Milo Baker Chapter June 2009

California Native Plant Society

Calendar
Sonoma Land Trust:
06/06 Field Trip
Estero Americano
the lands they protect and how we can help
June 16, 7:30 p.m.
06/06 CNPS Chapter
Council meeting: Lake Please come to our June general meeting where a representative from
Tahoe The Sonoma Land Trust will show us the fabulous lands they protect.
This year CNPS Milo Baker and the Sonoma Land Trust have
06/09 Board Meeting
coordinated many fieldtrips and scientific outings together.
06/15 Submissions deadline: Partnership between our organizations is an exciting way for us to
July/August learn more about the flora of Sonoma County while working toward
Newsletter its protection.

06/16 General Meeting,

Since 1976, Sonoma Land Trust has protected more than 19,000 acres
Luther Burbank Art & of beautiful, productive and environmentally significant land in and
Garden Center around Sonoma County. They preserve scenic, natural, agricultural
and open land for the future of Sonoma County by
06/20 Field Trip ƒ Promoting private and public funding for land conservation,
McCray Ridge
ƒ Acquiring land and conservation easements,
06/21 Field Trip ƒ Stewardship including the restoration of conservation properties,
Harrison Grade ƒ Promoting a sense of place and a land ethic through activities,
education and outreach.
In This Issue Sonoma Land Trust is a local, non-governmental, non-profit
organization funded largely by membership contributions. The Land
Trust works closely with private landowners, the Sonoma County
Guest Speaker 1 Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, and other public
President’s Corner 2
agencies at all levels of government, nonprofit partners, and
Plant ID Hour 2
State News 2 foundations. Refreshments will be provided.
Conservation news 3
Plant I.D. Hour begins at 6:45
Preserve Stewardship 5
Plant Sale News 5
Join us for Dinner before the Meeting:
Invasives Corner 6
Field Trips 6 We'll gather for dinner at 6PM at Kirin Restaurant, 2700 Yulupa Ave. We
Events & Items of Interest 7 hope our speaker will join us, but we always have an enjoyable group of fellow
members and a delicious Northern Chinese meal in any case. Please contact,
Liz Parsons, 833-2063.

General Meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa.
Milo Baker Chapter Board meetings start at 7:00pm, 2nd Tuesday nine months of the year, Environmental Center, 55 Ridgeway Avenue,
Suite A, Santa Rosa. The next Board meeting is June 9th. Anyone interested in the work of the chapter is welcome to attend!
P resident's Report

We go into the summer with some extended

P lant ID Hour

The spring flowers are drying up and the

blooms thanks to the rain in early May. This is the tarweeds and other late bloomers are coming out.
first time in more than a decade (that I remember) What’s lingering in your plant press? Arrive up to
that it has rained a whole week, light and steady, an hour before the June 16th General Meeting, and
the first week in May. The plants have responded bring specimens of plants you want to identify.
in kind. The vernal pools in Santa Rosa had good
shows of Pogogyne douglasii and Downingia concolor At Plant I.D. Hour you can see plants up close
(left, with popcornflower). and key them to species, while getting to know
The Limnanthes vinculans fellow Milo Baker Chapter members. Plants that
numbers were a bit low, you key out or learn with friends are easily
with the major inundation, remembered! Bring in some mystery plants to
but Burke’s Goldfields challenge us.
(Lasthenia burkei), which I’ll bring in the dissecting microscope and some
bloomed through May, flowering plants from the local area. You can bring
showed a great recovery your dinner if you want to, a hand lens and a copy
from the rather dry winter. of Jepson or Sonoma Co. Flora if you have them.
The yearly monitoring that One of each will be available plus some other floras.
volunteers and consultants Keying is worthwhile and challenging for all of us,
do on the Santa Rosa Plain but it’s fun to work through them together, and
can give us a real picture of learn what distinguishes this plant from that one.
the diversity of species that º Lynn Houser
can be found in our vernal
pools. Witnessing the kinds
of plants that show up on any given year is an
educational experience that is enriched by our local
CNPS members, who have diverse knowledge
S tate News

