, the Committee to Complete the Refuge, and others.Since we began funding our Conservation Analyst, the chapter has been able towork far more extensively to promote native plant conservation and to educateothers to its importance.East Bay Regional Park District:Attended (prepared for, suggested agenda items for, brought issues to thetable, discussed, reported on) Environmental Roundtable (ERT) meetingsat the District HQ.Reviewed, commented upon, raised and discussed issues related to thedrafting of the new Master Plan of the EBRPD. Particular focus was givento issues related to the District's interpretation of its telephone and onlinesurvey results as those issues may influence the content of the newMaster Plan.Reviewed, commented upon, raised and discussed issues related to theVegetation Management Plan's implementation. Focus has been onreviewing the Anthony Chabot Regional Park fuel management plans as

the first example of the weaknesses and vagaries of the District's VMPimplementation. An initial meeting with the District was held to outline thenature of our concerns with Plan implementation, and follow-upexpectations were identified.Continued to monitor District planning for making habitat improvements tothe Albany Beach and subtidal waters in Eastshore State Park (which theEBRPD administers). The protection of existing eelgrass beds in theimmediate offshore area of the beach, and the possible negative impactswhich planned watercraft activities to launch/debark in that immediatearea, are matters for concern, and will be further addressed uponissuance of the draft EIR being prepared for this project.Site visits were made to discuss District projects (planned) in A. ChabotRP (veg. mgt), Point Pinole RS (veg. mgt., bridge and reception centerconstruction).Attendance and public comment on agenda items was made, at variousEBRPD Board and Board Committee meetings.Coordination and Communication with East Bay Public Lands Committeeof SF Bay Chapter of Sierra Club: Attended meetings of the EBPL committee,to bring issues which would be of mutual concern to SC and CNPS to the table,and to report on discussions, actions sought, collaboration desired.Information Infrastructure Committee: Volunteer hours 250See my IIC 2011 report for general information. Specific attention given toinformation infrastructure matters related to conservation activities of the chapterfocused on reviewing implementation plans for online plant inventory records (D.Lake project), Knowland Park and EBCNPS fund-raising donation mechanism,and initial discussion of web-based support/outreach for chapter data,conservation blogging, and communicating conservation issues to our (existingand prospective) target public supporters.7. Plant ScienceRare Plants: Volunteer hours 200Listed here are the 2012 activities and projects that were undertaken by theChair of the Rare Plants Committee, Heath Bartosh.2012 saw the continuation of the Adopt a Rare Plant Program. The goals of theAdopt A Rare Plant Program include:Develop local species specific experts, either as individuals or groups,through the adoption of a specific rare plant species within our chapter.

Acquire existing literature of the Chapter’s rare plants such asprotologues, herbarium records, journal articles, recovery plans,mitigation plans, restoration plans, etc.Build upon existing population occurrence information by systematicallycollecting qualitative and quantitative data species by species in thefield.Record population threats and management issues facing each speciesat a chapter level.Seek participation from location agencies and organizations such asEast Bay Regional Park District, California State Parks, Contra CostaWater District, East Bay Municipal Utilities District, and Save MountDiablo, among others.Have quarterly Rare Plant Committee meetings to share results andphotographs taken in the field in a slideshow format. Invite Adopt A Rare Plant Volunteers to contribute program anecdotesor observations from the field as Bay Leaf Articles.Three orientation sessions were held to introduce volunteers to theprogram and provide them necessary background information. In 2011over 30 Rare Plants were adopted by 30 volunteers.Created a PDF of the Guidebook to Botanical Priority Protection Areas of theEast Bay that is of an appropriate size to download. This PDF was posted onwww.ebcnps.orgVegetation Committee 2012 Summary : Volunteer hours 174Nicole Jurjavcic and Megan Keever have accomplished the following in 2012Conducted vegetation typing at the following locations: Chabot Regional Park(Brittleleaf Manzanita trail), Knowland Park, and areas adjacent to SanLeandro Reservoir -72 hrsProvided restoration guidelines for a ballot measure -8 hrsProvided a write-up for state CNPS on chapter vegetation committee activities4 hrsAttended a state Veg Committee meeting -12 hrsVisited the Tesla site -16 hrsDatabasing and correspondence -28 hrsMeeting participation -18 hrsWebsite meeting and mashup work for website -16 hrs

Unusual Plants Program: Volunteer hours 150Unusual Plant activities for the year of 2012 focused almost entirely on updating,improving, and tweaking the web-based version of the Chapter’s Rare andUnusual Plants of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties database, in preparationfor its eventual release on the Web for public interactive use.In 2012 Dianne Lake, the program chair, spent about 75 hours on this effort.Gregg Weber spent about 150 hours of volunteer time on this project, plus about50 additional hours of field monitoring and surveying.Unfortunately, only a few volunteers submitted data from their monitoring andfield surveys for the year. Usually there is a great deal of field data submittedeach year by volunteers, but, due to time constraints, the committee chair wasnot able to compile and send out her usual “monitoring and fieldwork priorities forthe year” request to volunteers last spring, nor her usual request in the fall forvolunteers to submit the results of their field work. Thus, without these remindersand nudges, there was very little new data submitted for the year.8. Plant Sales (Wildflower Show is under Public Outreach)Volunteer Hours 49182012 Plant Fair Volunteer Hours 544The Plant Fair was held at Native Here Nursery in October . In addition to thethousands of locally native plants raised at Native Here Nursery, invited vendorsHeidi Rand and Dianne Lake sold their photography and plant related crafts. Thetwo days of the fair 85 volunteers put in 344 hours. The preparation time spentby the committee members is conservatively estimated at 200. Overall saleswere down from previous years. Expenses are not tracked separately fromNative Here expenses so it is difficult to know what the plant fair cleared.The Plant Fair Committee continues to operate smoothly as a team and has areal system now for the Plant Fair.Native Here Nursery Volunteer Hours 4374The chapter’s nursery is open year round growing and selling local native plantsfor restoration and gardening (by local we mean Alameda and Contra CostaCounties). Thirty-nine volunteers put in from one to several hundred hours eachin 2012, and included groups of students as well as chapter volunteers. There isa cadre of about 12 regular volunteers coming in from once a month to severaltimes a week. Seed collection hours are not adequately reflected in the totalabove.Propagation by cuttings is becoming more important, although seed collectionremains the primary source for propagation..Native Here also participates in the “Nursery Extravaganza” on the Saturdaybefore the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, the first weekend in May.

Propagation by cuttings is becoming more important, although seed collectionremains the primary source for propagation.Gross receipts for the calendar year (including the Plant Fair) were over $37,500.After expenses and sales tax, the nursery netted $12,674. Several thousanddollars of in-kind donations were also utilized at the nursery, including a gift ofads in The Berkeley Monthly.Native Here also participates in the “Nursery Extravaganza” on the Saturdaybefore the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, the first weekend in May.9. Funds Development Volunteer hours 266Recorded and deposited all checks received by the Chapter -100 hoursWith fellow board members produced annual fundraising appeal for theConservation Analyst to chapter members, including lapsed members over theprevious 9 months, 1240 letters sent -40 hoursEast Bay chapter promotion; organized three booths and attended two publicevents --Solano Stroll and Sunday Streets in Berkeley 20 hrsAssisted at booth at SF Flower and Garden Show- 6 hoursUsing $500 grant that was award by the CNPS state office, produced a brochurefor the Chapter -15 hoursProduced flyers and brochures and assisted at the Bringing Back the NativesGarden Tour -15 hoursProduced fundraising letter for NO on A1Campaign to Save Knowland Park thatwas sent to Chapter members -20 hrsMeetings and correspondence -50 hours

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME: El Dorado YEAR 2012NAME & POSITION OF REPORT AUTHOR: Rosemary Carey, Chapter PresidentWE ARE__x__/ARE NOT______ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of your board andmembers. What are your chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments?Promoting native plant horticulture in the foothills is a very strong focus of our Chapter. Wepresented a 5 part lecture series on gardening with natives, from best practices for oaks tonative grasses in the residential landscape.Another strong focus of prominent Board members is vegetation mapping on the EldoradoNational Forest. Plant occurrence data for 22 lava caps was collected during the summer of2012.Noxious weed surveys were also done for some national forest lands as well as along Countyroads. The latter data was turned into the El Dorado County Agriculture Department fortheir follow-up with herbicide treatments.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by your chapter,the number of people who attended (both members and non-members), and theapproximate number of volunteer hours required to organize these activities. Do notinclude hours attending programs or field trips except for those persons leading ororganizing them.1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers, chairs6 per year on the 3 rd Tuesday in January, March, May, July, September and November.4 volunteer hours for each meeting for the Chapter President securing the room and writingthe agenda; 3 volunteer hours for each meeting for the Secretary including the preparation ofminutes; 2 volunteer hours for each meeting for all other Board members.2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants per trip,volunteer hours4/17/12 Soap Plant Lane, Cameron Park, CA: 9 participants, 6 volunteer hours including thepre-hike to see what was flowering.1

11/27/12: The Oaks of El Dorado County. Presenter: John Kipping, Certified Arborist. 50attendeesRoom rental was $20 per evening. Speakers are paid $50 each (or given a book of that valueif they prefer) to reimburse them for gas and some of their time spent preparing thePowerPoint.4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annual cost6 issues per year. 8 hours per issue to assemble material and layout and edit. 5 hours tofold and stamp at the beginning of the Board meeting. Cost $600 because the purchase ofnew printer, which should last at least 5 years.5. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contactsNative Plant Week walks:4/17/12 Soap Plant Lane, Cameron Park, CA: 9 participants, 6 volunteer hours including thepre-hike to see what was flowering.4/20/12 El Dorado Trail, Missouri Flat Terminus, Placerville, CA: 2 participants, 1 volunteerhourCameron Park library lobby display during the month of May: Gardening with Natives: 10volunteer hours6. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to gradstudents; in-service training for teachers; donation of education materials toschools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs./projectOur Membership Chair and a member volunteered at the El Dorado County Master GardenersFall plant sale to educate about weeds. They sat with handout material and answered questionsabout invasive exotics. 14 volunteer hours7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter has workedon/types of conservation activities (review documents, attend hearings, etc.),coalitions/cooperators with whom you worked12/17/12 Conservation and Publicity Chairs met with the newly elected El DoradoCounty District 3 Supervisor Brian Veerkamp. He represents Placerville, the County seat.The purpose of the meeting was to introduce themselves and CNPS, specifically ourChapter, and touch on a few of the issues that are important to us. 7 hours of volunteertime3

Our Chapter donated $1000 to the CNPS Spring Appeal and Conservation Campaign onMay 21 st , 2012.8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/ volunteerhoursScotch broom-pull at Dave Moore Nature Area in Coloma in March. 7 participants x 2 hours =14 volunteer hours.9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type of contact(i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters to the editor, petitions,press conferences)legislative contacts with reps and staff/#volunteer hours.10. Plant ScienceA. Rare Plant ProgramSpring. Shellie Perry, Janet Cicero and Annie Walker formally collected local Fritillariamicrantha for genetic studies. They collected one voucher specimen, leaves and petals ofwhich were turned over to the National Forest Genetic Electrophoresis Laboratory(NFGEL) at the Institute for Forest Genetics for study. Janet did microscopephotography. This work was also shared with the herbarium at California StateUniversity, Chico.Spring. Formal collections for a study at Cornell University. Annie Walker wasrequested by a student at Cornell University to collect Myrica hartwegii from the NorthFork of the Cosumnes River. Plants were packaged and shipped to the investigator atCornell.B. VegetationSpring: Our chapter worked in collaboration with Jim Alford of the CA Department ofFish and Wildlife. Starting in the spring (May) and continuing through August, twentytwowidely dispersed plots were selected on the Eldorado National Forest. These wereon a special plant community which is found only on lava caps which are remnantandesitic mud flows of the Miocene period. They are highly eroded, found mostly onwest and south trending ridge tops. They are of interest because of a certain complex ofannual and perennial plants peculiar to this particular soil type and environmental factors.The purpose of this sampling was to get the lava cap plant community entered in theManual of California Vegetation. Sites were selected on the basis of degrees of slope,accessibility, environmental factors including aspect, sun, shade, exotic species invasion,and lack of disturbance. Shellie Perry and Annie Walker were the botanists for the plot4

several of us have had to do more than one job; this is something that leads to acuteburnout. A lethargic Executive Committee and Program Leaders starts feeding a viciouscycle that is tough to overcome because key people need to be energetic, upbeat andhopeful in order to inspire the average person to volunteer and do some work. I try to bepositive as a good example, but this ongoing situation still remains our major challenge.Other things that could help with this situation are pre-made displays from the StateOffice, such as the Membership recruitment poster produced in late 2011. That is anattractive and useful visual aid. More things like that could really help tiny rural Chapterssuch as ours. With the exception of the weed display, where we had a close collaborationbetween the Invasive Exotics Chair and the Publicity Chair, we simply don’t have skilledvolunteers who are capable of custom producing our own visual aids.Our other major problem has been the procuring of the Certificate of Insurance for ourbi-annual plant sales. Unresponsiveness by the State Finance and Administration Officerto our need for a certificate one month in advance of the event was very stressful: we didnot receive the Certificate for the Spring plant sale until 3 days before the date despitehaving applied for it nearly 6 weeks earlier. At a minimum, it would be helpful if shewould be more communicative about the status of our request. If her workload is tooheavy to permit a regular update, say once a week, then perhaps a part-timeadministrative assistant should be hired for her.6

KERN CHAPTER CNPS ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORT FOR 2012SUBMITTED BY: Paul GipeDATE SUBMITTED: September 13, 2013We are requesting a subvention.The year 2012 was a year of renewal and reinvigoration for the Kern Chapter and our success hascontinued into 2013. Many committed members continued to provide their support as meetingfacilitators, the Membership chair, Rare Plant lead, and Secretary. We also benefitted from newvolunteers in 2012 who have pitched in as Chapter Treasurer, Editor of our newsletter, the MimulusMemo, Webmaster, and additional volunteers for the Field Trip Committee.We’ve held monthly meetings and programs at a centrally located community facility. Each of thespeakers has been excellent and we have 12 to 26 people attend the meetings. We’ve also held separateBoard meetings to discuss business items and make decisions on critical issues. (40 hours)Our newsletter, the Mimulus Memo is published quarterly (March, June, September, and December)and contains the meeting and field trip schedules, dates for related events of interest, information onnative plant gardening, photos, and articles of local botanical interest. (50 hours)In 2012 we planned for 10 field trips and there were 8 to 25 participants at each field trip (the field tripswere actually held in 2013). Members contributed their suggestions for field trip locations and wereenthusiastic about the diversity of locations and the expertise of the field trip leaders. (90 hours)We had 2 plant sales. The fall sale did not do well, but the spring sale was much better. (30 hours)Members worked with the local Audubon Society on the Panorama Vista Preserve to restore habitat.(40 hours)Two of our members participate in the Rare Plant Program. (45 hours)

Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains Chapter Annual Report 2012Person preparing report: Snowdy Dodson, Chapter PresidentWe are requesting a subvention for 2013. We need two paper copies of the CNPS Annual Reports for SteveHartman and Betsey Landis.Our Chapter's primary missions are the conservation and preservation of California native flora in both a wildland and a heavily urbanized environment. We present public programs to increase the knowledge,appreciation, use and enjoyment of native plants. This means that we are interested in a broad array of issues:both public and private landscaping with natives, rare plant preservation, environmental documents, monitoringmitigations, re-vegetation, weeding projects, education in both schools and through working with agencies andNGOs, informing our legislators about native plant issues and related topics, and writing informational material.We fund projects in conservation, preservation, weed eradication or public native plant landscaping (by nonprofits)that mirror the goals of CNPS. We are active in the Los Angeles County Weed Management Area andthe Los Angeles/San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, the Los Angeles County Integrated WasteManagement Task Force, and the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Areas Steering Committee.We advertise our programs and events by publishing and distributing over 600 copies of our bimonthly Chapternewsletter, Toyon. We have a well-designed and much used Chapter website that also serves to reach out to ourmembers and the public. We have a Facebook page that promotes our Chapter activities. All of our activities inthe Santa Monica Mountains are published in the National Park Service publication, Outdoors, a calendar ofmountain-wide events in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Chapter Board Member,Mary Montes, distributes notices of our activities to a list of public relations contacts that she maintains andupdates.Our major challenges are to attract active members and to schedule events in locations accessible in areasonable time on our gridlocked freeways. We alternate our monthly public programs between the SanFernando Valley and Santa Monica. In April, we schedule our California Native Plant Week Symposium,Wildflower Show and Plant Sale at the Sepulveda Garden Center in the San Fernando Valley in Encino; and inthe fall we have our Plant Sale at the same venue which is freeway close.LONG TERM PROJECTSWeed WarsJo Kitz leads our Weed Wars in the parks and wild lands of the Santa Monica Mountains. Our Chapterconsistently excels through our efforts to eradicate invasive, non-native plants on public lands. Our geographicfocus has been in the Santa Mountain Mountains, along the Los Angeles River and in the Sepulveda Dam Basinin the San Fernando Valley. We have worked in Malibu Creek State Park, Malibu Bluffs Park, Cold CreekPreserve, Tapia Park, Solstice Canyon, lower Topanga Creek in Topanga State Park, Bull Creek, and CaballeroCanyon. We have formed a partnership with TreePeople and the Mountains Restoration Trust to expand ourweeding and restoration efforts. Our efforts were two pronged: 1. We had many dedicated volunteers whospent 1561 hours pulling weeds and replanting; and 2. We used Chapter funds (thousands of dollars) to pay anindependent contractor (Bill Neill of Riparian Repairs) to eradicate weeds that are too difficult for volunteers toremove e.g. Arundo and tree of heaven. We have initiated a 2013 appeal for matching funding from ourmembership to continue with these efforts.In addition to weeding, we are involved in planting and maintenance to help replace the weeds with nativeplants. Of particular note is the annual planting of commemorative oaks at Malibu Creek State Park. In 2012

oaks were planted in honor of Alan Mintz, Margot Feuer, and Cecelia Garcia, a Native American healer. All ofthese efforts have taken place over many years and have resulted in a truly improved look for the vegetation inthe areas that we maintain.We have been involved in educating the public about the problem of invasive plants and have devoted Chapterprograms to the topic. We support Cal-IPC through donations to support their annual symposium and bydistributing their “Don’t Plant a Pest” brochure at our events. We have a representative to the local WeedManagement Area meetings.We continue to monitor invasive plants in the Caballero Canyon/upper Reseda Blvd. area and insuring that ourChapter funds go toward eradication of horehound, castor bean, fountain grass, tamarisk, etc. We continue tomake progress in eradicating horehound along one of the main trails and have focused pennisetum removal inthe Topanga State Park portion of this property. Mike O’Brien started his solo project of removing non-nativeplants from the State Park’s Robert E. Meyer Beaches in Malibu and has logged in over 200 hours of volunteertime annually since 2005.Steve Hartman, as a volunteer, advises the Los Angeles City Recreation and Parks and the Army Corps ofEngineers regarding monitoring invasive plant problems in the Sepulveda Basin. He insures that newinfestations are identified and eradicated. He also monitors the native plantings to make sure they are beingmaintained and not replaced with non-native plants. Steve has organized a group of volunteers who regularlyweed at the Bull Creek Restoration Project and the Wildlife Area, and in 2012 they logged 538 hours andremoved 612 bags of weeds.Barbara Marinacci and Mike Terry continue to organize volunteers in West Los Angeles at Temescal CanyonPark and Los Liones Gateway Park to do weeding and restoration work in those areas. They recently gotpermission from the City of Los Angeles to expand the native plant presence at Temescal and have received anLADWP water conservation grant to further this work by replacing an additional 12,000 sq ft of grass withdrought tolerant native plants.ConservationChapter Board members write letters on pertinent legislative and conservation topics and encourage themembership to do so through our newsletter. Rare plant research is ongoing as is advice to local agencies onrare plants and local flora by Chapter experts.Steve Hartman and Snowdy Dodson (alternate) represent CNPS on the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Areas SteeringCommittee, through participating at meetings, surveying for and recommending weed eradication strategies,leading training walks for the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area Docents, organizing and attending weeding andtrash cleanup parties and consulting with the City of Los Angeles and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers onnative landscaping in the Sepulveda Dam Basin. In late December the Army Corps of Engineers did an end runand illegally damaged native plant riparian habitat in the Sepulveda Basin. Our Chapter is working withAudubon, other environmental groups, and government agencies (including the ACOE) to work on mitigationof this damage.We have written letters concerning the Newhall Ranch development asking that it not go forward due to adverseimpacts to rare plants, oak woodlands and riparian areas. Our Chapter is lending fiscal support in ongoinglitigation against the further development along the Santa Clara River in Santa Clarita. Our members haveattended hearings and gone on bus tours to investigate this issue. Ileene Anderson represents our Chapter on theFriends of the Santa Clara River.Chapter members have also continued to be involved with commenting on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory(SSFL) cleanup process. Betsey Landis and Snowdy Dodson have attended ongoing meetings and given input

letter commenting on the environmental importance of the area that has been the site of an ongoing chemicaland nuclear cleanup and has at least two CNPS listed plants - Astragalus brauntonii and Deinandra minthornii(Santa Susana tarplant). Betsey Landis has worked on the soil science aspects of the cleanup proposals andsubmitted a suggested site-specific native plant list for SSFL area for use in phytoremediation/ phytodegradation, bothactive and passive remediation measures and support for long-term restoration.We attended meetings and submitted comments to the National Park Service regarding the Rim of the Valleyproposal to expand the jurisdiction of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.Chapter members, Steve Hartman and Bill Neill, were guest speakers on Los Angeles River kayaking trips tocomment on the vegetation along the soft bottom portion of the river in the Sepulveda Basin.Horticulture and LandscapingChapter members have advocated for native plants in public spaces: Los Angeles City Hall Park was re-landscaped with less lawn and more native plants and the toyon wasdesignated as the official Los Angeles Native Plant due to our Chapter’s advocacy. The Chapter lobbied for and succeeded in getting more native plantings and less invasives in thelandscaping along the Expo Light Rail Extension. We met with the Million Trees LA officials and submitted a list of suitable native street trees for theirexisting tree list. One or two of our suggestions were adopted. We participated in Native Plant Bingo at the California Landscape Contractors Assn. Show along withTheodore Payne Foundation and Norman’s Nursery to promote the use of native plants by landscapingprofessionals.CHAPTER ACTIVITIESWe held 9 Board meetings this year. Including driving time, attending each meeting requires from 3 to 5 hoursof each attendee's time.To celebrate the first California Native Plant Week, our Chapter organized our second Symposium, WildflowerShow and Plant Sale on April 21. Our speakers include Dr. Anthony Valois who explained the National ParkService website on the Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains; Orchid Black presented “Easy Natives forthe Garden;” and Lili Singer on “Native Plants + Pollinators = Bountiful Gardens.” The Symposium wasorganized in partnership with the Theodore Payne Foundation (TPF) whose staff sold plants from their nursery.The Wildflower Show featured cuttings from TPF and private gardens, refreshments, books for sale and apoetry reading. A similar program will be held in 2013.Our Fall Plant Sale (Oct. 27 & 28) was very successful this year with scheduled gardening talks by well knownspeakers – Lili Singer on “Twelve Months of Color with California Natives” and Lorrae Fuentes on “ContainerGardening with California Native Plants” - which encouraged a lot of gardeners to buy plants and books.Around 250 to 350 people came to the October Plant Sale. Steve Hartman and Halli Mason were the Co-Chairsof this event.Our public programs in the San Fernando Valley and in Santa Monica attract anywhere from 13 to 50 people.Rental costs for the meeting rooms are around $100 depending on the venue.Our Chapter presented eleven public programs in 2012:January: Chatsworth Reservoir: Past, Present and Future – Art Langton

February: Temescal Canyon Pacific Palisades Native Plant Garden: a Work in Progress – Michael Terry &Barbara MarinacciMarch: Forestry Recovery Project – Corina RobertsApril: Invasive Plants Living Near You – Dr. Irina IrvineMay: Descanso Gardens – Rachel YoungJune: Wild by Nature: Sowing Seeds for Spring Wildflowers – Genevieve ArnoldJuly: Worried About Wildfires? – Dr. Marti WitterSeptember: Native American Land Management – Kat HighOctober: Penstemon Floral Evolution – Dr. Paul WilsonNovember: Make Your Canyon Home Safer From Wildfires & Landslides – Dr. Robert TaylorDecember: The California Phenology Project – Brian Haggerty & Dr. Liz MatthewsWildflower walks and hikes were scheduled monthly at several locations throughout the Santa MonicaMountains. Hike leaders are Jo Kitz, Steve Hartman, Snowdy Dodson, Doug Allan, and Dan Cooper.Tabling at events such as the Santa Monica Mountains Science Festival, the Santa Clara River Cleanup, RanchoLos Cerritos water conservation event, the North Topanga Fire Safe Council, and the Environmental EducationFair; judging at County and/or State Science Fairs; making presentations; serving on many committees andcommissions are among the numerous Chapter volunteer activities. Betsey Landis is the Chapter Delegate tothe Chapter Council and serves on state-wide Education, Horticulture, Chapter Council Policy and CNPSBylaws Committees. Halli Mason continued to serve on state-wide Chapter Support, Leadership Developmentand Volunteer Recognition Committees. Ileene Anderson serves on the statewide Conservation Program Team.Steve Hartman is a Chapter Council Representative to the State CNPS Board of Directors.Calculating all the volunteer hours of the many members of our Chapter who represent CNPS in the public eyeis not easy as leaders and organizers in our Chapter tend not to keep accurate records, but a conservativeestimate would be around 7000 hours for the year again, based on scheduled meetings, events, and otheractivities (noted in the newsletter) involving Chapter Board members.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTERNAME______MARIN_________________YEAR___2012_________NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT___Kristin Jakob, Co-Vice President__________________________________WE ARE____/ARE NOT___X___ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of your board andmembers. What are your chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments?Interests span study of plants in wild, rare plants, control of invasives, conservationissues, education, and use of natives in horticulture. Strengths in 2012 were rareplants, and expanded horticultural activities. We lost a field trip coordinator at thebeginning of year, but gained a new one at the close of the year, so in between,offered fewer chapter field trips. Accomplishments include the crafting anddistribution of a member survey that resulted in a high (over 1/3) response rate, andprovided the chapter leadership with important information about its members, aswell as some key new volunteers! The board also actively supported a 1/4 cent salestax ballot measure to support Marin County parks & open space, and the measurewon. In addition to a volunteer-powered nursery within a nursery (see Plant Salesection for details), two display gardens of California natives were designed,constructed and planted at the same venue. A new series of public programs onnative plant gardening was inaugurated in Dec at the Fairfax Library, with otherevening talks planned for 2013. Spearheaded by one inspired member is a newwebsite accessed through the chapter website: “ID What You See”, a visual anddescriptive plant identification guide to popular hikes in Marin Co, geared towardsbeginners, with the first installment planned for launch in Jan 2013.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by your chapter,the number of people who attended (both members and non-members), and theapproximate number of volunteer hours required to organize these activities. Donot include hours attending programs or field trips except for those personsleading or organizing them.

1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year: 9/ Volunteer hours for officers, chairs: 300hrs attending board meetings (fewer than in previous years, as bylawsrevision/restructuring resulted in smaller executive board starting in 2012).Treasurer: 120 hrs (including training/education of new Treasurer)/ RecordingSecretary(s): 28 hrs/ Membership: 20 hrs/ Books: 50 hrs/ Posters: 60 hrs/Member Survey: 200 hrs/ Chapter Council meetings (4 board members): 130hrs/ Finance Committee: 15 hrs/ Other Administration, emailing, phone calls,compiling this report, etc: 400 hrs (estimated).2. Field Trips: # of trips: 6/ Please list locations/destinations/participants per trip,volunteer hours: Jan: Mt. Home to Van Wyck Mdws loop (Mt. Tamalpais); Feb:Lower Matt Davis Trail from Pantoll to Stinson, returning by West MarinStagecoach bus; Mar: Cataract Trail up from Alpine Dam; Bear Valley & WalkerRidge, Colusa Co; Apr: Bull Point, Pt. Reyes; June: Rock Spring, Mt Tamalpais(Ken Howard memorial walk). # of participants not recorded. Estimated volunteerhours: 40.3. Programs: # of program meetings: 9/Please list subjects and speakers: Jan:Amelia Ryan “Sonoma Spineflower”; Feb: Vernon & Doreen Smith “WalkerRidge & Bear Valley, Colusa Co.”; Mar: Dick O’Donnell “Flora of Goose Lake,Modoc Co.”; Apr: John Baston “Alaskan Wildflowers”; May: Bob Sikora &Martha Ashton-Sikora “2,600 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail”; June: BruceBaldwin “What does the new Jepson Manual mean for California floristics?”;Sep: annual members potluck slide show/dinner; Oct: Nancy Bauer “BringingNature Back Home: Growing a Wildlife Habitat Garden”; Nov: Margareta(Greti) Sequin “Defensive Plants: Sticky Resins, Milky Saps & Potent Poisons”;Dec: Dr. Helen Popper “Maintaining a Native Garden”/ # of attendees permeeting: average 40/expenses (i.e. room rental: $300/year, speaker fees: typically$100, sometimes waived, hospitality supplies: $0 at most programs - nohospitality usually offered)/ Volunteer hours: 70 (including operatingprojector)4. Newsletter: # of issues/year: 7 /# of volunteer hours to edit: 130/fold & distribute:180/annual cost: $4,1495. Public Outreach Events: # of events: 2/ Please describe the nature of events: Jan:BAEER (Bay Area Environmental Educational Resources) Fair; Apr: PointReyes Birding & Nature Festival/volunteer hours: 50 for those 2 events/publiccontacts: include responding to variety of enquiries, principally through thechapter website; volunteer hours: 30 / Creation of interpretive materials (photos

& text) for display panels for use at various public events, volunteer hours:126. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students: advice given toschools for their gardens or reveg efforts; 8 volunteer hrs, grants to gradstudents: Joe Kohn Memorial Scholarships totaling $1,500 granted to twograduate students, volunteer hrs: 20; in-service training for teachers; donation ofeducation materials to schools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs./project7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter hasworked on/types of conservation activities (review documents, attend hearings, etc.),coalitions/cooperators with whom you worked: Commented on poorly-timed andexcessive mowing of native vegetation along Lucas Valley Road, #volunteer hours:10 / Here is Conservation Chair Eva Buxton’s report (note that board meeting andFinance Commitee hours, and writing of articles are also reported elsewhere on thisform):As chairman 30 Phone calls, emails, comms. w/ other cons.chairs/council members; organized CEQAlecture by Marin County commissioner;administrative issues with State re: employee;State Conservation call; attendance of CouncilMeetingField trips 15 Meetings, pre-hikes, hikesBoard meetings 25 Attendance and prepGuest lecture/preparation-SPAWN; Marin ChapterGeneral meeting; Marin CountyDay School (cancelled)20 Marin County weeds

Public outreach & meetingattendance75 Addressed Marin County Commissionersre: Measure A; Town of Tiburon PlanningCommission: housing developments (Martha& Alta Robles); Tiburon POST (parks, openspace and trails) commission: professional dogwalkers; MCOSD (Roads & TrailsManagement Plan) (Vegetation ManagementPlan); MMWD (Vegetation Management Plan;CNPS Conference (San Diego); Marin chaptergeneral meetings, et al..Review/comments CEQA docs,and others20 Martha Property DEIR; GGNRA (AC34 &Dog ordinance); MCOSD: Roads & TrailsManagement Plan; Vegetation ManagementPlan; MMWD: Vegetation Management PlanHabitat restoration 30 Tiburon peninsula for endangered plants;removal of Avena, Cirsium & Cytisus; writeupsArticles 10 Marin Chapter Newsletter; State Bulletin;interviews with reportersFinance comm. mtgs./budget 5requestMisc., including responding to 12various inquiries, etc.….Total 2428. Work Parties: # of work parties: 12 /nature of project: Third Thursday Weeders(Pt. Reyes), # participants: average 5, volunteer hours: 240; # of work parties: 4/nature of project: Forget-me-Not Eradication @ Devil’s Gulch, Samuel P.Taylor State Park, # participants: average 4, volunteer hours: 64; see alsoHabitat Restoration in Eva’s report above.9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type of contact(i.e. visits to legislators, written communication: LCP letter by Amelia Ryan,

letters to the editor, petitions, press conferences)legislative contacts with repsand staff/#volunteer hours: 8.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant Program: Ongoing interaction with parks andagencies, journalists, CNPS Rare Plant Treasure Hunts on Mt. Tamalpais, plus fieldtrips, articles for newsletter, #volunteer hours: 7011. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale? Yes, Spring(mid-April) and Fall (mid-Oct), plus 2 mini-sales in May & June (which includedan irrigation workshop) and numerous sales to individuals; wildflower show? No/Plant Sales total #volunteer hrs (incl flyers, plant labels, seed envelope labels):350 / how many people attended each event: 150 @ ea of main plant sales /do yougrow your own plants (yes), if so %: 60, and growing /any interesting/usefulideas to share: attendance and participation in plant sales and other eventsincreased by collaboration with other nonprofit groups / 52 propagation workparties at nursery, # of organizing/supervising volunteer hours: 208, # of othervolunteer hours: 688; Native Plant Demonstration Gardens at nursery (design,construction, planting, maintenance): #volunteer hours: 125 / Gardening withNatives group hosted two evening events in 2012: an irrigation presentation atNorth Marin Water District offices, and an illustrated lecture by Dr. HelenPopper on maintaining native gardens, both attended by about 25 people, #volunteer hours: 5012. Other Activities: Articles written by board/committee members for publicationin chapter newsletter, state Bulletin and Fremontia: # volunteer hours (4 people):85 / ID What You See website, volunteer hours: 300Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the major challengesor problems facing your chapter? More or less stagnant membership levels, andfilling various committee and board positions / Is this an ongoing situation (yes),has it improved or gotten worse (somewhat improved in 2012), what steps didyou take to address the problem and did they help? The member surveyidentified potential volunteers in different areas, some of whom have alreadystepped in to start helping, so the future of the chapter looks more secure.

