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SPEAKERS/PROGRAMS AT FORTHCOMING CHAPTER MEETINGS
Meetings are held at Eaton Canyon Nature Center beginning at 7:30 p.m. They are preceded from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. by social time and informal plant identification.
Thursday, May 22, 2008: Caring for Oaks with Rebecca Latta, Senior Arborist for SWCA Environmental Consultants in South Pasadena.
Thursday, June 26, 2008: Plant Identification Workshop
No program meeting in July or August.
Thursday, September 25, 2008: Program to be announced.
PREVIOUS PROGRAMS:
Thursday, April 24: Historical Wetlands of the San Gabriel River with Dr. Shawna Dark
Thursday, March 27: Arid Land Restoration: Purpose and Need with Richard Montijo
Thursday, February 28, 2008: Lester Rowntree, a Pioneer Female Horticultuarlist, with Rosemary Foster
Thursday, January 24, 2008: Understanding Invasive Species: What are the Basic and Why with Janet Nickerman
Thursday, October 24, 2007: Lawn-friendly native plants, with Rick Fisher
Thursday, September 27, 2007: Tejon-Tehachapi Park: A Vision for California’s Newest Park, with Ileene Anderson
Thursday, June 28, 2007: Early Natural History Clubs of Southern California Prior to the 1950s, with Gary Wallace
Thursday, May 24, 2007: Plant Communities of the San Bernardino Mountains, with Scott Eliason
Thursday, April 26, 2007: Rare Plants of Palomar, with Robert Lauri
Thursday, March 22, 2007: The Ballona Wetlands Marsh, with Lisa Fimiani and Edith Read
Thursday, February 22, 2007: Chumash Healing, with James D. Adams and Cecilia Garcia
Thursday, January 25, 2007: Ceanothus, with Barbara Eisenstein
OUTINGS AND FIELD TRIPS SPONSORED BY OUR CHAPTER
Eaton Canyon Plant Walks: Meet in front of Eaton Canyon Nature Center at 9 a.m.
Sunday, May 11, 2008, 9:00 a.m., led by Gabi and Cliff McLean
Mountain Plant Walks at Chilao, in the Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains:
Jointly sponsored by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service Chilao Visitor Center, the San Gabriel Mountains Heritage Association (SGMHA), and this CNPS Chapter. These high-country plant walks are led by Jane Strong, and are held on the first Saturday of the month. We meet in the Chilao Visitor Center parking lot at 10:00 a.m. Walks will be a mixture of car tours and short hikes lasting two or more hours.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
We suggest self-organized car-pooling from the intersection of State Highway 2 (Angeles Crest Highway) and Interstate Highway 210 (Foothill freeway), where there is ample space for parking. It is 45 minutes/27 miles from that point along Angeles Crest Highway to the Chilao Visitor Center. Please bring your own picnic (or you could eat at the nearby Newcomb's Ranch, which is a few miles further along Angeles Crest Highway.)
For each vehicle, you will need a National Forest Adventure Pass. You can get one of these at the Clear Creek Information Station on the way up (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), telephone 626-821-6764. Alternatively, you can obtain your Adventure Pass before you set out, e.g., at the Sport Chalet store in La Cañada, or at Jay's Shell service station near where CA-2 crosses the I-210 in La Cañada.
For background information and more details, see the special SGMHA web page. Our CNPS Chapter contact is Candy Byers, telephone 818-793-9661. The Chilao Visitor Center, telephone 626-796-5541, may be able to advise on road conditions.
PAST FIELD TRIPS OF OUR CHAPTER:
Sunday, April 6, 2008: Antelope Valley Wildflowers and Ecology
Sunday, March 9, 2008: Joatngna Trail at Lower San Antonio Fire Station
Saturday, January 5, 2008, mountain plant walk: Manzanitas and other winter bloomers
Saturday, April 28, 2007, 8:30 a.m., Santa Fe Dam County Park, led by Mickey Long
Sunday, April 15, 2007, 8:30 a.m., Sturtevant Falls, led by Tom Hood
Activities and events of other chapters — see our Links page
BOARD MEETINGS
Next board meeting: May 1, 2008, at Eaton Canyon Nature Center, 7:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome. See the Our Chapter page for more about the board.
PLANT SALES
Our 2008 Plant Sale — Under the Oaks VIII
November 15, 2008, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Eaton Canyon Nature Center
. . . followed one week later by our free Native Gardening Workshop
November 22, 2008, 3 p.m., in the Becky Rothenburg Memorial Garden at Eaton Canyon Nature Center. This will be a demonstration of how to plant natives, and attendees will be given first-hand experience. Gloves and Tools will be provided by the Nature Center. The workshop will be run by Gabi and Cliff McLean.
EVENTS SPONSORED BY OTHER GROUPS
June 7-8, 2008, Green Pasadena Leadership Summit, Pasadena Convention Center
Pasadena has emerged as one of the pacesetters in the greening of Southern California. This two-day event will combine a Leadership Summit and a Community Expo, two distinct events with the shared purpose of supporting the city's green programs. For details, see the special web pages.
Reusable shopping bags available now
Joint Earth Share of California and Ralphs Supermarkets as they usher in Reusable Shopping Bags, available in all Southern California Ralphs stores. Each bag sold generates a 50-cents donation to Earth Share of California and its environmental charities, and customers receive 5 cents back each time they use their Ralphs reusable bag. Reusable shopping bags are also available from other sources, such as the Earthwise Bag Company's bags at Albertsons.