, February 2004

Calendar
February 8, 10:00 am February Field Trip Armstrong Woods

February 17, 7:30 pm General Meeting Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center*

February 28, 8:00 am French Broom Quest Lake Soulajule

February 28, 10:30 am Plant Sale Potting Workshop Kenwood

March 9, 7:00 pm Chapter Board Meeting Environmental Center**

March 16, 7:30 pm General Meeting Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center

March 20 March Field Trip – Bring the Kids! Foothill Park, Windsor

March 27 Laguna de Santa Rosa Tour with Denise Cadman Laguna de Santa Rosa

May 8 Spring Wildflower Festival Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
*General meetings are held on the Tuesday of each month at:
3rd
Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa

February General Meeting – Tuesday, February 17, 7:30 pm

Stewart Winchester: Plants of the Carrizo (not so) Plain
Join Stew Winchester, instructor of horticulture at Pleasant Hill’s Diablo Valley College, plants person extraordinaire, and
veteran leader of field trips to special places, as he takes us on a virtual journey of words and pictures into this remarkable
remnant of the California landscape.

There are a few activities happening right before the February General Meeting!
Check out “Chapter Events & Activities” for more details!

March General Meeting – Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 pm

Wilma Follette: Wildflowers of Point Reyes

**Chapter Board Meeting

Milo Baker Chapter Board meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every other month at the:
Environmental Center, 404 Mendocino Avenue, Suite A, Santa Rosa
Next meeting: Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 7:00 pm.
Anyone interested in the work of the chapter is welcome to attend!

In This Issue
Calendar.......................................................................1 Chapter Field Trips .....................................................4
President's Corner .......................................................2 Activities & Events of Interest....................................5
Volunteer Opportunities.............................................2 Articles to Increase Your Knowledge ........................6
Wish List ......................................................................2 Newsletter Submissions & Website ...........................7
Conservation Report ...................................................3 Support Our Local Native Plant Nurseries ...............7
Chapter Events & Activities .......................................3
P resident's Corner

It’s been a very full month and I’ve got exciting news.
Volunteer Opportunities
Milo Baker Chapter needs you!

We have two new board members: Marianne Perron Call for participation
and Daniel Murley. Marianne, who is taking on the Spring is almost here! We are preparing for our
position of treasurer, has been a CNPS member since second annual Spring Wildflower Festival and we
the 1970’s. Marianne grew up in Berlin and has need your help to make it another success like last
always had an interest in gardening. She is a Master year! Would you like to: Be the first person to greet
Gardener, has a diploma in Horticulture from Merritt people at the entrance and sell tickets? Or do you
College and two Master’s degrees from UC Berkeley enjoy art and art auctions? Can’t get enough of those
(in Business Administration and Social Work). CNPS posters, books and T-shirts? Can’t say enough
Marianne has kept books for her own landscape about CNPS? Like kids? Come volunteer at the front
gardening business and real estate ventures. gate, in the art auction, at the education table, at the
Marianne is now retired from what sounds like a membership table, or at the kids’ table to satisfy your
very full life. I want to thank Nancy Prouty, our hunger! For front gate and the auction, contact
retiring treasurer, for all the work she has done for Marcia Johnson at [email protected]. For
the chapter, and especially thank her for staying on a posters, books, t shirts, membership, education, and
few months to help with the turnover of the position! kids, contact Ruby Herrick, 887-8542 or
Daniel Murley has recently retired after 30 [email protected]. Hope to see you at the Spring
years(!) as a Ranger at Salt Point State Park, and then Wildflower Festival, Saturday May 8th at the Luther
Ranger and archeologist at Fort Ross State Historic Burbank Center for the Arts.
Park. Some of you may have had the pleasure of Dan
leading you on a wildflower hike at the coast. He is Secretary Needed!
currently the Curator at the Healdsburg Museum. The nominating committee (Pauline Haro, Ruby
Dan has a real love of native plants and photographs Herick, and Wendy Born) has been busy searching
them as well. His experience as an archeologist at out members who are willing to be a part of the Milo
Fort Ross has also given him much insight in to the Baker board. With the positions of Treasurer,
history of the Pomo Indians. Program Chair, and Co-Hospitality Chair filled we
Lynn Houser has returned to the board to are now searching for a Secretary. Duties for this
take on Bob Hass’s position of Conservation Chair. position include: attending the Milo Baker board
Bob is leaving for personal reasons but hopes to join meetings, preparing the agenda prior to the
us again next year. Lynn has experience in the area of meetings, taking and distributing notes, and
conservation our group has been pursuing and we maintaining the chapter archives. If this sounds like
are happy to have her back. Board members Betsy a position for you, contact Wendy Born at 829-7519.
Livingstone and Barney Brady have agreed to be
Hospitality Co-Chairs to assist Joan Grosser. Help protect native plants
We warmly welcome these new and Are you interested in becoming more involved in
returning board members and thank them for protecting Sonoma Country’s precious native plants
responding to our requests and filling these and their habitat? They need your advocacy. There
positions. We currently have the positions of are lots of ways to help. If you’re not sure how you
president and secretary for which we need want to be involved, whether you’re just at the
volunteers to join the board. Please contact me or “checking it out” stage or looking for a committed
Ruby if you can help. role, you can start by introducing yourself to any of
Another bit of nice news: I was just informed the Board members at the General Meeting. Or give
that the Chapter received a “Certificate of a call to Ruby Herrick at 887-8542, or email her at
Appreciation” for the Spring Wildflower Festival [email protected].
from the State Board of Directors at the September
Chapter Council Meeting. Regretfully, I missed that Wish List
presentation, but am pleased our Chapter’s work was
Want to help out, but don’t have the time to
recognized by the State. ! Reny Parker
volunteer? How about donating one of the following