Milo Baker Chapter 2012We are not requesting a subvention.Name of people preparing report: Leia Giambastiani, President and Pat Sesser, SecretaryOverview of Chapter: Membership increased 14% from 359 to 410 members.Chapter:1. Board Meeting: Held on the second Tuesday of the month. 44 volunteer hours foraccounting, 56 hours for secretarial duties, 140 volunteer hours for officer and boardmembers to attend. Meeting held at the Sonoma County Environmental Center,membership costs $425.00 per year.Total Board Meeting Volunteer Hours: 2402; General Meetings/Programs: 10 meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month atthe Luther Burbank Art and Garden Center in Santa Rosa. Each meeting has 30-70people in attendance.$1,100.00 per year in rent and speaker stipend$1,300.00 per year cost of dinner and hospitalityJanuary: Shelly Benson, An Age of EnLICHENment an introduction to the Worldof LichensFebruary: Frederique Lavoipierre, Exploring Ancient Relationships-Flowers,Plants and InsectsMarch: Eliza Shepard, A Geographic Analysis of Locally Rare Plant Species ofSonoma CountyTom Robinson, Upcoming Public Review Draft of a Voluntary Oak WoodlandManagement Plan for Sonoma CountyApril: Tom Parker, Rodents and the Evolution of Obligate Seeding inArctostaphylosMay: John Bair, Willows on the WingAugust: No General Meeting, Board PotluckSeptember: Phil Van Soelen, Sustain Biodiversity by Gardening with CaliforniaNative PlantsOctober: Judith Lowry, Beyond Foraging: Discovering the Real CaliforniaCuisineNovember: Peter Warner, Formerly Known As -- Plant Name Changes in theJepson Manual, 2nd EditionDecember: Wreath Making Workshop, Liz Parsons

Plant ID hour is held one hour before the general meetings and includes collectingspecimens to key out as well as bringing a microscope and books to work onidentification.A dinner is also held before the general meeting to welcome the speaker and gathermembers in a social setting.Volunteer hours related to General Meeting: Plant Identification Hour: 30 volunteer hours Hospitality: 40 volunteer hours Books sales: 40 Speaker Coordination: 30 hours Audio Visual: 20 hours Dinner Coordination: 30 hoursTotal of 190 volunteer hours3. Field Trips: January 21 Fern Foray, Armstrong Woods February 11 Muir Beach/Woods, Riparian habitat workday and viewing. BettyYoung February 18 Plant Division workshop. Liz Parsons March 10 Pomo Canyon/ Red Hill trail Redwood canyon/coastal prairie. PeterWarner April 7 Elarra property, private easement. Serpentine chaparral. Owners led. April 14 Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve/Pruitt Creek, MendocinoCounty. Peter Warner, members of Sanhedrin chapter April 21 Wildflower talk, Cloverdale gallery displaying photos. Liz Parsons April 22 Oat Hill Mine Trail, Napa County. Peter Warner April 28 Jack London State Historic Park. Ann Howald April 29 Pepperwood Wildflower Festival and Native Plant week celebrationtabling, hikes and sales plants, books, etc. May 12 Mayacamas Preserve, Madrone Audubon. Peter Warner and SherryAdams May 17 Jenner Headlands, Sonoma Land Trust and Wildlife Conservancy. PeterWarner May 20 Potting workshop, California Flora Nursery. Liz Parsons June 16 Cedars Fieldtrip. Roger Raiche and David McCrory August 18 Potting workshop Casa Grande High School August 19 Chapter potluck picnic. Pat and Bryan Sesser October 3 Seed Packaging workshop. Liz Parsons October 13 Fall Plant SaleTotal of 170 volunteer hours for planning, coordination and leading of the hikes

4. Newsletter:10 issues a year.$2,682.03 cost of printing and mailing180 volunteer hours to edit and produce5. Web Site: Service provider $284.00 per year for the old site. Chapter continues to workon the new website with over 100 hours spent gathering, transferring and organizinginformation.6. Public Outreach: Tabling at Pepperwood Preserve Wildflower Festival in April.60 volunteer hours7. Education Efforts: Scholarship of $500.00 awarded to Sonoma State Student DanielPfeifer.8. Work Parties at our Preserves: The Milo Baker Chapter has 4 preserves a) Vine Hillnear Santa Rosa, b) Rincon Ridge, Santa Rosa c) South Ridge, Santa Rosa d)Cunningham Marsh, Sebastopol.Vine Hill: 135 volunteer hoursRincon Ridge: 45 volunteer hoursSouth Ridge: 40 volunteer hoursCunningham Marsh: 97 volunteer hours and 8 paid hours (mowing)Total Preserve Volunteer Hours: 317 volunteer hoursCosts associated with Preserves: $1982.719. Conservation: worked on several projects: airport expansion which continues to be alocal issues and state issues.Local: 75 hoursState: 160 hours10. Plant Sale: 41st Annual plant sale consisting of plants propagated and grown byChapter members. The plants are the result of 4 workshops. The iris workshop inDecember produces about 130 Pacific Coast Native Iris for the sale. Members growthem on until the October sale. In February, there is a division workshop at the home ofplant sale chair, Liz Parsons. Members divide wild ginger, bleeding heart, goldenrod,wood fern, zauschneria, and other plants that are easy to divide and take them homeand grow them on. In May there is a workshop at California Flora nursery wheremembers pot up liners that are provided by Shooting Star Propagation Nursery--Arctostaphylos, Ceanothus, Ribes, and members take them home to grow on.In August we have a workshop at Casa Grande High School in Petaluma to pot

up fast growing natives--Salvias, Mimulus, Zauschneria, provided by Shooting StarNursery. Additional volunteer activities include packaging native seeds, creating labels,publicity, maintenance of all plants, transferring plants, coordinating volunteers and setup of the plant sale. The treasurer also spends time preparing and accounting for all of thesales.Total Revenue: 10,155.50Net profit: $6,507.45Total Volunteer Hours: 500 plant sale related volunteer hoursOther Activities:Sonoma State University Herbarium Volunteer Work- 100 hoursSonoma County Conservation Council Representative - 64 volunteer hoursSonoma County Water Coalition: 30 hoursTotal volunteer hours 2186

CNPS CHAPTER ANNUAL REPORTMojave Desert Chapter 2012Report Prepared by Tim Thomas, Chapter President and DelegateWe are requesting a subvention.Overview of Chapter - We are centered at the Victor Valley College and work with the schoolherbarium which is now part of the Consortium of California Herbaria. We have the opportunityto include many students in our monthly program activities and educate them about CNPS. Mostof our activities occur in northern San Bernardino County, from Big Bear Valley in the SanBernardino Mountains north into the Mojave Desert.We are working cooperatively with other high desert conservation organizations (Sierra Club,Mojave Bird Club, Mojave River Natural History Assn., Turtle and Tortoise Club, Dark SkyAssn...) to provide a regional network of limited personnel to cover conservation issues.Our conservation chair (Tom Egan) has doggedly followed the Bureau of Land ManagementOHV management problems and has worked with the courts to attempt to bring that programinto public law compliance. A difficult task when the area manager is a specialist in OHVrecreation. (250 HRS.)Our Desert rare plant chair (Jim Andre) concentrates on the eastern Mojave, Owens Valley andsouthern Nevada, and chairs the CNPS Rare Plant Program Committee. He has reviewed andcommented on the large misdirected alternative energy, habitat destroying projects on publiclands. (400 + HRS)Chapter ActivitiesBoard Meetings and Chapter monthly program meetings were combined.Feb. 8 – High Desert Conservation Coalition Meeting – Mojave River Issues - 42 participants(5 HRS)Field TripsApril 22 – Pioneertown Bioblitz – participated with a one day data gathering effort to assist thelocal community to assemble biologic background information regarding a potential wind farm.5 members and 52 participants. (50 HRS)May 19 – Rare Plant Treasure Hunt, chapter participation Juniper Flats, documented new localityfor Castilleja plagiotoma (16 HRS)May 26 – Rare Plant Treasure Hunt, chapter participation, Granite Mtns (one of the six in theMojave) near Lucerne Valley (8 HRS)June 27 – Rare plant hike to Sugarloaf Mtns in the San Bernardino National Forest (20 HRS)

July 20-22 - Rare Plant Treasure Hunt, chapter participation, Horseshoe Mdws. Southern SierraNevada. Updated population sizes for Monardella beneolens, Boechera tularensis, Cryptanthahowellii and rediscovered a 1911 site for Hackellia sharsmithii (50 HRS)NewsletterWe published one newsletter and one postcard. (4 HRS)We currently have 32 members (and increase of 2). We are a quiet chapter, the active membersparticipate independently.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME__Monterey Bay__________YEAR____2012________NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT Brian LeNeve___WE ARE__X__/ARE NOT______ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of yourboard and members. What are your chapter’s special strengths andaccomplishments?CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by yourchapter, the number of people who attended (both members and nonmembers),and the approximate number of volunteer hours required toorganize these activities. Do not include hours attending programs or fieldtrips except for those persons leading or organizing them.1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers, chairs.Monterey Bay Chapter holds 4 board meetings per year with 5 officers, 4board members, and some committee chairs. The president, secretary andtreasurer have additional duties. Total time 270 hours2. State Board meetings and Chapter Council meetings. Total time 102 hours2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants pertrip, volunteer hours Monterey Bay held 41 field trips last year. The fieldtrip chair spent 62 hours organizing the trips and leaders spent another 164hours scouting and leading. Total time 226 hours3. Programs: # of program meetings: Please list subjects and speakers/ # ofattendees per meeting/expenses (i.e. room rental, speaker fees, hospitalitysupplies) Monterey Bay held 9 general meetings last year, each with a speaker.Monterey Bay offers an Honorarium of up to $300.00 per speaker, takes speaker todinner and organizes lodging if necessary. Average attendance is 35 people. Time fororganizing program, lodging, dinner for speaker, and set up of room. Total time 100hours.4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annualcost. Monterey Bay produced 9 newsletters last year with time forediting, collecting from printer, and mailing. Total time 140 hours.5. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contacts. Monterey Bay

participated in several public outreach events last year, three on theCSUMB campus, one helping another non-profit educational group, andtwo community events. Total time 50 hours.6. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to gradstudents; in-service training for teachers; donation of education materialsto schools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs. /project. Otherthan book sales, Monterey Bay did minimal education efforts last year.Total time 60 hours.7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter hasworked on/types of conservation activities (review documents, attendhearings, etc.), coalitions/cooperators with whom you worked. MontereyBay commented on two EIR’s last year and kept up on many planned projects.Total time 815 hours.8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/volunteer hours Monterey Bay held weed bashes at Point Lobos andSoberanes Canyon. Total time 350 hours.9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type ofcontact (i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters to theeditor, petitions, press conferences) legislative contacts with reps andstaff/#volunteer hours. None this year.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant Program General upkeep on area plantlist, upkeep on Monterey County Flora, and redoing plant list for MontereyCounty. Total time 400 hours.11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale?Wildflower show? /#volunteer hrs. / How many people attended eachevent/do you grow your own plants, if so %/any interesting/useful ideasto share Monterey Bay holds one plant sale and one wildflower show peryear. The plant sale involves 12 to 14 members and is attended by over 300people. Time spent 160 hours. The wildflower show is held in cooperationwith the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. Besides the wildflowershow that featured 657 taxa members participated by holding severalworkshops or programs during the show. This year we had to startremaking the identification cards to reflect the new names. The attendanceis usually over 2,000 members of the public and took 550 hours for all parts.Total time 710 hours

12. Other Activities:Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the majorchallenges or problems facing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation,has it improved or gotten worse, what steps did you take to address theproblem and did they help? As president my biggest concern is findingthe leaders of the future and ongoing development.Monterey Bay total volunteer time 3,223 hours.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME: Mount Lassen YEAR: 2012Report prepared by Susan Mason (Membership & Invasive Plant Chairs)WE ARE REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTERThe Mount Lassen Chapter, based in Chico, serves Butte, Glenn, Tehama and Plumas Counties. Ourchapter of about 230 members is located in a relatively small community but we benefit greatly fromhaving a strong Chico State University botany program, the CSU Chico Herbarium and the NorthernCalifornia Botanists organization, which is also based locally. Jim Bishop, longtime Chapter member andholder of various CNPS offices, was elected as CNPS Fellow this year. Our Rare Plants Chair, Ron Coley,received a state CNPS award for his photo of Hibiscus lasiocarpus var. occidentalis. On a sadder note,Phyllis Lindley our Membership/Mailing/Hospitality Chair and Treasurer Susan Bazell both died this yearafter short illnesses.We continue to promote the mission of CNPS through outreach events, well-attended general meetingsand field trips. For the last several years, we have benefitted financially with minimal effort byparticipating in an August-September communitywide fundraising drive, sponsored by the North ValleyCommunity Foundation. This has helped us get through the period between our biannual fundraisers,the Wildflower Show and Native Plant Sale. We’re also asking members to donate used natural historybooks which we sell at our general meetings along with the usual t-shirts, posters, and new books.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES1. Board Meetings: The Chapter holds 9 board meetings per calendar year. There are 8 elected officersand 16 chair positions for permanent committees. Total time spent at board meetings was 259 hours.Position Hours Chairs & Committees Hours Chairs & Committees HoursPresident 80 Chapter Council 400 Membership/Mailings 196Vice President Conservation 251 Newsletter Editor 405Past President Education 154 Publicity/Graphics 48Secretary 27 Events 142 Design Programs 77Treasurer 125 Field Trips 257 Rare Plants 2303 At-Large Board Horticulture 120 Sales (non-plant) 30Hospitality 16 Volunteer RecognitionInvasive Plants 46 Web/Communications 192Total Other Vol.Hours of Officers,ChairsCommittees27962. Field Trips: Thirty six (36) Field Trips were scheduled in 2012. Of these, two (2) of these were rainedout and one (1) was cancelled due to a fire in the vicinity of the field trip location. Twenty-four (24) ofthe trips were led by Gerry Ingco and/or Wes Dempsey and the rest by ten (10) other leaders.2012 Annual Report Mount Lassen Chapter—CNPS Page 1

Month Location # ofAttendeesJanuary Banana Belt Walk, Upper Bidwell Park 16February CSU Chico greenhouses tour 25March Yahi Trail, Upper Bidwell Park 29CSU Chico Trees Spring Tour #1 22Upper Butte Creek BLM trip 4CSU Chico Trees Spring Tour #2 10Magalia Spotted Fawn Lilies & McNab Cypress--rained out 0Pinnacles National Monument camping trip 20April Flower Id Hike, Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve 15Nomlaki Trail, Mendocino National Forest 15Pulga to Mayaro—Feather River 14May Feather Falls Trail 9Maidu Medicine Walk, Upper Bidwell Park 27Caribou Trail, Upper North Fork Feather River-rained out 0June Deer Creek Falls & Fish Ladder 15Valley Creek SIA, Plumas National Forest—cancelled due to fire 0July John Copeland Memorial Meadow Slosh, Jonesville 13Lumpkin ridge Revised Check Listing 9Brady’s Camp SIA, Plumas National Forest 9Carter Meadows 19White Mountains 15August Humbug Summit Check Listing 4Hat Lake to Paradise Meadow, Lassen Volcanic National Park 8Caribou Wilderness—rained out 0September Butterfly Valley Botanical area 6Eagle Rocks & Humboldt Summit 11Maidu Medicine Walk, Upper Bidwell Park 14October Forest Lake, Lassen Volcanic National Park 5Willow Lake & Terminal Geyser, Lassen Volcanic National Park 3Deer Creek Trail, Lassen National Forest 3Deer Creek Trail, Lassen National Forest 3Ten Mile House Trail, Upper Bidwell Park 8November CSU Chico Trees Fall Tour #1 35CSU Chico Trees Fall Tour #2 22Old Plant Introduction Station Tree Walk 11CSU Chico Trees Fall Tour #3 5Total Attendees 4132012 Annual Report Mount Lassen Chapter—CNPS Page 2

3. Programs/General Meetings:Month/Location Speaker(s) Program # ofAttendeesFebruary/Chico Jennifer Jewell California Native Plants in the 44Garden--They Belong There!March/Chico Anna Stephens, Calli-Jane Homes, Native Plants and Fire 30BurchApril/Chico Marjorie McNairn Exploring the Outback at Kangaroo 33LakeMay/Oroville Margit Sands, MikeTake a Peek Inside the Sutter Buttes 33HubbarttJune/Magalia Wes Dempsey Annual chapter picnic & naturewalk at Merlot Park20September/Chico Jim Bishop Member Photos and GLORIAupdateOctober/Chico Lise Smith-Peters, Paula Chico High School Students GrowShapiroPlants for Bidwell ParkNovember/Chico Susan Mason Controlling Invasive Plants in theGarden or at a Landscape LevelDecember/Chico Cindy Weiner, RobertFischer, Rob SchlisingTotalAttendanceMarvelous Mountain Wildflowersalong the Eastern Edge of ButteCountyThere were nominal costs for hospitality supplies. Dinners for presenters cost $160. The Butte CountyLibrary meeting rooms in Chico and Oroville are provided free of charge.4. Newsletter: Nine (9) issues of the Pipevine are mailed each year with an average of 8-12 pages perissue, a total of 90 pages in 2012. The annual cost is $2,600 for printing and mailing. Our newsletter isalso available online in color. Our newsletter editor Denise Devine reports that preparing contentprovided by others, editing and design took 405 hours. Her maintenance of our Facebook page required100 hours and additional graphic work for chapter programs, posters and letters was 30 hours.Preparing the mailing labels and the mailers took 82 hours, including hand-delivery of copies to librariesand local nurseries. Having the state CNPS maintain & email to us the updated membership list everymonth saves us a lot of time--we’re very appreciative of the work this entails.5. Public Outreach Events: We participated in eight (8) events in 2012Month Description # ofVolunteersHours # ofQueriesJan Snow Goose Festival 10 15 14March KCHO fund drive, answered phones 2 3April Chico Science Fair 3 13April Celebrate the Jewel /Native Plant Sale 5 19 11332032423132012 Annual Report Mount Lassen Chapter—CNPS Page 3

April Oroville Wildflower Festival & Table Mountain Wildflower 10 36 10WalkMay Endangered Species Faire 8 22 23Sept Annie B’s Fundraising Campaign, City Plaza 2 6 4Oct Farm City Harvest Festival/Native Plant Sale 7 18 7Oct Home & Garden Show 3 10 10Totals 50 142 79At these events, a query indicates our membership chair sent out a complimentary newsletter. We alsomail out sample newsletters upon request after our general meetings and field trips.6. Education Efforts: Our Education Chair Adrienne Edwards focused on educating the public aboutnative plants and habitats, and how native plants can be used in urban environments to make urbanareas more ecosystem friendly. She researched and wrote language for new interpretive nature signsalong a popular 3.5 mile creekside trail (Yahi Trail) in Bidwell Park: “The Yahi Trail is like a native habitatgarden full of native and exotic plants that serves to give people a sense of place with respect to ourNorthern California environment. The Yahi Trail sign revisions are an ongoing project. Now that the draftlanguage and sign styles have been developed, I will work with stakeholders to write grants and get thenew signs implemented.” Adrienne also worked on a native plant garden at a K-8 school: “I will continueto maintain a school native plant garden because it brings native plants to young students so they canappreciate the individual qualities (colors, smells, textures, ethnobotanical uses, etc.) that native plantsbring, and how they differ from the typical non-native ornamentals planted in most of our urban areas. “She was a judge at the Chico Science Fair for which we also provided prizes to botany-related exhibitors.Our Horticulture Chair continues to work with a high school horticulture class that is growing nativeplants for Bidwell Park. We paid registration fees for two (2) students to attend the 2013 NorthernCalifornia Botanist’s Symposium.7. Conservation: In 2012, the chapter’s Conservation Chair Woody Elliott was involved in tracking andadvocacy on these projects:North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve Accessible Trail, Land Acquisition, and LandManagement Plan implementation.Butte Regional Conservation PlanBidwell Ranch PreservationProposed OHV Trails in Proposed Botanical Special Interest Area: Brady's Camp - Mt. HoughDistrict: Plumas National ForestAgricultural Conversion Mitigation Ordinance: Butte CountyPeregrine Point Disc Golf Course Mitigation - Bidwell ParkBidwell Park Natural Resource Management Plan ImplementationHabitat Restoration Projects: Bidwell Sacramento River State ParkM & T Ranch Pump Intake Maintenance: Gravel Removal and Storage on the Sacramento RiverState legislative "improvements" to CEQA process8. Work Parties: Our Chapter is in its 5 th year of maintaining a creekside trail, providing minor treadrepairs and pruning. We are expanding our invasive plant education and removal projects, both in cooperationwith the City of Chico Park Division and by assisting other groups that have ongoing weed-2012 Annual Report Mount Lassen Chapter—CNPS Page 4

emoval projects, such as the Paradise Doom the Broom coalition, the Forest Ranch Broom Educationand Eradication Program, the Butte County Weed Management Area and Friends of Bidwell Park. We’realso working with Cal-IPC to update and fundraise for reprinting the Central Valley Don’t Plant a Pestbrochure.Description# of HoursVolunteersMaintenance of Yahi Trail in Upper Bidwell Park 26 72Maintenance of Chico Creek Nature Center’s Native Plant Garden 6 10Removal of privet (Ligustrum japonicum, L. lucidum, L. ovalifolium) & 69 194European olive (Olea europa) trees from Teichert Ponds open spaceRemoval of invasive plants from other public open spaces 4 10Totals 105 2929. Legislative Activity: No formal legislative action was taken by the board in 2012. Legislative notes arewritten periodically by David Anderson and published in the newsletter and chapter website.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant Program: There were 7 chapter Rare Plant Treasure Hunts during 2012,all led by Rare Plants Chair Ron Coley: “The rare plant treasure hunt is going well; we are finding someof the plants that have not been found in 20 years or more.”Description# ofHoursParticipantsRare Plant Treasure Hunt—Thomes Creek Ecological Reserve 6 49.5Rare Plant Treasure Hunt—Wurlitzer Unit, part of Vina Plains Preserve 6 41.5Rare Plant Treasure Hunt—Dales Lake Ecological Reserve & Hog Lake 4 37Rare Plant Treasure Hunt—Butte Creek Trail on BLM land Doe Mill Rd 2 16Rare Plant Treasure Hunt—Little Dry Creek in Upper Butte Creek Wildlife 1 8AreaRare Plant Treasure Hunt—Gray Lodge Wildlife Area 1 8Rare Plant Treasure Hunt—Mountain Meadow Reservoir 8 69.5Totals 28 229.511. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: Native plant sales were held in conjunction with our outreach tableduring the spring Celebrate the Jewel event held at the Chico Creek Nature Center and the fall HarvestFestival held at Bidwell Mansion. Most of the plants were grown by our Horticulture Chair Paula Shapiroand other members; some were donated from local native plant nurseries. We began planning for ourbiannual Wildflower Show and Native Plant Sale to be held in April 2013.12: Other Activities: Chapter Web Site: State CNPS is hosting the Chapter’s websitehttp://mountlassen.cnps.org/ which is edited and maintained by Woody Elliott.13: General Chapter Concerns: The cost of printing and mailing our newsletter continues to increase sowe are now starting to offer an email option. Like many other chapters, we have difficulty attractingand keeping new members. Continuing to offer programs and field trips that appeal to long-timemembers as well as attracting potential new members is always a challenge. This year, due to the deaths2012 Annual Report Mount Lassen Chapter—CNPS Page 5

of two (2) active members, we’ve recognized a need to better document the work we do to avoid losinginstitutional memory. Our 2013 Vice-President Angie Tilaro has taken on this task.The work we do in any particular year is a reflection of the interests of those volunteers who are activeparticipants during that time period. Many worthwhile projects and programs are suggested but there’sno one with the time/interest to implement them.TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR 2012 (MINIMUM): 33472012 Annual Report Mount Lassen Chapter—CNPS Page 6

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME____NAPA VALLEY ____________YEAR___2012_____NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT:___Henni Cohen, President __________________WE ARE__X__/ARE NOT______ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of your board andmembers. What are your chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments?The main focus of the Napa Valley Chapter is to maintain and enhance the Martha Walker CaliforniaNative Habitat Garden (MWG), which is located in Skyline Wilderness Park in the city of Napa andhas been in existence for over 25 years.In the three acre demonstration garden, most plant species are identified and arranged in plantcommunities that are representative of the Napa Valley: meadow, riparian, mixed evergreen forest,oak woodland, chaparral, and redwood forest. The purpose of the garden is to familiarize citizens ofNapa County with California native plants and to share their value in creating successful wildlifehabitat. We also provide an educational setting to supplement the environmental educationcurriculum of the Napa Valley School District. To that end, we host school groups in the Gardenseveral times each year.In addition, the Napa Valley Chapter holds two plant sales each year, inApril and October. The sales further the important tasks of introducingnative plants for use in the garden and providing a source of native plantsthat are not otherwise available to the public at commercial nurseries. Inconnection with the April sale, we also have a wildflower show thatidentifies the many wildflowers that exist in Napa County.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by your chapter,the number of people who attended (both members and non-members), and theapproximate number of volunteer hours required to organize these activities. Donot include hours attending programs or field trips except for those personsleading or organizing them.1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers, chairsThe Napa Valley Chapter Board generally meets monthly throughout the year, with the exception ofone month during the summer and in December. Most officers spend between 5 and 10hours/month, with the following exceptions:

Curator of MWG: 30-40 hrs/monthNewsletter Editor: 15-18 hrs/monthWebmaster: 8-10 hrs/monthMembership Chair: 5 hrs/monthPresident: 25-30 hrs/month2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants per trip,volunteer hoursThe following is a list of the locations, dates, and leaders for the 2012 field trips. Unless otherwisestated, all field trips began with a carpool/caravan at 9:00 AM. Participants were requested to bringsnacks, lunch, ample drinking water and sturdy hiking shoes. Steady rain canceled trips.Mushroom Walks: Saturday, January 14 Mushroom walk at Las Posadas Land Trust of Napa County. Leader:Jake Ruygt 15 participants Saturday, January 28 Mushroom walk at Archer Taylor Preserve Land Trust of NapaCounty Leader: Jake Ruygt 18 participants Saturday, February 11 Flyway Festival Mushroom Walk at Mare Island Leader: JakeRuygt 35 participants December 15 Mushroom walk at Las Posadas Leader: Jake RuygtThe focus of these walks was on mushroom identification. 24 participantsMushroom HuntersHike leader Jake Rugyt explained the difference between saprophytic, mycorrhizal and parasiticforms. Many different species were identified. Highlights included Amanita, Bluettes, Turkey Tails,Lion’s Mane, Poor Man's Slippery Jack - Suillus fuscotomentosus, Poison pies. All walks lasted3+ hours.Tuesday, March 6 - The first of Weekly Wildflower Hikes: location decided each week as theseason dictated. Leaders: Mike Parmeter, Juanita Doran and Margaret Barson. We led 13 Tuesday walks each at about 5 hours with an average of 4 participants and 2leaders.

In addition to the weekly Tuesday walks, the following is a list of the 2012 Saturday WildflowerWalks:Saturday, March 3 Rockville Hills Park in Fairfield Leader: Linda PriceSaturday, March 10 Skyline Park Leaders: Mike ParmeterSaturday, March 17 Bothe Napa Valley State Park Leader: Mike ParmeterSaturday, March 24 Aetna Springs Leader: Mike ParmeterSaturday, March 31 Smittle Creek Leaders: Berryessa Park Ranger Mike McGraw, LindaPriceSaturday, April 7 Moore Creek Leaders: Linda Price, Margaret BarsonSaturday, April 14 Skyline Park Hikes at Wildflower Show Leaders: Mike Parmeter at10:00AM, Jake Ruygt at 1:00PMSaturday, April 21 Snell Valley Land Trust of Napa County Missimer WildflowerPreserve Leader Jake RuygtSaturday, April 28 Toll Canyon Leader Jake RuygtSaturday, May 5 Bodega Bay Leader: Mike Parmeter THIS TRIP LEFT THE MEETINGPLACE AT 7:30 AMSaturday, May 12 Mead Ranch Land Trust of Napa County Leader Jake RuygtSaturday, May 26 Point Reyes National Seashore exact location to be decidedAll of these trips were held as planned, and on average we had 12 participants and usually 2 leaders.Each trip on average lasted 6 hours. It takes about one hour of planning for each one. We have ageneral planning meeting with four people; 10 hours including preparation and meeting time for that.Collection and set up for the flower show takes about 12 hours (2 people not including Jake's time).In addition, on Saturday, May 19, we held a Plantathon. CNPS experts, supported by pledges,counted plant species over the course of the day to raise funds for the Martha Walker Garden.Leader: Mike Parmeter. We raised $770.3. Programs: # of program meetings: Please list subjects and speakers/ # ofattendees per meeting/expenses (i.e. room rental, speaker fees, hospitalitysupplies)April 11, 2012, in conjunction with the Spring Plant Sale and Wildflower Show: ‘EncouragingBees in your Garden’ by local honey producer Spencer Marshall, Marshall’s Farm NaturalHoney, American Canyon, CAApproximately 30 people attended.No speaker fee. Hospitality fees were approximately $20.On October 10, 2012, our pre-sale presentation focused on California native plants thatattract bees for pollination. The attendees learned about how a colony of bees works andthe role of the beekeeper in the process of obtaining the honey. Different plants producedifferent honeys with different flavors and color. There were many questions about how

to encourage bees in the garden. Spencer has set up 6 hives in our nursery area, and all thecolonies are thriving.October 10, 2012,in conjunction with our Fall Plant Sale: Helen Popper, the author ofCalifornia Native Gardening: A Month-by-month Guide, gave a presentation on gardeningin California with native plants. Helen is a delightful speaker and avid gardener from theBay area who has collected some of the most useful, practical, and inspiring informationfrom years of association with native plant experts (including CNPS members!)In her presentation, Helen described the natural environmental conditions to whichCalifornia plants have adapted. Of course, the most important is that we have dry, hotsummers and cool, wet winters. This rainfall pattern creates an opportunity as well aschallenges for the native plant gardener.No speaker fee. Hospitality fees were neglible.Both programs were held in the Social Hall in Skyline Park which is available for our use withoutcharge.4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annual cost6 issues/year. Approximately 15-20 hours/issue. The newsletter is distributed primarily byemail. We have approximately 675 email addresses to which it is delivered. We mail 33 issuesto individuals who do not have email addresses.In addition, periodic email blasts (average 1/mo) announce workshops, garden events, andthe wildflower walks. Approximately 2-3 hrs/email blast.Annual cost of printing, postage: $400/yr. As more people choose to receive the newsletterby email, this cost should go down.5. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contactsFebruary 10-12: San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival: We staffed an informational table atthe festival held on Mare Island, Vallejo. The display included a computerized slide showof native plants and the Martha Walker Garden, several examples of native plants. Wedistributed brochures about CNPS and MWG. 6 volunteers spent 30 hours.April 21, 2012: Napa's 2012 Earth Day in downtown Napa on ahot and sunny April 21. The CNPS booth celebrated Californianative wildflowers, with more than 50 on display. Set up andstaffed by Kathleen and Lloyd Chasey and Mia Malm, the colorand variety of the plants on display drew many interested EarthDay celebrants. We gave away California poppies and lupinesto people who stopped by to start their own native wildflowergarden. For those who made a small donation, we gave them a 4

Jake Ruygt continues to work on the manuscript of a book on the flora of Napa County.150 hours8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/ volunteerhoursDuring the summer of 2012, the roofs of the upper and middle gazebos in the Gardenwere replaced. Contractor Mike Smith very generously donated his time and expertiseto use found and donated materials to create stunning new roofs that replaced theoriginal decaying wood and net roofs. The usual Thursday morning volunteer group,including curator Loretta Radey, Doyce Sneed, Delio Cuneo, and visitors Karen Mannand Louanne Talbot assisted with the project. 9 volunteers/ 150 hours.Middle gazeboUpper gazeboWith the help of one of the Skyline Park trail workers, volunteer Doyce Sneed replacedthe old gate into the nursery. A huge improvement in security and aesthetics.9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type of contact(i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters to the editor, petitions,press conferences) legislative contacts with reps and staff/#volunteer hours.None10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramNone11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale? wildflowershow?/#volunteer hrs./ how many people attended each event/do you grow yourown plants, if so %/any interesting/useful ideas to shareWe have 2 plant sales each year, generally the first or second weekend of April and October, held inthe CNPS nursery in Skyline Park in Napa.April 13, 14, and 15, 2012: Spring Plant Sale and Preview Party and Wildflower Show

Friday, April 13, 7-9PM: Plant Sale Member Preview Party: For members and guests for asneak preview at the hundreds of labeled specimens in the sale. Members received a 10%discount on all plant purchases while enjoying wine and waiting for door prize drawing.Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15, 10AM to 4PM:Plant Sale: Sale of hundreds of native plants for the garden. Expert help was available forgardening question about using natives in the home garden.Wildflower Show: Display of over 200 native flowers, with wildflower walks in Skyline Park(10AM and 1PM).October 12, 13, and 14, 2012: Fall Plant Sale and Preview PartyFriday, October 12, 7:00 to 9:00PM Plant Sale Member PreviewFor CNPS members & friends, a wine tasting and door prize drawing the evening before theFall Plant Sale.Saturday and Sunday, October 13 and 14, 10:00AM to 4:00PMPlant Sale: Over 1,000 hard to find native plants were available for sale.Volunteers managed publicity to local media outlets, produced flyers which were posted around area;clean up and set up the Nursery area; accepted deliveries from wholesale nursery providers; markedall plants with identification tags; organized plants in plant communities with signs designatingvarious areas (shade, dry shade, chaparral, oak woodlands, meadows, etc.); set up for Preview Party;wildflower collection and set up for Wildflower Show; sales assistance.Twelve (12) volunteers work 15-20 hours each on presale activities; 15-18 additional volunteers staffthe preview party and sale in 4 hour shifts; 6 plant expert volunteers staff the sale for the entireperiod.We do not grow our own plants, but purchase them from wholesale native plant nurseries. We havesold out all plants at both sales. Several hundred attendees on each sale date.Providing 10% discount to members increased new membership.12. Other Activities:During the 2012 year, the main focus of the Chapter was the maintenance of the Martha WalkerGarden. We identified areas that needed to be rejuvenated, replanted as necessary, and removednon-native species and volunteer plants that were crowding out other plants. These enhancementsmade the Garden more visible, thereby increasing visits by the general public.In May and September, the Napa Valley Community Foundation awarded us with 4 unsolicitedgrants totaling $6,100 for general operating purposes. The Board decided to designate asignificant portion of these funds to assist Conservation Chair Jake Ruygt publish his work on theflora of Napa County. The remainder of the funds will be used for improvements to the Gardenand nursery areas.

