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, September 23, 2010: Member photographic show and tell: Here is an opportunity for each of those present to show their favorite native-plant-related photographs. Select from 1 to 12 photos that you would like to share. Send the digital image files to Cliff McLean by Sunday, September 19, for incorporation into a slide show. If you prefer, you can create your own PowerPoint or OpenOffice slides and send them. If you can, please identify the plants in each photograph with common names and/or botanical names, — or the group can help identify them. We encourage as many people to be involved as possible, so please gather your pictures and send them to Cliff.
Thursday, October 28, 2010: Native plants and horticulture: The speaker will be Barbara Eisenstein, a well-known native plant garden writer and consultant. Barbara is the Horticulture Chair of our CNPS chapter. Her presentation will include a preview of our 2010 native plant sale and ideas on how the chapter can address the issue of native plants and horticulture.
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.
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: 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, September 12, 2010, 09:00 a.m., with Eva Morgan
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 09:00 a.m., with Rebecca Latta
Sunday, November 14, 2010, 09:00 a.m., with Gabi and Cliff mcLean
Sunday, December 12, 2010, 09:00 a.m., with Gabi and Cliff McLean
Summer 2010 mountain plant walks — pathways through the pines
Did you know that California has more pine species than any other state or foreign nation except Mexico? The theme of our Summer 2010 Mountain Plant Walks is Pathways through the pines. We will examine the genus Pinus (pronounced pie-nus) and the flora surrounding it. The title has two meanings. Literally, we will walk paths through pine forests, and figuratively, we will find ways to tell these pines apart.
There are eight native pines and two introduced pines common in our area. The native pines are sugar (P. lambertiana), Jeffrey (P.jeffreyi), Coulter (P. coulteri), ponderosa (P. ponderosa), pinyon (P. monophylla), lodgepole (P. contorta ssp. murrayana), gray (P. sabiniana) and limber (P. flexilis). Knobcone (P. attentuata) and Aleppo (P. halapensis) have been planted extensively by the forest service. It is comical that the signs saying, “You are now entering the Angeles National Forest,” on Highway 2 and Mt Baldy Road have the introduced Aleppo pine planted next to them! Knobcone is native to the San Bernardinos and Santa Anas, but not to the San Gabriels. We will see them all except maybe limber pine, which is found only on the summits of the highest mountains and requires more ambitious hiking. We will have seen gray pine at Desert Pines Wildlife Sanctuary in April.
In the following list, the words in upper-case letters are place names with the work “pine” in them indicating they are especially piney places. For all locations, bring water and snacks and have a full tank of gasoline because most of these are out-of-the-way places. These walks are free and open to all, no reservations are required. The objective of these plant walks is to gain an appreciation of our bountiful local flora. — Jane Strong
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:00 a.m., DESERT PINES
Saturday, May 15, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - Glendora Ridge Road
Click the following for:
(1) Checklist of Vascular Flora of Glendora Ridge Road by Bob Muns (optimized for half-sized paper), and
(2) May 2010 Supplement to the Checklist.
NOTE: These documents will be transferred to a Gallery page for Glendora Ridge Road, when that page is available.
Saturday, June 5, 2010, 10:00 a.m. - Heaps Peak Arboretum
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - Monrovia Canyon Park
Saturday, July 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m. - Manker Flat, San Antonio Canyon (See Pines of the San Gabriels)
Saturday, July 24, 2010, 10:00 a.m. - Table Mt. East near BIG PINES
Saturday, August 7, 2010, 10:00 a.m. - MT. PINOS
Saturday, August 21, 2010, 10:00 a.m. - PCT and Blue Ridge Road
PAST OUTINGS AND FIELD TRIPS OF OUR CHAPTER:
See the list at the bottom of this page.
PROJECTS
Our chapter becomes involved in projects from time to time. Current projects include:
Lily Spring Survey: Currently being formulated. Click here for the Lily Spring Study page.
BOARD MEETINGS
Next board meeting: May 6, 2010, 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 2010 Plant Sale — Under the Oaks X
November 13, 2010, at Eaton Canyon Nature Center
. . . followed one week later by our free Native Gardening Workshop 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.
See the Plant Sources page for details of the plant sale and the workshop.
EVENTS AND NEWS OF OTHER GROUPS
November 20 and December 11, 2010, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., DIY Autumn Wreathmaking Workshop at Tree of Life: The Tree of Life Nursery (33201 Ortega Highway, San Juan Capistrano) will present these two workshops as a great way to encourage the use of native plants for holiday decorations. Participants will make a wreath to take home. All materials are supplied. Please bring clippers, wire-cutters, and gloves. The cost is $30. Please RSVP to: http://bit.ly/c1XIi1
Volunteers needed by TreePeople for forest restoration: Are you interested in helping with the replanting of trees in areas within Angeles National Forest that were burned by the Station Fire? There is an opportunity to be trained ahead of time so you will be ready to “hit the ground running” when planting begins in the spring of 2011. TreePeople, an important partner with the Forest Service, is already very involved in planting burned areas in the San Bernardino National Forest, and this collaboration will continue when it comes time to replant the Station Fire burn areas. At this time, TreePeople are looking for new volunteers to join in their 2010 planting effort for the San Bernardino National Forest, including people willing to train as reforestation leaders.
If you are interested, go to the TreePeople web site and follow the instructions on how to become involved. Training begins in January 2010, so please contact dtankersley@treepeople.org to place yourself on the email list.
PAST PROGRAMS AND FIELD TRIPS OF OUR CHAPTER
PREVIOUS PROGRAMS:
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, 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