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to Milo Baker Chapter? Donations are tax deductible Calamagrostis crassiglums
and make you feel good, too. Calandrina breweri
• Fold up table(s) Calachortus raichei
• Free-standing umbrella(s) Brodiaea californica var. leptandra
• adding machine
• small calculators Contact Sherrie 869-3930 or Heidi 823-0442 if you
have questions, want a list or have pictures we can
Got books? copy for the files. Thank you.
If you have any native plant books such as field
guides, nature studies, etc. that you'd like to clean
Chapter Events & Activities
out of your closet we'd love to find new owners for
them. The Spring Wildflower Festival art auction
included books, the sale of which brought in a nice February Speaker: Stewart Winchester
extra amount of money. To donate your books, and Bordered by the La Panza (west) and Temblor (east)
get a tax-deduction, bring them to Joan Grosser at the Ranges, the Carrizo Plain is a vestigial home to
general meetings. Or contact Joan at 781.3854 pronghorn antelope and vernal pools, both now in
[email protected] short supply and distant to most of us. Midway
between California’s central coast and the great
Got plant lists? valley, between San Luis Obispo and Bakersfield, the
We’d like to collect reliable Sonoma County plant Carrizo Plain allows the mind and body to wander
lists from the membership to organize and cross into history, natural or human-made. Once slated for
reference for the use of the chapter and interested development, the area is now jointly managed by the
persons. If you can locate any for us, please contact Bureau of Land Management, The Nature
M.L. at [email protected] Conservancy, and the California Department of Fish
and Game. In January 2001, publicly held lands in
the valley were protected as the Carrizo Plain
Conservation Report National Monument. The current lack of human
Restoration/Conservation/Forestry/Invasive Exotics/Political Presence heaviness is indeed uplifting. Distant horizons, silent
settings, and wind playing on the endless contours of
Photos and Drawings Requested grass allow one to connect with the past. The foothills
We still need some images for the chapter's rare plant are vibrantly colorful tapestries of wildflowers and
file, which will contain all of the Sonoma County the valley floor’s alkali flats are stunning with pink
plants published in the CNPS Inventory. If you are mustards and blue delphiniums set in Atriplex and
an artist who does descriptive B & W illustrations or Allenrolfea. The Carrizo, known for San Andreas Fault
a photographer who works in color (either slide or dramatics on its east side and aboriginal pictographs
prints) you may be able to help. We have complete on the west, is perfectly situated in time and space.
lists of all the images we still need if folks want to Join Stew Winchester, instructor of horticulture at
look through their collections or make new pictures. Pleasant Hill’s Diablo Valley College, plants person
We do need clear reference images but they don't extraordinaire, and veteran leader of field trips to
have to be pretty. special places, as he takes us on a virtual journey of
words and pictures into this remarkable remnant of
Some of the plants we need color photos of: the California landscape.
Allium peninsulare var. franciscanum
Amorpha californica var. napensis Join Us for Dinner Before the General Meeting!
Amsinckia lunaris We don't know yet if February speaker Stew
Arctostaphylos bakeri ssp. bakeri Winchester will be with us (we certainly hope so) but
Arctostaphylos bakeri ssp. sublaevis our monthly free-form, lots-of-talk dinner should be
Arctostaphylos canescens ssp. Sonomensis a good beginning to a memorable evening before the
Arctostaphylos hispidula general meeting on February 17th. Join us at 6:00 pm
Arctostaphylos manzanita ssp. elegans at the Kirin Restaurant at 2700 Yulupa Ave (about a
Arctostaphylos stanfordiana ssp. decumbens half mile south of the Art and Garden Center) for a
Astragalus rattanii var. rattanii co-op Chinese feast. Be sure to be there by 6:00 pm
Blennosperma bakeri so we can get our orders in by 6:l5 pm and get to the
Calamagrostis bolanderi meeting on time. Contact Louisa Carter to make sure