Volunteer recruitment has been slow, but we are happy to report that we now have a newwebmaster and a new newsletter editor. Both volunteers are doing an excellent job. The websiteis up to date and the newsletter is being published every other month along with email blasts onactivities.Our regular crew of volunteers who work in the Garden every Wednesday morning from 9 tonoon has grown from 5 women to include 4 men. This dedicated group of volunteers keep upwith the Garden maintenance. In addition, the bird feeders are filled every week by 1 dedicatedvolunteer. Bird seed is donated by another CNPS member.Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the major challenges orproblems facing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation, has it improved orgotten worse, what steps did you take to address the problem and did they help?As always, the major challenges for the Nap Valley Chapter is obtaining adequate funding andattracting adequate number of volunteers to maintain the Martha Walker Garden. Almost uniqueamong CNPS chapters, maintaining and improving the 3 acre native habitat and plant garden requiresa considerable commitment of volunteer time as well as a continued need for funds to financemaintenance and improvements.In general, most Napa Valley CNPS members are primarily interested in attending the plant sales andreceiving information about using native plants in the garden. With our new newsletter and websitecapabilities, we are hoping to increase the level of active participation as well as increase ourmembers’ awareness of ongoing conservation issues that affect the state.Funding sources include proceeds from our plant sales, private donations, and grants. Findingpossible grant sources and writing proposals is an ongoing challenge.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME: North Coast Chapter YEAR: 2012NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT: Kim McFarland, Vice PresidentWE ARE__X__/ARE NOT______ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER:Our chapter is a strong mix of professional botanists, amateur plant‐watchers,academics, conservationists, and gardeners. We offer a reliable program of eveninglectures, field trips, interpretive walks, a quarterly newsletter, a yard consultationservice, and native plant sales. We have 278 members, the same as last year.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES1. Board Meetings: (473 total volunteer hours)The Steering Committee currently consists of 16 members. We held nine 1.5‐hourmeetings, averaging 7 attendees (95 hours). We welcomed some new committeemembers this year in the offices of Membership Guru and Vice President.The estimated volunteer hours for each of the non‐activity‐oriented offices are asfollows: President: 200 hours Vice President: 100 hours Secretary: 14 hours Treasurer: 40 hours Membership Guru: 24 hrs2. Field Trips: (126 total volunteer hours)Outings are open to everyone, not just members. Day trips are advertised throughchapter channels: newsletter, website, and list serve. Interpretive walks areannounced through chapter channels plus public press and radio. Day tripsaveraged 13 participants; walks averaged 9. We lead 21 trips with 11 leaders and anaverage of 6 volunteer hours per trip.Field Trips in 2012: Patrick's Point day hike (Trip leader: Carol Ralph). Willows at the Blue Lake Fish Hatchery, day hike. (Trip leader: Carol Ralph) Introduction to Native and Non‐native Plants at Arcata Marsh. (Walk leaders:Jenny Hanson and Rich Ridenhour; co‐sponsored by Friends of the ArcataMarsh.)

Native Plants in Yards and Forest (walk leaders: Kathy Dilley and Pete Haggard; inconjunction with the Godwit Days bird festival)E‐Ne‐Nuk and Bluff Creek, day hike, near Orleans.Ferns in the Dunes, Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge.(Walk leader: Carol Ralph; co‐sponsored by Friends of the Dunes.)Wildflowers in a Hydesville Forest. (Walk leaders: Ralph and Janelle Egger;property owners: Bill and Linda Shapeero.)Getting to Know the Plants on Elk River Trail in Headwaters Forest. (Walk leader:BLM Ranger Julie Clark; co‐sponsored by Bureau of Land Management.)Flora of the Dunes, Manila Community Center. (Walk leader: Patti Sennott; cosponsoredby Friends of the Dunes.)Wildflowers of the Dunes, Manila Community Center. (Walk leader: LaurelGoldsmith; co‐sponsored by Friends of the Dunes.)Stony Creek half‐day hike. (Trip leader: Carol Ralph.)Walker Ridge and Bear Valley road trip and campout. (Trip leader: Carol Ralph.)Azaleas! at the Azalea State Reserve, McKinleyville, CA. (Walk leader: PeteHaggard.)Lewisia kelloggii Rare Plant Treasure Hunt and Campout. (Trip leader: JohnMcRae)Umbellifer Quest, Arcata to Cold Spring, day trip. (Trip leader: Carol Ralph)Sanger Lake and Youngs Valley, Field Trip and Campout. (Trip leader: CarolRalph)Orchids in the Dunes, Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge.(Walk leader: Carol Ralph.)The Mad River from Hiller Park to Clam Beach, Day Hike. (Trip leader: CarolRalph)Jacoby Creek Old Growth Cedars day hike. (Trip leader: Carol Ralph)Looking at Lichens Day Hike, Horse Mountain‐Cold Spring area. (Trip leader: TomCarlberg.)Berry Glen Trail Day Hike, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. (Trip leader: CarolRalph)3. Programs: (125 total volunteer hours)Evening programs are held on the second Wednesday of each month, Septemberthrough May. Programs are free to the public and well received with an average of52 people in attendance (range 40‐90). Rental for the meeting space is $70/monthat the Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, Arcata. Volunteers provide the refreshments;expenses are covered by food donations and a donation jar at the counter. Webudget $200 to help out‐of‐town speakers with travel expenses. Total volunteerhours for evening programs is approximately 110 hours/year excluding publicity.Evening Programs presented in 2012: Bob Stewart: "Butterfly‐Insect‐Flower Relationships in Humboldt County."

Dr. Frank Shaughnessy: "The Big Story of Plant Evolution, from a Predator thatAte Photosynthesis to a Modern Flower.”Russell and Yvonne Graham: "Touting Trillium‐‐Woodland and Shade GardenEssentials."John and Vicki Patton: "A Native Plant Garden Story."Nikos Najarian: "Heart Rot Fungi, at the Heart of the Forest."Robin Bencie: "A Database, a Man, and a Mountain: retracing the footsteps ofbotanist J.P. Tracy to Trinity Summit "Ken Stumpf and Chris Stumpf: "Floral Jewels among All That Rock at LassenNational Park."Cheri Sanville and Bianca Hayashi: "Discoveries and Fun with Local Fawn Lilies"Our December tradition: Native Plant Show & Tell: an informal evening foranyone to share photos, artifacts, readings, or food relating to native plants andtheir habitats.In addition to our regular evening programs, we co‐sponsored a screening of A WildAmerican Forest, a film about the ecology, human history and resource managementof the Klamath‐Siskiyou Ecoregion produced by the Geos Institute in Ashland,Oregon. UC Davis ecologist, Dr. Susan Harrison, introduced the movie with adiscussion of her research of endemic serpentine plants and the results of the resamplingof vegetation plots in the Siskiyou Mountains originally surveyed by R. H.Whittaker in the 1960's. (Sponsored by Northcoast Environmental Center, CNPS,Humboldt State University Natural History Museum, Back Country Press, and GeosInstitute; 4 volunteers, 15 hours.)4. Newsletter, Website and Social Media: (146 total volunteer hours)The North Coast Chapter produces a 12 to 24‐page quarterly newsletter, which canbe viewed at our website, http://northcoastcnps.org. The website received a faceliftthis year and contains a link to our new Facebook page. The annual cost of thenewsletter is approximately $2500/year. Newsletter: 3 volunteers, 56 total volunteer hours (editing and layout: 1volunteer, 32 hours; maintain mailing list: 2 volunteers, 24 hours.) Web site: 3 volunteers, 50 hours Yahoo! groups for activities announcements and gardening: 2 volunteers; 5hours Facebook page: 2 volunteers; 5 hours Fliers for evening programs, PSA's for programs and walks, other publicity: 5volunteers, 30 hours5. Public Outreach Events: (440 total volunteer hours)The North Coast Chapter outreach table was spruced‐up this past year and presentat the following events:

Godwit Days, an annual, three‐day, Redwood Coast wildlife festival. Our chapteralso donated several CNPS posters to the silent auction in support of the event (7volunteers, 14 volunteer hours.) Humboldt Permaculture Guild Seed and Plant Exchange (5 volunteers, 20 hours.) Spring Wildflower Show North Country Fair: a two‐day arts and entertainment festival (11 volunteers, 22volunteer hours.) Biodiversity Conference, Humboldt State University (1 volunteer, 1 hour.) Humboldt Garden Exposition held at the Blue Lake Casino.We sell CNPS posters and chapter t‐shirts at outreach events and at eveningprograms (2 volunteers, 20 hours.)In March, the Native Plant Gardening Chair presented a slide show in Shelter Cove,California as part of an effort in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management toconvince residents there to use more native plants in their yards (15 volunteerhours.) Additional talks were given at the Biodiversity Conference and other venues(20 volunteer hours.)For the past decade, with support from the City of Arcata, the Native PlantGardening Chair has been tending a native plant garden at the Arcata CommunityCenter to serve as an illustration of what can be done with native plants in an urbanenvironment (156 volunteer hours.) It contains trees, shrubs, grasses and forbs andprovides habitat for native ground‐nesting bees. The Native Plant Gardening Chairalso consults and leads volunteer efforts for native gardens for the HumboldtBotanical Garden Foundation (32 volunteer hours) and for Friends of the Dunes atthe Coastal Nature Center (52 volunteer hours.)A different group of members has been tending a small bed of native plants on thecity's central plaza (3 volunteers, 30 hours.) We have been frustrated by randomdestructive acts by the public and have decided to relinquish this space and focusour efforts on the garden at the Community Center.One member showed her garden club a film of a Douglas Tallamy lecture that sheacquired.Our chapter provides a Native Plant Consultation Service to members and thegeneral public. Our experienced gardeners visited 10 properties to identify nativeand invasive plants and to suggest appropriate native plantings (coordinating: 1volunteer, 16 hrs; consulting: 9 volunteers, 42 hours.)6. Education Efforts: (165 total Education Chair volunteer hours) A one‐year membership to CNPS, $50 cash prize and a CNPS poster was grantedto a local student for the best project at the Humboldt County Science Fair

dealing with native plants.Our chapter contributed funds to help 5 Humboldt State University students toattend the 2012 CNPS Conservation ConferenceAt the Spring Wildflower Show, we led 120 students in 5 classes through a seriesof four activities in cooperation with Friends of the Dunes.7. Conservation: (183 total Conservation Chair volunteer hours)The Conservation Chair, Jennifer Kalt, was awarded our chapter’s GildedDarlingtonia Award in appreciation for her years of service to the chapter andadvancing the conservation of California native plants. Some of her 2012 effortsinclude: Review and comment on Smith River NRA OHV Travel Management Plan (20hours) Review and comment on Federal Consistency Determination for the Eureka ‐Arcata Route 101 Corridor Improvement Project (10 hours) Statewide Conservation calls (20 hours) Conservation updates for chapter newsletter (2 hours) Attended 2012 Conservation Conference (8 hours) Prepared status review for Coptis laciniata (3 hours)The Conservation Chair is also the CNPS representative to the NorthcoastEnvironmental Center (NEC) and serves on their Board of Directors as Secretary andExecutive Committee Member. (NEC monthly Board and Executive Committeemeetings: 120 hours.)In 2012, our chapter co‐sponsored the annual meeting of the Humboldt Weedmanagement Area steering committee, a consortium of resource managementagencies, conservation groups and land trusts that works towards the eradication ofinvasive plants in Humboldt County.In support of the Humboldt Bay Regional Invasive Spartina Eradication Project by theUSFWS Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge, we provided emergency funds for timesensitiveSpartina seed viability testing when California State funds fell short in thethird year of a multi‐year study.The Plant Sales Chair assisted Humboldt State University students on a restorationproject in Sequoia Park in Eureka to which our chapter donated over 100 plants.8. Work Parties: (64 total volunteer hours)Fifteen volunteers rescued native plants, including Trillium ovatum, from the ArcataCommunity Forest in an area that would become a transportation corridor for anupcoming timber harvest. The salvaged plants were potted‐up for the plant sale (30volunteer hours.)

Three volunteers spent a day in Six Rivers National Forest spreading rare Lassicslupine seeds in potential habitat (18 volunteer hours.)Our Invasive Plants Chair conducted an “Ammophila sweep” with the USFWSEcologist on the Lanphere Dunes unit of the Humboldt Bay Wildlife Refuge (6volunteer hours.)One member participated in a group working to develop trails in an area where wefrequently go on field trips in the Six Rivers National Forest (10 volunteer hours.)9. Legislative Activity:The steering committee resolved to endorse state Proposition 37 which wouldrequire that GMO food be labeled as such and to broadcast our support in ournewsletter and elsewhere.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant Program: (490 total volunteer hours)Seven participants joined a Six Rivers National Forest botanist for a Rare PlantTreasure Hunt for Lewisia kelloggii in Six Rivers National Forest (70 volunteer hours.)Our Rare Plants Chair submitted a property description to the USFWS for landacquisition to protect the two‐flowered pea. (Rare Plant Chair, 52 hours.)As part of the Challenge Cost Share Supplemental Project Agreement with Six RiversNational Forest, two consultants were hired to conduct demographic monitoring ofLassics lupine and baseline monitoring of Lassics sandwort in Six Rivers NationalForest. Five volunteers monitored the Lassics lupine population over the summer (70volunteer hours.) Efforts continue in encouraging the Forest Service to take thenecessary measures to preserve this species.Artificial propagation was conducted for the Western lily in coordination with theCalifornia Department of Fish and Game and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (12volunteer hours.)Population surveys were conducted for the Wolf’s evening primrose in Trinidad,California, and along the Lost Coast, and a restoration event was held at LuffenholzBeach in cooperation with the students of the Capstone program at Humboldt StateUniversity (24 volunteer hours.)Monitoring of a roadside population of Sidalcea continues in Fieldbrook, California(10 volunteer hours.)Two chapter members surveyed the Wood Creek Wetland Restoration Area for theNorthcoast Regional Land Trust (12 volunteer hours.)

Work continues towards publication of a Redwood Flora Field Guide. This book willbe an accessible, user‐friendly guide to native and non‐native plants in the redwoodsfor our region. This is entirely a volunteer effort with 8 people putting inapproximately 240 hours in 2012.In 2012, our chapter contributed towards the publication costs of the book ConiferCountry: a Natural History of the Conifers of the Klamath Mountain Region byMichael Kauffmann, an active chapter member. The book will be reviewed inFremontia.11. Plant Sales and Wildflower Show: (2232 total volunteer hours)Over 900 people attended the Spring Wildflower Show, our biggest event each year.Free to the public, this is a terrific outreach opportunity and a fun social gatheringfor us. Visitors can see an amazing array of fresh native plant specimens, arrangedby family, all in one room: 375 taxa (292 native), 72 families, and 235 genera. Wealso provide guided walks, lectures, workshops and educational displays (90volunteers, 1300 hours; 60 volunteer hours for event coordinator.)Prior to the Spring Wildflower Show an artist member organized a Wildflower ArtShow of 17 diverse local artists, all celebrating wildflowers, at The Upstairs Gallery,Umpqua Bank, Arcata. Sales benefited the chapter's Transportation Fund to helpbring local elementary school classes to the Spring Wildflower Show.We hold two plant sales a year: one in the spring, as part of the Wildflower Show,and one in the fall. The spring sale is our largest fund raising event and wassupported by 29 volunteers (190 volunteer hours.) Thirteen volunteers participatedin the fall sale (130 volunteer hours.) One volunteer generates all of the labels forour sale plants (25 volunteer hours.) There are two Plant Sales Co‐chairs thatcoordinate all of these efforts plus head‐up the native plant gardening group (275volunteer hours.)About 12 volunteers meet semi‐regularly to propagate plants for plant sales inaddition to rearing plants at their homes (252 volunteer hours.) A native plantpropagation workshop was held in 2012 to help them in their efforts and encouragebudding native plant enthusiasts.

North San Joaquin ChapterCnps Activities 2012January 17 “virtual Garden tour”, good garden photos, small group in attendanceMarch, 2012 GVM garden clean‐up March 10 with 4 attending.March 24, spring plant sale and wildflower display. Well attended, sold out plantsApril 4 Earth Day and Modesto Junior College with Great Valley Museum, flower display from GVMGardenOfficer meeting Oct 8October 27 Fall plant sale, these continue to be well attendedNovember San Joaquin National Wildlife Refuge Tour with Julie Rentner from River Partners to look atrestoration work

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME: Orange County YEAR: 2012WE ARE REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONReport Prepared by Brad Jenkins, 2012 Chapter PresidentCHAPTER OVERVIEWActivities are organized under primary mission areas: Horticulture, Conservation, Science,Education, and Exploration. The short slogan is, “Explore – Grow – Research – Protect”.Additional key teams are Membership, Communications/Publicity, Book Sales, and Finance.Orange County is highly urbanized, although wildlands do exist including part of the ClevelandNational Forest. We finished 2012 with approximately 350 active, primary chapter members.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES (Please describe the activities sponsored by your chapter, the number ofpeople who attended, both members and non-members, and the approximate number ofvolunteer hours required to organize these activities. Do not include hours attending programsor field trips except for those persons leading or organizing them.)1. Board Meetings in 2012a. # of meetings: 10 regular meetings and one summer planning meetingb. Board Members: 4 officers and 7 at-large directors.c. Volunteer Hours Associated with Board & Summer Planning Activities (does notinclude hours documented in other sections of this report)i. President Jenkins: 40 hoursii. VP Camp:40 hoursiii. Treasurer Mabley: 40 hoursiv. Secretary Heuler: 90 hoursv. At-Large Jayne: 25 hoursvi. At-Large Kutcher: 25 hoursvii. At-Large Songster: 25 hoursviii. At-Large Moore: 25 hoursix. At-Large Vanderhoff: 30 hoursx. At-Large C. Field: 25 hoursxi. At-Large M. Field: 25 hours2. Field Trips: Please list lead, location-destination, participants/trip, volunteer hoursProgram Chair: Ron VanderhoffTotal field trip volunteer hours from the committee chair/leader (Ron Vanderhoff) wereapproximately 68, which includes field trip time as well as all logistics and coordination.

UCI EcologicalPreserveElsinore Peak,Santa Ana Mts.Irvine RanchCnsrvncy toTecate CypressSan Juan LoopTrail,Santa.Ana Mts.Upper HotSprings Cyn.,Santa Ana Mts.SAMNHADriving Tour,Santa Ana Mts.Hobo Canyon,Laguna BeachCasper'sRegional ParkSan ClementeState ParkFalls Cyn.,Upper TrabucoCyn., S.A. Mts.2/26 3/18 4/7 4/14 4/29 5/12 5/20 5/26 6/17 11/18 Total:Attendees:Members 28 19 13 17 15 13 13 18 28 164Non-MembersCancelled14 due to rain 1 5 14 20 6 3 3 9 75Total 42 25 18 31 35 19 16 21 37 244Leader RonVanderhoffJuttaBugerRonVanderhoffRonVanderhoffLeeShoemakerRonVanderhoffLauraCampRonVanderhoffRonVanderhoffAssistantsMike FieldBobHunter Mike Field Mike FieldDebraClarkeMike FieldRonVanderhoff Mike Field Mike FieldCathieFieldDickNewellCathieFieldCathieFieldRonVanderhoffCathieFieldCathieFieldCathieFieldNancyHuelerOthersAustinMcCardleAustinMcCardleAustinMcCardleRonVanderhoffVol. Hours 12 6 9 12 7 9 6 9 9 793. Programs: Please list subjects, speakers, # of attendees per meeting, and expenses (room rental,speaker fee, hospitality supplies)Overview: Attendance is between 40 and 80+ people per meeting. Most meetings are held at the“Duck Club”, a house like building surrounded by water district retention ponds and acres of nativeplants in a wildlife friendly setting. We usually have pre-speaker tables for membership, hospitality,and conservation. Additional interest tables sometimes include plants for sale, information, oractivities. The room is free, but must be scheduled well in advance. Approximate total preparationvolunteer hours: 120Program Chair: Dan SongsterDate: January 19 Speaker: Dr. Peter BowlerSubject: UCI Campus and Marsh RestorationDate: February 16 Speaker: Fred RobertsSubject: Botanical Explorations at Broadwell Dry Lake, Mojave DesertDate: March 15 Speaker: Laura CampSubject: The Native Plant Gardens of Casper’s ParkDate: April 19 Speaker: Sandy DeSimone Location: CSU Fullerton Arboretum ($)

Subject: Invasive Battles at Starr RanchDate: May 17 Speaker: Trude HurdSubject: Orange County Plants and the Birds that Love ThemDate: June 21 Speaker: Helen PopperSubject: California Native Gardening: A Month by Month Guide [and book sales, signing]Date: September 20 Speaker: Greg SubaSubject: CNPS – Protecting California’s Flora for (almost) Half a Century… and CountingDate: October 18 Speaker: Celia Kutcher Location: Irvine Ranch Water District OfficeSubject: Native Plants for the Small GardenDate: November 15 Speaker: Gloria SeftonSubject: Foothill Development in Orange County – A Look at the Important IssuesSurrounding Saddle CrestDate: December 20 Speaker: ManySubject: It’s Your Turn (members give 5 minute personal presentations)4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annual costProgram Chair: Sarah JayneSix issues per year. Volunteer hours = 150 hoursApproximate cost to print and mail = $19745. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature of events/volunteershours/public contactsApril 14-15 – Green Scene, CSU Fullerton Arboretum: community Earth Day and plant relatedbooths. CNPS booth provides information and sells plants and books. Estimate two hundredpersonal public contact touch points with more seeing our presence. Volunteer Hours: 60.April 26 – April 30 – South Coast Plaza Spring Garden Show: Large public garden show in athree story mall. Chapter teams with Tree of Life Nursery to provide native plant information, andsell plants and books. Hundreds of public contact touch points. Volunteer Hours: 75.May 5 – Garden Tour: Nineteen gardens were included in this one day tour. We do not charge afee. The top garden was visited by over 200 people. Volunteer hours: 100 (Sarah, Cathie)July – Orange County Fair: Manage booth set up by “Friends of Harbors, Beaches, and Parks”for two days during month. Assisting with booth allows CNPS material to be shown during wholefair, and provides extra outreach during day we are present. Volunteer Hours: 24. (Sarah)Other Simple Talk or Tabling Events: Additional miscellaneous events mostly handled by CeliaKutcher, Sarah Jayne, Jennifer Mabley. Examples…

Kutcher -- 24 hoursTalks at garden clubs, etc in 2012: 1Tabling in addition to big events listed elsewhere: 2Native Plant Week: 2, in addition to CNPWeek events listed elsewhere.Walks to train docents at Caspers Wilderness Park: 2Vanderhoff -- 3 hoursNative plant talks at Sierra Club: 26. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to grad students; in-servicetraining for teachers; donation of education materials to schools; curriculumdevelopment/#volunteer hrs./projectProgram Chair Sarah Jayne7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter has worked on/types ofconservation activities (review documents, attend hearings, etc.), coalitions/cooperators with whomyou workedProgram Chair Celia Kutcher, # of volunteer hours: 500Most important issue(s) the chapter has worked on in 2012: Lawsuit against approval of Saddle Crest development, as 1 of 5 co-petitioners. Project to advise WUI-adjacent homeowners to 1) not plant invasives, 2) plantappropriate natives, jointly with Nature Reserve of OC, OC Parks, Irvine RanchConservancy, & OC Fire Authority. Project to advise OC Sheriff Dept. re converting to low-water native landscape at theirfacilities.Success story: Good progress has been made on the joint project, above, but much remains tobe done.Types of conservation activities (review documents, attend hearings, etc):GENERAL: Wrote regular Conservation Reports, monthly for chapter board and bimonthly forpublication in chapter Newsletter. Advised and commented on local rare plants and habitats, links and sources for howCEQA, agencies and the habitat conservation process works, etc. to inquirers re a widevariety of issues.DOCUMENTS REVIEWED, LETTERS WRITTEN/SIGNED-ON Coastal Development Permit & Mitigated Neg Dec for new house on Nyes Place,Laguna Beach: advised those opposed to the project, on problems in the Neg Dec re asmall population of Verbesina dissita (CRPR 1B.1) onsite. EA for the transfer of custodianship of the El Toro Conservation Area from the FAA tothe FBI: reviewed & wrote comment letter. Wrote an article for the Bulletin on theissue, as well as for OCCNPS Newsletter & website.

Coastal Development Permit for Sunset Ridge Park, Newport Beach: reviewed & wrotecomment letter re Encelia californica scrub onsite.EIR for Saddle Crest development: wrote comment letter; subsequently wrote anotherletter re the Saddle Crest Vesting Tentative Tract Map, & Litigation Summary for CNPSto become a co-petitioner in lawsuit vs the development’s approval; also articles on theissue for Newsletter & website.ATTENDED: Presented copies of the Fremontia fire issue, with brief comment on CNPS’s interest inproper vegetation management, at meetings of:o The OC Board of Supervisors. (Also sent to OC’s CEO, w/ cover letter.)o The OC Fire Authority Board of Directors & key staff; also gave a detailedwritten critique of OCFA’s lists of plants approved for vegetation managementzones & plants that must be removed from the zones. Hearings of the OC Planning Commission & Board of Supervisors re phases of theSaddle Crest development. Quarterly meetings, organized by Friends of Harbors, Beaches & Parks, of OC Parkssenior staff & representatives of many of OC’s enviro groups, to discuss issues of mutualinterest. Quarterly meetings/workshops of the South OC Watershed Management AreaStakeholders’ Group, to give native-plant input into implementation of the Region 9Integrated Regional Watershed Management Plan. Quarterly meetings of the Friends of the RMV Reserve Commission. Occasional workshops on aspects of preserving open space in OC, organized by OCGreenVision/Friends of Harbors, Beaches & Parks. Monthly conference calls with Greg Suba & other chapters’ Conservation Chairs. Meetings with representatives of Nature Reserve of OC, OC Parks, Irvine RanchConservancy, & OC Fire Authority as we work on the project to advise WUI-adjacenthomeowners re appropriate landscaping. Occasional meetings with others who haveexperience in such efforts. Vanderhoff: Attended two meetings representing OCCNPS relating to Saddle Crestdevelopment, one a planning commission meeting and another a media event. 5 hours.Coalitions/cooperators worked with: Saddleback Canyons Conservancy, Rural Canyons Conservation League, Friends ofHarbors, Beaches & Parks, & Audubon Calif. as a co-petitioners in the Saddle Crestlawsuit. The entities listed above in the project to advise re appropriate landscaping adjacent toWUI. Members of the SOCWMA Stakeholders’ Group: representatives of many OC envirogroups, & staff of OC Watersheds Dept. All the enviro groups that attend the quarterly meetings with OC Parks.8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/ volunteerhours

Time spent was not documented this year.9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type of contact (i.e. visits tolegislators, written communication, letters to the editor, petitions, press conferences) legislativecontacts with reps and staff/#volunteer hours.See #7 Conservation notes10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramPresented in field trips, newsletter articles, and monthly membership meeting speakers and specialtables (plant id, bug plant relationship…)Orange County Wildflower Book: The chapter is a financial contributor, proofreader, and advancebook purchaser of book to be available in spring of 2013. Volunteer hours: 6511. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale? wildflowershow?/#volunteer hrs./ how many people attended each event/do you grow your own plants, if so%/any interesting/useful ideas to shareMarch 24 – CNPS Spring Plant Sale at Tree of Life NurseryPrimary Coordinator: Laura Camp. Volunteer Hours: 50+October 27 – Member Day at Tree of Life Nursery: Plant sale event was held to benefit currentmembers, attract new ones, and educate the public. Discounts were provided (on plant sales) tonew and current members, and educational talks designed to provide valuable information tomembers and the public. Primary Coordinator: Laura Camp. Volunteer Hours: 80+12. Other Activities:Website: Volunter Rich Shilk, 24 hoursEmail distribution: Email newsletter produced monthly and distributed to 1000 contacts.Occasional special event reminders as well. Volunteer Laura Camp, 50 hours.Facebook: Heuler 12 hours; Vanderhoff 12 hoursMedia announcements, flyers Heuler, 50 hoursMember appreciation event: combined with June member meeting. Festive foods, auctions,special speaker, and other special activities. Fundraiser for chapter. Estimated volunteer hours: 50Chapter Council Attendance: All four by delegate Heuler (280 hours) and board member LauraCamp (who also holds state positions.) Additional Board Members attended some CC meetings.Theo Lacy Jail Garden Primer Report: The Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Departmentrequested guidance for landscaping a garden in the Theo Lacy Facility. We wrote a report providingan initial list of potential plants to consider, a list of useful elements of landscape design, and a listof low maintenance landscaping techniques. No landscaping design services were provided oroffered. Volunteer hours: 25.

At Home with Natives Seminar: October 13, co-hosted with and held at Saddleback College.Approximately 100 people on site for a day of presentations by eight native plant specialists. Otherhighlights included several sponsors, lunch created by Saddleback Catering students in agreenhouse, an information filled event day brochure, schedule, booklet. Volunteer hours: 150Please share your main concerns for your chapter: What are the major challenges or problemsfacing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation, has it improved or gotten worse, what steps didyou take to address the problem and did they help?Financial support: Chapters need more than a subvention to attract and retain a sizablemembership as well as carry out mission directed activities. The number of members a chapterbrings in and supports should have some association with the amount of membership dues thatgo to the chapter.Volunteer Support: We are fortunate to have many very helpful and knowledgeable volunteers.An area of weakness is in recruiting volunteers with significant bookkeeping experience that arewilling to take the Treasurer role.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME:__Redbud_________________________YEAR______2012__NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT: JaneGodfrey_______________________WE ARE__X__/ARE NOT__ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONTOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR 2012 = 1,089OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of your board andmembers. What are your chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments? - While ourchapter has many interests, we have most recently been exceedingly active with the productionof our second book. This book production continues to show how much strength that our chapterhas with both writing, plant identification, and photography of native species specific to oursurrounding counties. Collectively we have logged more than 160 volunteer hours working onthe book.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by your chapter, thenumber of people who attended (both members and non-members), and theapproximate number of volunteer hours required to organize these activities. Do notinclude hours attending programs or field trips except for those persons leading ororganizing them.1. 1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers, chairs - Thisyear we held four board meetings adding up to approximately 72 volunteer hours oftime that our officers and chairs spent discussing and planning out the events for the year.1. 2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants pertrip, volunteer hours - In 2012 our Field Trip chair led ten field trips with an average ofeight participants per trip. The field trip chair logged an impressive 125 volunteer hoursplanning and leading these trips throughout the year – we are so proud!1. 3. Programs: # of program meetings: Please list subjects and speakers/ # ofattendees per meeting/expenses (i.e. room rental, speaker fees, hospitality supplies) -Collectively in 2012 we hosted five programs. The average number of attendees wastwenty five and the subjects and speakers were:• - Native Plant Landscaping – Karen Kaufmann• - Fungi - Daniel Nicholson• - Rare Plant Treasure Hunts – Daniel Slakey (CNPS)

• - Successful Gardening with Native Plants – Forum with local gardeners• - Monarch Butterflies – Greg Kareofelas• We pay $330 per year for the room to hold our Board meetings and eveningprograms in. Stipends are $100 for speakers from the Sacramento area, and$200 for speakers from the Bay Area.1. 4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annual cost- Our newsletter chair produced three newsletters this year and spent approximately 40volunteer hours and $950 producing and mailing these.1. 5. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contacts - Our evening programs, field trips, and plantsales are advertised to, and open to, the general public. About 20 volunteer hours arespent in advertising these activities.1. 6. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to gradstudents; in-service training for teachers; donation of education materials toschools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs./project - Our education efforts haveincluded the organization of grant funds towards educational projects such as wildflowerhikes with school children and supporting local educational efforts within the classroomas well. Approximately 50 volunteer hours were spent putting these programs togetherand collaborating with local educators.1. 7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter hasworked on/types of conservation activities (review documents, attend hearings, etc.),coalitions/cooperators with whom you worked - See #10…1. 8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/volunteer hours - We had two "Broom Pulls" in collaboration with the Fire SafetyCouncil of Nevada County. A total of 30 people showed up for a total of 60 volunteerhours.1. 9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type ofcontact (i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters to the editor,petitions, press conferences)legislative contacts with reps and staff/#volunteer hours- Although our activities with state legislation were minimal, we took on the challenge ofaddressing our local agency in regards to their lack of concern about a particular rareplant found in our county. A handful of our board and members have been adamant aboutrecovering the environment in which the Stebbin’s Morning Glory has been foundthroughout the years, but has now been put in detriment with the ongoing disruptionwithin its small environment. We have contacted local officials to discuss the neglect ofthe county and our members have been working with these officials in an attempt to bringawareness and justice to saving this plant. See #10...1. 10. Plant Science – Rare Plant Program - A total of 132 volunteer hours wasdevoted to rare plants, plant science, and conservation activities during 2012. These hoursincluded rare plant surveys, a wildflower ID class attended by 25 people, and

conservation of rare plant habitats at the Nevada County Animal Shelter and Hells HalfAcre. We also worked with local land trusts, CA Fish and Game, and Tahoe NationalForest botanists.1. 11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale?wildflower show?/#volunteer hrs./ how many people attended each event/do yougrow your own plants, if so %/any interesting/useful ideas to share: The Redbudchapter hosts two plant sales each year and this year showed two very different outcomesfrom each. Combined, the two sales had well over 200 hours that were volunteered byRedbud members. I would say that approximately 200 people attended each sale.1. 12. Other Activities: We spent about 25 volunteer hours maintaining ademonstration native plant garden at Briar Patch in Grass Valley. Our Web Master spentabout 60 volunteer hours maintaining our web page. Our Membership Chair spent about25 volunteer hours on her duties. Our Chapter Delegate went to four meetings for a totalof 120 volunteer hours.1. 13. Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the majorchallenges or problems facing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation, has itimproved or gotten worse, what steps did you take to address the problem and didthey help? One of our main concerns for our chapter is incorporating the activities inour southern county that we represent. We are also concerned about filling our chapter’sboard and chair positions that have not been filled and require some in our chapter to takeon too many responsibilities. The weight of duties within the chapter has fallen heavy onjust a few.To address these two concerns, we are attempting to become more involved withother local native plant supporters in groups within the southern county includingsupporting and working with their Land Trust.To address the board member concern we have attempted to reach out to ayounger audience by providing them with scholarship assistance with CNPS activities topeak their interest. With this, we attracted the attention of our 2012 president and nowour interim president as well as increased the interest of some others on the board to takeon additional responsibilities.