about the blooming cycles and weather. New Conservation Program Director
Education Chair Needed: Many of our most active Dear CNPS Friends,
and dedicated volunteers are not trained botanists, Following an extensive search, I am delighted to
but they have learned how to identify and manage announce the appointment of Greg Suba as the
plants from getting out and experiencing them, new CNPS Conservation Program Director! Greg
usually with other CNPS members. Statewide, the will be responsible for coordinating the
CNPS Education Program covers everything from development of conservation program initiatives
scholarships and research grants to elementary and policies for the society.
school gardens. CNPS features hands-on field Prior to joining CNPS, Greg worked to protect
training in several areas (see p. 3). Here in Sonoma sensitive habitats at the urban/open space interface
County there is a significant demand for as watershed coordinator for the Laguna Creek
educational programs that teach docents, teachers, Watershed Council in Sacramento County. His past
scout leaders, and kids about the local flora. Topics work includes investigating reproductive strategies
like native uses of plants, grasses, how to key of seagrass populations along the west coast of
plants, family characteristics, and local occurrence North America, surveying forest inventory plots in
information are of interest and CNPS is often the California's National Forests, assessing riparian
first organization contacted for information about ecosystem health throughout Sacramento, El
native plants. I hope that our chapter can be more Dorado, and Placer Counties, and developing
active in the local education of willing participants outdoor education and stewardship programs
about the characteristics and value of our native throughout northern California. Greg received his
plants. I will continue with Plant ID Hour and B.S. in Biology from Duke University, his M.S. in
other outreach events, but we need your help, too! Marine Science from UNC-Chapel Hill, and
Please contact me if you would like to participate. continues to learn from those with whom he works,
º Lynn Houser lives, and plays.
Greg started his work with CNPS on May 1.

Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June 2009 Page 2

Please join me in welcoming Greg into the CNPS complication of persistent winter snowpack. The
family of staff and volunteers. emphasis throughout the class will be more on the
º Tara Hansen, Executive Director, CNPS processes that shape the vegetation and less on
(916) 447-2677 - Ext 201; (916) 447-2727 - Fax binomial nomenclature.
Cost for June 23-24:
Plant Science Training Program Members $425 Non-members $450
Workshops Additional Cost for June 25:
Members $175 Non-members $200
Introduction to the second edition of
A Manual of California Vegetation, June 9-11, For more information about CNPS workshops, go
Primary Instructors and authors: Todd Keeler Wolf, to: cnps.org/cnps/education/workshops
John O. Sawyer, Julie Evens º Josie Crawford
Location: A 3-day transect across the central Sierra
Nevada, from the foothills to the eastern Sierra. We Free Wildflower Poster for New CNPS Members
will begin at Calaveras Big Trees and end at Grover For a limited time, CNPS is offering a special
Hot Springs Valley, near Markleeville. incentive to new members! Join online from the
See scenic4.org/map.html CNPS.org website at the $45 or higher membership
Course Description: The authors will debut the levels and we’ll send you one of three of our
greatly expanded second edition of A Manual of beautiful posters: Wildflowers of the Desert,
California Vegetation. They will provide an overview Wildflowers of the Coast, or
of additions and changes to the manual, including Wildflowers of the Redwood Forest.
new vegetation types recognized or redefined º Arvind Kumar, State Board Member
across many habitats. You will learn how to use the
new manual, in the field as we traverse a variety of
vegetation types in the Sierra Nevada, as well as its
uses for conservation and management.
Cost: Members $445 Non-members $470
C onservation News