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we'll have the right sized table. Call Louisa at 566- hand lenses poring over twigs and tree trunks. I am
6763. ! May Miller sure the sweaty joggers who passed us thought we
had all taken leave of our senses. I think we only
Plant ID Before the February General Meeting traveled about 10 feet, yet no one seemed to mind.
Wood Identification: Recognizing Local Wood This went on for four hours! I could hardly get them
Arrive at 6:30, an hour before the February 17th to stop for lunch. Judy had a bad case of laryngitis,
General Meeting and bring specimens of plants you but croaked to us as best she could. She gives a
would like to identify. Although I am no expert at workshop on lichens at Sonoma State on Thursday
identifying wood, I sure enjoyed it in Plant Anatomy evenings with quality microscopes, for anyone who’d
Lab! I will bring two excellent R. Bruce Hoadley like to attend (for more information, check out
books, Identifying Wood and Understanding Wood. “Activities & Events of Interest” below)
Have a look in the dissecting microscope and check
out some secondary xylem! Some wood and fresh February Field Trip
plant specimens will be available if you don’t have Sunday, February 8th at 10:00 am, we’ll meet
any but just want to practice; Hoadley’s identification at Armstrong Woods’ parking lot to see
techniques are different from keying. Bring your what’s blooming or fruiting, as in
dinner if you want to, a hand lens and a copy of the mushrooms. Bring a lunch and a plastic bag to sit on.
Jepson or Sonoma Co. Flora if you have them. A copy The first part will be an easy walk on the valley floor,
of each and glossaries will be available. The plants and you can elect whether to continue on to a more
are what CNPS is about—come get to know them strenuous hike. Contact ML, [email protected], 792-
and some fellow chapter members too! ! Lynn 1823 for more details.
Houser
French Broom Quest
Plant Sale News & Potting Schedule We are having a dual-purpose field trip to
On December 6, five hardy souls (Kathy Dowkin, Lake Soulajule on February 28th. The first
Alan Brubaker, Wendy Born, Mary Aldrich, Liz purpose is our usual one, to have a good time
Parsons) gathered at Mary Aldrich's garden and put and learn more about native species with a congenial
88 Pacific Coast Native Iris (PCN) into gallons cans. and encyclopedic botanical mind like Peter Warner’s.
Mary's husband Richard prepared an area under a The second purpose is to help Americorps remove
protective roof for our work and we thank him for broom to preserve a lovely spring flowering bank
that. It took us less than two hours to do the dividing adjoining the barbaric tribes of broom. Marin
and potting. Alan Brubaker and Wendy Born chapter is sending members to take a stab at it, too.
brought in large clumps of iris from their gardens
and we divided them. Sunday, February 28, Liz For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to
Parsons’ Garden, Kenwood, 10:30 am: We will be visit Lake Soulajule, it lies about 15 miles west of
dividing wild ginger (Asarum caudatum), bleeding Petaluma. The reservoir is hardly ever visited, except
hearts (Dicentra formosa), stream orchid (Epipactus by anglers. One side of it has large swaths of invasive
gigantea), and giant blue wild rye (Leymus glaucus thistles. The other side has many native species just
'Canyon Prince'). Sunday, May 2, Cal Flora Nursery, beginning to be invaded by broom. Peter found in
Fulton: pot up rooted cuttings Sunday, August 8, excess of 245 species when we visited last year. The
site TBA: pot up cuttings of fast growing perennials area also attracts many bird species.
such as Zauschneria, Salvia, and Mimulus. October 9th It usually takes about an hour to get to the more
is the Fall Plant Sale! Call Liz Parsons at 833-2063 pristine area, but on this visit, Marin Water District is
for more information. ! Liz Parsons making arrangements so that we can cut to the chase.
This means we’ll be able to reach farther around the
lake, and not perspire as much coming back.
Chapter Field Trips
Let’s meet February 28th at Noah’s Bagels in the
Safeway parking lot on the east side of the freeway,
January Field Trip Report at the Washington St. exit. off 101 at 8:00 am. Bring
Thanks to Judy Robertson’s careful sturdy boots, a plastic bag to sit on for lunch comfort,
planning, expertise, and the contributions of and work gloves. Tools to remove broom will be
her friend Jack, the Howarth Park lichen trip was one welcomed. Contact ML, [email protected], 792-1823
of our best field trips ever. We had 20 people with