Chapter Annual Activities Report - 2012Riverside/San Bernardino ChapterName and Position of Person Preparing Report:Katie Barrows, PresidentWe are requesting a subvention.OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER:Membership:Volunteer Hours:197 members900 hours (estimated)From desert slopes of ocotillo and brittlebush to vernal pools and oaks of the inland valleys, theterritory for the Riverside-San Bernardino chapter is large and diverse in flora and vegetation.Our chapter includes all of Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, exceptthe Mojave Desert which is in the Mojave Chapter. We have a small but dedicated board thatcarries out the chapter activities. We have focused for the last two years on increasingattendance at our program meetings and promoting new members to join CNPS. This year wecontinue to see increased attendance at our program meetings, with attendance at somemeetings reaching 50+ individuals. As is true throughout CNPS, our volunteers make it happen.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES:Chapter activities are listed in the following sections.1. BOARD MEETINGS:# of meetings per year: 3 in-person (including 1/29/2012, 8/2/2012, 9/6/2012); virtualmeetings held via email. Given the distance some board members must travel to meet inperson, we carry out as much business via email and telephone as we can. # of volunteer hoursfor board members to attend: 120.Two new members joined our board in 2012 bringing their great skills, knowledge, andenthusiasm to our efforts. We are pleased to welcome Kate Kramer and Nancy Sappington-Humenik.2. FIELD TRIPS:# of attendees/field trip: 8 to 25+ (see numbers below in parentheses)# of volunteer hours to organize and lead trips: 40 hoursDate Field Trip Location LeaderFebruary 25 Tin Mine Canyon & Skyline Drive (15+) Arlee MontalvoSanta Ana Mtns, Cleveland National ForestApril 1 Whitewater Canyon Preserve (15+) Katie BarrowsArlee MontalvoApril 15 Harford Springs Reserve (20+) Lorrae FuentesArlee Montalvo1

Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter 2012 Annual Report – page twoDate Field Trip Location LeaderVarious Rare Plant Treasure Hunt CNPSDates - provided notices about RPTH eventsOctober 14 Oak Diversity in Southern California Fred Roberts3. PROGRAMS/MEETINGS:# of attendees/meeting: Average is 20 to 30 (Low = 10; High = 50)# of volunteer hours to organize program meetings: 10 hours/meeting# of expenses: room is provided by Riverside/Corona Resource Conservation District office inRiverside at no charge. Speakers receive $50 honorarium and we usually take them out todinner (their schedule permitting). Hospitality supplies total less than $100 per year forcoffee/drinks and cookies/fruit/snacks.In 2012, our programs continued to draw good participation. Our meeting attendance continuesto be good with an average of 20 to 30 people attending the following meetings:Date Subject PresenterJanuary 26 Climate Change Sensitivity of Joshua Trees Dr. Cameron BarrowsAt the Mojave-Sonoran Desert Interface UC RiversideFebruary 22 Coastal Scrub to Desert Islands: Sula Vanderplank, Ben WilderA Botanical Tour of Baja CaliforniaUC RiversideMarch 29 Harvesting Seed & Propagating Natives from Ben WhiteSan Bernardino/San Jacinto RegionJackie LasaterThe Wild California ExperienceSept. 20 Reimaging the California Lawn: Water- Bart O’BrienConserving Plants, Practices & DesignsRancho Santa Ana BotanicGardenOct. 18 Biology, Taxonomy, and Conservation of Naomi FragaMonkeyflowers (Phrymaceae)Rancho Santa Ana BotanicGarden4. NEWSLETTER:We published a chapter brochure in a newsletter format in 2012. This colorful and informativefull color newsletter describes the programs, field trips, conservation activities and otherchapter programs throughout the year. We use the Encelia as a handout at communityoutreach events; an insert is used to provide a list of current activities – meeting programs,field trips, volunteer needs.Information about our events is available on our chapter website, www.enceliaCNPS.org. Thisyear we were very successful with postcards mailed out to all members which arrived within aweek of each meeting. These postcards provide information about the upcoming programmeeting as well as other events. The postcards have helped increase attendance noticeably.2

Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter 2012 Annual Report – page threeVolunteer hours by board members to produce and mail the postcards total approximately 40hours.# of issues in 2012: 5+ Postcards with upcoming events# of volunteer hours to produce and mail: 40Annual cost to produce and mail: $ 3005. PUBLIC OUTREACH/EVENTS:A primary chapter goal continues to be membership recruitment. We currently have 197members and are working on efforts to recruit new members, encourage membership renewal,and retain members. General efforts to promote membership include: Distributing membership brochures at meetings and outreach events Keeping membership list updated and coordinating information with state Maintaining email/listserve for field trips, programs, conservation alerts etc. to keepmembers up to date Offering discounts to new and renewing members at our annual Fall Plant SaleIn addition, our board members set up the CNPS portable exhibit to promote CNPS at variousenvironmental or outdoor fairs and events, including:Date - 2012 Event/Location Volunteer StaffersMarch 3 Wildflower Festival – Katie BarrowsSaturday Santa Rosa & San Jacinto Mountains Doug WalkerNational Monument Visitor CenterPalm Desert, CaliforniaApril 19 Earth Night in the Garden Chapter volunteersThursdayWestern Municipal Water DistrictMay 19 Idyllwild Earth Fair Katie BarrowsSaturdayLorrae FuentesJackie LasaterBen WhiteAugust 18 USFS Forest Festival outreach event Sheila McMahonSaturday Barton Flats Ranger Station Nancy RutherfordSan Bernardino National ForestOctober 6 Desert Garden Community Day Katie BarrowsSaturdayPresentation on Landscaping withCalifornia Native Plants & CNPSInformation tableThese events involve approximately 110 volunteer hours for preparation and event attendance.3

Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter 2012 Annual Report – page four6. EDUCATION EFFORTSOur chapter activities link to CNPS Strategic Plan goals and strategies. Under the ableleadership of Education, Public Outreach, and Program Chair Lorrae Fuentes we continue ourefforts to outreach to our chapter members as well as potential new members. Chapter website – www.enceliaCNPS.org – continues to be an important link for ourmembers Presentation at CNPS 2012 Conservation Conference on January 14, 2012 – RarePlant and Natural Community Conservation with the Coachella Valley MultipleSpecies Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Community Conservation Plan Presentation at September 8/9, 2012 Chapter Council meeting in Santa Cruz – onCoachella Valley Natural Community Conservation Plan/Multiple Species HabitatConservation Plan We will continue to reach out to other parts of our area through program meetingsand field trips7. CONSERVATION:Chapter conservation activities have focused on providing input from CNPS perspective onvarious local and regional conservation issues. Arlee Montalvo, chapter Conservation chair hasbeen actively involved in providing comments on projects of concern and participating inregional conservation efforts to promote rare plant and natural community conservation. Here isa list of some of the conservation activities for 2012: Participated with other local and regional environmental groups to promote nativeplant conservation at the local and regional levels. Worked with local jurisdictions, flood control agencies and others on ordinances andother measures to ensure protection of native plants, including Santa Ana Riverwoolly star. Coordinated with Riverside area Weed Management Area to promote informationabout rare plant conservation and invasive species issues Submitted comments on Draft EIR for World Logistics Center in Moreno Valley Coordinated with San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club to provide input to theSan Bernardino County Planning Commission's updating of the Biotic ResourcesOverlay Map and Conservation Element of the San Bernardino County General Plan Submitted comment letter to Southern California Association of Governmentssupporting inclusion of Natural Lands Acquisition and Open Space ConservationStrategy in the SCAG 2012 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable CommunityStrategy. Wrote a letter to the Wildlife Conservation Board supporting their efforts toacquire two large habitat parcels within the Horseshoe Pebble Plain andadjoining property within the Sawmill Pebble Plain Complex of the Big BearLake area4

Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter 2012 Annual Report – page five Signed on for our chapter to support the mission statement for the Santa Ana RiverEnvironmental Coalition Sent letter of support to Congressman Fortenberry, Chair of Subcommittee on Dept.of Agriculture Operations, Oversight and Credit, in support of HR 533 authorizingthe Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District (RCRCD) to purchaseat fair market value a small parcel of Natural Resources ConservationService property located in Riverside, California. Submitted letter to Secretary of Resources John Laird in support ofEnvironmental Enhancement and Mitigation grant application by CoachellaValley Conservation Commission for funds to acquire habitat for CV milkvetchand mesquite hummock habitat (12/12/2012). Commented on other proposed projects in Riverside and San Bernardino Countiesthat threaten rare plants, natural communities or other native plant resources.8. WORK PARTIES:We did not sponsor any work parties in 2012.9. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY:We do not currently have a legislative chair. We respond to requests for input on legislativematters from the state office and alert our members when there is a request for input to locallegislators.10. PLANT SCIENCE - RARE PLANT PROGRAM:Fred Roberts, the chapter’s chair for Rare Plants, continues to bring more awareness of rareplant issues and conservation in a number of ways: Coordinated with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on issues related to criticalhabitat for Atriplex coronata var. notatior Completed review of Atriplex coronata var. notatior Critical Habitat in June (approx. 9hours) Coordinated with the Rare Plant Forum and CNDDB reviews (approx. 32 hours). TheRare Plant forum focuses on proposed changes to the CNPS online Rare Plant Inventory.Riverside/SW San Bernardino County species considered for changes this year includedDeinandra paniculata (retained at List 4), Calochortus plummerae (moved from List 1Bto 4), Monardella hypoleuca var. intermedia (added to List 4) and Monardella nana ssp. Conducted a comprehensive review of all California Consortium of Herbaria and CNDDBrecords for Monardella nana ssp. leptosiphon and Brodiaea santarosae as part of anongoing project in coordination with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife toreview to correct errors and improve the CNDDB. Conducted a comprehensive review of the Consortium records for Deinandra paniculatain association with the Rare Plant Inventory (D. paniculata is not monitored by theCNDDB). Most hours were associated with the species reviews.5

Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter 2012 Annual Report – page sixChapter representatives continue to monitor other rare plant issues in Riverside and SanBernardino counties. The Rare Plant chair assists the chapter, and state and regional CNPSefforts to monitor and comment on rare plant issues. Approximately 57 hours were spent in2012 on rare plant activities11. PLANT SALE/WILDFLOWER SHOW:Our third annual plant sale was held on November 10, 2012. For the third year, we partneredwith the Western Municipal Water District. Our 2012 Plant Sale was held at Water District’soffice/demonstration garden in a busy commercial area of Riverside. The Western MunicipalWater District staff helped promote the event, including the design and printing of a bill insertfor the CNPS Plant Sale. The bill insert was included in approximately 24,000 water bills sent totheir retail customers, encouraging them to “Make Your Garden Water-wise, Beautiful andWildlife-friendly” by coming to our plant sale. This year’s sale, held in the Water District parkinglot adjacent to their demonstration garden, was our most successful ever. This year our salesbenefitted from the use of “the square” which allows us to accept credit cards, scanned from aniphone. We have not previously been able to accept credit cards and this easy to use systemprobably helped increase sales for customers who did not have cash or checks.The plants sold at our plant sale come from several sources. We do not have the capacity togrow our own plants so we purchase plants from: 1) UC Riverside Botanic Garden; 2) Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District; 3) Mockingbird Nursery; 4) Wild California Nursery (BenWhite). We also had seed packets for sale from Wild California Nursery. We sold books andnote cards as well. There were 12 volunteers who helped before and during the plant sale.Attendance is estimated at 200 people. We offered a 10% discount on all purchased items(plants, books) for new members. We had four new members join CNPS during the plant sale.12. PUBLIC RELATIONS:We continue to work on our goal to better publicize chapter activities and programs. We provideinformation about our meetings and programs to local papers including the San Bernardino Sun,the Riverside Press Enterprise, the Desert Sun, and other local media. Our meeting notices areemailed to various groups, including UC Riverside Master Gardeners, Desert HorticulturalSociety, Sierra Club, and a local cactus and succulent society. Continuing our outreach this yearvia a postcard mailed to all members right before each meeting, together with email blasts andpress coverage, has helped increase our meeting attendance significantly.13. INVASIVE PLANTS:Bill Neill continues active efforts to control invasive species where needed. Bill serves as theInvasive Plants chair for the Orange County CNPS chapter as well. On behalf of Orange CountyCNPS, he attended the October 2012 symposium of the California Invasive Plant Council(www.cal-ipc.org). Bill provided a report on the symposium that will be used in our upcomingnewsletters. We continue to participate in the local Weed Management Area programs inWestern Riverside area and the Low Desert WMA. Bill Neill attended Weed Management Areameetings for the Riverside area and Katie Barrows attended meetings of the Low Desert WeedManagement Area.6

Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter 2012 Annual Report – page seven14. OTHER CHAPTER ACTIVITIES:One of the primary challenges for our chapter is that our members are spread out over a largegeographic area so it is difficult to provide programs and activities that they can all participatein. Our meetings are generally held in Riverside at the Resource Conservation District office andattendance at meetings has been very strong over the last year. We have tried over the yearsto offer programs at other locations to reach out to other members and will try to do so again in2013. The significant increase in attendance at our meetings due to a greater effort to publicizethese programs is encouraging. Programs focused on horticulture and growing native plantscontinue to be very popular. We will continue to expand partnerships with agencies such as theWestern Municipal Water District.The other challenge we have is having enough volunteers to keep our chapter going. Our boardmembers are committed but all are working and are very busy so it is challenging to participatein activities during the week. With two new board members, we will look to ways to spread outthe work and leverage resources by collaborating more with other local conservation groups.7

2012CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTSacramento Valley ChapterReport prepared by: Carol Witham, President 2013We ARE requesting a subvention.OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER — Our Sacramento Valley chapter serves the Sacramento, Yolo, Colusa,Sutter, Yuba, lower Placer and northern San Joaquin County areas, although most of our 700members come from Sacramento, Yolo and for our Stockton subchapter, San Joaquin county. Wehave a large board and hundreds of members who contribute in a wide variety of ways for thepreservation and enjoyment of California's rich and diverse native flora. We celebrate and areconcerned about our remaining natural areas, primarily our vernal pools, California prairie, oakwoodlands, and riparian areas.OUTSIDE RECOGNITION — Sacramento Valley Chapter members were honored by otherorganizations for their volunteer work on behalf of CNPS: Chris Lewis, Elderberry Farms Nursery Director, recognized by the Save the American RiverAssociation for “persons who have performed unique and exemplary service on behalf of theAmerican River Parkway.” Martha Mallory, Stockton Sub-Chapter, honored by the Oak Grove Regional Park docents bynaming their native plant garden “Martha Mallory Native Plant Garden.” Frank Wallace, Sacramento Weed Warrior Director (retired), received the prestigious “2012 CreekStewardship Award” by the Sacramento Area Creeks Council.Total Volunteer Hours in 2012: 8,560 hoursCHAPTER ACTIVITIES —1. Board Meetings and Administration (1,509 hours)Our officers and chairs spent a total of 335 of volunteer hours to prepare, participate and documentnine regular board meetings. Additional time (89 hours) was spent for our Chapter Council delegatesto attend meetings and to organize and staff the December Chapter Council Meeting (40 hours). OurTreasurer spent 131 hours on reports, billing, and budgeting, and our board members spent 690hours on various communications. The 2012 annual report took 30 hours to compile information andprepare the report.In addition to regular board meetings, chapter leadership decided to hold a retreat to help the chapterbe more effective in leadership recruitment. To develop the theme for the retreat, a survey wasdistributed to all present and past leadership and the responses were compiled (10 hours). A specialboard meeting was held to discuss an agenda (12 hours). President Sabrina Okamura-Johnsonworked with professional facilitators to develop the final agenda (6 hours). Thirteen people attendedan all-day working retreat (96 hours).Several members of the chapter served in state CNPS leadership positions during 2012. While timespent to prepare for and attend state board meetings is not being reported here, participation in statewideadministrative committees, plus program and project committees are appropriate to report hereas they are probably not being captured through other volunteer hour reporting mechanisms. Chapter

members made significant contributions to support the state office during Executive Directortransition, plus being check signatory, and participating in state board committees (100 hours).2. Field Trips (404 hours)John Huls led several trips in the early part of 2012 for high school students (12 hours). Chris Lewisand Elderberry Farms volunteers led American River Parkway Walks on nearly every Friday (310hours) with 5-10 participants over 45 walks. Cassandra Musto and Demonstration Garden volunteersled three themed tours of our garden in the City Cemetery (14 hours). Several members also leadfield trips associated with other groups, but consider them to benefit CNPS (36 hours). Our field tripcoordinator volunteered 4 hours organizing, planning, and communication events.A very popular series of field trips to the Mather vernal pools was originally a CNPS project. In 2011,Sacramento Splash—also originally a project of the chapter—took over organizing and running thetrips. We know they had a successful year as several of our chapter members volunteered as docentsfor their tours.The Stockton sub-chapter led six field trips (32 hours) including: Chico Grunder’s Table Mountain,Inspiration Point, Calaveras Big Trees, Echo Lake, Carson Pass and Mono Lake, Muir Woods andFranks Track. Group size ranged from two to nine participants. Bob Stahmer also spent time atFranks Track to photograph plants.3. Programs (363 hours)We had nine monthly meetings per year, excluding December, July and August. Our attendance wasusually about 45 people, and ranges from 35 to 75. Hospitality supplies cost $250; space rental cost$1,500.00 (including for the fall plant sale). Program volunteer hours including volunteer speakers;organizing and assisting speakers; arranging hospitality (treats and drinks); welcoming andannouncing; and selling books, t-shirts, and wildflower seeds (363 hours).Our 2012 programs included:January: “A Native Plant Nursery Restored: How a Shuttered Nursery Rose from the Ashes ofBudget Cutbacks”, by Rich Marovich, Putah Creek StreamkeeperFebruary: Building the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards, by Emily Butler ofSacramento SPLASHMarch: “A Leisurely Cenozoic History of Sacramento County: 65 Million Years per Hour” byBob Holland, Plant EcologistApril: " The Bee in Big Government: How agricultural research benefits native bees and plants”by Byron Love, Ph.D. candidate, Utah State UniversityMay: "Capetown to California, Kaleidoscopes of Diversity”, Mike Baad, Ph.D.June: “Gardens Gone Native —Virtual Tour!” and PotluckSeptember: “California Natives – Gateway Plants to Coolness”, by Cassandra Nguyen Musto,CNPS Native Plant Garden CoordinatorOctober: "Butterflies and Plants: A Pretty Partnership”, Greg Kareofelas,Photographer/naturalistNovember: “The Fascinating World of Lichens” by Pam Kirkbride, Naturalist4. Newsletter, Website, and List-serve (472 hours)We sent nine of issues of the Hibiscus to 700 members, which took 242 hours to write (hours spentwriting articles about specific programs and projects discussed below are included in those timereports and not duplicated here), edit and assemble, and 90 hours to maintain mailing lists andwelcome new members. The Hibiscus newsletter costs about $4000 to produce and mail. Volunteers

also spent 60 hours updating and maintaining our website, 60 hours on our bi-weekly eNewsletter,and 20 hours administering our e-mail list server.5. Public Outreach Events (1,371 hours)Our major Educational/Outreach event was our sixth annual Wildflower Wonders. This year it washeld on April 14 and was a kickoff for the second annual California Native Plant Week. This year theevent featured plant exhibits, a native plant sale, and family friendly walks and talks (birds, bees,plants, tours). Nearly 70 volunteers (577 hours) helped make this event a success with more than 700visitors becoming better acquainted with the Sacramento Valley’s native plant life.Another large Education/Outreach event was our first horticulture workshop entitled “Bringing NatureHome, Transitioning to a Beautiful, Water-Wise Native Garden” held on September 8, 2012.Volunteers contributed (250 hours) to organize and present a one day symposium, with six keylectures and a tour of Effie Yeaw garden and nature areas, which was attended by 40 people.A third large Education/Outreach event was second annual native garden tour—Gardens GoneNative—held on March 31, 2012. This is a free, self-guided driving tour. Fifteen volunteers (310hours) organized the tour and assisted homeowners during the tour. The tour was attended byapproximately 150 people and included 20 gardens.Our members volunteered at fairs and events (207 hours) including Duck Days at Yolo Bypass WA,Zoo Fest and Bloomin’ Crazy at the Zoo, Earth Day Cosumnes River College, Earth Day ECOS,Shepard Garden and Arts Spring sale, Soil Born Farm spring event, Walk on the Wild Side, ShepardGarden and Arts fall sale, Harvest Festival in Fair Oaks, and Cool Davis event.The Stockton subchapter volunteered at fairs and events (27 hours) including the Sandhill CraneFestival, Bugfest at the Oak Grove Nature Center and the Steelhead Festival.6. Education Efforts (347 hours)Many of our members attended the 2012 CNPS Conservation Conference in San Diego. One of ourmembers chaired a session and led a workshop (40 hours) and is on the planning committee for the2015 Conference (20 hours). In addition to volunteering we sponsored five students to attend.Sponsorship cultivated young and enthusiastic participation in our organization, and inspired the folkswho will be our next environmental leaders.Julie Serences, Habitat Education and Outreach Coordinator, gives presentations about buildingbackyard habitats and becoming land stewards of our outdoor landscape. These are extremelypopular with 16 talks developed and presented in 2012 (98 hours). She has also attended courses toimprove her presentations (17 hours). Jennifer Hogan, Kids in Native Gardens Grant Program,reviews grant proposals, consults with schools and reviews their garden sites. In 2012, the programfocused on four schools (21 hours). Under the leadership of Mike Bower, Ceanothus (“see I knowthis”) conducted ten plant identification workshops (50 hours). Glen Holstein provided talks atSacramento Audubon, Sierra Club and the December Chapter Council Meeting (45 hours). Variousother educational efforts were conducted during the year (28 hours).Stockton subchapter members (28 hours) provided educational materials and discussed native plantswith San Joaquin Delta College students in Native Plant Garden. They also collected tules forconstruction of Native American tule huts for schoolchildren.

7. Conservation and Legislative Activity (1,143 hours)Vernal pool conservation continues to take a large number of volunteer hours, thanks to thededication of several members. In November, we held our seventh annual Celebration for VernalPools. Over 100 celebrants, including many volunteers (255 hours), gathered to celebrate and supportthe Sacramento Valley Chapter’s ongoing efforts and local leadership in vernal pool conservation andeducational outreach. All proceeds (about $5000) went to our chapter’s "Vernal Pool ConservationFund” which is board restricted.Chapter members continued to make CNPS an active partner in the Environmental Council ofSacramento and their Habitat 2020 committee, a coalition of environmental organizationscollaborating to protect common issues in and affecting Sacramento County. Our members participateon several levels, including on the Heartland Project (120 hours).Members of the chapter participated in several regional planning efforts (280 hours), environmentaldocument review and attending public hearings (125 hours), and CNPS litigation (75 hours). Chaptermembers are also active in protecting the natural values of our American River Parkway throughparticipation in the Parkway advisory group and the American River Parkway Coalition (96 hours);member also represented CNPS on the Sacramento Area Creeks Council, Save the American RiverAssociation, Jepson Prairie Docents, Sacramento Weed Management Area, Tuleyome, US Fish andWildlife Service Recovery Team, etc. (192 hours).8. Work Parties (258 hours)Our previously successful Sacramento Weed Warriors—led by Frank Wallace—has become dormantsince Frank’s retirement at the end of 2011. We are hoping to fill this vital role in the near future, butdoubt that we will again achieve the thousands of hours of weed parties that Frank accomplished.Stockton subchapter members spent 258 hours maintaining the Native Plant Garden at Oak GroveRegional Park. Members collected, purchased, grew, planted, weeded and watered the planted valleyoaks and native grasses in the park’s nature area.9. Plant Science (103 hours)Glen Holstein as chapter botanist provided plant science information related to California Prairies andother natural communities to various members, other organizations, and local government during theyear (103 hours).10. Plant Sales (390 hours)Our spring plant sale (50 hours) was part of the Wildflower Wonder event. In September, 50volunteers worked (340 hours) on our annual fall native plant sale, our largest fundraising event of theyear.11. Other Activities (2,200 hours)Chapter Nursery (1460 hours): Our Chapter, under the leadership of Chris Lewis (450 hours),continues to develop our new Native Plant Nursery—Elderberry Farms—on the American RiverParkway, in cooperation with Soil Born Farm. The mission of Elderberry Farms Native PlantNursery is to promote awareness of the benefits of native plants, encourage communityinvolvement, and provide a source of locally native plants for restoration projects as well asbackyard gardeners. We also seek to promote and support preservation of the unique native plantresources of the American River Parkway ecosystem. In 2012, more than 100 nursery volunteers

were busy with maintenance and upkeep, collecting seeds and cuttings, seed preparation, pottingplants, watering, and tending seedlings (1010 hours). Through our two plant sales plus severaladditional events, the nursery generated over $15,000 in gross revenue for the chapter in 2012.Demonstration Garden (580 hours): Our chapter, under the leadership of Cassandra Musto,continues to maintain and expand our Native Plant Demonstration Garden in the Old CityCemetery. Volunteers (580 hours) participate for a couple of hours on most Sunday mornings inweeding and pruning.Special Issue of Fremontia (160 hours): Glen Holstein of the Sacramento Valley Chapter servedas guest editor of a special double issue of Fremontia devoted to California Grasslands andPrairies. For this issue he also wrote three articles.

Thomas Oberbauer, chapter presidentThe San Diego Chapter requests a subvention from the State CNPS.The report is organized alphabetically by Chapter activity, with a brief summary at the end.Book and Poster SalesThe Chapter has grossed about $5,800 and netted $2756 through the efforts of sales table chair CindyBurrascano assisted by member Sue Marchetti and others. The sale of books and other materialscontributed to the education of people in the San Diego Region.The table operated at each of the eleven general membership meetings, the October plant sale, andNative Garden Tour in April. The volunteer effort for this essential part of the chapter activity isestimated at 120 hours of volunteer time.Chapter Council RepresentativeChapter member Dave Varner served as the Chapter Council Representative. He attended three of fourquarterly meetings, contributing around 75 hours including advance preparation and travel.CNPS 2012 Conservation ConferenceJanuary 2012CNPS Conservation Conference held in San Diego with many local volunteers and 1000 attendees.The chapter was pleased to support and host the 2012 state Conservation Conference.Vince Scheidt served as the chair of the state level steering committee, while CNPS member Dick Millerheaded the local arrangements. Many members helped planning: of particular note, members DaveVarner headed the Public Day planning; Dick Miller chaired the AV committee; Isabelle Kay helped locatestudent volunteers; Carolyn Martus planned field trips; Michelle Cox helped organize volunteerassignments; Kay Stewart served as chapter liaison; Stephanie Shigematsu arranged for silent auctiondonations in the chapter; and Meghan Dinkins, Scott Jones, and Taylor Parker also contributed hours toplanning. In addition, the following 27 Public Day presenters donated an estimated 4 hours ofpreparation time by years’ end: Connie Beck, Chris Brennan, Cathleen Chilcote Wallace, Kasey Cinciarelli,Mike Evans, Anne Fege, Connie Flores, Shelley Glenn Lee, Mary Ann Hawke, Paul Herzog, CindyJenson‐Elliott, John Muir Laws, Mike Letteriello, Karen Mabb, Diane Nygaard, Nicole Olmstead, KristieOrosco, Rose Ramirez, Gene Ratcliffe, Greg Rubin, Abe Sanchez, Deborah Small, Kay Stewart, SeanTelles, Jeanne Waterford, Erika Weikel, Ryan West; for a total of estimated 300 hours of donatedvolunteer time in 2012 for planning for the Conservation Conference.ConservationConservation Committee Activities, 2012 Frank Landis, chairYearly activities: in 2012, the ConservationCommittee actively participated in the City of San Diego's vernal pool Habitat Conservation Plan, anongoing project, commenting both at meetings and in writing. The committee also commented on theCounty General Plan and Red Tape Reduction Task Force proposal, a USFS pig hunting programenvironmental assessment, Yuan Property EIR, and CalTrans I‐5 widening supplemental EIR.Frank wrote a 22 page manual to help volunteers read and respond to environmental documents. Ithas been distributed both to interested CNPSSD members, the state office, and to conservation chairs ofother chapter. He also contributed monthly articles to the newsletter for the Conservation Committee.Active issues that remain include the management plan for Del Mar Mesa, the Vernal Pool HCP, theBoard of Forestry's Vegetation Treatment Program, and wind and solar projects in the desert.