Santa Rosa mandates EIR for Elnoka

Great Rivers of California: The city of Santa Rosa has required preparation
The American River, June 23-24(25) of an Environmental Impact Report for the
(3rd day in Desolation Wilderness is optional) proposed Elnoka 209 unit residential development
Primary Instructors: Robert Holland, Virginia Dains at the west edge of Oakmont. This decision was
Location: Headwaters, mid-elevation and valley made after the city reviewed comments from Milo
sections of the American River. Baker CNPS along with other interested agencies
Course Description: Azonal vegetation is shaped and individuals. The decision is significant in that it
by processes other than regional biota and climate. will require the project applicant to address
Riparian vegetation is shaped by the agency of cumulative impacts of the project, with
flowing water, both during high flows (when the consideration to eventual development on
habitat is sculpted) and during low flows substantial contiguous properties.
(providing late summer irrigation). This class will The Milo Baker comment letter noted that state
focus on how stream dynamics and sediment law under the California Environmental Quality
transport structure riparian habitats, taught from a Act (CEQA) requires cumulative impacts from
floating classroom. The first day we will float from adjacent lands be analyzed. In this case, Milo Baker
Fair Oaks to Goethe Park on the lower American took note of the riparian flora on the Elnoka
River, observing how the current affects our boats, property, and encouraged preservation of, not only
the river’s substrate, and the vegetation along a the on site riparian area, but also called for a master
low-gradient valley stream. The second day we plan to analyze the merits of contiguous parcel
will repeat the process upstream, floating the South conservation that would allow for comprehensive
Fork American from Coloma to Lotus, a steepland riparian habitat protection. Sarah Gordon and
stream with all together different riparian Michael Hogan from Milo Baker conducted the on-
vegetation. Licensed, professional guides will site visit and prepared the Milo Baker comment
captain our rafts both days. For an optional (and letter.
limited) over-night, third leg we will goat pack into Other agencies commented on potential noise,
the American’s headwaters in Desolation Valley, aesthetic and traffic impacts for the Elnoka project
where riparian vegetation manifests the additional which would gain access from Highway 12. The

Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June 2009 Page 3

outcome of this process to date demonstrates the The other half of the Ranch is Douglas-fir and
value of independent environmental review in Redwood-dominated mixed evergreen forest. This
shaping development decisions, whose outcome forest has an approved Nonindustrial Timber
will affect flora, fauna, and humans for generations. Management Plan (NTMP) in place, which means it
If you have interest in assisting with Milo Baker can be commercially harvested without additional
conservation functions and learning more about approvals. (This NTMP is similar to one prepared
how CEQA works, contact Michael Hogan, more recently for the Bohemian Grove property.
Conservation Chair: [email protected]. Peter Baye’s comments on that NTMP are here:
º Michael Hogan bohemiangrovelogging.org/pdf/PBayecomment.pdf )
There is however hope: the owner may now be
Bohemia Ranch on the Market: willing to sell the ranch to the Open Space District
Danger and Opportunity and may provide an endowment to help cover the
Just north of Camp Meeker, the Bohemian costs of keeping it as a wild, relatively undeveloped
Highway slips between a large, steep serpentine park. It might also be possible to sell carbon credits
outcrop to the east and Dutch Bill Creek to the based on the approved NTMP, which could help
west. A large turnoff prominently marked no cover park stewardship costs. Furthermore, the
parking no trespassing has a well-worn trail at the previously sold southern portion that includes the
south end leading to a waterfall on Duvoul Creek. Duvoul Creek Waterfall access is now in “pre-
Locals used to call this area "Waterfall Park". A foreclosure” so there may be a small window of
gated driveway cuts through a seemingly over- opportunity for the District to pick up this portion
engineered terraced serpentine slope nearly devoid as well.
of vegetation. A few hundred yards further north º Gary Hundt
on the creek side is another turnout, this one free of
parking or trespassing signage. Across from this Agricultural Easement Approved
turnout is a relatively untouched serpentine slope For Parcel West of Cunningham Marsh
that has the expected assortment of serpentine In an action to ensure that agricultural use
endemics such as A. bakeri ssp bakeri, Calamagrostis continues on a 9-acre farm just southwest of
ophitidis, and Cupressus sargentii. Sebastopol, the Sonoma County Board of
Geological maps show this spot as the western Supervisors, acting as the District’s Board of
edge of one of the largest contiguous expanses of Directors, approved an agreement between the
Serpentine in Western Sonoma County. CalFlora District and John Guardino, a local farmer and
records a dozen herbarium specimens collected resource conservation professional who is
here in 1994 by Dean W Taylor, and additional purchasing the property to grow fruit and
observations recorded in 2001 by Jeff Greenhouse of vegetable crops.
the Jepson Herbarium. Betty Guggolz and dozens Located on Cunningham Road, the property is
of other Milo Baker CNPS members have visited adjacent to one of the most ecologically-sensitive
here in past decades. areas in northern California—a 19-acre portion of
In July 2001 a conservation easement was Cunningham Marsh that is protected by a
negotiated with the owner of this 900 acre property California Department of Fish and Game easement.
situated adjacent to (south of) the notorious It is also proximate to another conservation
Bohemian Grove. This easement is being easement held by the District over the Nahmens
administered by the Sonoma Land Trust. An property which protects both agricultural and
attempt to have the Open Space District purchase natural resources. The purchase price of the
this property outright failed at that time. In 2005 a easement is $387,000.
southern portion of the property under this This represents the first affirmative agricultural
easement was subdivided and sold, including the easement purchased by the District and the first of
access to the Duvoul Creek Waterfall. Plans to its kind in the County. This type of easement—used
subdivide the remaining bulk of the property into only a few times in the state, but pioneered and
up to 6 parcels have been made widely deployed on the East Coast—protects
(see bohemiaranch.com) quality farmland and continued agricultural
About half the ranch area is the serpentine- protection in perpetuity, and maintains permanent
determined closed-cone pine forest, chaparral, affordability of the land, all of which meet critical
grassland, and some wetland seeps, the location of needs of farmers. In total, the District has protected
many of the native rare and endangered plants. 33,000 acres for agricultural use—nearly half of all

Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June 2009 Page 4

the land protected by the District since its creation to Betty Young, Judith Rousseau, Wendy
by Sonoma County voters in 1990. Krupnick, Mia James, Jeff Muse, Dan Kerbein,
“This acquisition will be a catalyst for other Deborah Thayer and Boz & Kathrin Williams.
farmland protection projects in the County and Great job!
throughout the state,” said Maria Cipriani, º Marcia Johnson, Steward for Milo Baker CNPS
Assistant General Manager for the District. “We are and the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation
hopeful that by adding this conservation tool, we
can keep our farmlands in agricultural production.”
The agreement includes the acquisition of a
conservation easement and an affirmative
agricultural easement over the property which
P lant Sale News

We had a very successful potting workshop at

ensures that the land remains in agricultural use
forever. Additionally, the conservation easement Cal Flora Nursery on May 17. In spite of the hot
provides protection for the Cunningham Marsh and temperature, 14 people showed up to help us pot-
Creek on the property which is recognized by the up over 871 liners in just over 2 hours! We have
County and resource agencies as a significant some very hard workers on our team. The kind
wetland area, with habitat that exists in very few folks at Shooting Star Propagation were very
places. generous this year and we will have lots of new
“This project brings so many benefits to Sonoma species of plants as well as the old favorites.
County,” said Wendy Eliot, Conservation Director Special thanks to Arthur Slater, Deborah Dobish,
for the Sonoma Land Trust, the organization, along Lea Davis, Pat Sesser, Julie Cross, Victoria Wikle,
with the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, that is Kathi Dowdakin, Rob Fox, Cathie Haynes, Cindy
leading the development of a conservation plan for Tancreto, Judy Johnson, Patrick Smithson, Mary
Cunningham Marsh and two other marsh systems Aldrich, Dave and Anna Webster, and Alan
in the county. “It ensures affordable farming, while Brubaker. This group also took home all of the
protecting a rare remnant of wetlands that, because plants to care for during the summer--a
of climate change, are no longer common in commitment to the plant sale that we really
Sonoma County.” appreciate.
According to John Herrick, Milo Baker CNPS Here is a list of the plants that will be available at
member, the unique aspects of this project are also the plant sale: Achillea millefolium ‘Pink Island’,
reflected in the responsibility undertaken by Asclepias fascicularis (milkweed), Arctostaphylos ‘Pt.
Guardino, the purchaser of the land. “With John’s Reyes’. A. densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’, Ceanothus
hearstiorum, Ceanothus gloriosus ‘Yankee Point’, Cercis
commitment to an eco-responsible operation and
occidentalis (redbud), Epilobium canum ‘Calistoga’
proper stewardship, we can reduce sediment and
(Zauschneria), E. canum ‘Chaparral Silver’, Erigeron
nutrients flowing into Blucher Creek, and
glaucus ‘W.R.’ (seaside daisy),Festuca ‘Tomales Bay’,
ultimately Laguna de Santa Rosa, which protects Heuchera maxima (island alumroot), Iris douglasiana
the water quality and habitat.” (seedlings of the species), Juncus patens (rush),
º -adapted from Press Release Mimulus aurantiacus ‘Eleanor’, Muhlenbergia rigens
(basket grass), Myrica californica (wax myrtle),
Penstemon heterophyllus ‘Margarita BOP, Polistichum