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March Field Trip – Bring the Kids! what is actually there now, in the eclectic mix of
March 20th is the date for parents and plants that have established themselves in and along
children, aged 6 to 12, at Foothill Park in the creeks since the Endangered Species Act stopped
Windsor. Lynn Houser will be leading, and dredging and pesticide applications.
I’ll be bringing up the rear. This trip will have a sign- Photos, aerials, and maps of these miles-long, little
up list for 20 people, so if you are interested let me known, urban wilderness parks can be found at:
know soon. If I don’t get responses in the next two http://rohnertpark.bizhosting.com,
weeks, it will be advertised in the PD. Look for http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPACCC.
details in the next newsletter or contact ML, Suggestions on what to plant can be posted to:
[email protected], 792-1823 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPACCC

Laguna de Santa Rosa Tour Annual Docent Training Class

On March 27th, we will be visiting the The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation is now taking
Laguna de Santa Rosa with Denise Cadman. applications for our 10-week, 40-hour (total) training
Denise is the Natural resource specialist for in the science, history and lore of the Laguna.
the City of Santa Rosa. Look for more info in the Docents lead field trips for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade
March newsletter. schoolchildren and teach in classrooms about the
wonders of the Laguna de Santa Rosa—the largest
MORE TO COME! fresh water wetland on the North Coast. Docents
We have several exciting field trips planned for the also lead nature walks and hikes for older students
upcoming months. A schedule will appear in the next and adults, and participate in ongoing continuing
newsletter. education and special nature activities. It’s a
! ML Carle wonderful way to learn about our backyard
wilderness and to give to the local community.
Trainings take place Monday afternoons 12:30-4:30
Activities & Events of Interest from March 15 through May 24th—ten weeks of
training by experts in biology, natural history and
environmental education. For information and
Ongoing Lichen Identification Workshops application, please call the Laguna de Santa Rosa
Darwin Hall, Room 207, Sonoma State University. Foundation office at 824-2966 or log onto:
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, 5 www.lagunadesantarosa.org
pm to 8:30 pm, for these Lichen ID sessions at SSU.
We bring our specimens use the classroom dissecting Who is the Greenest of Them All?
and compound scopes and a variety of keys to The presidential primary election is approaching -
identify them. Be prepared to pay a $2.50 parking whom will you vote for? Attend this public forum
fee. and learn which of these 3 Democratic candidates
best represents your interests and views. "Kucinich,
Creek Week: Check Out Local Hike/Bike Trails Dean or Clark? Your choice for the environment, the
The Rohnert Park and Cotati Creeks Council and economy, and the future." Representatives from each
Sierra Club Redwood Chapter are sponsoring self- campaign will present their candidate's platforms on
guided and docent-led tours of the issues of concern to the local community; a facilitated
Crane/Hinebaugh and Copeland Creek bike and question and answer session will follow the
hiking trails during Creek Week (the week after presentations. February 10, 7:30-9:30 pm. The
Earth Day). A display of old maps, aerial photos, and Masonic Center, 373 N. Main St., Sebastopol, across
native plants and fauna can be viewed at the old from Safeway. Donation of $5 - $20 requested at the
Teen Center on City Hall Drive near the Rohnert door. For more info, contact Wendy Krupnick, 544-
Park Library. Portions of Crane/Hinebaugh Creek 4582
and Copeland Creek were chain sawed to the bare
earth during last summer’s notorious botched SCWA The Wayne Roderick Lectures . . .
crew jobs, but are to be replanted with native . . . at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden on
steelhead-friendly trees and flowers, based on Wildcat Canyon Road and South Park Drive (South
community input. Suggestions from CNPS members Park Drive is closed Nov.-March) in Tilden Park,
on what to plant along these beautiful urban Berkeley, (510) 841-8732 , [email protected],
wilderness creeks are welcomed, as well as hints on www.nativeplants.org