Volunteer participation: Frank Landis and Tom Beltran were the major participants on thecommittee in 2012, although a number of other people showed up for individual meetings. Frankvolunteered over 110 hours for the committee.2012 Budget: The survey budgeted $1000, of which $559 was spent as matching funds for thestate CNPS Conservation Campaign. The committee matched $559 in contributions by other members.The conservation volunteers contributed an estimated 400 hours.Executive BoardExecutive Board officers were; Tom Oberbauer, President; Jonathan Dunn, Vice‐President; TomBeltran, Secretary; and Connie di Girolamo, Treasurer. The Executive Board held twelve meetings in2012. The President donated an estimated 170 hours to Board‐related activities including responding tochapter committee needs, writing six “Prez Sez” columns, preparing for writing natural history articlesabout plant species in San Diego County and chairing the monthly board meetings. The Vice Presidentdonated an estimated 40 hours, including organizing board elections. The Secretary donated anestimated 100 hours, preparing minutes and other board correspondence and packages for themeetings. The Treasurer donated an estimated 200 hours, including 10 hours per month for routinebookkeeping plus additional time spent on annual budget planning, helping the chapter experiment withusing a credit card reader for plant sales, and coordinating with the Garden Committee on the use ofPayPal. The estimate of combined hours donated by the Executive Board was therefore 510 hours.Non‐Executive Board MembersThe participation of board members in Chapter monthly board meetings was very high, with eight to tenmembers at every meeting, and advance preparation clearly having been done, as board members werefamiliar with the contents of the agendas. Therefore, an estimate of time donated by the boardmembers to Chapter operations can be estimated conservatively at 150 hours.Field TripsJanuary ‐‐ Tecalote Canyon Natural Park; Garden Work Parties Old Town State Historic ParkFebruary ‐‐ Tecalote Canyon Natural Park; Upper Reaches Tecalote Canyon.March ‐‐ Rare Plant Surveys by Frank Landis ; Lake Calavera and Calavera Heights Preserve by JamesDillane; Rancho Jamul by Jan and Ron MaxtedApril ‐‐ Rare Plant Surveys by Frank Landis; Field Trip to Del Mar Mesa by Frank LandisMay ‐‐ Rare Plant Surveys by Frank Landis; San Juan Trail, Hot Springs Canyon in the Santa Ana Mtns.Leader: Fred RobertsJune ‐‐ Ancient Tecate Cypresses of Guatay Mountain by Bob Greenberg ; Some Headwater Drainagesof the Proposed Eagle Peak Wilderness by Cindy BuxtonSeptember ‐‐ Weed Warriors seeking Volunteers for weed days.October ‐‐ Native Plant Garden Work Parties by Kay StewartThe estimated donated time for Chapter field trips (including preparing plant check lists and time spenton publicity), was approximately 300 hours.HospitalityThree volunteers on the Hospitality Committee (Pat Fishtein, Roland Roberge, and Sue Lewitt), led byChair Betsy Cory, set up and took down the meeting room chairs and tables and provided food at tenmonthly chapter meetings and the third annual holiday party. The volunteers spent approximately 80hours. On occasions when regular volunteers could not come as scheduled, regular CNPS‐SD membershelped out. The system seems to work well.Invasive Plants Arne Johanson

This year the primary effort was concentrated along Artesian Creek. This is in keeping with ourphilosophy of working a watershed unit as a whole bringing it to a stable, restored status. Rainfall in2012 did not promote much growth which dictated we work other areas as well. We added RattlesnakeCanyon and spent time on lower priority areas. Lake Hodges, Salviati Open Space and Camino DelSur/Santa Luz Open Space benefited from the extra attention. Blue Sky is primarily in maintenancemode and does not require much attention. Poway Lake is an area suitable for group efforts so I keepthat for that purpose.Rattlesnake Canyon (City of Poway MSCP ‐ 810 acres)Beginning State ‐ Blue Gum Eucalyptus are in the main stream channel along with Tamarix, Castor Bean,Acacia, Brazilian Pepper and palms. Tocalote Star Thistle and mustard dominates much of the hillsidesalong with non‐native grass. Pampas Grass, Castor Bean, Brazilian Pepper and palms are in the sidechannel coming from the north. Fennel is scattered throughout. Ice Plant occurs near homes at theentrance. I have no information on animal life, either beginning state or target species.The Plan ‐ Treat the perennials in the dry months and treat the annuals/biennials during the wet season.Work from relatively good stands of native plants into the larger infestations as more natives grow in.We will spray some of the poison oak where we need to gain access. Plant willow cutting in selectedareas.Current Status ‐ We began in the summer of 2012 with Greg Nelson being the major contributor. Mostof the weeds in the side creek were treated with the exception of a few Pampas Grass. The Eucalyptus,Palms, Acacia and Tamarix in the main creek were treated working into a core stand of some two tothree dozen trees. A Brazilian Pepper, Tamarix and Ice Plant at the trail‐head has been treated. InJanuary we will begin working the hillsides. Willow cuttings will be planted to replace the Eucalyptus asresources permit.Lake Poway (City of Poway MSCP)Beginning State ‐ Generally good native vegetation with some disturbance nearer the water. Weedsknown to exist include: Tamarix, Tree Tobacco, Fountain Grass, Pampas Grass, Acacia Eucalyptus,Mexican Fan Palm and Cape Ivy.The Plan ‐ Once a month we will do cut stump control of the woody weeds with the Blue Sky docents.The docents can pull and bag as much Cape Ivy as is needed to free native plants. Periodic spraying willbe done on the grasses and Cape Ivy re‐growth. Drill and inject the large trees.Blue Sky (California Fish & Game Reserve ‐ 790 acres)Beginning State ‐ The park burned in 2007. Invasive weeds began to sprout in early 2008 and threatenedto take over large areas. The recovery project began March 2008.The Plan ‐ Treat weeds on the open south facing and north facing slopes first. Establish these areas aspositive seed sources for adjacent areas. Leave the riparian corridor for the dry season.Current Status ‐ Pam Haehn, Blue Sky docents and others have all contributed to bring the park back to abetter state than before the fire. Invasive weeds and other non‐native plants have been largelydisplaced by native diversity in 70% ‐ 80% of the reserve. Wildlife is abundant everywhere though I don'thave an actual list. Going forward we still need to look for new weeds (palms, Tamarix, Italian Thistle,Pampas Grass) along with treating the few small weed patches that remain. Dittrichia was brought in2011 (presumably with gravel). It appears to be eradicated but bares watching.Lake Hodges By Sike's Adobe (City of San Diego Water Department & SDRP)Beginning State‐ We were asked to kill non‐native palms and eucalyptus in the area around the SikesAdobe (excluding the two planted at the house). This was expanded to include other invasive species inthe same area (pampas grass, acacia and figs).The Plan ‐ This has been a low priority area that we get to when we can.Current Status ‐ Most, if not all, of the Washingtonia are dead. Many of the smaller Eucalyptus havebeen removed with the help of a high school student doing a community service project. Many Pampas

Grass have been treated. None of the Phoenix palms have been treated. Larger Eucalyptus near the trailare not in the scope of our effort. We will continue to nibble at this as resources and time permit.Artesian Creek is one watershed drainage with several parcels. I have broken out portions of thewatershed to reflect the different parcels and work areas. The work areas are mostly reflective ofaccessibility through largely impassable terrain. Here I have ordered the sub‐areas from Del Dios , wherethe creek enters the San Dieguito River, upstream to the residential community of 4S Ranch.The watershed is sufficiently restored with high plant diversity to attract many animal species. Targetspecies specifically mentioned in the plan and known to occur now include: Barrel Cactus ‐ Ferocatusviridescens (several), Wart‐stemmed Ceanothus, Adolphia, California Gnatchatcher (lots), Least Bell'sVireo (at least one nest), Rufous Crowned Sparrow. In addition the marsh has attracted at least oneLight‐footed Clpper Rail.San Dieguito River at Artesian Creek (SDRP)Beginning State ‐ This is a rectangular area that is about .25 mile by ____. Mike Bregantic and I walkedthrough on our way to Artesian Creek. Weeds that we found here include: pampas grass, Castor Bean,Fennel, Eucalyptus, fan palms, Spanish Broom, French Broom, Arondo, Tree Tobacco and lots ofFountain Grass.The Plan ‐ Treat whatever non‐natives we could as resources and our energy levels permitted.Current Status ‐ Gone are: Pampas Grass, Tree Tobacco, Palms, Castor Bean, the Brooms, Fennel,Arondo. The Fountain Grass is coming back due to lack of follow‐up. The large stand of Eucalyptus isbeing removed as a separate project with professional crews.Artesian Creek (SDRP)Beginning State ‐ We were asked to take on this project when broom was discovered. We began in Juneof 2009 and found the following in the riparian corridor: Eucalyptus, French Broom, Spanish Broom,Fennel, Tamarix, Picris, Garland Chrysanthemum, Cape Plumbago, Cape Honeysuckle, Pampas Grass andChasmanthe. The area burned in 2007 and many of the non‐natives were planted by some unknownpersons (we found pots some with plant labels. The hillsides were dominated by non‐native grasses andmustard with eucalyptus, broom and Bermuda buttercup.The Plan ‐ Begin upstream at the furthest extent of broom and from downstream at the furthest extentof broom. Work back toward the heart of the infestation. Tackle other weeds as we can but focus on thebroom.Current Status ‐ Thanks to Mike Bregantic we cleared the broom in seven months. In the ripariancorridor some broom (10 ‐ 20 per year) continues to germinate so we will be returning for some time tocome. The infestation was dense enough that a large central area was left bare. This has since filled inwith natives. There are some 10 eucalyptus still showing green that will need retreating. There are a likenumber of fennel. The Pampas Grass, Palms, Chrysanthemum, Mustard, Plumbago, Honeysuckle, andChasmathe are all controlled. The Picris is being crowed out. On the hillsides native vegetation has takenover. Bermuda Buttercup still needs to be sprayed.Artesian Creek from SDRP parcel upstream to slab (San Diego County MSCP)Beginning State ‐ Many small Eucalyptus, Pampas Grass, some Tamarix, Fennel, Picris.The Plan ‐ Work the riparian corridor in the dry season (water rushes through the gorge when it rains.)Work the hillsides from north to south during the wet season.Current Status ‐ Beth Mather began working the riparian corridor in 2011. Greg Nelson joined later thatyear. Together we cleared the non‐natives with occasional contributions from others. Mike Breganticworked the hillsides beginning in 2010. There are a few Eucalyptus in the riparian corridor that areshowing green and in need of re‐treatment. The rest (some 1,000 to1,500 are dead). Native vegetationis taking hold throughout. On the hillsides the weeds have been replaced by native vegetation in almostall of this area.

Artesian Creek from earthen dam down stream past the slab and old orchard (San DiegoCounty MSCP)Beginning State ‐ Like the rest of the open space along the creek all of this area burned in 2007. Fennel,Pampas Grass, Mustard, Curly Dock dominated the riparian corridor just below the dam. The hillsideswere mostly Tocalote, Mustard, Artichoke, Fennel, Curly Dock, Mustard and non‐native grass. Furtherdown stream was what had been a farm with a home, Avocado and citrus orchards along with greenhouse & warehouse buildings. The creek was over grown with Eucalyptus and Fennel. Moving up slopethe land was taken over with more Eucalyptus, Tree Tobacco and Poison Hemlock. Moving up fromthere: yet more Eucalyptus, Artichoke, Italian Thistle, Mustard, Cheeseweed Mallow, Castor Bean, nonnativegrass, some Tamarix, a few Phoenix Palms, Fountain Grass and Wild Radish.The Plan ‐ Work on the annual/biennials during the wet season. Work on the perennial weeds during thedry season. Seek help in removing large eucalyptus from near trails & roads.Current Status ‐ Mike & Beth have had major roles in the restoration effort on this parcel. Most weedshave been treated along the creek. A few fennel and eucalyptus (20) need to be re‐treated. Willowcuttings can be planted to augment the native vegetation that has filled in. The avocado orchard hasbeen cut. Weeds have been treated and natives are filling in (first & second year succession growth).The Eucalyptus have been removed from the citrus orchard (some 2000). The palms have been drilled.One or two more wet season efforts are needed to complete the hillsides. One more dry season isneeded to finish off the perennials. There is one very large Brazilian pepper growth that will requirepersistent effort. Dittrichia was brought in with gravel; this requires follow‐up next summer.Bernardo Lakes (San Diego County MSCP, 190 acres)Background ‐ This had been ranch land. Oaks were removed to improve the pasture. The creek wasdammed and ponded to hold water for cattle. The land was then sold and sat unattended for 20 yearsbefore developers sub‐divided the ranch leaving an open space consisting of what should be coastalsage with a riparian corridor. The dams form a pond and a marsh. The open space is owned by theCounty and they turned it over to The Environmental Trust (TET) for management. Effectivemanagement never happened so a volunteer friends group (Friends of Santa Fe Valley) took over in2004. The entire area burned in 2007, effect requiring the volunteers to start over.Beginning State ‐ The creek has several willows along with Eucalyptus, Picris, palms, Castor Bean andTamarix. The marsh, mostly covered with reeds and cattails, is surrounded by Arondo and is dotted withpalms and Eucalyptus. Above the wetlands mustard, Artichoke, non‐native grasses, Tocalote, TreeTobacco, Garland Chrysanthemum and Cheeseweed Mallow dominated. The high elevations, especiallythe east facing slopes, had some scattered native shrubs.The Plan ‐ Treat the perennials in the dry months and treat the annuals/biennials during the wet season.Work from relatively good stands of native plants into the larger infestations as more natives grow in.Treat the Arondo in the fall (October/ November) just before they go dormant. Treat Artichoke inMay/June prior to dormancy.Current Status ‐ The higher elevations are primarily native coastal sage. Any existing weeds are beingcrowded out. The seasonal washes continue to sprout mustard requiring annual follow‐up. The marsh islargely weed free except for the hard to reach palms. The creek now has a dense understory and morediversity with some notable exceptions (rose, nettle, brambles and maybe poison oak).Most weeds have been controlled. Many are virtually gone. No Pampas Grass is known to exist. Onestalk of Arondo is known to be growing (used for education). The Artichoke, if any, have been driven intoa small area. Fennel occur in small patches. Eucalyptus are dead. Four palms still exist. CheeseweedMallow has largely been brought under control. Tree Tobacco is down to a few new seedlings, Tocaloteis largely suppressed by native coastal sage. The Garland Chrysanthemum is gone from everywhere, withthe possible exception of a patch in the southwest corner. Mustard is pushed back to a small privatepark.

Spanish False Fleabane, Olives and Myroporum parvifolium are new weeds that have been found andtreatedSalviati OSOrigional State ‐ Non‐native grasses, Picris palms, Eucalyptus and artichoke dominated this seasonalwetland. The upland portions were farmed till 2010.The Plan ‐ Treat the annual / perennial weeds during the wet season beginning near any native plantsand working out. Treat perennials whenever we can. Plant willow cuttings during January and February.Current Status ‐ The creek has filled in with reeds, cattails and willows are growing back. Some 70% ofthe seasonal wetland is virtually weed free and native succession has taken hold. The two farmed areasare in the hands of County Code Compliance.Camino Del Sur/Santa Luz OSOrigional State ‐ This small parcel has a perminant creek and seasonal wetland and is set aside for stormwater run‐off. Vegetation consisted of non‐native grasses, artichoke, Picris, castor bean, tree tobacco,pampas grass, Tamarix, Pheonix palms and Washingtonia palms.The Plan ‐ Treat annuals/biennials during the wet season. Treat the perennials whenever time andresources permit. Plant willow cuttings and acorns during January & February.Current State ‐ The perenial weeds have been controlled. Some natives have filled in a bit but non‐nativegrass still dominates one‐third of the parcel. A neighboring developer planted prostrate acacia along thenorth boarder.An estimated 400 field hours were volunteered by Committee Chair Arne Johanson and weed controlvolunteers.GardeningThe Gardening committee, under the chairmanship of Susan Krzywicki, continued to refine its mission toeducate chapter members and the general public by offering nine “Natives forNovices” gardening workshops before the monthly meeting (organized by Sue Marchetti) and producing15 gardening fact sheets, part of an anticipated series of 40.Natives for Novices, and Fact Sheet development, Fourteen active committee members, led bychairperson Susan Krzywicki, volunteered an estimated 320 hours for these activities.First CNPS – San Diego Native Plant Garden Tour April 28‐29 grossed $19,000 netted $8,000sponsor donation from Hunter Industries of $8,000 through the efforts of chapter Board Member GregRubin. The two day garden tour included 25 gardens and roughly 400 participants. Hunter Industries(irrigation systems), Rainscape Environmental Management, Bob Hoffman Video and the Chula VistaNature Center were donor sponsors! Second, we have expanded our circle of influence to mastersgardeners, High Tech High students, and other affinity groups. And third, we have created a buzz aroundthe ideals of native landscaping with press articles, high profile spokespeople like Todd Gloria and NanSterman.Each property, each garden is a native habitat: it's own little watershed that plays a role in helping tostem the tide of invasive exotics, chemicals and natural space destruction.The Gardening Committee members started planning a native garden tour for April 2012 more than ayear in advance. Under Clayton Tschudy, the garden tour planning had made great progress in 2011.Web pages were designed and registration via PayPal was scheduled to go live by February 2012, atwhich time income from ticket sales were possible. Master Gardeners and students at two high schoolsvolunteered to serve as site docents for each home garden on the tour. $2500 had been committed byseveral sponsors by years’ end. Allied environmental organizations and businesses had tables andconducted sales at the tour’s two starting locations. Chula Vista Nature Center donated space for a VIPParty before the tour. An estimated 270 hours were spent by year’s end in 2011 planning the GardenTour.Two public native plant gardens are under CNPS gardening committee direction. Member

Wes Hudson has continued to develop the North Park Native Plant Demonstration Garden, andPeter St. Clair and Kay Stewart coordinate monthly work parties at the Old Town State Park Native PlantGarden. These activities, including publicity, have resulted in over 300 hours of donated volunteer time.The Gardening Committee has enabled 890 donated volunteer hours through these various works.NewsletterJanuary – Conservation ‐‐(re) Reading the Hills – Discussion of chaparral natural history by Frank LandisSecond Chance: Cleveland National Forest Management Plan Offers Chance to Protect Roadless Areas byCindy BuxtonRare Plants – San Diego Coastal Creeper story of Aphanisma blitoides Cindy BurrascanoTorrey Pine Part 2 by Tom Oberbauer; Response to Naturally Large Fires by Tom OberbauerFebruary‐‐Prez Sez – Tom Oberbauer selected as PresidentConservation—Mountain Bikes and Vernal Pools; Baja California Native Plant Field Guide; InvasivePlants – Barbed GoatgrassMarch ‐‐ Garden Tour Spotlight; Conservation – Old Growth and Stand Dynamics by Frank LandisApril‐‐ CONSERVATION Miniature Serengetis ‐‐ Description of vernal pools by Frank Landis; TecateCypress – Tecate cypress natural history by Tom OberbauerMay‐‐Prez Sez My Favorite San Diego County Wildflowers by Tom Oberbauer Conservation Connectingthe Dots by Frank Landis discussion of City of San Diego Wetland Ordinance modifications. ; A Look atSan Diego County Grasses(Poaceae) in Jepson 2 Fred RobertsJune ‐‐ Conservation – Plant Conservation by Frank Landis; There’s something about Oaks by CindyBurrascano; The Ponderosa Pine in San Diego County by Tom OberbauerJuly ‐‐ Veep Speaks – Jonathan Dunn describes interest in Native Plants; Conservation—One and a HalfOpportunities by Frank Landis discusses creating a Flora of Del Mar Mesa and the Adopt a Rare Plantconcept; San Diego Sunflower (Bahiopsis laciniata) by Tom Oberbauer discusses the natural history of aflowering shrub found mostly in San Diego County and Baja California.August ‐‐ CONSERVATION ‐‐ Global Warming and the Great Northward Migration by Frank Landisdiscusses carbon dioxide and wildlife and plant movements.September ‐‐ Prez Sez Tom Oberbauer discussed the upcoming Native Plant Sale in October; RarePlants—Sampling Rare Plants by Frank Landis discussed rare plant sampling methods; Conservation ExSitu Conservation by Frank Landis discusses plant conservation in gardens; GARDENING The Do’s andDon’ts of Native Horticulture by Greg Rubin discusses basics of native plant gardening; HabitatConservation Plan Land Acquisition Grant Awarded to City of Carlsbad; Happy Times with Torrey Pinesby Chuck Curtis, 2011 (Edited for length by Kay Stewart)October ‐‐ Prez Sez Tom Oberbauer discussed the value of volunteers for the Chapter; ConservationFixing Environmental Laws by Frank Landis discussed the California Environmental Quality Act. Botany—Where have all the Monkey Flowers gone? By Fred Roberts discusses the nomenclature changes inMimulus.November ‐‐ Plant Sale Thank You by Carolyn Martus and Mary Kelly. Plant sale utilized manyvolunteers and raised thousands of dollars. It’s Time to Elect Board Members. Conservation—A fewmore words about Climate Change by Frank Landis. Fixing Environmental Laws? corrected version; Flat‐Topped Buckwheat, One of Our Most Common Native Plants by Tom Oberbauer discussed the naturalhistory of Eriogonum fasciculatum and its varieties.

December ‐‐ Conservation – And Now a Word from Our Sponsors by Frank Landis discussingconservation fund needs. Native Garden Work Parties: You Are Needed in Old Town ‐ Seriously, You AreNeeded by Kay Stewart explaining need for volunteers for Old Town Native Plant GardenBobbie Stephenson volunteered an estimated 190 hours working on the newsletter and coordinatingwith submittal writers. Time donated by volunteer members who have written articles has not beenestimated, but could amount to another several hundred hours.OutreachThe Public Outreach committee, headed by chair Margy Day, used the Chapter’s two tabletop exhibitsso volunteers could attend concurrent events, since April and May are filled with weekend outdoorevents. The exhibits were displayed around San Diego County.A conservative estimate of 180 hours of volunteer time (including travel) was expended for outreach atthese numerous events.Plant PropagationThe Plant Propagation committee, under co‐chairs Connie Beck and Amy Huie, is a cooperative effortbetween CNPS volunteers and the City of San Diego Parks and Recreation Department.Approximately 1200 plants have been successfully propagated with plants being donated to the CNPSfall sale, and for use in Balboa Park's native display garden. Plants have also been made available to thePark Rangers for their planting projects in the park and in open space areas. Sixteen volunteers, with anaverage of eight on every 3‐hour work‐party day, led by cochairs, met 10 times at the Kate Sessionsnursery in Balboa Park during the year, donating a total of approximately 90 hours.Plant Sales: The San Diego Chapter participates in two plant sales every year.Spring Plant Sale EventThe chapter held its annual spring plant sale at Tree of Life Nursery (TOLN) on March 24, 2012. It wasoriginally scheduled for March 17, but was rescheduled because of a major winter storm. The 2012event was held in partnership with the CNPS Orange County chapter and was promoted as a spring plantsale and member appreciation day instead of a fundraiser (TOLN was not able to make its profit‐sharingdonation of 20% of the plant sales from the day because of the economic downturn). The chapter boarddecided to go ahead with a modified spring event to acknowledge the more than 20 years of supportTOLN has given to San Diego and to continue with a tradition many members enjoy.The San Diego chapter partnered with the Orange County chapter in the spring event in order to shareresources and establish a closer working relationship. The event was promoted as a benefit to currentmembers, who received a 10% discount on plant purchases, as well as to attract new members andeducate the public.Event ActivitiesBoth San Diego and Orange County volunteers gave educational talks during the day, staffed a CNPSinformational table, and assisted customers with questions about native plants.1. Four educational talks were scheduled—two from San Diego experts and two from Orange Countyexperts. Attendance at each of the talks ranged from 12 to 30 people. The talks allow for easier outreachand publicity as free educational events get coverage that plant sales do not.2. TOLN set up a shaded informational table at the main entrance to the nursery. A CNPS banneridentified the organization and CNPS brochures were on display. San Diego and Orange Countyvolunteers asked visitors if they were CNPS members and provided information about the benefits ofmembership. Both chapters offered bonus items for new and renewing members and TOLN offeredadditional incentive items. TOLN provided a free plant to all members who made a purchase. Fivepeople joined or renewed their membership through the San Diego chapter while Orange County signedup twelve new members and one renewing member.

3. A total of six San Diego volunteers and fifteen Orange County volunteers worked with TOLN staff toassist the public during the event, answering basic questions about native plants and providing detailedlandscape design advice. Many of the chapter volunteers provided feedback about their own gardenexperiences with specific plants. This type of personal interaction is invaluable to educating the publicabout the beauty and importance of natives in the garden and in the in the wild.Volunteer Time and DonationsSan Diego volunteers contributed approximately 50 hours of effort. In addition, publicity efforts took atleast another 25 hours of volunteer time. This included design and production of a flyer, distributing theflyer to various locations in San Diego County, and sending out online announcements and postings ofthe sale. Information about the event was listed in the San Diego and Orange County membernewsletters and websites and email notification was sent out to each chapter’s email list. TOLN includedthe event in its email to more than 2500 people and provided information on its Facebook page. TOLNprovided a pizza lunch for the volunteers while San Diego and Orange County chapter members shareddrinks and snacks provided by San Diego volunteers.Chapters Working TogetherOne of the most important aspects of the event was meeting and working with the Orange Countyvolunteers. San Diego and Orange County CNPS members compared notes on everything from t‐shirts aschapter fundraisers, tours of native plant gardens, and conservation efforts with local government.TOLN displayed a poster and distributed postcards about the 2012 San Diego Garden Tour and severalOrange County members and TOLN staff planned to attend the North County portion of the tour (theirfirst awareness of the tour). Ideally, our chapters will be able to establish a closer working relationship,supporting the other’s activities and learning from other’s experiences.Another spring event is scheduled at TOLN on March 16, 2013. Both the San Diego and Orange Countychapters will participate in this event.Fall Plant SaleMarch 27 Spring Native Plant Sale Spring Native Plant Sale at Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano;October 2012 Native Plant Sale held in Balboa Park. Involved hundreds of hours of participation andraised thousands of dollars.The biggest chapter event of the year is the Fall Plant Sale, chaired by Carolyn Martus withsubstantial assistance by Mary Kelly and too many others to name. Between volunteersplanning the plant sale, ordering plants for day‐of‐sale sales as well as advanced sales, ten tofifteen members growing plants, ten members tagging plants at three nurseries before the sale,a group of volunteers orders, collects and packages all the seed, and the day of sale, fiftyvolunteers assisting with unloading, setting up, selling and loading the plants, and cleaning up,the estimate of hours is 1,000.ProgramsThe ten general membership meetings held in the Casa Del Prado in Balboa Park were plannedby Program chair Claude Edwards, including inviting, writing notices and working with publicity,hosting the speakers for a pre‐program dinner, and being MC at the meeting. Claude donatedan estimated 36 hours.ProgramJanuary ‐‐ Natives for Novices – Fact Sheets for Natives by Susan Kryzwicki.San Diego Canyonlands – Current and Future ActivitiesEric Bowlby, Executive Director of San Diego CanyonlandsSDCL’s proposal to dedicate approximately 10,000 acres of city‐owned land for permanent open spaceand parkland. His second topic will be about aspects of their Canyon Enhancement Planning (CEP)

Committee, created in 2009, as a guide for community stakeholders that facilitates a systems approachfor integrating our natural open spacesFebruary‐‐ Natives for Novices – Fact Sheets for Natives by Susan Kryzwicki.Archaeoethnobotany: Plants in San Diego’s Archaeological Past by G. Timothy Gross, PhDPresentation examined what archaeologists have found in the archaeological record in the San Diegoregion that informs us about the use of native plants.March ‐‐Natives for Novices Scott JonesWatershed Avengers by Carla Pisbe discussed Ocean Discovery Institute work in canyonsApril ‐‐Natives for Novices at 6:30 p.m. Scott Jones will continue the theme of habitats and communitiesby presenting plantscape‐matchup design ideasOn The Brink: The 10 Most Endangered Plants in San Diego County Presentation by Vince Scheidt Vince’spresentation will describe the ten most endangered plants in San Diego County, all of which arenear extinction in the wild, based on an analysis of relevant data sources and the presenter’s thirty yearsof local field experience.May ‐‐ Natives for Novices Clayton Tschudy ‐ Otay Mountain NativesAwakening The Wildness Within Presentation by Rick HalseyJune ‐‐ Natives for Novices; Border Field State Park Habitat Restoration Presentation by Phillip RoullardBrief history of the impacts that have occurred at Border Field State Park from natural influences,agriculture, the military and DHS infrastructure construction projects.July ‐‐Natives for Novices; The Liveforevers of San Diego County and Adjacent Southern California andBaja California, Mexico. Presentation by Fred Roberts discussed Dudleya the diversity of species in theregionSeptember ‐‐ Gardening with Natives, 6:30 to 7:00 p.m.: Planting Natives in Clay Soil by Greg RubinExperience the Inaugural 2012 San Diego Native Garden Tour by Susan Krzywicki . Susan described thefirst San Diego Native Garden Tour and the visits to 25 different gardens from Fallbrook to Chula Vista.October ‐‐ Ceanothus in San Diego County: Threats and Endemism by Jim RocksNovember ‐‐Pre‐meeting Gardening with Naives “Native Plants, Soil and Mulch”From the Headwaters to the River Mouth, Conservation and Stewardship of Native Plant Habitats in theSan Diego River Watershed‐3 Case Studies by Shannon Quigley‐Raymond San Diego River ParkFoundation discussed nature preserves and Friends of the River Mouth groups.December ‐‐Holiday Party Bring Pictures – Tom Oberbauer showed images of Populus tremuloides in fallcolor from the South Lake‐Conway Summit‐June Lake area in October 2013. Potluck dinner and livemusic provided.PublicityThe Publicity Chair Pat Fishtein has worked publicizing chapter meetings, pre‐meeting seminars andcanyon walks in print and electronic media. Roland Roberge has been consistent participant by helpingwith his computer skills. About 90 hours of volunteer time were donated.Rare PlantsFred Roberts, the chapter’s Rare Plant Botanist, did not provide an estimate of his hours in2011, but his activities helping San Diego, Riverside, and Orange County CNPS continued unabated. In2010 he estimated he spent over 60 hours on behalf of San Diego’s rare plants.The same number would be reasonable to assume for 2011.Rare Plant SurveyFrank Landis, chair Yearly activities: in 2012, the rare plant survey committee surveyed seven plantspecies at six sites. The species were coastal woollyheads (Nemacaulis denudata var. denudata, CNPSList 1B), Nuttall's lotus (Acmispon prostratus, CNPS List 1B), Brand's phacelia (Phacelia stellaris, CNPS List

1B), Robinson's pepper‐grass (Lepidium virginicum var. robinsonii, CNPS List 1B), Orcutt’s pincushion(Chaenactis glabriuscula var. orcuttiana, CNPS List 1B), Beach goldenaster (Heterotheca sessiliflora var.sessiliflora, CNPS List 1B), Lewis’ evening primrose (Camissonia lewisii, CNPS List 3), and red sandverbena (Abronia maritima, List 4). Beaches surveyed included Orange Beach and Silver StrandElementary School (owned by US Navy), Silver Strand State Beach (State Parks), Fiesta Island (owned bythe City of San Diego), San Elijo Lagoon (private conservancy), and Cardiff State Beach. Surveys wereconducted between February and May, 2012.Results are shown in the table below:SpeciesBrand'sphaceliaNuttall'slotusCoastwoollyheadsOrcutt'spincushionBeachgoldenasterRobinson'spepper‐grassLewis'eveningprimroseRed sandverbenaTotalOrangeBeachSilverStrandSchoolSilverStrandState BeachFiestaIslandSan ElijoLagoon937,150 959 91 936,100 0 0 0CardiffStateBeach1,013,441 0 258,400 705,700 2,741 45,500 1,10022,523,932 1,456,500 5,303,100 14,382,200 128,832 1,253,300 0183,500 0 0 0 0 183,500 01,572 0 0 1,572 0 0 07,364 0 0NotCounted7,195 169 02,300 2,300 07.65 acres(+ 10 pl)10 0 7.65 acresNotCounted0 0Data were analyzed over the summer, and reports were submitted to landowners, CNDDB, interestedorganizations, and the public (via the CNPSSD website and Frank's blog, where copies are available). andFrank Landis also reported the results to the San Diego Chapter in January 2013 in a well‐attendedgeneral meeting.The eighteen volunteers on the committee collectively contributed over 152 hours working for thiscommittee.WebsiteWebMaster Mary Alice Kessler continued to volunteer to maintain and update the Chapter website atwww.cnpssd.org. She had to expend extra effort collaborating with the web design firm that was hiredby the Gardening committee for the garden tour coming up in April 2012.Mary Alice estimated this resulted in her donating 200 hours in 2011.SummaryCNPS members and others contributed over 6,148 hours. Hours donated by Council Secretary MartyFoltyn and State Board member Vince Scheidt are not tallied with the Chapter volunteer efforts, andshould be accounted for elsewhere, as these would be substantial contributions to CNPS.

SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS CHAPTERCalifornia Native Plant SocietyANNUAL REPORT 2011Prepared by Orchid Black, PresidentTHE CHAPTER IS REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOverviewThis year, the San Gabriel Mountains Chapter increased its membership for the second year ina row, from 245 members to 283, while in 2010 our membership was 237. Membershipincreases are due to the past president’s policies of outreach at the plant sale. We added anoutreach table for membership at each meeting.Our outreach and education program consists of monthly program meetings, numerous fieldtrips and monthly plant walks, our annual native plant sale, maintenance of our web site, andrepresentation at local public events, generating interest and inquiries. The Chapter’snewsletter The Paintbrush is mailed to our members and posted on our website. The shortversion of our newsletter (one page, double sided, with program information and websitereference) we make available in nature centers, native plant nurseries, outreach events, andlocal libraries for free.Our plant survey of the Lily Springs area of the San Gabriel Mountains was presented to the2012 Conservation Conference in January by Jane Tirell. Jane has spearheaded this project toresurvey an area of rare plants that was originally surveyed by the chapter. Graham Bothwell,Walt Fidler, and Don Davis participated in the survey, which is ongoing.We participated in the native plant week in April and reached out with presentations of nativebouquets of wildflowers to several public places as well as a field trip to the desert. Weparticipated in several outreach events during the spring.We continue to see the need for a full time biologist who could represent our conservationinterests in the Southern California area. Our chapter continues to reserve funds in support of apaid position to work of those issues together with our neighboring chapters, although we useda portion of these funds for direct land conservation this year.We continue plant surveys in the San Dimas Experimental Forest, a restricted access area inthe Angeles National Forest, and participated in the Oak Woodland Strategic Alliance.1. Board Meetings:Chapter ActivitiesWe held six board meetings in 2012 (January, March, May, July, September, November). Onaverage, seven board members attended. Volunteer hours spent on planning, attending, andwriting minutes totaled at least 130 hours. Board meetings have been held at Eaton CanyonNature Center.1

2. Field Trips:March 31, Lower Arroyo Seco, with Mickey LongApril 14, 3 rd Annual Mickey Long Desert Trip: Phacelia Wildlife SanctuaryApril 28, Bernard Field Station, Claremont, with Nancy HamlettMay 12, Arlington Garden Pasadena, with Jane StrongJune 30, Lily Spring Area Survey from the South Side, Jane TirellJuly 14, Charlton Flats Picnic Area and Silver Moccasin Trail, Ginny HeringerAugust 11, Mt. Baldy moonworts hunt, Kim Clark, cancelled – bike race conflictAugust 18, Lightning Ridge with Graham Bothwell, cancelled – no bloomAverage Field Trip Attendance: 12Total field trips offered: 6Total field trip attendance, (approx): 72Total volunteer hours: 126In addition to the very successful field trips listed above, we conducted 10 monthly Native PlantWalks for the public at Eaton Canyon in Pasadena. The Plant Walks are supported by theEaton Canyon Nature Center, and are promoted through the center and chapter publicity. Thiswalk allows beginners to get their feet wet. Attendance averages 8. Volunteer hours total 40.In addition, we continued to partner with the Natural Science Section of the Sierra Club whooffered several botany walks in our area, as well as a weekend Nature Knowledge Workshop inJune. These outings were led or assisted by CNPS chapter members Cliff and Gabi McLean,Mickey Long, and Ginny Heringer. Average attendance at the botany walks was 15 per outing.Volunteer hours for these outings amounted to approximately 40 hours.Total volunteer hours for field trips, outings, and plant walks: 2063. Program Meetings:We conducted eight program meetings at Eaton Canyon Nature Center in 2012. We considerthose programs not only a resource for our members, but also public outreach and education.Programs are often attended by students The yearly fee for the meeting place was $290.Refreshments are served and organized by our hospitality chair. Our membership chair sendsout e-mail reminders one week before the program. We also have printed, personalized nametags with the CNPS logo available for anyone who attends the program more than once.DateJanuary 26, 2012February 23, 2012March 22, 2012April 26, 2012May 24, 2012June 28, 2012September 27, 2012ProgramManaging the land the Native way, Kat HighSowing native seeds for spring color, Genevieve ArnoldCan old dogs learn new tricks? Some conservation lessons fromOwens Valley, Dan PrichettThe forest recovery project, Corina RobertsIs large-scale desert solar and wind really renewable energy?Chris ClarkeThe Lily Spring Area Survey, a phenology study in the highcountry of the San Gabriel Mountains, Jane TirrelPotluck Supper and Photographic Show and Tell, Cliff McLean2

October 25, 2012Designing California Native Gardens, Carol Bornsteinwe had 365 attendees at our program meetings in 2012, including CNPS members and thegeneral public, an average of 46 per program. Volunteer hours for program preparation andpresentation, publicity, and hospitality amounted to 156 hours or more. We paid $700 inspeaker honoraria.4. Newsletter:The Paintbrush, SGM Chapter’s newsletter, was published four times in 2012, and eachcovered eight to ten pages. We have a two-person newsletter team: one member is serving aseditor and layout person, the other is responsible for assembly and distribution. Jane Strong,and Eva Morgan stepped up as the newsletter team in 2011 and continued in 2012. Theproduction of the newsletter - assembling material, research, layout, editing, proof reading,printing, folding, addressing, mailing - took about 50 hours per issue on average, for a total of200 hours.Various members contribute articles. Volunteer hours for writing articles were estimated at 35per issue, total of 175 hours.The membership database serves as the distribution database and is maintained by ourmembership chair; maintaining this database took 20 volunteer hours in 2012.The cost of printing and mailing was $1,250. We print extra copies per issue to distribute atEaton Canyon Nature Center and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) as publicoutreach. Total volunteer hours were 395 hours.5. and 6. Public Outreach and Education Efforts:The SGM chapter conducts monthly Native Plant Walks for the public at Eaton Canyon inPasadena (included in field trips above).Chapter members represented CNPS at the opening of Haramonkna Cultural Center and at theSierra Madre Earth Day Fair in April. Chapter members represented CNPS and our chapter fortwo days at the Arboretum Grow! Festival in May, which attracted approximately 5,000visitors interested in gardening. Chapter members represented CNPS, with E.D. DanGlusenkamp, at the So. Cal. Bot. Soc. Symposium at the Huntington in October. 72 hoursOur new Outreach Chair, Kathy Sturdevant, coordinated the Plant Right! survey of nurserieswhich surveys local nurseries for sales of invasive plants. .Approximately 6 volunteersparticipated. Kathy also brought CNPS gardening brochures to local nurseries, which shestickers with our chapter information. 35 hoursIn April, our chapter participated at the California Native Plant Week. Members crafted smallnative plant bouquets and delivered them to libraries and other public places with informationaloutreach material. 10 hoursVolunteer hours for these events were approximately 117.3

We couple our program meetings also with education: For 30 minutes before the program, weoffer informal plant identification: we have some plant cuttings available – from the field, thepark, or native plant gardens - and members bring in plants or photographs and they arediscussed and identified by knowledgeable members. We identify native and non-native,invasive plants, and occasionally uncommon plants. This part of our program is very muchappreciated by people who are new to native plants. The volunteer hours are included in thereported hours for programs.7. Conservation:The chapter sent a letter of support for the purchase of 13 acres of Millard Canyon by theArroyos and Foothills Conservancy, a 501c(3). The parcel was one of the last privately heldundeveloped parcels in the Millard area and contains some rare plants including the HumboldtLily. The chapter donated $1,500 of chapter funds to this purchase. A survey was done of thesite by Mickey Long and Jane Strong which found 151 species, 98 of which were native. Aplant-a-thon based on the survey with its own web page on our site raised an additional $1,352,making our chapter’s total donation to the purchase $2,852. Many chapter members attendedplant walks at the site given by Mickey Long on behalf of the Conservancy. 65 hoursChapter members reviewed EIRs and other environmental documents, and sent a commentletter to DPW regarding improper planting of grass at the Arcadia Woodlands site. 20 hours.At least one member participated regularly in the local Weed Management Area meetings tokeep up with current events and make connections to aid in our conservation and weed controlefforts. 9 hours.The chapter continues to hold in reserve $1500 for a botanist position to work onconservation issues in southern California, together with other southern California chapters.San Dimas Experimental Forest (SDEF) Plant Survey:The chapter renewed its agreement with SDEF, a unit of the Angeles National Forest, to obtainaccess to and conduct field surveys on the premises of SDEF. This project is led by Boardmember Terry Keller. There was one survey visit during the year and one joint field trip with theNatural Science Section of the Sierra Club: This is an ongoing project. Total volunteer hoursfor 2012: 18.Oak Woodland Strategic Alliance:Board members and at least two other chapter members continue to attend the meetings of theOak Woodland Strategic Alliance which is finishing the Oak Conservation Plan for LA County.There were 2 meetings in 2012. Together with related research and activism, the volunteerhours for this project amounted to about 12 hours.Total estimated volunteer hours for conservation: 1248. Work Parties:4

The chapter maintains the Becky Rothenberg Memorial Wildflower Garden at Eaton CanyonNature Center in Pasadena. Throughout the year, members continue weeding the Wildflowergarden to control the mustard, alyssum, and grass seedlings. 10 hrsFollowing our plant sale in November, we conducted a planting workshop where participantslearn and gain experience planting and maintaining native plants. We had 8 participants andwere still able to put in 10 plants in the Becky Rothenberg Memorial Garden, and do somemaintenance work. 12 hoursOur new Invasive Plant Chair Roger Klemm removed Fountain Grass at Sunland WelcomeNature Garden, Tamarisk at Hahamongna, and Ailanthus at Haines Canyon, with friends. Totalvolunteer hours: 35Total volunteer hours: 579. Legislative Activity:See Oak Woodland Strategic Alliance under Conservation.10. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows:We held our plant sale “Native Plants for Foothill Gardens” on November 10 at EatonCanyon Nature Center. We ordered more plants than in the previous year, but still sold 1194plants and had good fundraising success, with a net income of $3,969, an 11% increase overthe previous year. We attribute the increase to excellent management of the sale by ourHorticultural Chair, Barbara Eisenstein. We had plenty of volunteers, and, as in the year before,we coupled the plant sale with a very successful membership drive. All this was despiteimpending rain,and we increased our outreach for the eighth year in a row. We offeredmembership incentives by giving a 10% discount to all CNPS members for all purchases: theplants, seeds, Care and Maintenance books, chapter T-shirts, and two interpretive plant CDs ofthe San Gabriel Mountains, produced by chapter members.On the day of the event, 32 volunteers contributed expert advice, assisted sales, carried plants,conducted the membership drive, manned the cash register, and handled overall organization.Planning, plant selection and delivery, publicity, and other preparations also took considerabletime by the plant sale team, for a total of more than 300 volunteer hours.Public attendance was about 250 people, and 192 people bought plants. All plants werepurchased from local native plant nurseries. We continue to receive positive feedback about theplant sale, as this is seen as a convenience to acquire native plants locally and receive freeexpert information. We also advertised our free planting workshop that we conducted on thefollowing weekend (see above under work party).11. Other Activities:Rare Plants: Our Rare Plant chair advised the State CNPS botanist on rare plant listingdecisions, attended the Rare Plant chair meeting, provided information to the public, andmaintained the rare plant list for Los Angeles County. Volunteer hours: 305

Plant Science: This year, our chapter continued the Lily Spring Area Survey. Jane Tirellpresented the results of the survey at the Conservation Conference in January Jane hasspearheaded this project to resurvey an area of rare plants that was originally surveyed by thechapter. Graham Bothwell, Walt Fidler, and Don Davis participated in the survey, which isongoing. Jane and Graham led a field trip to the site. 100 hoursChapter Council Meetings: Our chapter co-hosted the chapter council meeting in March atRSABG, providing refreshments and volunteers, as well as a field trip. Our chapter councilrepresentative attended four chapter council meetings. Volunteer hours: 125Chapter Web Site, cnps-sgm.org: The chapter web site has been very successful ingenerating interest in CNPS; we get many inquiries from the public about native plants and ourprograms from people who visit the site. All chapter newsletters, since the inception of thechapter, are available on line. Total volunteer hours 37.Volunteer hours for financial reports and accounting: 50Volunteer hours for other activities, e.g. responding to inquiries the public: 30Volunteer hours for general operations: 150Total of above: 230Summary of Volunteer Hours: 1,9701) Board meetings: 130 9) Legislative: see conservation2) Field trips, outings, plant walks:206 10) Plant Sale: 3003) Program meetings: 156 11) Other: 4854) Newsletter: 395 Rare plants: 305 & 6) Public Outreach & Education: 117 Plant science: 1007) Conservation: 124 CCMtgs 1258) Work parties: 57 Website & other admin.: 2306

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME San Luis Obispo YEAR 2012NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT: David Chipping(President)WE ARE NOT REQUESTING A SUBVENTION.The Chapter returned the 2012 subvention mid year.OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Chapter interests of general membership remain dominatedby horticulture and native plant gardening, followed by taking field trips and learning a littlebit about nature and plant identification. The Board’s interests include conservation, K-12education, scientific botany and status of rare plants , photography, and identification ofplants on field trips. Many enjoy the monthly meetings and both the speakers and socialinteraction. The Board has constantly looked for ways to meet chapter member needs.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES1. Board Meetings: 5 meetings CHECK were held, distributed over different locations andusing about 280 hours total in travel, preparation, and meeting time. The Board has beenattempting to spread the meetings geographically. In addition special subcommittee meetingstook 35 hours of time. Board Secretary used an additional 5 hours in preparing minutes, andTreasurer 100 hours ( maintaining accounts, making payments and deposits, annualstatement , room rental, cashier management for special events).2. Field TripsFebruary 25: Late Winter Burton Mesa Chaparral; February 25: Elfin Forest, Los Osos;March 25: Coreopsis Hill; March 31: La Purissima Mission; April 7, Annual MalcolmMcLeod Memorial Field Trip Meeting to Shell Creek; Native Plant Week Hikes: April 16,Dairy Creek; April 17, Froom Ranch; April 18, Estero Bluffs; April 19, Coon Creek; April 20Shark Inlet; April 21 with Los Padres National Forest –Figueroa Mt.; May 13: Irish HillsNatural Reserve ; June 16-17: “President’s Trip” to Sierra Madre Range and Mt. PinosOctober 6: Shark Inlet salt marsh; October 20: Stenner Creek and Poly Canyon; October 20:La Purisima Mission; November 11: Bishop Peak; December 1: Trees of Santa Rosa Park;December 15: Cambria Forest Fungal Foray; December 22: Point BuchonHours spent by Field Trip Coordinator (B. Waycott) and trip leaders -60 hours. Haydu spentabout 60 hours on plant list preparation for field trips.3. Programs: January: Annual Banquet, Speaker Glenn Keator: Plants For The Garden;February: David Chipping & Dirk Walters on Favorite Plant Localities; March: SpecialNorth County Program- Ryan O’Dell on The Serpentine Flora of California; April: AnnualShell Creek Field Meeting; May, Kristie Haydu on Methodology of Determining San LuisObispo County Rare Species Hotspots; June, Nuri Benet-Pierce on new Chenopodiumspecies ; October: Annual potluck and member photo show; November, Bill Waycott on

Unique Plant Habitats in Remote Areas of California; December, Nan Sterman: Gardeningin California’s Mediterranean ClimatePlant ID Workshops: On several meetings, Dr. Keil and Dr. Ritter conducted plantworkshops before the main program May: Manzanitas; June: Hemizonia; December:Conifers. These had 25-30 participants and are very popular. Haydu spent about 10 hours onplant collection for the workshopsRecognitions and Awards:Bonnie Walters was recognized for her long service in producing artwork for the newsletter.The Community Recognition Award was presented to Susan Grimaud at the AnnualBanquet for her work at Pismo State Beach, Oceano Campground Native Plant Garden, andNorth Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove.Meeting Expenses: The chapter donates a book as a gift to speakers, average retail value $30,with a total cost of $100-$120 to the chapter. Hospitality costs include diner for speaker andguest ($150), snacks for meeting ($100) and room rental ($500). The hospitality chair (M.Niles) gave 43 hours at general meetings in providing refreshments.The Annual Banquet requires many person hours on such things as contracts/insurance,table set-up, servicing the pot-luck with equipment, set up and clean up, table decoration etc.Table decoration with native plants took 20 person hours, setup 20 person hours.4. Newsletter: The editor creates 8 issues/year and a mailed banquet announcement. Thenewsletter editor spends 80 volunteer hours, and labeling and mail list maintenance about 30hours. The annual cost is about $3,000, the chapter achieving a major savings over previousyears. The newsletter always features an article and plant drawings by D. Walters and B.Walters, totaling 45 person hours.The Chapter maintains a web site (http://www.cnps-slo.org/) and is contracting to have thesite maintained. A Facebook site is also maintained. Web page costs for maintenance anddesign are $1.316 and $25 for domain name. Haydu spends about 30 hrs/yr on the chapterFacebook page.5. Public Outreach Events: CNPS volunteers had booths at Earth Day (10 person hours),sold books at Shell Creek during the peak wildflower weekend (April) (4 person hours), hada sales table and information at the Cambria Wildflower Show (April) (30 hours), had salesand information at the Santa Margarita Wildflower Festival (20 hours) had an informationbooth, and flower display at Paso Robles Festival of the Arts and Riverwalk (May) (20person hours). Additional hours for maintaining displays etc. 20 hours. A group of chaptervolunteers has worked with the Chimineas Ranch Foundation in restoring and planting anative plant garden, totaling 80 person hours, and aided in plant surveys of Chimineas Ranchat 50 person hours.6. Education Efforts: The Chapter has established a scholarship program for students inhonor of Malcolm McLeod. Two scholarships of $500 each were awarded to students at CalPoly. The students gave a presentation of their projects at the June Meeting. Board memberChesnut continues to work with Los Osos Middle School in their educational native plantpropagation program, and has also provided plant materials to the Morro Bay AudubonSociety for the restoration of Sweet Springs Nature Preserve. John Chesnut contributed atleast 200 hours to education-related plant growing and planting projects.

The Chapter is working on an illustrated flora of the Carrizo Plains. (100 hours)Wholesale distribution of books has required 165 hours of donated time (L. Chipping).7. Conservation: 2012 was a relatively quiet year, as few development projects movedforward due to the recession. The chapter commented negatively on development plans inNipomo Regional Park. D. Chipping is promoting CNPS interests in the North CountyHCP/NCCP, which is proceeding very slowly. The Chapter is in active consultation withCalifornia State Parks on invasive weed issues, with the Department of Fish and Wildlife onChimineas Ranch, and with Los Padres National Forest on rare plant issues. The Chapterhas two Board members (Walters, D. Chipping) on the board of the Friends of the CarrizoPlain, in order to better work with BLM in botanic and habitat conservation issues, Thereare also two board members on the SLO County Water Resources Advisory Committee (L.Chipping, D. Chipping).Lauren Brown and David Chipping represent CNPS on the county Weed Management AreaCommittee, and the chapter has a small program that attacks weeds in the county state parksand had pampas grass removal project around rare plant habitat in San Luis Obispo. Thistotals 20 hours.For review of documents, EIR’s etc. For conservation actions involving CNPS alone, about400 hours. In addition CNPS Board members have commented as individuals.8. Work Parties: A work party removed has helped control veldt grass and long-leaf iceplant in the Los Osos area (40 hours).9. Legislative Activity: The Chapter did not address any Federal or Statewide issues at thelegislative level, with all work being at the county level. Hours at the County level areaccounted for in the Conservation section.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramJohn Chesnut reviews rare plant issues for the Chapter, centering on locally rare species andtwelve species under listing review. (75 hours)11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: The Chapter has an annual plant sale and sales table inNovember. It netted $3,433 after taxes on gross sales of $9,811. There were about 30volunteers supervised by J. Nowak , totaling 400 hours.12. Other Activities:Book Table and Sales: H. and J. JohnsonMaintaining and ordering sales stock, transport and setup at meetings and other relatedactivities require about 100 person hours.Publications.J. Johnson is working with authors who are preparing botanic guides, and is advising onsame. These include a guide to plants on the SLO County coast, postcard productionprojects and more.Historian.D Walters spends about 5 hours as Historian.

PublicityJ. Prostovich spends about 10 hours on Publicity for CNPS eventsRepresentative to Chapter Council:Lauren Brown, Kristie Haydu, and David Chipping estimate about 180 hours of work wereassociated with her work on the chapter board in this role.

We are requesting a subvention.California Native Plant Society - Santa Clara Valley ChapterSanta Clara County and Southern San Mateo Countywww.cnps-scv.orgChapter Activity Report – 2012Prepared by: Judy Fenerty, Chapter Council Delegate, and Arvind Kumar, Chapter President 2011-2012.1. Board Meetings and Board Retreat: Six Chapter Board meetings were held in 2012.Attendance at our Board Meetings is good (we average 15 attendees). For the sixth year in a row,we held a well-attended Chapter Board Retreat in November, with 26 participants. This year theretreat was again held at Past President and New Member Outreach Chair Georgia Stigall’s homein the Santa Cruz Mountains. The retreat gave us an opportunity to continue to discuss and refineour goals and strategy. We don’t usually have time for in-depth discussions at our regular boardmeetings, and it was a great chance to further strengthen our friendships, and get to know ournewer Board members as well.Total Chapter Board Volunteer Hours: 1,3022. Field Trips: We continue to have an active and well-attended field trip program. We featuredmany trips in our local area, and had great hiking and camping adventures in other parts of ourstate as well. The field trip committee met three times this year to plan our diverse field tripprogram and brainstorm.Field trips this year included:Ano Nuevo State Park (San Mateo Coast), Quail Hollow County Park (Santa Cruz County), SanPedro County Park (San Mateo County), Edgewood County Park (Redwood City), Sierra AzulOpen Space Preserve (Los Gatos), Stevens Creek County Park (Cupertino), Stile Ranch (SouthSan Jose) (twice), San Bruno Mountain (San Bruno), Uvas Canyon County Park (Morgan Hill)(twice), Blair Ranch Open Space Preserve (Morgan Hill), New Hagen Meadow (Sierra AzulOSP) (Los Gatos), Pigeon Point (Half Moon Bay), Pichetti Ranch Open Space Preserve(Cupertino), Chimineas Ranch/Carrizo Plain National Monument (San Luis Obispo County) (carcamping), Cascade Field North (San Mateo Coast), Big Basin State Park (Santa Cruz County),Palassou Ridge Open Space Preserve (south Santa Clara County), Los Trancos Open SpacePreserve (Palo Alto), Fountain Thistle Field Trips & Restoration Work Parties at Crystal SpringsReservoir (San Francisco Watershed, San Mateo County), Mineral King Backpack (Sierras),Crystal Springs Watershed (San Mateo County), Bean Hollow State Beach (San Mateo Coast),Alum Rock Park (San Jose) (weed & walk).Total Field Trip Volunteer Hours: 6403. Programs: Seven Chapter public programs/general meetings were presented this year on Fridayevenings at local libraries and community centers, with attendance ranging from 35 to 114. Inaddition to plant related programs, the meetings include introduction of chapter scholarshipwinners, presentations by school groups, announcements, book sales, plant discussion and keying,and hospitality. Our Program Committee continued to share the work of bringing excellentprograms to our communities.Santa Clara Valley Chapter 1 Activities Report 2012

Date Program Title Speaker VenueJanuary 27, 2012March 16, 2012May 18, 2012July 20, 2012August 17, 2012September 21, 2012November 10, 2012Member's Night: BotanicalJourneys (Photography)The Evolutionary Ecology ofThree Local SerpentineEndemicsFire Safety & EnvironmentalStewardship: Can we haveboth?Early Detection Networks:Protecting California fromHarmful Invasive PlantsWhy Plants Have Colors:Beauty, Purpose, and Science.The Secret Life of FungiTravels Through California:a Visual MontageChapter Members,Kevin Bryant, HostJusten Whitall, SantaClara UniversityRichard Halsey, TheChapparal InstituteDaniel Gluesenkamp,CalFlora, BAEDNJim Bishop, MountLassen ChapterJohn Taylor, UCBerkeleyTed Kipping, TreeShapers, LLCSubtotal: General Program Meeting Volunteer Hours: 194Santa Clara Valley Chapter 2 Activities Report 2012Attend-anceLos Altos Library 51Los Altos Library 67Los Altos Library 75Los Altos Library 35Los Altos Library 70Los Altos Library 114Shoup GardenHouse, Los AltosGardening With Natives (GWN): www.gardeningwithnatives.com. Over 35 GWN meetings,workshops, and programs were held this year, with an attendance ranging from 12 to 92 people ateach talk, and a cumulative attendance of 750. These programs were held at libraries throughoutSan Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, with the libraries often co-sponsoring the programs andproviding additional publicity and funding. The GWN Steering Committee was expanded, andmet twice to plan programs. Many of the GWN programs were actually presented by GWNSteering Committee members, as well as dozens of additional chapter volunteers. GWNmeetings are very popular and have attracted many new people, including active volunteers, toCNPS. A GWN Yahoo! group initiated in 2002 now connects over 1,200 people, and hasbecome a reliable source of native gardening advice to those in our Chapter and throughout thestate.GWN classes and workshops were also held during our Wildflower Show and at the plant sale.Several members held workshops and presentations for neighborhood associations and gardenclubs, and Steering Committee members worked extensively with other groups, such as the GoingNative Garden Tour, the Bay Area Sustainable Landscape Coalition, and the Santa Clara ValleyWater District.Date GWN Program SpeakerLibraryLocationJanuary 3, 2012What do you want to DO in yourNative Garden?Peigi Duvall Saratoga 59February 2, 2012Soils, Sites, and Sun in YourCalifornia Native GardenDave Phelps San Carlos 27February 5, 2012 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants Arvind KumarKing Library,San Jose24February 8, 2012 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants Sherri OsakaCambrianLibrary, San Jose30February 16, 2012 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants Radhika ThekkathEllingtonLibrary, San Jose18February 29, 2012Ferns and Other Native Plants forShady GardensPete Veilleux Campbell 37March 7, 2012 Creating a Conceptual Plan for Your Deva Luna Los Altos 4280Attend-ance

Date GWN Program SpeakerLibraryLocationNative Plant GardenMarch 22, 2012Planning for Wildlife in Your NativePlant GardenAndrea Hurd Milpitas 22March 28, 2012Converting a Lawn to a Native PlantGardenJulie Montanari Millbrae 24April 3, 2012Year-Round Interest with NativePlantsPatricia Evans Brisbane 18April 10, 2012 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants Sherri Osaka Woodside 12April 15, 2012Toni Corelli, AvisTalk & Walk: Coastal Native PlantsHalf Moon Bay,Boutell, Nancyfor Gardening & RestorationPescaderoFrost40April 18, 2012Landscaping on Slopes withCalifornia Native PlantsChris Todd Portola Valley 5April 25, 2012Sustainable Landscaping with NativePlantsSherri Osaka Millbrae 12May 1, 2012Good Bones in Your Garden -Choosing Native Trees and ShrubsChris Todd Saratoga 36May 9, 2012Year-Round Interest with NativeAlmadenCayce HillPlantsLibrary, San JoseMay 15, 2012Biodiversity and the Native PlantSanchezArvind KumarGardener(Pacifica)20May 23, 2012Native Plant Gardening for Year-Round InterestRadhika Thekkath Millbrae 15June 7, 2012Choosing Perennials and GroundCovers - Color in the Native GardenStephanie Curtis San Carlos 37June 12, 2012Native Plant Restoration Lessons toApply to Your GardenDavid Thomson Fremont 30June 20, 2012 Using Native Trees in a Home Garden Barrie Coate Campbell 45July 10, 2012Local Native Plants for Bay AreaGardensArvind Kumar Fremont 45July 11, 2012Creating Year-Round Interest: Form,Foliage, Berries and BarkRadhika Thekkath Los Altos 31July 18, 2012Month by Month Native PlantRose GardenHelen PopperGardeningLibrary, San Jose25July 25, 2012Month by Month Native PlantGardeningHelen Popper West Valley 18August 1, 2012Removing Your Lawn to Make Roomfor Native PlantsDeva Luna Milpitas 55August 7, 2012Month by Month Native PlantGardeningHelen Popper Cambrian 23August 9, 2012Songbird Gardening with NativePlantsToby Goldberg Cupertino 39September 4, Irrigating Your Native Garden: Drip,2012Spray, Hand or No WaterLori Palmquist Saratoga 33September 13,2012Edible Native Plants Sherri Osaka Morgan Hill 20October 4, 2012Buying, Planting, and EstablishingNative PlantsDee Wong San Carlos 24October 17, 2012 Local Natives for Bay Area Gardens Arvind Kumar CampbellNovember 7,2012Pruning your Native Plants Jocelyn Cohen Los Altos 92November 13, California Native Succulents and2012CactiPaul Heiple Fremont 34December 12,2012Maintaining your Native Garden Helen Popper Milpitas 30Attend-anceSanta Clara Valley Chapter 3 Activities Report 2012

December 13,2012December 18,2012Date GWN Program SpeakerSeed Exchange and PropagationLectureNative Plants in a California GardenJean Struthers/Patricia EvansPatrick PizzoLibraryLocationAttend-anceCupertino 52VinelandLibrary, San Jose17Subtotal: GWN Program Volunteer Hours: 804Symposium: We also held the second gardening symposium in our chapter on September 29 atFoothill College in Los Altos. The title for this symposium was: Lawn Alternatives: Do-It-Yourself Native Plantscaping. The speakers were accomplished professionals and authors: PeigiDuvall of Indig Design, Deva Luna of EarthCare Landscaping, Sherri Osaka of SustainableLandscape Design, Nancy Bauer, author of The California Wildlife Habitat Garden, and HelenPopper, author of California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide. The program includedrefreshments, lunch, and a reception. Book sales, nursery sales, and new member signupscontributed to the success of the event. Special thanks go to Dan Svenson, Foothill CollegeHorticulture department, for providing tables, chairs, canopies etc., and fixing technical issues onthe spot.Subtotal: Horticulture Symposium Volunteer Hours: 400Total General Meeting, GWN Program, and Symposium Hours: 1,3984. Chapter Newsletter: Six chapter newsletters (The Blazing Star) were published and each issuewas mailed to more than 800 recipients. The newsletter was also sent in response to inquiries,placed on our chapter website, handouts at meetings, etc. Our newsletter continues to be anextremely critical outreach tool and has brought in new members and volunteers. It also serves,in combination with our website, as an invaluable archive of our Chapter.Total Chapter Newsletter Hours: 4735. Public Outreach Events: We tabled at many public outreach (tabling) events this year, includingEarth Day events and environmental education fairs, with great coordination by Outreach EventCoordinator (and Chapter Vice President) Toni Gregorio-Bunch. We also teamed with otherBay Area chapters for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show.Date Event LocationMarch San Francisco Flower and Garden Show San Mateo Event CenterApril Pacheco State Park Spring Wildflower Day Between Gilroy & Los BanosApril Foothill College Earth Day Los AltosApril Cupertino Earth Day CupertinoApril HP Earth Day CupertinoApril Mission College Earth Day Santa ClaraMay Alum Rock Park Science Day San JoseOctober Audubon Wildlife Education Day CupertinoSubtotal: Tabling Event Volunteer Hours: 95Going Native Garden Tour (GNGT): www.goingnativegardentour.org. Founded in 2003 as aseparate group, in 2010 the Going Native Garden Tour became an official part of our Chapteractivities. In 2012 the Tour was held for the first time on two days (April 21 st and 22 nd ), andfeatured 58 gardens throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. The Tour continues to gainSanta Clara Valley Chapter 4 Activities Report 2012

ecognition throughout the Bay Area, and last year attracted thousands of registrants and gardenvisits. The 16 Tour “Sponsors” included numerous nurseries, the Santa Clara Valley WaterDistrict, and other non-profit organizations. The Tour also counted 17 additional organizations as“Supporters,” including our local Audubon and Sierra Club chapters, neighborhood associations,and the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. More than 250 volunteersparticipated on Tour day, serving as docents and greeters.DatesSaturday, April 21 (northern area) & Sunday, April 22 (southern area)Time10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.Number of Gardens 58Number of Registrants 4,305Number of Garden Visits 7,754Number of Volunteers 250Volunteer Hours on TourWeekend 1,100Steering Committee Hours 700Number of Sponsors 16Number of Supporters 17• Volunteer orientation meeting• Web-based volunteer signup• Enhanced web-based registration to cooperate with ISP anti-spamfilters.Quality Control and • Custom designed t-shirts and pins for volunteersContinuing Improvement • Plant labeling information on the website• Invasive plants list on website• On-line survey, with a prize drawing to encourage participation• Native plant sales featured at 13 tour gardens• Automation of garden webpage generation and cross-references.New InitiativesTour expanded to two days in celebration of the 10 th anniversary.Subtotal: Going Native Garden Tour Volunteer hours: 1,800Other chapter outreach activities: 200Total Public Outreach Volunteer Hours: 2,0956. Education - Scholarships: For the 13 th year, the Chapter provided scholarships to graduatestudents doing research related to plant systematics, plant ecology, plant physiology, and otherrelated botanical studies of plants that grow in habitats in Central and Northern California. Thescholarship winners were chosen by committee, and this year we provided $1,500 scholarships tothree graduate students:• Allison Kidder, University of California, Berkeley. Allison is working in the area of plantcommunity ecology and ecophysiology. Her doctoral studies involve water relations and thesuccess of coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) in central coast grasslands; specifically studyingeffects of predicted increases in temperature and decreases in precipitation and fog on plantpopulations.• Brett Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz. Brett’s studies are focused on conservationand ecological studies with a genetic perspective. His work involves work on rare serpentinespecies (Monardella stebbinsii and Monardella folletti in the mint family) in the PlumasNational Forest and the role of hybridization and isolation in maintaining populations.• Juliet Oshiro, University of California, Santa Cruz. Juliet is studying the effects of climateSanta Clara Valley Chapter 5 Activities Report 2012

change on plant communities in Santa Cruz County by resurveying transects established bynaturalist Randall Morgan in the 1990s. Her work focuses on sensitive sandhill and coastalprairie habitats, which support several federally and CNPS listed threatened or rare plants.This year was the second year we provided a $500 scholarship to a student in Foothill College’sHorticulture Program, following the success of our 2011 Symposium. This scholarship programhas also been funded for the next year.Keying With Natives (KWN): An enthusiastic and growing group continues to meet one Fridayof most months throughout the year. In 2012 there were monthly KWN meetings at the Chapteroffice in the Peninsula Conservation Center. This is a teamwork approach, with everyonecontributing to help themselves and others learn. Participants bring plants, books & curiosity; theChapter provides microscopes and lamps.Total Education/Scholarship Volunteer Hours: 1477. Conservation Activities, Habitat Restoration/Invasive Plant Education & Control: Theseactivities include (but are not at all limited to):• The Chapter Conservation Committee (LiveCorps) met several times in 2012; and manymore times via email, phone, and in person.• Chapter Past-President Kevin Bryant continues as a member of the StakeholderCommittee for the Santa Clara Valley HCP/NCCP, a complex multi-species plan that wasrecently approved.• The Chapter monitored riparian and wetland areas, including participation in severalwatershed and creek groups.• Meetings with other local conservation organizations on topics of common concern.• Training docents (including walks) for Edgewood County Preserve, Acterra,Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, and Coyote Ridge.• Representation at the Bay Area Open Space Council.• Fountain Thistle habitat restoration in San Mateo County.• Comments and review of projects and environmental review documents throughout thechapter area.Invasives Activities:• Active year-round participation in both San Mateo County & Santa Clara County WeedManagement Areas, as well as State WMA meetings.• Participation in State CNPS Invasive Plants Committee and Invasive Weeds Day.• Donation made to Cape Ivy biocontrol research.• Collaboration with local park agencies (Santa Clara County Parks, Mid-PeninsulaRegional Open Space District, Santa Clara County Open Space Authority) to encourageinterested CNPS members to participate in agency habitat restoration activities.Total Conservation/Invasives Volunteer Hours: 6208. Work Parties:• Edgewood County Preserve: Invasives removal, monitoring, and outreach at EdgewoodCounty Preserve every Friday year-round, every Wednesday evening spring – fall, plusseveral special Saturday sessions.Subtotal: 3,541 Volunteer HoursSanta Clara Valley Chapter 6 Activities Report 2012

