Events and news
SPEAKERS/PROGRAMS AT FORTHCOMING CHAPTER MEETINGS
Meetings are held at Eaton Canyon Nature Center beginning at 7:30 p.m. (except for the plant sale and workshop). They are preceded from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. by social time and informal plant identification.
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:30 p.m.: Sowing native seeds for spring color, with Genevieve Arnold: Genevieve is Seed Program Manager at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants in Sun Valley. Previous to this position, she served as the Seed Conservation Program Technician and Research Plant Collections Technician at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California. She enjoys hiking and photographing wildflowers and wild-scapes, and sowing native seeds! For an article about Genevieve, published in the Home & Garden section of The New York Times on January 18, 2012, click here.
Slides from the 2010 plant identification workshop: To download Gabi McLean's slide show from the Plant Identification Workshop held on June 24, 2010, click here (2.5 MB). This will download the slides in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), which requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or equivalent software. There is a write-up about the first o these workshops in the September-December 2008 edition of our newsletter, The Paintbrush.
Past programs of our chapter: See the list at the bottom of this page.
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT WEEK (CNPW)
Coming up, the third week of April. See our 2011 CNPW page.
OUTINGS, FIELD TRIPS, AND OTHER EVENTS OF OUR CHAPTER & CNPS
Email notification: If you wish to be notified by email of upcoming field trips, please contact us.
Leaders: Each outing has one or more appointed leaders. It is not necessary to contact the leader beforehand in order to participate. All you need to do is turn up for the event.
Eaton Canyon Plant Walks: Second Sunday of each month except July and August.
Meet in front of Eaton Canyon Nature Center at 9:00 a.m. Then go on a leisurely walk, about 2 hours, through the native plant garden that surrounds the Center and into the nearby wild areas. The walk is different each time — what's leafing out, flowering, in seed, etc., determines what your leader will talk about — and different leaders bring different points of view.
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 09:00 a.m., Cynthia Null
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 09:00 a.m., Bob Dollin
OUR FIELD OUTINGS FOR 2012
TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2012. Please watch this space.
PAST OUTINGS AND FIELD TRIPS OF OUR CHAPTER:
See the list at the bottom of this page.
STATEWIDE CNPS EVENTS
PROJECTS
Our chapter becomes involved in projects from time to time. Current projects include:
Lily Spring Area Survey: Click here for the Lily Spring Area Survey page.
BOARD MEETINGS
Next board meeting: March 15, 2012, 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 2012 Plant Sale
November 2012 (exact date to be decided), at Eaton Canyon Nature Center
. . . followed one week later by our free Native Gardening Workshop in the Becky Rothenberg 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.
See the Plant Sources page for details of the plant sale and the workshop.
EVENTS AND NEWS OF OTHER GROUPS
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PAST PROGRAMS AND FIELD TRIPS OF OUR CHAPTER
PREVIOUS PROGRAMS:
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m.: Managing the land the Native way, with Kat High
Thursday, October 27, 2011: Water conserving alternatives for lawns, with Bart O'Brien
Thursday, June 23, 2011: Will environmental regulation save the planet? with Ty Garrison
Thursday, May 26, 2011: Arroyo Seco Plants, Natural Communities and Habitat Values, with Mickey Long
Thursday, April 28, 2011: Wildflower areas of Southern California, with Bart O'Brien
Thursday, March 24, 2011: Landscaping Plants for California Gardens, with Bob Perry
Thursday, February 24, 2011: Griffith Park Rare Plant Survey, with Dan Cooper
Thursday, January 27, 2011: Gold-spotted oak borer, with Tom Scott
Thursday, May 27, 2010, Easy natives for your garden, with Orchid Black
Thursday, April 22, 2010, The October 2007 fire storm in San Diego County, with Fred Roberts
Thursday, March 25, 2010: Pollination mechanisms, with Bob Allen
Thursday, February 25, 2010: Eradicating and controlling wildland weeds, with Bill Neill
Thursday, January 28, 2010: Untangling the taxonomic mess of California's miniature monkey flowers, with Naomi Fraga.
Thursday, October 22, 2009: Native trees for urban gardens, with Lili Singer
Thursday, September 24, 2009: Oaks of Los Angeles County, Identification and Associated Species, with Rebecca Latta
Thursday, June 25, 2009: History of Oak Woodlands in Los Angeles County, with Rosi Dagit.
Thursday, May 28, 2009: Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada, with Stephen Ingram
Thursday, April 23, 2009: Tongva maintenance of the land, with Mark Acuna.
Thursday, March 26, 2009: Plant Identification Workshop. Click here for the slide show from this workshop.
Thursday, February 26, 2009: California Sonoran and Mojave Desert Plants, Amazing Beauty in a Harsh Environment, with Steve Hartman
Thursday, January 22, 2009: Plant Tales from San Martin Island and the Bay of San Quintin, with Sula Vanderplank
Thursday, October 23, 2008: Gardening with Native Bulbs, with Lili Singer
Thursday, September 25, 2008: Living with Chaparral, with Ronald D. Quinn
Thursday, June 26, 2008: Plant Identification Workshop. (See March 26, 2009, below for later workshop slides.)
Thursday, May 22, 2008: Caring for Oaks with Rebecca Latta
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 Horticulturist, 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
PAST FIELD TRIPS OF OUR CHAPTER:
Saturday, October 22, 2011: Fall color in Baldy Canyon, Barrett-Stoddard Road, with Jane Strong
Saturday, September 24, 2011: Technicolor Trees: West Fork of the San Gabriel River, with Jane Strong
Saturday, August 27, 2011: Lower Arroyo Seco Natural Area, with Tim Martinez and Jane Strong
Saturday, August 13, 2011: Blooms and Butterflies along Angeles Crest Highway, with Jane Strong
Saturday, July 23, 2011, Fullerton Arboretum: bug safari and tour of the gardens, with Jane Strong:
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 10:00 a.m.: Highway 39 above Crystal Lake, with Jane Strong
Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:00 a.m.: Highway 2 and Santa Clara Divide Road, with Gabi McLean & Jane Strong
Saturday, May 7, 2011: Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, with Jim Henrich
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m.: First Annual Mickey Long Desert Field Trip: Bob's Gap Road
Saturday, March 5, 2011.: Quest for the Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly
Saturday, February 4, 2011: Powder Canyon, with Jane Strong
Saturday, January 8, 2011: Califronia Garden at Descanso Gardens, with Rachel Young
Saturday, August 21, 2010: PCT and Blue Ridge Road, with Jane Strong
Saturday, August 7, 2010: Mt. Pinos, with Jane Strong
Saturday, July 10, 2010, Manker Flat, San Antonio Canyon, with Jane Strong
Saturday, June 5, 2010, Heaps Peak Arboretum, with Jane Strong
Saturday, May 15, 2010, Glendora Ridge Road, with Bob Muns
Saturday, April 24, 2010, Desert Pines Wildlife Sanctuary, with Mickey Long
Saturday, March 20, 2010: San Gabriel Mission and El Molino Viejo, with Cynthia Guthrie
Saturday, October 24, 2009: Lower Arroyo Seco, with Jane Strong and Cynthia Guthrie
May 2009 through September 2009: Five Mountain Plant Walks in the Angeles High Country, with Jane Strong
October 2007 through August 2008, first Saturday of the month, Chilao Mountain Walks, with Jane Strong
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