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Saturday Mornings, 10:30 am. Free to the Public. way up through the mulch, but these will be weaker
Seating is limited. To be sure of a seat, come early for having to make their way to the surface, easy to
and save a chair. spot once they surface and easier to remove if
surrounded by mulch. Mulches can help regulate
Saturday, February 7, 10:30 am root temperatures. They keep plants warmer in
Plant Communities of California, Phyllis Faber winter and cooler in summer. They act as insulation
to keep the roots from having to cope with sudden
Saturday, February 14, 10:30 am temperature swing thereby reducing plant stress.
California and East Bay Invasive Plants Update, Bob Mulches will stabilize and improve soil. They can
Case stop compaction and erosion by gently absorbing
raindrops. When organic mulches break down they
Saturday, February 21, 10:30 am add organic matter to soil that in turn improves soil
California Indian Material Culture, Steve Edwards structure, aeration, water percolation and nutrient
distribution. Mulches encourage one of my favorite
Saturday, February 28, 10:30 am garden critters, earthworms. Earthworms aerate the
The Bay and Its Creeks the Way They Were: soil and enrich it with their castings. You know you
Investigations into the Changing Bay Area have healthy soil if you have earthworms. Organic
Landscape, Robin Grossinger mulches also increase microbial activity that does
important work in soil. Microbes speed up the break
down of organic matter to make nutrients available
Articles to Increase Your Knowledge faster to the roots. Mulches can be organic (things
that decompose) or inorganic (things that don’t rot).
Common organic mulches are hay, straw, compost,
Vine Hill Manzanita in Pacific Horticulture redwood bark, leaves, and agricultural by-products
Phil Van Soelen has written an article for Pacific
like hulls, but can be newspapers or even old cedar
Horticulture magazine on our own Vine Hill shingles. Common inorganic mulches are gravel,
Manzanita (Arctostaphylos densiflora)! The article will plastic and landscape fabric. Obviously some
appear in the January/February/March 2004 issue. mulches are more attractive, more readily available,
The Vine Hill Manzanita is the source of some of the less expensive to use and longer lasting.
most widely planted and adaptable cultivars in Usually, the greatest challenge is acquiring
California, yet the species is one of the rarest plants weed-free mulch and putting it down in the garden.
in nature. The article deals primarily with the history One source of weed-free straw is Hedgerow Farms,
of the Vine Hill Preserve and horticultural selections in Winters, California. They grow native grass seed
of the Vine Hill Manzanita. Check it out! for retail sale. As a by-product they have native
[Ed note: Look for more info on the Vine Hill Manzanita grass straw. The straw has some seeds mixed in it,
in upcoming newsletters!]
but instead of weed seeds as found in most straw, the
Hedgerow Farm straw has native grass seeds as a
A Gardener’s Journal: Mulch side benefit. I used a bale of their straw, and now I
When I plant natives or any other plant I like to use have native grasses growing, generating straw for
mulch to cover the bare earth around my new plants. my own use. If you go there you can pick out the
I continue to add mulch to my plants as they mature. type of grass straw you want. I chose a grass that is
Mulching is good for all soil types and makes native to Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, blue wild
gardening much easier by eliminating many chores rye (Elymus glaucus). It is a large, wide-leaf
and problems. Mulching is nature’s way of recycling bunchgrass, usually tall about 24-55 inches. The
nutrients. Bare soil looks naked and impoverished to seeds heads are long and narrow. It grows in a wide
my eye. Mulches save on watering by helping soil variety of sites and weather conditions. It prefers full
retain moisture. They keep the soil from drying out sun or partial shade and is found in rich soils of flood
because they prevent dew and water found deep in plains and riparian areas. It is tolerant to mowing,
the soil from escaping. Dew is partially made up of fire, drought, and short duration flooding. Native
moisture from the air but also is made of blue wild rye is used for grassland and habitat
condensation of moisture found in underground air restoration. The straw was very affordable at $5 for a
pockets. Mulches are good for suppressing weeds. bale. You can contact Hedgerow Farms by phone at
(Of course the mulch must be weed free!) The mulch 530-662-4570 or email [email protected]
must be thick enough to prevent existing weeds from !Victoria Wikle
germinating. Some tough weeds will still find their
Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – February 2004 Page 6
 President open
Vice President Reny Parker [email protected] 894-9100
Secretary Sheri Emerson [email protected] 543-4225
Treasurer Marianne Perron [email protected] 887.1362
Membership Wendy Born [email protected] 829-7519
Newsletter Editor Debby Zygielbaum [email protected]
Program Chair Daniel Murley [email protected] 847.3466
Conservation Chair Lyn Houser [email protected] 568-3230
Legislative Chair Barney Brady [email protected] 433-0485
Education open
Field Trip Coordinator ML Carle [email protected] 792-1823
Publicity Terry Loveton [email protected] 829-6824
Plant Sales Liz Parsons [email protected] 833-2063
Poster Sales Jeff Woodward ......... 765-0245
Book Sales Colleen Gibbons ......... 433-4246
Hospitality Joan Grosser [email protected] 781-3854
SCCC Rep. Wendy Krupnick [email protected] 544-4582
RRWC Rep. open
Webmaster Leha Carpenter [email protected] 874-2899
Directors at Large: Ruby Herrick [email protected] 887-8542
open
Chapter Council Delegate Reny Parker [email protected] 894-9100