Other work parties that chapter members participated in (not counted in total hours):• California Native Garden at Lake Cunningham Park, San José invasive removal & andnative planting, worked on by chapter members.• Year-round weeding at Foothills Park & Preserve in Palo Alto.Total Work Party Volunteer Hours: 3,5619. Legislative ActivityPlease see the Conservation section.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramThe Chapter held four rare plant training sessions to teach members and others how to document rareplant populations. Trainees learned how to fill out a California Native Species Field Survey Form,map rare plants, learn to use a GPS, and other mapping devises. A total of 41 participants attended thetraining sessions and logged in a total of 250 hours for this program. Two sessions were in SanMateo County and two in Santa Clara County. Four species were documented: Castilleja affinis ssp.neglecta (Tiburon paintbrush), Fritillaria agrestis (stinkbells), Lessingia hololeuca (woolly-headedlessingia) and Lessingia micradenia var. glabrata (smooth lessingia).The trainings resulted in the recruitment of 25 new members of the rare plant committee who will becontinuing to document rare plants this year (2013) on our chapter field trips. An article about ourtraining program was in the January-March 2013 CNPS State Bulletin.Additional activities by the rare plant committee:• Participation in the State CNPS Rare Plants Committee.• On-going monitoring of serpentine rare plants, including the Tiburon Indian Paintbrush atCoyote Ridge.• Numerous survey visits to ranch properties on the east side of the Mount HamiltonRange.• New CNDDB entries for Santa Clara County.Total Plant Science Volunteer Hours: 42211. Plants Sales and Wildflower ShowsPlant Sales: Our main fundraiser and outreach to the public, as well as heroic volunteerleadership & teamwork on the part of many. Plant sales held in April and October at HiddenVilla Preserve in Los Altos Hills attracted hundreds of customers and several new members. Wecontinue to add new features to our sales, including gardening classes, tours, a grass display, seedand bulb sales, and wildflower card sales. We continued our partnership with Acterra, a localenvironmental organization, to provide a sales platform for plants from their restoration nursery.Chapter Nurseries:Hidden Villa: Our nursery at Hidden Villa Preserve in Los Altos Hills is also the location of ourPlant Sales and continues to be our main source of chapter income. Dedicated volunteers (leadby Jean Struthers, Melanie Cross, Ray Deutsch and others) work most Wednesdays all year roundon all aspects of propagation and nursery management. There were additional “special workdays” in advance of our two sales in 2012.Santa Clara Valley Chapter 7 Activities Report 2012

Sally Casey’s backyard: Chapter founding member and CNPS Fellow Sally Casey raisesmoney for the chapter by growing & propagating bulbs, annuals and grasses in her backyard.Sally’s plants are sold at our sales, Gardening With Natives meetings, general meetings and otherevents. Sally also mentors many in our Chapter in gardening and propagation techniques, teachesand leads hikes on native grasses, and is active in Keying with Natives.Subtotal: Plant Sale/Nursery Volunteer Hours: 2,587Wildflower Show: April 28 & 29, 2012, Mission College in Santa Clara.Our 2012 show included several displays focused on activities that involve significant numbers ofChapter members. Included was a joint display featuring Chapter activities, Gardening withNatives, and restoration work at Edgewood Preserve. We again had a children’s activity tablethat was very well received. We also featured displays from other environmental groups.Like the Plant Sales, the 2012 Wildflower Show was a great public outreach event and atremendous show of volunteer leadership, teamwork and support; attracting hundreds of visitorsover two days. This year’s show also featured free classes on gardening with natives and keyingnative plants, and sales of books, posters, cards, plants, seeds, and textiles. In 2012 theWildflower Show Committee also completed a heroic effort to update the hundreds of displaycards to the current botanical nomenclature.Subtotal: Wildflower Show Volunteer Hours: 1,140Total Plant Sale and Wildflower Show Hours: 3,72712. Other Activities:Chapter Office: Our Chapter office is located in Peninsula Conservation Center in Palo Altoalong with nine other environmental and non-profit organizations. The office is staffed byvolunteers and provides a location for meetings, classes and other CNPS events, and we benefitfrom our proximity to other environmental organizations. As part of renting the office space wealso participate in the management of the building as well as in regular meetings of all residentorganizations.Chapter Website: Our chapter website is maintained by a group of volunteers, chaired by SteveRosenthal. Steve has also been recording and posting numerous videos of presentations andlectures given at our events on to the website.Publicity: Our current and past Publicity Chairs Rose Rockwood and Arvind Kumar areresourceful and thorough, such that our events and activities are well represented and appear innumerous publications, and on local television and radio. We’re also starting to use socialnetworking sites, including Facebook and Twitter.State Chapter Council (CC) Meetings: Chapter members attended & participated in all four 2012Chapter Council meetings as delegates or guests. Our Chapter is also represented at the statelevel by Director Arvind Kumar, and member of the Invasive Plant Committee Don Mayall.Hospitality: A dedicated and talented Hospitality Chair provides refreshments at our generalmeetings, which are obviously well appreciated by members and visitors alike. This extends tofeeding volunteers at our Plant Sales and Wildflower Shows, which is a tremendous benefit tothose participating and keeps volunteers “well fueled” at these important Chapter events.Santa Clara Valley Chapter 8 Activities Report 2012

Book & Poster Sales: Books and posters are a very popular item at our general meetings, plantsales, Wildflower Show and other events. Sales of these items represent a vital contribution toour chapter budget. We have a very reliable and knowledgeable Book Chair. We now sellposters only at our Wildflower Show and plant sales. This year we continued to sell t-shirts,aprons, and tote bags with a Santa Clara Valley rare plant logo designed by chapter member JudyMason. Chapter members also donate hundreds of used books, prints, and other items which aresold to raise funds at our annual potluck in November.Total Other Activities Volunteer Hours: 873TOTAL 2012 Volunteer Hours for Santa Clara Valley Chapter: 14,868 hoursSanta Clara Valley Chapter 9 Activities Report 2012

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME: Santa Cruz Chapter YEAR: 2012NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT:Deanna Giuliano – Chapter President, Jenn Yost – Membership ChairWE ARE NOT REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of your board andmembers. What are your chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments?Our Chapter’s main focus has been conservation. We accomplish this by leadingvarious activities, including public talks, field trips, habitat restoration and plantsales.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by yourchapter, the number of people who attended (both members and non-members),and the approximate number of volunteer hours required to organize theseactivities. Do not include hours attending programs or field trips except forthose persons leading or organizing them.1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers, chairs6 per year 3 hours each with prep = 18 hours for each board members.Deanna Giuliana - President – 120 hours/yearBrett Hall - VP – 400 hours/yearCharles Koester - Newsletter – 80 hours/yearDenise Polk & Mike Luther - Plant Propagation - 358 hours/yearLinda Brodman - 121 hours/yearJackie Pascoe – Publicity – 140 hours/yearSuzanne Schettler - Treasurer - 60 hours/yearVine Cheap & Peggy Waters - Conservation Committee 40 hrs/year

Debbie Bulger - Conservation Committee – 155 hours/yearJenn Yost - Membership – 80 hours/yearKaren Hildebrand & Linda Willis - Plant Sales – 80 hours/ yearKen Moore – Field trip – 450 hours/yearBill Malone - Web master hours – 40 hours2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants per trip,vounteer hoursTrips offered: 12Trip leader volunteer hours: 80Trip Coordinator volunteer hours: 27Total volunteer hours: 107Field trips highlighted many local endemics from Calypso Orchids at Butano StatePark, to Chorizanthe robusta robusta at Sunset State Beach, to the botanicalwonders of the Bonny Doon sandhills. Our publicity also let the community knowabout opportunities to join our neighboring chapters in Monterey and Santa ClaraCounties, on their outings, which greatly increased the number of offered trips (notcounted below).3. Programs: # of program meetings: Please list subjects and speakers/ # ofattendees per meeting/expenses (i.e. room rental, speaker fees, hospitalitysupplies)January 9, 7:30 PMUCSC Arboretum Horticulture BuildingChristian SchwarzThe Mycota of Santa Cruz CountyFrom Endemics to Exotics, the Strange and the SublimeMarch 12, 7:30 PMUCSC Arboretum Horticulture BuildingMembers’ Night and General Meeting: Flower picture showCo-sponsored by CNPS and the UCSC ArboretumMay 14, 7:30 PMUCSC Arboretum Horticulture Building

Toni CorelliPlants and Plant Communities of the San Mateo CoastJuly 9, 7:30 PMUCSC Arboretum Horticulture BuildingBill Henry, Ph.D.Enhancing Coastal Wilds: Restoring the coastal zone in Central CaliforniaSeptember 10, 7:30 PMUCSC Arboretum Horticulture BuildingNikki NedeffWanna’ Be a Pine Nut?November 12, 7:30 PMUCSC Arboretum Horticulture BuildingHelen PopperGardening with Natives, Month by MonthTotal # of attendees per meeting: 30 to 35 (approximately 200 folks for the year)Other Expenses: See treasurer’s reportHonorarium: $100/speaker ($600/year)4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annual costThere are 6 issues of The Cypress Cone per year. Two of them were printedwith color pictures. We mail out approximately 250 newsletters and emailout pdfs of the newsletter to about 75 members. Volunteer hours: ~ 805. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contactsSentinel (local Santa Cruz newspaper) articles by Jackie Pascoe, our publicitychair, on California natives:April 20, 2012 Feature article on gardening with natives - for plant sale.July 6, 2012: Feature article on West Cliff Drive restoration project

July 27, 2012: Feature article on Randall Morgan, a profileSeptember 21, 2012: Feature article on Gateway School students doingpropagation for West Cliff Drive restoration projectSeptember 28, 2012: Feature article on gardening with local coastal nativesOctober 12, 2012: Part of feature on Arboretum/CNPS fall plant sale, gardeningwith local plant community plants for drought toleranceNovember 9, 2012: Review of Helen Popper's book, California Native Gardening:A Month by Month GuideNot all are on line any more but if you go to www.santacruzsentinel.com andsearch on Jackie Pascoe you'll fine two or three still available.6. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to gradstudents; in-service training for teachers; donation of education materials toschools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs./projectKeying Sessions - Before the general meetings we hold 2 hour long “KeyingSessions” for students and the general public. 20 hours this year. We have 10-20people attend each session.Botanist Dylan Neubauer is updating the Annotated Checklist of Vascular Plants ofSanta Cruz County, which has grown by more than 150 species since it waspublished in 2005. The board paid $4,000 for her research and editorial work. Theplanned tasks total 1,000 hours of work, making this project clearly a labor of love.The board provided scholarships for several people to attend the CNPS 2012Conservation Conference in San Diego in January: four at $500 each for boardmembers and two at $300 each for students.7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter hasworked on/types of conservation activities (review documents, attend hearings,etc.), coalitions/cooperators with whom you worked

1. Conservation AdministrationRecruit new member to Conservation CommitteeWork on articles for Chapter newsletterPrepare annual Conservation reportMonitor City Council and County Board of Supervisors agendas40 hours2. Arana Gulch - protection of Federally- and StatelistedSanta Cruz sunflower and other native plantsReviewed conditions of approvalSeveral letters to City of Santa Cruz and CCC to clarify role of AMWGMany follow-up communications among CNPS & with CityMet with Coastal Commission staff numerous times regardingConditions of ApprovalWorked with Chapter Board to select representative toAdaptive Management Working Group for Arana Gulch HabitatConservation PlanContacted biologist retained by City to develop HCP forArana Gulch Greenbelt85 hours3. Branciforte Creek Residential Development SettlementRobust spineflower management and monitoring planReview Settlement Agreement and Management Planprint map in preparation for site visitField survey of property to inspect preserve2 hour tour x 5 people =Communication with Board members regarding issue45 hours4. Neary LagoonResearch and review Management Plan andCoastal Commission Permit

Freedom of Information requests for documentsfrom CityCommunication with Board members regarding issue15 hours__________________________________________________________Total hours for Conservation185 hours8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/ volunteerhoursHabitat Restoration TeamTotal # of CNPS Projects = 21Other events and scouting = 9Groups Participating°San Lorenzo HS students°Santa Cruz County Parks°State Parks°UCSC Sororities, Santa Cruz°UCSC Restoration Ecology and Biology Classes, Santa Cruz°Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz CountyTotal of Volunteer Hours = 927Locations Projects/Other Hours°East fork Waddell 1 8°HCRSP 2 12°Natural Bridges State Park 3 103°Quail Hollow Ranch Co Park 14 426°Sand Hill Bluff 1 30°Sunset Beach State Park 5 209°Younger Lagoon 2 134°Other 2 5State Park Hours = 362County/other Park Hours = 565Number of Individuals = 292

Invasive Species Removal°Bromus diandrus°Cakile maritima°Carpobrotus edulis°Conium maculatum°Ehrharta erecta°Genista monspessulana°Hirschfeldia incana°Raphanus sativus9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type ofcontact (i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters to the editor,petitions, press conferences)legislative contacts with reps and staff/#volunteerhours.See the above Conservation Section.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramNA11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale?wildflower show?/#volunteer hrs./ how many people attended each event/doyou grow your own plants, if so %/any interesting/useful ideas o shareThe Santa Cruz chapter held both a spring and a fall plant sale in 2012. The UCSCArboretum welcomed us to set up next to their sale in the Eucalyptus Grove atthe Arboretum. In the fall, 24 volunteers put in 90 hours of time; in the spring21 volunteers contributed 92 hours. Additionally, Linda Willis spent a total of100 hours during the year maintaining the photos and descriptive labels for thesales.Plant Propagation Sessions, Santa Cruz Co. Chapter, CNPS:Meets the 3 rd Sunday of every month from 9 am until Noon.Participation varies between 6 and 14 volunteers per monthly session.Two co-leaders prepare for the sessions, instruct and supervise the volunteersduring the sessions, and check on the plants in between sessions.We grow only native species (no hybrids or exotics) of annuals, perennials, shrubs,vines, groundcovers, trees and bulbs. Our source material varies from nursery

stock to catalog purchases, from material legally collected from the wild todonations from the gardens of our volunteers.At the propagation sessions we:Propagate plants via seeds, cuttings, bulbs and divisionsPot up the rooted cuttings and seedlingsTransplant into larger containers for saleHand-write labels for every plant with complete botanical name and area oforiginPrune, fertilize and weed, weed, weedGroom the plants for our spring and fall plant salesLoad the plants onto the truck for delivery to the plant sale siteKeep inventory records including source of material and propagation dataHave wonderful conversations while we workAll told, we volunteered 358 hours this year in propagating and growing the nativeplants that we sold.Growing facilities, supplies and labor to water the plants are generously donated bySuncrest Nursery in Watsonville, California.12. Other Activities:The chapter continued its financial support of the collection of local insectshoused at UCSC's Natural History Museum. The huge collection wasaccumulated by CNPS Fellow Randall Morgan, who systematically visited39 sites throughout the flight seasons over the course of ten years to studythe pollinators of local native plants. To curate the collection, the chaptercommitted $1,500 to match grant money in 2011 and another $1,500 for2012. The grant we planned to match did not materialize and the museumcurator is exploring other funding.Randy Morgan’s volunteer hours:Plant classification 150Santa Cruz County Plant List 150 hrs. 150Total hours 300Our Chapter has been sponsoring the Randall Morgan Natural Historyseries. There are now 6 official "Sponsors" who have contributed $500 or more,

with many additional smaller supporters.Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the major challengesor problems facing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation, has it improvedor gotten worse, what steps did you take to address the problem and did theyhelp?We do not have a very active chapter. Most members do not attend meetings orget involved with chapter events. We also have not found a good way toconnect with students at UCSC. This year many of our board members steppeddown leaving an increasing amount of work for the remaining board members.We are having a difficult time replacing these vacancies.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME___Sequoia ___________YEAR 2012NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT_Warren Shaw,Education Chair_________________________________________________WE ARE__X__/ARE NOT______ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of yourboard and members. What are your chapter’s special strengths andaccomplishments?Persistence is our chapter’s special strength. Despite a discouraging decreasein the number of truly active members, a small hard core of loyal memberscontinues to serve our community and the cause of native plants through avariety of outreach and public education events, our efforts at China Creek(see below), an attractive and informative newsletter, and a beautiful website.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by yourchapter, the number of people who attended (both members and nonmembers),and the approximate number of volunteer hours required toorganize these activities. Do not include hours attending programs or fieldtrips except for those persons leading or organizing them.1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers,We have four Board meetings a year with about 175 person hours devoted.2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants pertrip, volunteer hoursOur spring “Windshield Wildflower Tour” in the Fresno County foothills nearPine Flat reservoir required 37 volunteer hours and involved 12 publiccontacts. Our Hike leader led 12 hikes with a total of about 29 hoursvolunteered and at least 70 contacts. Some destinations were McKenzie Table,Tollhouse rock and the Shaver Lake Area.

3. Programs: # of program meetings: Please list subjects and speakers/ # ofattendees per meeting/expenses (i.e. room rental, speaker fees, hospitalitysupplies).Having lost our meeting place several years ago, we no longer have programmeetings, however several members have given talks at various public events,with about 20 hours volunteered, and at least 120 contacts.4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annualcostWe published 9 newsletters with 216 hours volunteered, and a total cost of$540.5. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contactsThe Chapter participated in numerous outreach events, including: The FresnoHome and Garden Show, The Master Gardener’s Conference,Intermountain Nursery’s “Harvest Arts Festival,” Fresno City’s“Waterwise Plant Exchange,” the Squaw Valley Craft Fair and Earth Dayat the UU Church. Members report 195 hours volunteered. We estimate atleast 300 public contacts at these events.6. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to gradstudents; in-service training for teachers; donation of education materialsto schools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs./projectOur chapter’s project at Fresno County’s China Creek Park has a significantEducational component, with a mile long interpretive trail which we builtand maintain, along with a shorter handicapped accessible trail. We can’tgive any kind of estimate of the number of contacts, but the brochureskeep disappearing, so we believe people, including, possibly, schoolgroups, are using the trail. (See “work parties” below for volunteerhours).7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter hasworked on/types of conservation activities (review documents, attendhearings, etc.), coalitions/cooperators with whom you worked

The other component of our China Creek project is conservation related, withthe goal of returning the park to a natural condition as nearly as is practical. Sofar (in the last ten years) we have concentrated mostly on eradicating nonnativespecies (mainly Yellow Star Thistle) from the Park. (See “work Parties”below for volunteer hours).In addition we have supported local efforts to prevent gravel mining interestsfrom destroying natural habitat in the King’s River floodplain. Membersreported 42 volunteer hours in these efforts.8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/volunteer hoursThe Chapter held 11 work parties in 2012, all at China Creek, where we workedmainly to maintain the trail and eradicate non-native species – mostlyexotic thistles, but we also started work on getting rid of a significant groveof Ailanthus and an infestation of volunteer fig trees. In addition, weworked to keep the park clean and free of graffiti .Members (and others) donated about 415 hours of their time to these goals.9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapter work on/type ofcontact (i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters to theeditor, petitions, press conferences)legislative contacts with reps andstaff/#volunteer hours.Our conservation Chair reports 30 hours spent writing letters and emails tolegislators, etc.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramThe Chapter’s Rare Plant Chair has devoted at least 90 hours to locating andstudying what he believes is a new species of Sunflower.

11. Plant Sales /Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale?wildflower show?/#volunteer hrs./ how many people attended eachevent/do you grow your own plants, if so %/any interesting/useful ideasto shareWe do hold a plant sale, with most of our plants coming from IntermountainNursery in Prather. Occasionally members will provide a few plants (lessthan 1%) to add to the stock. This sale is , in some ways, the biggest eventof the year in the life of the chapter, both because it’s our only fund-raiser,and because it requires the largest number of volunteers. Members devotedabout 120 total hours to this year’s saleIn addition to selling plants, we offer a wide range of literature, includinggardening as well as membership information. Between the actual sale ofplants and the information table, we estimate we contacted about 160people this year.12. Other Activities:Our webmaster has created and maintains a beautiful website, and has spentat least 30 hours during the year updating and improving it.Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the majorchallenges or problems facing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation,has it improved or gotten worse, what steps did you take to address theproblem and did they help?As alluded to earlier, the chapter’s primary concern is the decrease in thenumber of active members (although the “paper” membership is verystable). We are also faced with a largely apathetic (in some cases downrighthostile) attitude from our traditionally agricultural community.Though we have tried mightily through continued outreach activity andpublicity efforts, we’ve made little progress. One recent experiment ispublicizing our China Creek work parties on Meetup. It’s too soon to tell ifthis is helpful.

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTChapter Name: SHASTAYear: 2012Report Preparation: Ken Kilborn, President, Terri Thesken, Treasurer, MargaretWiddowson, SecretarySubvention: We ARE requesting a subvention.OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERThe Shasta Chapter serves Shasta, Modoc, Lassen, eastern Siskiyou, and part of Trinitycounties in northern California. Although our area is sparsely populated, ShastaChapter has 163 members and is proud of a high per-capita membership rate, reflectingthe interests of the outdoor-loving people of the north state. Our members enjoymeeting and educating like-minded people at our programs, projects, and field trips.Our primary goal is public outreach education, where most of our efforts are focused.We support college students through one or two $1,500 scholarships each year, andyounger students through our “Acorn Grants” for native plantings and programs in K-12 public and private schools. We also offer “Oak Tree Grants” that support generalpublic plantings of California native plants. We have recently established a $1,000Research Scholarship through the Northern California Botanists organization and willbe offering it for the first time in 2013.A keynote of our chapter is collaboration with agencies in the area, where we seekcommon ground. We conduct joint events and projects with the national forests, fish,game, and wildlife agencies; the Bureau of Land Management; Resource ConservationDistricts; the National Parks and National Recreation Areas; area colleges and schools;and groups such as Audubon, Sierra Club, Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve, ShastaLand Trust, Master Gardeners, City of Redding, and the Turtle Bay Museum andArboretum in Redding.Recent Innovations:Our major fund-raisers are plant sales. In the last six years, we have coordinated withShasta College in a three-day Spring Plant Sale, as well as holding our traditional FallPlant Sale. We also participate in information booths and plant sales with the TurtleBay McConnell Arboretum, the Whole Earth Watershed Festival, and the U.S. ForestService. We have seen significant growth in interest in native plants in the communityas water becomes more expensive and rationed. Collaboration with the Shasta Collegehorticulture program has increased our sales, interaction with horticulture students, andpublic outreach.1

CNPS volunteers continue to maintain a “Mother Plant Garden” in the Shasta Collegehorticultural area. This garden, filled with California native plants propagated bychapter volunteers, serves as a teaching garden for students at Shasta College and alsoas a source of material for our Chapter’s plant propagation.Our field trips have always varied from easy to rigorous, and aim to serve a widevariety of participants. Long-term residents of the area have been delighted to discovernew trails, climb high mountains in the Trinity Alps, Lassen Volcanic National Park,the Siskiyou Crest, and other wilderness areas. Our fieldtrips also attract CNPSmembers from other Chapters and members of the public from outside the area. In2012, one of our summer fieldtrips to the Siskiyou Crest of northernCalifornia/southern Oregon was attended by 12 naturalists and botanists from Oregonand southern California, and turned into an excellent teaching and sharing experiencefor all.CHAPTER ACTIVITIESPrograms (Approximate member volunteer hours: 48 hours)Nine monthly meetings were scheduled in 2012. Eight of these meetings werehighlighted by speakers (program coordinator is Terri Thesken) and one meeting (June)was a pot-luck outdoor meeting at Secretary and Book Chairpersons Margaret & BudWiddowson’s house and gardens. Approximately 20 to 40 people attend the monthlyChapter meetings, with approximately 85 percent being CNPS members. Meetings areheld at a central location for the Chapter at the Shasta College building in downtownRedding (rent free). Typically our Chapter does not pay speaker fees, but out-of-townspeakers are often accommodated overnight at a member’s home or at a local hotel.Speakers for 2012 included:Dr. Dean William Taylor—Rare Plants of Northern CaliforniaDr. Don Owen—Invasive Forest Pests in Western ForestsWayne Steffes—Nature Photos from the North StateMike Magnuson—Pikas in Peril, A Pilot Study Program in Lassen VolcanicNational ParkJay & Terri Thesken—Native Plants/Travelogue of Thailand & CambodiaDr. Helen Popper—California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month GuideBen Miles—Shasta Land Trust Conservation Easements & Projects in ShastaCountyRico Montenegro—Tree Planting in the United States & Around the WorldChapter Board Meetings (Approximate member volunteer hours: 100 hours)8 meetings in 2012, held on the days of the Chapter monthly meetingsState Chapter Council Meetings No representative attended this year.2

Field Trips (Approximate member volunteer hours: 160 hours)Twenty-one outings were scheduled in 2012 by Fieldtrip Chair David Ledger withapproximately 200 in attendance overall. Fieldtrips are typically attended by 15 to 25CNPS members and members of the public. Some of the 2012 fieldtrip highlightsincluded:Mary Lake/Westside Trail—BLM Westside TrailsChamise Peak Trail—BLM Keswick Eastside TrailsCrystal Creek Ditch Trail, Brandy Creek Watershed, Peltier Valley, Boulder Creek,Davis Gulch Trail, Coggins Park, and Lichen Walk—all at Whiskeytown NationalRecreation Area on seven fieldtripsCloverdale Loop Trails—BLM Clear Creek GreenwayUpper Yahi Creek Trail, Bidwell Park—joint fieldtrip with Mt. Lassen Chapter,ChicoIron Canyon Trail and Yana Trail— BLM Sacramento River Bend Area on twofieldtripsWaters Gulch Trail, Shasta Lake—Shasta-Trinity National ForestHog Lake, Tehama County—BLM Sacramento River Bend Outstanding NaturalAreaBlack Butte, Siskiyou County—Shasta-Trinity National ForestBumpass Hell/Cold Boiling Lake—Lassen Volcanic National ParkCedar Basin, Siskiyou County—Shasta-Trinity National ForestSiskiyou Crest, northern California/southern Oregon—Klamath National ForestNorth Salt Creek and Middle Creek, west Redding on two fieldtrips—BLMPublic Outreach/Special Events 2012 April 13-14: Turtle Bay Arboretum Spring Plant Sale April 19-21: Spring Plant Sale at Shasta College April 28: Whole Earth & Watershed Festival, Redding May 13: Annual Mother’s Day Wildflower Show in Yreka September 21-22: Turtle Bay Arboretum Fall Plant Sale October 13: 29 th Annual Shasta Chapter Fall Plant SalePlants and books were also sold in 2012 at events such as the Whole Earth &Watershed Festival (approximately 20 volunteer hours), the Yreka Mother’s DayWildflower Show, the Turtle Bay Spring and Fall Plant Sales (approximately 48volunteer hours), and at our Native Garden Tour. Hundreds of plant enthusiasts, aswell as staff from local parks, frequent the sales and garden tour and provide the mainincome for our annual programs, events and educational support.The Mother’s Day Wildflower Show (facility rental: $350) takes place annually at theSiskiyou-Golden Fairgrounds near Yreka. This project is a collaboration betweenShasta Chapter and Forest Service botanists from around the area. Hundreds of visitorsenjoy the free display of some 300 species of flowering herbs, shrubs, and grasses!Shasta Chapter CNPS also sells books and California native plants at this Show. This3

is definitely a destination event for this particular holiday, and is one of our main publicoutreach projects every year. (Volunteer contribution: 140 hours).Plant Propagation and Sales/EventsPlant propagation for Shasta Chapter is conducted at least monthly by approximately 15members, at growing grounds at the Shasta College horticultural area, and also atmember’s homes. Terri Thesken, plant sale chair, and our propagators maintain a twoprongedapproach to reach two main markets for our plants: 1) site-specific localspecies of California natives for local parks and restorations, and 2) garden-worthy anddrought-tolerant forms of California native species for sale at our various plant salesand events. The volunteers maintained a maximum stock of about 2,000 plants of over140 species, and in 2012 sold about 1,590 plants. Volunteers contributed over 1,500hours annually on plant propagation endeavors.Shasta Chapter holds a Native Plant Sale in the fall (early October), and also joins withShasta College for a three-day Spring Plant Sale (mid-April). Volunteers propagatenative plants on a monthly basis, and advertise and staff the sales. Volunteer time forthe Spring Plant Sale is approximately 100 hours and for the Fall Sale is approximately120 hours. In 2012, the sale events attracted several new members.Plant Propagation volunteers donated plants, and continue to maintain a Mother PlantGarden of California native species in the Shasta College horticultural area (planted in2009). This three-year-old garden is being used as a teaching tool for collegehorticulture courses, and was used as a source of material for plant propagation for thefirst time in late 2012. Professional plant label signs were commissioned and installedin the Mother Garden in 2012 to increase its educational value. In addition, in 2012,Shasta Chapter CNPS purchased or installed needed materials for the Shasta CollegeHorticultural Area growing grounds, including soil, two plant carts, a greenhouseheating table, and weed barrier cloth (installation).Native Garden Tour (approximately member volunteer hours: 160 hours)In addition, every two years, Shasta Chapter CNPS holds a full-day Native GardenTour in the Redding area, to showcase local private gardens where California nativeplants and/or drought-tolerant plants are featured. Member Donal Jonio organizes andmanages this event. The 2012 Native Garden Tour featured 5 local gardens that usenative plants in a variety of styles. Garden hosts label their native plants and togetherwith member volunteers, accompany visitors on tours of their gardens. Total ticketsales were 207, up about 20% from the previous tour, and approximately 160 peoplevisited each garden. Volunteers sell books and native plants. Local Audubon Californiamembers were also present at one garden.Native Plant Articles for the Local Newspaper (Approximate member volunteerhours: 100 hours)Starting in 2012, chapter members write a monthly article featuring a native plant oflocal and/or horticultural interest for the local newspaper, the Record Searchlight.Topics in 2012 included pipevine, dogwood, snowberry, incense cedar, and woody4

vines in the garden. The pipevine article in particular attracted much interest andnoticeably increased our sales of pipevine plants!Newsletters and website (Approximate member volunteer hours: 110 hours)Newsletters reach our members six times per year, and are prepared by Shasta Chaptermember Laurie Burk. Events and meetings are the main focus, and informative articlesare included when space allows. Cost borne by the Chapter in 2012 was approximately$1167. Estimated volunteer time for all writing, editing, and distribution of thenewsletter: 90 hours annually.Ken Kilborn designed a new website using the state template with the help of the stateoffice web team (75 hours initial setup) and maintains our this website with currentinformation on Chapter activities at www.shastacnps.org (20 hours annually).Education (Total approximate member volunteer hours: 175 hours)Our message is primarily that of public education. Most of our efforts support this goal.Scholarships (Approximate member volunteer hours: 75 hours)The Shasta Chapter awards one or two annual $1,500 scholarships to local highschool students who are advancing their education by pursuing a 4-year life sciencedegree. Two scholarships were granted in 2012 to students attending Oregon StateUniversity and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Member Jay Theskencoordinates the Scholarship Committee and is joined by members Tom Engstromand Margaret Widdowson in managing this program. .Acorn Grants support the efforts of elementary and high schools to educate theirstudents on the value of native plants. Native plant gardens and after-school specialplant programs carry our message to children and youth. Member Donal Joniocontributes approximately 45 hours annually to this program. No Acorn Grantswere issued this year.Oak Tree Grants support the efforts of non-profit public groups with planting andeducation projects. Donal Jonio also coordinates this program (approximately 50hours). The latest Oak Tree Grant recipient, the College of the Siskiyous,completed their project this year – installation of a native plant garden on theircampus in Weed, Siskiyou County. Research Scholarship: The Chapter recently decided to sponsor a $1,000Research Scholarship through the Northern California Botanists, to be awarded forthe first time in 2013. This scholarship is to be granted to a qualifying studentstudying a plant native to Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Lassen, or Modoc Counties,with emphasis on rare endemics.5

Invasive Exotic Chapter Committee (Approximate member volunteer hours: 15hours)Chapter activities included attendance at Shasta County Weed Management Areameetings by member David Fritchle; written correspondence in support of weedmanagement and re-vegetation projects by member Jay Thesken.Conservation (Approximate member volunteer hours: 40 hours)Although our Conservation chair position was not filled during 2012, Shasta Chaptersupported conservation groups around the north state, from the Horsetown-Clear CreekPreserve and Audubon Society, to the Turtle Bay Museum, which includes theMcConnell Arboretum and Gardens. Horsetown-Clear Creek is situated on a historicstagecoach route and gold-mining site, and is a citizen-initiated and supportedpreservation effort, in which a few individuals have inspired the community to reclaimthis botanically interesting area. Chapter members give funds and provide fieldtripsand lectures for these conservation groups. The Chapter wrote letter of support for aproposed land purchase by Shasta-Trinity National Forest in an area adjacent to CastleCrags State Park that supports suitable habitat for 2 rare endemic plants, Castle Cragsivesia and Castle Crags harebell.Work Parties (approximate volunteer time 30 hours)In the spring, Chapter members cleared weeds from a long fence line adjacent to TurtleBay Exploration Park in riparian woodland along the Sacramento River. The weeds,mostly non-native vetch, were outcompeting a nice patch of native pipevine. Membersvisited the fence later in the summer and found vigorous growth of pipevine, completewith numerous pipevine butterflies and caterpillars.TOTAL VOLUNTEER TIME: From the above activities, Shasta Chapter membersdonated at least 2,941 hours of volunteer service in 2012.Shasta Chapter Officers for 2012:President: Ken KilbornVice-President: Robin FallscheerTreasurer: Terri TheskenSecretary: Margaret Widdowson6

CHAPTER OVERVIEW:SIERRA-FOOTHILLS CHAPTER2012 ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTPrepared by: Robert W. Brown, Chapter PresidentWe are requesting a subvention.The unfortunate news for 2012 is that we were unable to host our “Gardening with Natives”seminar. We do intend to sponsor it in 2013. A new activity for our chapter was having twoRare Plant Treasure Hunt events that seemed to attract a limited amount of interest. Thefirst activity was a combination training and field session focusing on our Tuolumne FawnLily. It was only with the assistance of Danny Slakey from the state CNPS office that wewere able to do this. The second event was a field trip to the Sonora Pass area to try toverify a number of older observations and hopefully to discover new locations of threedifferent listed species. We held a successful planning session in July that should providehelp with programs and reduce the need for extended board meetings. We had a volunteerwith excellent credentials come forward to fill our vacant Exotics Chair and hopefully wewill be able to attract interest in activating some surveys and eradication projects.We continue to struggle to maintain our membership levels and to attract new members.Our source of new members has been almost exclusively from contacts made during ourplant sales and our seminar. A small percentage of our membership continues to beresponsible for nearly all of our chapter activities. We have had little success in attractingnew or different members to shoulder some of these activities and responsibilities with theone bright spot being the Exotics Chair which had been vacant for some time. To furtherhighlight this struggle we were unable to recruit or find someone willing to run for thechapter presidency during our fall election and so at this time that position is vacant.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES:1. Board Meetings: We hold seven board meetings a year (we have a summer hiatus andno meetings in January and December) that are usually attended by seven to twelveofficers, various committee chairs, and others. These are scheduled before our regularmembership monthly meetings. We held our first yearly planning meeting in July to tryand reduce some of the time pressure on our regular board meetings and to accomplishsome long range planning.2. Field Trips: During calendar 2012 we offered thirteen fieldtrips to the followinglocations with participation ranging from 3 to 16+. Most were 4-6 hour day hikes heldon generally a Saturday with a few on Sunday with travel times of ½ to 1 ½ hours oneway. Another couple of trips were mostly car oriented with several stops and a littlewalking. We try to cover most of the areas of interest within our adjoining counties withrepresentative field trips and a variety of blooming species.