P reserve Stewardship munitum (sword fern), Ribes aureum (golden currant),

Ribes viburnifolium (Catalina perfume), Salvia apiana
(white sage), Satureja douglasii (yerba buena),
Cunningham Marsh Cleanup Report Scrophularia (bee plant) Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape
On May 17, a very, very hot Sunday, 10 people Blanco’, and Sequoia sempervirens ‘Aptos Blue’
showed up to help get Cunningham Marsh ready (redwood).
for summer. The lily exclosures were all weeded, This extensive list is very exciting and is just a
some for a second time, as were the containers of hint of the many plants that will be available at the
hawthorn. Several braved the extreme heat to help October 10 plant sale. Phil Van Soelen and Sherrie
with weeding and some thistle removal on the Althouse of Cal Flora let us use their space for the
upper hedgerows. More needs to be done, but we workshop and we thank them. Thanks too to
got a good start, and look forward to help from an Nancy Hargeaves and Dan Jennison at Shooting
intern through the Laguna de Santa Rosa Star for their unending support of our sale. We
Foundation. Of the 10 participants, only 3 had been couldn’t do it without them!
to Cunningham Marsh before! Much thanks goes º Liz Parsons

Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June 2009 Page 5

 BAEDN's online occurrence reporting database; the

I nvasives Corner database uses Google maps and is super user

friendly and fun. Please go to http://BAEDN.org
and report something today! On the same website,
This month we are pleased to you can also find BAEDN's red alert plant list, dates
feature guest author, Dan and locations of trainings, the BAEDN partners
Gluesenkamp, who is past- email list, and other tidbits. Please check it out, and
president of the California let the coordinator know if you think of individuals
Invasive Plant Council. Dan or groups who should learn about the network and
has been at the center of the participate.
fight to protect California's Invasive weeds are important, not because they
native plants for some time. are out of place but because the worst of them can
Here’s Dan: destroy the ancient biodiversity of these places we
Euphorbia oblongata love. Humans have introduced these species, and
The third week of July is humans have disrupted ecosystems so that weeds
always California Invasive Weed Awareness Week. can thrive. We have the moral obligation to right
This year is extra special, because this year we are what we have wronged, and we have the
celebrating Weed Awareness Week with the launch responsibility to use our heads so
of the Bay Area's Early Detection Network, BAEDN º Dan Guesenkamp
for short! The BAEDN is an exciting new initiative
that follows the maxim: a stitch in time is worth

F
nine. There are hundreds of scientific studies and
agency plans which all reaffirm the critical ield Trips
important of early detection and rapid response
(EDRR). We use EDRR to protect human health, Estero Americano
and it is time to use it to protect ecosystems. June 6, Saturday 10-2pm,
The BAEDN provides an EDRR system covering with Michael Hogan,
the entire nine county San Francisco Bay Area: Conservation Chair, and
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Shanti Wright, of Sonoma
Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Land Trust.
Sonoma counties. The group coordinates EDRR We shall visit this Sonoma
efforts of dozens of agencies, hundreds of Land Trust property and
professional land managers, and potentially endeavor to view the
thousands of volunteers. BAEDN partners work coastal grassland habitat,
together to develop a scientifically rigorous list of rock outcrops and marshy Boz Williams and Joe Cohn
the most harmful invasive plants, train each other area tangent to the Estero keying from Sonoma Flora
in detection techniques, make detections and report near Mammoth Rocks during
itself. We shall also discuss Michael Hogan’s 5/09 trip.
them to the online website, and then prioritize and view the controlled grazing program in place,
individual patches so that the most dangerous which is intended to minimize propagation of
outbreaks can be removed before they spread and invasive grasses. Included in the multiplicity of
cause harm. We remove the easiest and most coastal species we hope to see the Brownie Thistle
harmful first, while removal is cheap and before on the grassland and some special things among
ecosystems have been harmed. It's simple, it's the rock outcrops. Our hike will traverse the coastal
sensible, it's about time. prairie hills and brackish/salt marsh areas of the
The BAEDN is the sum of many parts. The project Preserve. Bring your binoculars and a camera for
is lead by the superhuman BAEDN coordinator; the spectacular views and soaring raptors along the
you can reach them at [email protected]. way. Dress in layers, bring water, lunch, prepare
The BAEDN has been built with funding from CA for windy conditions. Meet at 10am in Bodega (the
Department of Food and Ag, the National Fish and town, not Bodega Bay) at the local coffee shop
Wildlife Foundation, US Fish and Wildlife, and US “Brew”, 17192 Bodega Hwy, for carpool to the
Forest Service stimulus funding. The hard work Estero. For carpool from Santa Rosa, please call
was done by dozens of dedicated environmental Natasha 542-9670. To RSVP, please call 544-5614
professionals, led by Andrea Williams of the ext. 2 or email: [email protected].
National Park Service and Daniel Gluesenkamp of º Natasha: [email protected]
Audubon Canyon Ranch. The Calflora has built

Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June 2009 Page 6

McCray Ridge
June 20, Saturday 10-3pm
with Carol Vellutini, property owner.
Our outing will be to private property on narrow
E vents and Items of Interest

dirt roads off of Sweetwater Springs Rd. We will Cotati Creek Critters
spend two hours cutting and pulling Doug Firs in a Saturday, June 6, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
serpentine Sergeant Cypress forest. Afterwards we Join us for a presentation and tour of the Sonoma
will do a hike on the scenic ridge with views of St. County Wildlife Rescue Center with Cassidy
Helena, Queen’s Peak, Mt. Jackson & scenic valleys Slater, Education Outreach Director. Sonoma
and mountain ranges. Some flowers will still be County Wildlife Rescue is dedicated to the rescue,
blooming. Good chance to see serpentine plants & rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned
grasses. Bring liquids, lunch, hiking boots, gloves, wildlife and to promote understanding and
loppers & pruning saw if you have them. Limit 15 appreciation of wildlife. Sick, injured or orphaned
participants. 4WD vehicles preferred. Meet 9:30 am wildlife that could not survive in the wild are given
Park N Ride by PG&E substation at River Rd and a second chance at the center. Current residents
Hwy 101. RSVP Natasha [email protected] include a coyote, a red fox, a gray fox, a squirrel,
For additional information call Carol Vellutini 546- raccoons, a skunk, and two mountain lion cubs. A
6308. good opportunity for a family outing! Donations to
SCWR requested to help cover costs.
Harrison Grade Ecological Reserve º Jenny Blaker or 792 4422 to register & carpool.
June 21, 9-2pm, with Gene Cooley, Biologist with
Fish and Game. Sonoma Land Trust
This 32-acre Department of Fish and Game preserve Little Black Mountain Volunteer Workday
was purchased in 1985 in cooperation with the Friday June 5th, 10:00 – 3:00
Sonoma Land Trust to protect serpentine habitat. At the Little Black Mountain Nature Preserve near
The Ecological Reserve is dominated by Sargent Cazadero in west Sonoma County. Help remove
cypress (Cupressus sargentii) and plant protection hardware and help track success
Baker’s Manzanita (Arctostaphylos rates of native seedlings planted along a tributary
bakeri ssp. bakeri), with patches of of Pole Mountain Creek. A hike to a scenic lookout
an unusual serpentine sedge (Carex and picnic lunch will follow workday activities.
brevicaulis). Two rare plants are
present, Pennell's bird's-beak Sonoma Land Trust
(Cordylanthus tenuis ssp. capillaris, Glen Oaks Ranch Trail Maintenance Hike
State-listed. Rare, federally-listed Friday, June 12th, 10am-2pm
Endangered, California Native Come lend a hand and join a trail maintenance
Plant Society List 1B) and Baker's workday at the historic Glen Oaks Ranch in Glen
manzanita (State-listed Rare, CNPS List 1B). Ellen. Our visit to the Ranch will involve a two-
Pennell’s bird’s-beak will be blooming, although mile trail clearing project to maintain a wide
the flowers are not showy (photo, above). pathway for land trust outings and fire safety
There is no parking at the Ecological Reserve and access. Picnic and optional tour of the adobe stone
no trails. This field trip, although it covers a small mansion to follow workday activities.
geographic area, requires walking on steep rocky
terrain, and walking through chaparral. Wear Hallberg Butterfly Gardens
sturdy shoes or boots, and bring sunscreen, water Open Gardens Celebration Day
and lunch. We will meet at the Sebastopol Safeway Sunday, June 28th, 10 am to 4 pm, Free.
at 9:30 am for carpooling. Those coming from West 8687 Oak Grove Road (across from Oak Grove
County can get directions for meeting near the Elementary School), in Graton/Sebastopol.
reserve. RSVP: Parking Shuttle. Limited wheelchair access.
º Natasha Granoff [email protected] Please, no smoking or pets.
This year marks our 12th anniversary! Docents;
butterfly and bird sightings; informative displays; self-
For neighboring CNPS Chapter field trips, see:
guided tours; children’s activities; plant, book, and
marin.edu/cnps, dkycnps.org, cnps-sanhedrin.org
stationery sales; historic habitat gardens; meet Louise
Hallberg, Sonoma County’s “Butterfly Lady”.
º Kathi Jacobs, 823-7341, [email protected]

Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June 2009 Page 7

 Milo Baker Chapter Officers & Board of Directors 2009-10 We invite you to join CNPS
President, Lynn Houser, 568-3230, [email protected]
Name________________________________
Vice President, Liz Parsons, 833-2063, [email protected]
Secretary, Patricia Sesser, 528-9197, [email protected]
Address______________________________
Treasurer, Jim Piercy, 539-3441, [email protected]
Book Sales, Wendy Smit, 431.7913, [email protected]
City/Zip______________________________
Conservation Chair, Michael Hogan, [email protected]
Cunningham Marsh, Marcia Johnson, 829-3808, [email protected]
Phone________________________________
Director at Large, Lea Davis, 538-1499
Director at Large, Beth Robinson, 490-4951, [email protected]
Email________________________________
Director at Large, Joan Schwan, 823-0446, [email protected]
Chapter affiliation:
Director at Large, Cindy Tancreto, 528-9225, [email protected]
† Milo Baker (Sonoma County)
Field Trips, Natasha Granoff, 542-9670, [email protected]
† Other county ______________________
Hospitality, Becky Montgomery, 573-0103, [email protected]
Membership category:
Hospitality, Liz Parsons, 833-2063, [email protected]
† Student or Limited Income…….… $25
Invasive Plant Chair, ML Carle, 792-1823, [email protected]
† Individual………………………….$45
Legislative Chair, Katy Redmon, 762-3961, [email protected]
† Family, Group or Library………….$75
Membership/WebAdmin., Gary Hundt, 542-4972, [email protected]
† Plant Lover………………….……$100
Newsletter Editor, Katy Redmon, 762-3961, [email protected]
† Patron…………………………….$300
Plant Sale, Liz Parsons, 833-2063, [email protected]
† Benefactor………………………..$600
Poster & T-Shirt Sales, Wendy Smit, 431.7913, [email protected]
† Mariposa Lily………………… ..$1500
Programs/Lectures, April Owens, 528-3387,[email protected]
Publicity, Leia Giambastiani, 322-6722, [email protected]
† New Member † Renewal
Rincon Ridge Park, Lynn Houser, 568-3230, [email protected]
SCCC Rep., Wendy Krupnick, 544-4582, [email protected]
Make check payable to CNPS and mail to:
Southridge Preserve, Jeffery Barrett, [email protected]
CNPS, 2707 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95816
SRJC Representative: Joel Grogan, [email protected]
SSU Representative, Frederique Lavoipierre, 829-0751, [email protected]
To pay by credit card or for more info call
Vine Hill Preserve, Sarah Gordon, 833-1243, [email protected]
916.447.2677 or visit www.cnps.org

NON-PROFIT
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY ORGANIZATION
Milo Baker Chapter www.cnpsmb.org U.S. Postage Paid
P.O. Box 892 Santa Rosa, CA
Santa Rosa, CA 95402 Permit #470

Lilium pardalinum ssp. pitkinense

Pitkin lily

Newsletter & Web Site Info:

Send newsletter submissions to:
Katy Redmon, [email protected]
Deadline for inclusion in the July-Aug
Newsletter is June 15.
The chapter web site www.cnpsmb.org
contains a wealth of information plus
current and archived newsletters.
To receive notification of the online newsletter,
or for newsletter mailing/membership issues,
contact: Gary Hundt, [email protected]