Newsletter Submissions & Website

! Check out the Milo Baker Chapter newsletter on our chapter Web site at: http://www.cnpsmb.org!

Send items for the newsletter to Debby Zygielbaum, [email protected]

Deadline for inclusion in the March newsletter is February 15, 2004.

Support Our Local Native Plant Nurseries

Appleton Forestry Nursery Mostly Natives Nursery
(call for appointment) 27235 Highway 1, Tomales
1369 Tilton Road, Sebastopol 707-878-2009
707-823-3776 www.mostlynatives.com

California Flora Nursery North Coast Native Nursery

Somers & D Streets, Fulton (call for appointment)
707-528-8813 2710 Chileno Valley Road, Petaluma
www.calfloranursery.com 707-769-1213
www.northcoastnativenursery.com
Circuit Rider Productions
(call for appointment) Wayward Gardens
9619 Redwood Hwy, Windsor 1296 Tilton Road, Sebastopol
707-838-6641 707-829-8225

This illustration is borrowed from Healing Wise: Wise Woman Herbal by Susan Weed, ©1989.

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P.O. Box 892
Santa Rosa, CA 9540

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THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY is a statewide non-profit organization of amateurs and
professionals with a common interest in California’s native plants. The Society, working through its local chapters,
seeks to increase understanding of California’s native flora and to preserve this rich resource for future generations.
Membership is open to all. Membership includes Fremontia, a quarterly journal with articles on all aspects of native plants,
the Bulletin, a quarterly statewide report of activities, and the Milo Baker Chapter newsletter. WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US.

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