Location County Prep Hours Leader ParticipantsHunter’s Valley Mt. Access Mariposa 2 16 Peggy Moore 16Dragoon Gulch trail Tuolumne 2 0 Bob Brown Rained OutBagby Serpentine Mariposa 3 0 Judy/Barry Breckling Rained OutHogan Dam Calaveras 3 16 Steve Stocking 10Preston Falls trail Tuolumne 2 32 Jennie Haas 6Confidence trail Tuolumne 1 16 Pat Stone 6Westside trail Tuolumne 1 0 Pat Reh Rained OutCalaveras Big Trees Calaveras 2 8 Steve Stocking 16Evergreen road Tuolumne 2 32 Judy/Barry Breckling 11Trail of the Gargoyles Tuolumne 1 6 Jennie Haas 2Clarks Fork trail Tuolumne 2 24 Bob Brown 4St. Mary’s Pass Tuolumne 1 0 Bob Brown CancelledFall Colors Multi 1 8 Pat Stone 83. Programs: Our meetings are held in our local county library community room which asa non-profit we are permitted to use at no cost. We have refreshments and advertise thatour meetings are open to everyone. We typically give our speakers an honorarium thatconsists of their choice from our book and publication selections or sometimes pay thema speaking fee. Attendance in 2012 varied from 6 to over 25 with an average of about12.4. Newsletter: Our chapter newsletter is published eleven times a year with our editorreceiving content including photos from our membership. Another person prepares thelabels and additional volunteers prepare, apply the labels and then sort the newsletters forbulk mailing. Our yearly cost for printing was approximately $1200 and for postageabout $800.5. Public Outreach Events: We routinely have members attending and “tabling” mastergardener, garden club meetings and other group events with literature and occasionallynative plants for sale in Tuolumne, Calaveras and Mariposa counties. We started andplanted a community native plant demonstration garden and hope to expand on this inthe future.6. Education Efforts: Our educational chair spends many hours delivering materials andmaking presentations to most of the elementary schools within our four county area. Heis also responsible for distributing chapter donated books to libraries in our area. Wehad individuals serve as judges at local science fairs and continue to sponsor native plantgardens in several school settings with donations of time, money, books and plants. OurEducation Chair also gave talks/presentations to Master Gardeners, garden clubs,community organizations, and other groups where he also passed out CNPS literatureand handouts. We award a yearly $1000 scholarship to a local resident who is entering afour year college or university and matriculating from Columbia Community College.

7. Conservation: As part of an ongoing effort, several of our chapter members haveattended ongoing meetings and reviewed documents pertaining to the off highwayvehicle policy review that has been underway within the Stanislaus National Forest formore than a year. We have attended meetings, testified and provided written proposalsand rebuttals during the public input sessions and have attended stakeholder meetingswith the forest supervisor and her staff. We’ve had representatives attend meetingswithin Yosemite National Park regarding the Merced River corridor studies that areunder various public reviews. We made significant contributions to the CNPSsponsored Conservation meeting and the CAL IPC conference.8. Work Parties: We established our first native plant demonstration garden with the helpof the local Rotary Club. We also had several members participate with other groups andtheir efforts in planting natives in school garden settings and public sites as well asweeding invasive plants in several public park areas. We also had members volunteernumerous hours to maintain and expand the local Master Gardener’s demonstrationgarden area.9. Legislative Activity: We have several members who regularly communicate withvarious legislators both at the state and federal level on environmental and native plantissues confronting our area.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant Program: We continue to pay an annual rental fee of $700to protect acreage where Brodiaea pallida, Chinese Camp Brodiaea, grows and check onthe population periodically. One of our members also helps to maintain literature on atrail within the Red Hills BLM area of critical concern that is home to several species onthe CNPS rarity list. We sponsored two Rare Plant Treasure Hunt field trips for the firsttime within the Stanislaus National Forest and had limited turnouts.11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: Our chapter sponsors both a spring and a fall plantsale that provide all of the money to support our other chapter activities and theycontinue to be well attended. We typically have 125 to 200 people attend these eventsand are usually able to recruit a few new members. We also maintain a growing areawhere some plants are grown and others are “grown on” for future plant sales. Wecurrently do not sponsor a wildflower show.12. Horticultural Seminar: Because of problems with obtaining a featured speaker wewere unable to host our “Growing Natives Seminar” this past year. We do intend tosponsor the event in 2013 with the same full day format as in 2011.13. Other Activities: These activities would include the work of our officers and activitychairs such as: treasurer (50 hours), our merchandise person (60 hours), the work tomaintain our growing area (3-6 people 90 hours), scholarship committee (3 persons, 6hours), president (85 hours), hospitality (5 persons, 22 hours), and various people givingpresentations to other organizations (4 persons, 20 hours).

Volunteers and Hours MatrixActivity Persons Frequency Hours Total HoursBoard Meetings 8 7 1 75Field Trips 79 9 223 223Programs 7 7 15Newsletter 4 11 130Public Outreach 5 10 1 42Education Efforts 3 55Conservation 5 48Work Parties 10 2 40Legislative Activity 3 1 1 3Rare Plant Program 7 2 45Plant Sales/Shows 31 2 261Hort. Seminar 0 0Other Activities 22 327Grand Total 1364

SOUTH COAST CHAPTER 2012 ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER –South Coast Chapter is located in the southern section of Los Angeles County.In 2012 our chapter’s main interests were gardening with native plants and conservation.Our chapter has approximately 130 members.All together, our chapter members volunteered over 2000 hours in 2012CHAPTER ACTIVITIES -1. Native Plant Garden Projects:In 2009, our chapter received a bequest to support Native Plant Garden Projects. To date,we have awarded grants to seven projects. One of the most successful is “MotherNature’s Backyard.” This is a demonstration garden that features native plants andsustainable construction in a “Life Friendly Garden.” In June, South Coast ChapterPresident David Berman cut the ribbon at a ceremony attended by City officials andCongresswoman Maxine Waters. The event was featured in “The Gardena Valley News.”We continue to review applications for additional worthy projects.2. Programs:We had 11 program meetings. We meet at the South Coast Botanic Garden and at MadronaMarsh Nature Center. We pay an honorarium of $100 to $200. We usually have about 35people. (range 20 to 60). Following is a list of our 2012 programs:Monday, January 9Saving Lower Point VicenteEva Cicoria of the SaveLPV coalitionJessica Hall, Senior Associate, Restoration Design GroupMonday, February 6CNPS 2012 Conservation Conference HighlightsPresentations by Student attendeesMonday, March 5The Value of Urban Green Space as Habitat

Dr. John Thomlinson, Biology Professor at CSU Dominguez HillsDr. Connie Vadheim, Biology Professor at CSU Dominguez HillsMonday, April 2, 2012Native Plants of the Point Vicente Interpretive GardenRic Dykzeul and Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chairs, South Coast ChapterFeaturing the photographs of Yvetta WilliamsMonday, May 7, 2012How to Find Birds in Our Desert HabitatsSteve Hartman, Fellow of the California Native Plant SocietyMonday, June 4, 2012What's Best for Your Trees Both in Your Garden and a Native SettingCarl Mellinger, Certified and Consulting ArboristMonday, July 2, 2012Munchings at the Marsh -- Come for the Pizza, Stay for the MarshFeaturing Tracy Drake, Manager of Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature CenterMonday, August 6, 2012Let Your Garden Go WildBarbara EisensteinResearch Associate, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic GardenMonday, September 10, 2012Native Plants that do well in our areaRic Dykzeul and Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chairs, South Coast ChapterMonday, October 1, 2012Chaparral, Wrentits, and Grizzly Bears: A different way to see CaliforniaRichard Halsey, Director, California Chaparral InstituteMonday, November 5, 2012Living off the land; Then and now through the eyes of the TongvaCraig Torres, Tongva cultural educator and consultant3. Newsletter:

Kelley Dawdy published 4 issues per year of Artemesia, our chapter’s newsletter. Mostmembers receive it online but some still get paper copies.4. Public Outreach Events:We had tables at several local fairs. These include a whale watching festival, a native plantgarden opening, and several environmental fairs. At some fairs, we gave small flowerarrangements (sometimes just a flower in a paper cup) to other exhibitors to put on theirtables. These promoted our booth and provided an opportunity to outreach to othergroups.For Native Plant Week, we delivered bouquets to local libraries and legislative offices. Thesewere very well received.5. Education:In addition to our monthly program meetings, we added an educational component to ourplant sale. Our chapter sponsored 3 college students to attend the 2012 ConservationConference. These students had a great experience and presented what they learned atour February program meeting.6. Conservation:Our chapter president attended the 2012 Conservation Conference and reported back to thechapter. Our chapter sent letters to the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council re: developmentprojects and our members spoke at the city council meetings.7. Work Parties:Our volunteers put in more than 200 hours in monthly work days at our Point Vicentenative plant demonstration garden. This activity is a great opportunity for our membersto learn with their hands and also a great outreach to the multitude of passersby.8. Plant Sale:In 2012 we held our Annual Fall Plant Sale at the Madrona Marsh Nature Center. This newlocation created a great environment for members and guests to purchase their plants.The center’s demonstration garden provided examples of the plants in their mature state.We purchase our plants from native plant nurseries and from our local Palos VerdesPeninsula Land Conservancy (PVPLC) nursery. Our sale was on a Saturday. The eveningbefore; we held a preview sale for CNPS, Nature Center, and PVPLC members. Thepreview sale generated nearly half of our sales. Refreshments were served and membersenjoyed this event.We publicize our sale through flyers and announcements to garden clubs and libraries. Wehave a database of past customers and send postcards and e-mail reminders to them. Ourmonthly program prior to the sale promotes “Native Plants that grow well in our area.”Availability of native plants remains a problem. More access to purchase native plants

emains a goal for the future.9. Board Meetings:Our 10 board members held 8 monthly meetings - 1 to 1 ½ hours each plus four 3-hourextended meetings.Our quarterly extended meetings have helped our board to be more productive.10. Bylaws:After many years of talk and work, our chapter adopted its first set of Bylaws. Special thanksgo out to Rosalie Preston for all the work she put into writing the bylaws.11. Other Activities:Our 18 th annual spring garden tour went to three wonderful native plant gardens. The soldout event is a major fundraiser for our chapter. Following are descriptions of the 2012gardens:1. An Old Torrance Spanish retreat among magnificent California Pepper and olive trees is awonderful collection of native plants. This garden was installed by Tony Baker and is a“Certified Wildlife Habitat”.2. Enchanting Old Torrance craftsman framed by mature deodar cedars. This native gardenprovides excellent examples of California natives that thrive with minimum sun.3. ARROWSMITH GARDEN – This garden designed and installed by Tony Baker is a birdhaven. You will be impressed by the wide variety of native plants used throughout thisbeautiful garden.4. Guided tour of the Madrona Marsh display garden featuring a large collection of nativeplants. Great opportunity to see and learn about California native plants from the experts.We had our 4 th annual summer picnic. This included dinner, socializing, and a walk in a localnature preserve.We continued our holiday dessert potluck tradition. Member slideshows featured sensationalphotos. We all enjoyed fine food and company.Future concerns for the chapter:Finding ways to cooperate with other local conservation and plant groups.Finding ways to increase and diversify our membership.Finding people to do more of the projects that we would like to accomplish including peopleto work on conservation issues.

We are not requesting a subvention.Prepared by David Berman, Chapter President

CHAPTER ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTCHAPTER NAME_Willis Linn JepsonYEAR: 2012NAME AND POSITION OF PERSON PREPARING REPORT: Steven Goetz,Acting PresidentWE ARE__X_/ARE NOT______ REQUESTING A SUBVENTIONOVERVIEW OF CHAPTER - Please describe the main interests of your board andmembers. What are your chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments?The Jepson Chapter’s strengths are horticulture-related. Our major accomplishmentsinclude generating sufficient revenue to maintain the Forest Deaner Native Plant BotanicGarden.The Chapter also strives to provide educational programs at general membershipmeetings.CHAPTER ACTIVITIES - please describe the activities sponsored by your chapter,the number of people who attended (both members and non-members), and theapproximate number of volunteer hours required to organize these activities. Do notinclude hours attending programs or field trips except for those persons leading ororganizing them.1. Board Meetings: # of meetings/year/volunteer hours for officers, chairsSix Board meetings: 1/23/12, 3/13/12, 4/10/12, 5/8/12, 5/31/12, 9/11/12, 11/13/12. President, Steven Goetz, 196 Hours Vice President, Janet Mackey, 62 hours Correspondence and Botanic Garden Chair, Norma Deaner, Treasurer and Plant Sales Chair, Sue Wickham, Membership, Mary Frances Kelly Poh, 75 hours Plant Propagation/Past President, Becky Mannion, 200 hours Conservation, Ted Swiecki, 30 hours2. Field Trips: # of trips: Please list locations/destinations/participants per trip,volunteer hoursApril 7, 2012: Vallejo Swett Ranch, co-sponsored with Solano Land Trust, 20participantsPage 1 of 5

3. Programs: # of program meetings: Please list subjects and speakers/ # ofattendees per meeting/expenses (i.e. room rental, speaker fees, hospitality supplies)Seven General Membership Meetings, room rental at Presbyterian Church is$30/meeting. Speaker dinner is about $15/speaker. Schedule follows:January 31, 2012, General Membership MeetingTopic: Creek Restoration in Vallejo’s Chabot Creek WatershedSpeaker: Amy King, Watershed Project Manager, Solano Resource ConservationDistrictLocation: Benicia Public LibraryAtttendance: 12Described a District-led riparian planting projects on Rindler and Blue Rock Springscreeks, which drain into Lake Chabot and ultimately into the Napa River.April 23, 2012, General Membership MeetingTopic: Irrigation for Native Plants – Tips and TricksSpeaker: Lauri Palmquist, Certified Landscape Irrigation SpecialistLocation: Benicia Public LibraryAttendance: 25 personsDiscussed the unique requirements of native plants due to their adaption to dry Californiasummers. Tips included: 1) how native plants differ from other landscape plants, 2)things to consider when choosing irrigation methods and equipment, and 3) how to knowhow much water the plants require at any given time.September 24, 2012, General Membership MeetingTopic: California Native GardeningSpeaker: Helen Popper, AuthorLocation: Heritage Presbyterian Church, 1400 E. 2 nd Street, BeniciaAttendance: 22 personsIntroduced the audience to the book California Native Plant Gardening, A Month byMonth Guide. This book lays out tasks that ensure maximum success with growing,propagating and maintaining a garden in rhythm with the seasons.October 22, 2012, General Membership MeetingTopic: How My Journey BeganSpeaker: Doug Wirtz, Nature PhotographerLocation: Benicia Public Library, 150 East LAttendance: 8 personsDescribed how he became involved in nature photography for the Solano Land Trust andpresented the photos featured in a new field guide for the Solano Land Trust’s JepsonPrairie property.November 26, 2012 General Membership MeetingTopic: Annual Business Meeting and Program: Planting Native Plants from SeedsPage 2 of 5

Speakers: Sue Wickham and Janet Mackey, Chapter membersLocation: Heritage Presbyterian Church, 1400 E. 2 nd Street, BeniciaAttendance: 16 personsDiscussed how to collect and plant wildflower seeds.4. Newsletter: # of issues/year/# of volunteer hours to edit/distribute/annual costFour newsletters annually. Annual Cost $350.5. Public Outreach Events: # of events: Please describe the nature ofevents/volunteers hours/public contacts April 21, 2012, Earth Day, Downtown Vallejo, co-sponsored booth with VallejoWatershed Alliance. Membership recruitment and sold plants. # of participantsunknown. San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival Co Sponsor Feb 11-12, 2012. Membershiprecruitment and sold plants. # of participants unknown. August 4, 2012, Solano County Fair, volunteered for County Exhibit Booth.Membership recruitment. # of participants unknown. November 3, 2012: Clean Tech/Sustainability Expo, Camel Barn Museum, Benicia.Membership recruitment. 400+ participants6. Education Efforts: special outreach to teachers or students, grants to gradstudents; in-service training for teachers; donation of education materials toschools; curriculum development/#volunteer hrs./project.The 2012 Willis Jepson CNPS Scholarship $250 was awarded to Jackson DeKloe.Jackson is a second year student at Solano Community College who plans to major inbiology. 8 volunteer hours.7. Conservation: # of volunteer hours/most important issues the chapter hasworked on/types of conservation activities (review documents, attend hearings, etc.),coalitions/cooperators with whom you workedIn April, Ted Swiecki, Conservation Committee Chair, and Carol Witham of SacramentoValley Chapter, advised the contractor for the Travis Air Force Base’s EncroachmentManagement Action Plan on native plant issues in the vicinity of the base.In June, the Chapter Board provided a letter of support to the Solano ResourceConservation District (RCD) for their Vallejo’s Blue Rock Springs Corridor (BRSC)Project. The RCD is seeking a grant from the Coastal Conservancy to fund this importantcreek revegetation project.In October, Ted Swiecki submitted comments to the Amador Planning Commission tooppose a use permit application and mitigated negative declaration for the Ione HareScrambles Motocross events. This event would have had serious negative impacts on alarge stand of the endangered Ione manzanita (Arctostaphylos myrtifolia). Ted was askedto provide comments by CNPS statewide staff, local landowners, agency (BLM) anduniversity (SFSU) scientists, based on his past and ongoing research with this species.Page 3 of 5

The outcome was favorable, as the application for the use permit for the race was deniedby the planning commission on a 5 to 0 vote.8. Work Parties: # of work parties/nature of project(s)/ # participants/ volunteerhours February 4, 2012, Val San Propagation Center Work Day – Construct replacementstorage shed. 30 volunteer hours Earth Day Event at the Botanic Garden, co-sponsored by Benicia State ParksAssociation and Benicia Tree Foundation, April 21, 2012, 56 people in total; 60 plantsplanted. A representative of Assemblywoman Noreen Evans spoke. Carol Berman,President of Benicia State Parks Association, gave an update on state parks. 178volunteer hours May 4, 2012, Life Technologies Corporate Day at the Botanic Garden. This year’stheme was “Be the Change you Wish to be”. Their volunteers planted sedges andwestern goldenrods in the Coastal Prairie May 12, 2012, Eagle Scout Hudson McNutt installed a retaining wall along NativeAmerican garden. October 6, 2012, co-sponsored bike ride with the Solano Resource Conservationdistrict along the Alamo Creek bike trail with Solano RCD ecologist KatherineHolmes, to collect valley oak and interior live oak acorns and other native plants forpropagation of plant materials for the Alamo Creek watershed restoration project. Weekly Propagation Work Days: 100 volunteer Weekly Botanic Garden Work Days:450 volunteer hours. 9. Legislative Activity: what issues or bills did your chapterwork on/type of contact (i.e. visits to legislators, written communication, letters tothe editor, petitions, press conferences) legislative contacts with reps andstaff/#volunteer hours.Lobbied against state budget cuts for state parks. Attending two City Council meetingsto advocate for City funding of water supply to the Botanic Garden should the state closeBenicia State Recreation Area.10. Plant Science – Rare Plant ProgramNone.11. Plant Sales/Wildflower Shows: does your chapter have a plant sale? wildflowershow?/#volunteer hrs./ how many people attended each event/do you grow yourown plants, if so %/any interesting/useful ideas to shareWe grow most of the plants we sell. May 5, 2012 Plant Sale, 68 customers, Benicia Community Garden October 20, 2012 Plant Sale, 72 customers. Plant sale held in conjunction with theBenicia Tree Foundation’s Annual Arbor Day festival in City Park, Benicia.12. Other Activities:None.Page 4 of 5

Please share your main concerns for your chapter. What are the major challengesor problems facing your chapter? Is this an ongoing situation, has it improved orgotten worse, what steps did you take to address the problem and did they help? The Chapter’s major challenge has been vacancies on the Board of Directors. Since2007, there has been only one new person joining the Board. Several board membersserve as elected positions and committee chairs. For 2013, we had a new membervolunteer to run for Board Secretary, and the Chair of the Membership Committeeagreed to run for Board Vice President. We had a former Chapter President volunteerto be Chair of the Programs Committee. We have vacancies for Plant Sale Chair,Education Chair, and Newsletter/Outreach Chair. The Board adopted a Strategic Plan two years ago to help use our time moreefficiently. This plan is used to prioritize goals for the year because there have notbeen sufficient volunteers to accomplish all goals described in the plan. Goals for 2013have not been formally adopted, but at the January 2013 Board meeting, there wasconsensus to:o drop plant sales and a regular newsletter due to lack of volunteers,o request the Benicia State Parks Association to handle maintenance of the BotanicGarden.o increase our conservation efforts in Solano County, particularly for the SolanoCounty Habitat Conservation Plan which may be circulated for review andcomment in 2013.o Overhaul our propagation facility to ensure plants are grown in a disease-freeenvironment. The Chapter Board needs the following assistance from the State Office:o Advice and volunteers to review and comment on environmental documents,o Migration of the Chapter’s website into the State website so the State Officewebmaster can maintain and update the information on the Chapter website. Thewebsite will be relied upon for outreach on upcoming events and other informationthat previously would be included in a printed newsletter. The Board will attemptto rely solely on email for contacting Chapter membership for Chapter news.o Providing call-in# for chapters to use to hold board meetings, eliminating the needfor face-to-face meetings.o Providing guidelines for Chapter who have plant sales to ensure they providedisease-free plants. We would also benefit from suggestions of nurseries we couldvisit to observe "best practices". We suspect our existing activities may beproducing diseased plants.o Coordinating Regional Meetings (i.e. Board / Chapter Council meetings). This isan occaisional responsibility that some Chapters have difficulty in organizing.o Planning programs for General Membership meetings. Our new chair of theProgram Committee would really appreciate sharing information on good programspeakers among chapters and perhaps a State Office Speaker’s Bureau.Page 5 of 5

YERBA BUENA CHAPTER2012 ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORTPrepared by Linda Shaffer, chapter vice-presidentFeb. 28, 2013We ARE requesting a subvention. Our membership as of 12/31/12 was 399.OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERThe Yerba Buena chapter area includes San Francisco City and County as well asnorthern San Mateo County. It differs from many of the other state chapters in that itsfocus is on issues and challenges peculiar to urban areas that are also centers ofbiodiversity. Examples: how to preserve native plant habitats located in the midst ofredevelopment projects; and how to protect such habitats in city parks, given the manyconflicting ideas residents have about how they wish to use their open space and parks.The chapter’s special strengths and accomplishments include----long time support, in the face of continual opposition, for the creation andmaintenance of natural areas within the city’s parklands, including maintaining a plantspecies list for all natural areas in SF as well as the development of a locally significantspecies list;----ongoing collaboration in a program to preserve butterfly populations by establishinghost plant corridors; and---- current and ongoing efforts to work with other environmental organizations toestablish more connectivity between various plant and animal habitat areas in city parks.The chapter also produces and distributes 4 issues per year of a high qualitynewsletter.TOTAL VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR ALL ACTIVITIES: 4868CHAPTER ACTIVITIES1. BOARD MEETINGS:10 meetings (every month except Aug. & Dec.) + voluntary meeting in Aug.--average time per attendee per meeting, including 30 min. travel, 2.75 hours--average attendance in 2012: 10.9 officers and/or board members per meetinga) Total volunteer hours officers and chairs spent attending board meetings: 321(including 11 travel hours reported by 3 board members above an included 30 min.)Total attendance: 114b) Hours (self-reported) spent by Officers, Committee Chairs, and Coordinators onduties and activities in 2012, not included in other reports: 949

2. FIELD TRIPSJanuarySan Bruno Mountain Saddle & Bog - 6 participants, 6 volunteer hoursFebruaryMori Point - 15 participants, 0 volunteer hours (led by GGNRA staff)Hazelnut Trail, 10 participants, 6 volunteer hoursMarchSign Hill - 25 participants, 23 volunteer hoursBayview Hill Wildflowers - 12 participants, 4 volunteer hoursAprilSan Bruno Mountain Buckeye & Owl Canyons - 11 participants, 9 volunteer hoursMayPresidio North Shore & America’s Cup Viewpoints - 1 participant, 14 volunteer hoursAngel Island Bike Tour - 5 participants, 6 volunteer hoursJuneMount Davidson Nesting Birds - 7 participants, 12 volunteer hoursDaly City Dunes - 30 participants, 2.75 volunteer hoursJulyLobos Creek Valley Nesting Birds - 11 participants, 17 volunteer hoursMount Davidson Management Issues - 13 participants, 4 volunteer hoursAugustGlen Canyon Management Issues - 11 participants, 6.5 volunteer hoursPedro Point Headlands - 19 participants, 5 volunteer hoursSeptemberGlen Canyon Spiders - 16 participants, 2.5 volunteer hoursFort Funston Butterflies - 11 participants, 3.25 volunteer hoursOctoberSan Bruno Mountain Pacific Rock and the Summit - 2 participants, 6.5 volunteer hoursNovember (none)December (none)SUMMARYNumber of trips: 17Total number of participants: 205Total number of volunteer hours by field trip leaders: 127.5

3. PROGRAMSThe chapter presented 11 programs (one each month except January).All were held on the first Thursday of the month, and, except for May, in the SanFrancisco County Fair Bldg., Golden Gate Park, 9 th Ave. & Lincoln Way, San Francisco.Speakers are paid no fees (they are taken to dinner).Room rental charge: $60 per program; $600 for the year. (No cost for May prog.)Hospitality supply costs (Net): $49.48 ($103.48 total - $54 in attendee donations)List of ProgramsFeb. 2, 2012: Renewable Energy: Meeting the Threats to California’s Desert Rare PlantHabitatsSpeaker: Greg Suba Attendance: 45March 1, 2012: Fostering Butterflies and Other Pollinators in Your Native GardenSpeaker: Jeffrey Caldwell Attendance: 37April 5, 2012: What Does the New Jepson Manual Mean for California Floristics?Speaker: Bruce Baldwin, Ph.D. Attendance: 41May 3, 2012: Annual guided tour of Arthur Menzies Native Plant Garden in StrybingArboretum, San Francisco Botanical GardenTour leaders: Jake Sigg, & Ted Kipping. Attendance: 30June 7, 2012: Native Orchids of CaliforniaSpeaker: Ron Parsons Attendance: 36July 5, 2012: Resources for Wildlife in Urban LandscapeSpeaker: Josiah Clark Attendance: 36August 2, 2012: Getting By With a Little Help: Native Parasitic and MycotrophicPlants of CaliforniaSpeaker: Kipp McMichael Attendance: 41September 6, 2012: Defensive Plants: Sticky Resins, Milky Saps, and Potent PoisonsSpeaker: Margaret Sequin Attendance: 52October 4, 2012: Planting Natives for Bees, Birds, and ButterfliesSpeaker: Don Mahoney Attendance: 51November 1, 2012: What is a Mushroom Anyway?Speaker: J. R. Blair Attendance: 48December 6, 2012: Annual Members' Slides and Potluck SupperOrganizers: Margo Bors, Kipp McMichael Attendance: 16Total attendance for the 11 programs: 421Total volunteer hours for all 11 programs: 144(includes contacting & making arrangements w/speakers (or being speaker),set-up & breakdown of meeting space, and hospitality)

4. NEWSLETTER4 issues per yearvolunteer hours for writing, compiling & editing 161.25volunteer hours (total) for mailing 76Total volunteer hours to produce, edit & distribute: 241.25Annual cost for printing, stamps, and mailing labels: $1912.725. PUBLIC OUTREACH EVENTSSan Francisco Flower and Garden Show, San Mateo Event Center. WE – SA Mar.21-25, 2012, 10 am – 7 pm & SU Mar 27, 2011, 10 am – 6 pmVolunteer hours involved four 2.25 hr shifts at booth (2 hr shifts on SU), sharedamong volunteers from 4 Bay Area chapters (YB, SCV, EB, and MA)Volunteer hours for Yerba Buena chapter, 218Annual Native Plant Garden Tour -- April 15, 2012, 11 AM – 3 PMNumber of gardens included: 19 private (6 new) and 2 publicNumber of people visiting at least one garden: 306Total number of documented garden visits: 808Total volunteer hours by committee members: 197Total volunteer hours by hosts, gardeners & photographers: 222Total volunteer hours by all involved: 419Other OutreachSlide show presentation to SF Naturalist SocietySlide show for Zion LutheranSlide show presentation to Pacifica Garden Club8 hours5 hours8 hoursTotal volunteer hours for all public outreach events: 6586. EDUCATION EFFORTSNone. Our chapter has not had an Education Chair for quite some time, and does nothave a strong tradition in this area.7. CONSERVATIONWeed Day at the Capitol, Sacramento. March 14, 2012. Yerba Buena provided 5 ofthe 9 participants.Volunteer hours involved, 78Volunteer hours spent by Conservation Chair on various issues, 200.5Total volunteer hours for all conservation activities, 278.5Important Issues:San Mateo County Parks & Open Space -- Continuing from last year, we had

more meetings of a coalition of San Mateo County environmental organizations tointerface with San Mateo County Parks. The County park system is severely distressed,and has suffered disproportionately in the current budget climate, due to the fact that ithas no dedicated funding source. We also want County Parks to be more welcoming ofvolunteers. Cooperators include San Bruno Mountain Watch, Sequoia Audubon, CNPS-SCV, the Calif. Lichen Society, and the Committee for Green Foothills.Natural Areas in San Francisco Parks & Open Space. The chapter continuedits multi-year collaboration with other environmental in support of the (Significant)Natural (Resource) Areas Program (NAP) in city parks and open spaces. See Legislativesection for more information.8. WORK PARTIESNo. of chapter Sponsored Work Parties: 50 (Every Wed. 12-3 PM except ifheavy rain)Nature of projects: Habitat Restoration in Natural Areas in various City Parksand Open Space AreasVolunteer hours: 973Vol. hrs. by CNPS-YB members at other work parties: 150Total volunteer work hours for Work Parties: 11239. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIESChapter board member serves on the City of San Francisco’s Parks Recreation and OpenSpace Advisory Committee (PROSAC), filling a seat designated for a member of anapproved environmental organization or park support group. Meets monthly.Hours of volunteer time involved, 44 hoursAttending Hearings of city Commissions, Committees, and Board of Supervisors onissues related to the upcoming America’s Cup and other environmental concerns ofinterest to CNPS; writing letters or sending emails to supervisors and Commissioners;reading planning documents.Hours of volunteer time involved, 92Attending meetings of Friends of Natural Areas (FNA), a volunteer group formed atour instigation to support the city’s Recreation & Parks Dept. Significant NaturalResource Management Areas Plan (SNRAMP), which is currently still underEnvironmental Review. The Public Comment period on the DEIR ended in October2011. We hope the C&R’s will be released sometime later this year (2013). After thatcome hearings before the city’s Planning Commission and Recreation & ParkCommission from a variety of groups and individuals. There is organized and vocalopposition to the Management Plan (as there has been since it was first finalized in 2006).Coalition includes representatives from CNPS-YB, Livable City, Golden GateAudubon, Sierra Club, Nature in the City, Friends of Oak Woodlands in Golden GatePark, Kids in Parks, and San Francisco Tomorrow.

Hours of volunteer time involved, 30Total Volunteer hours for all Legislative activities: 16610. PLANT SCIENCE -- RARE PLANT PROGRAMMaintenance of computerized, searchable plant species list for San FranciscoNatural Areas and locally rare plants.Volunteer hours involved, 60Rare Plant Treasure Hunt Planning, 2Total volunteer hours involved, 6211. PLANT SALESAnnual Native Plant Sale. Oct. 20, 2012; Miraloma Park Improvement Club, 1-5 PMVolunteer hours involved, 548Number of people attending (approx.): UnknownSource of plants: Some grown by chapter members, most purchased from localnative plant nurseries.Special information: We offer only San Francisco area native plants.12. OTHER ACTIVITIES.Outreach via Nature News E-letter & Blog (Jake Sigg) -- estimated volunteertime, 250 hoursMAIN CONCERNS, CHALLENGES, PROBLEMS FOR CHAPTER. ONGOING?BETTER OR WORSE? STEPS TAKEN?LJS: 1) We currently lack an Outreach Coordinator, and thus, are not doing much inthe way of tabling at events. This represents a step backwards for us; in previous yearsthere has been more of this kind of outreach. We need to actively recruit someone forthis position.2) We need more active board members. This is an ongoing problem (as itpresumably is for most chapters). Fortunately, we have had success with pleas for help inour chapter newsletter. We found our current board secretary, our current membershipchair, and someone who is providing major assistance with the newsletter using thismethod. Making announcements at the monthly member meetings has also producedleads.

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