FEBRUARY 2017 P . The . ipevme Newsletter of the Mount Lassen Chapter CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY General Meeting Native i™ j" Small Purple-fringed orchid, Platanthera psycodes FEBRUARY 1, 2017 Wednesday 7:00 pm Butte County Library, Chico of North America Presented by LINNEA HANSON W hy are native orchids so interesting? Native orchids represent the extreme specializations that are possible. They have complex life histories that have highly specialized pollination systems and fungal associations with seed germination which make them particularly vulnerable to environmental changes. More than half are rare and need conservation attention. Linnea has become more interested in native orchids since her retirement as a botanist for the Plumas National Forest. She presented a talk on But¬ terfly Valley at the 2013 Native Orchid Conference that was held in Oroville, CA. Since then she has attended three subsequent Native Orchid Confer¬ ences and would like to share some of the knowledge she has obtained about terrestrial native orchids found in North America. Linnea plans to talk about the distribution of native orchids in North America and their pollination and fungal associations. She will also talk about Na¬ tive Orchid Conservation organizations. Linnea will describe the mixed successes and failures of propagation techniques with native orchids. She will introduce you to approximately 25 species of native orchids in their habitats in North America. Linnea Hanson was hired as a botanist for the Plumas National Forest in 1979 and retired in 2011. In 2008, she received the first Agency Person of the Year Award from the California Native Plant Society. She is the President of Northern California Botanists, a professional organization for botanists and is a founding board member of the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium. MENDOCINO NATIONAL FOREST GENETIC RESEARCH CENTER CHICO SEED ORCHARD February 3 Friday Meet at 9 am at the entrance gate to the US Forest Ser¬ vice, Chico location at 2741 Cramer Lane, Chico. Take either Notre Dame Avenue or Dominic Drive south from Skyway, turn left on Morrow Lane, then right on Cramer Lane to the end. Note this field trip is on FRIDAY. Join us for a delightful walk along a lovely riparian trail with Site Manager Robyn Scibilio. Learn about the history of the plant introduction facility started in 1904 under the Agri¬ culture Research Service, acquired by the Forest Service in 1957 with the establishment of the Genetic Research Center, and is now the Chico Seed Orchard under the management of Mendocino National Forest. The chal¬ lenge for this trip will be to identify how many native plants vs. nonnative plants we can find along the trail. End by noon. Leader: Marjorie McNairn 530 343-2397 & UC DAVIS ARBORETUM DAVIS February 11 Saturday Meet at Chico Park & Ride’s West Lot (Hwy 99/32) to depart at 8:30 am or at the Garrod Drive parking lot on the west end of Arboretum near the Vet. Med. Ctr. at 10:30 am. We’ll tour some of the Arboretum’s 17 themed gardens lead by its Director of Public Education. Then we may amble to The Good Life Garden, near the Mon¬ davi Center which contains an ever-changing edible landscape featuring organic and sustainably grown veg¬ etables, herbs and flowers. Bring lunch and money for ridesharing. Leader: Woody Elliott, woodyelliott@gmail. com, 530 588-2555. TURTLE BAY’S MCCONNELL ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDENS NURSERY REDDING February 25 Saturday Meet at Chico Park & Ride’s West Lot (Hwy 99/32) to depart at 8:30 am or the Arboretum’s West Garden En¬ trance from North Market St to Arboretum Drat 10:30 am. We’ll tour the Arboretum and Nursery with its Horticultural Manager. It comprises 20 acres of mediterranean-climate display gardens, a children’s garden, a medicinal garden, and two beautiful and unique water features. Bring lunch while admiring the Sundial Bridge. Sandwiches and sal¬ ads are available at the adjacent Museum Store & Coffee Bar. A donation of $4 is suggested for entrance to the Arboretum. Also money for ridesharing is appreciated. Leader: Woody Elliott, woodyelliott@gmail.com, 530 588-2555. 2 . The Pipevine February 2017 Executive Board Meeting February 15 - 7 pm WOODY and ANN ELLIOTT’S 530 588-2555 woodyelliott@gmail.com ALL CNPS MEMBERS WELCOME! President’s Message by WOODY ELLIOTT, President W elcome back for year 2017 most of last year’s Executive Board and Committee Chairs. And Hesh Ka¬ plan who is refreshing his previous stint. New CNPS member, Christian Smit, has stepped up as Board Secretary with in¬ terest in plant conservation issues. Our biannual Wildflower Show and Plant Sale, scheduled for Sunday, April 23rd at the CARD Center, will benefit from the usual volunteers and newbies to collaborate on this showcase event. Details and call for volunteers to follow in upcoming media. All are welcome to the Chapter’s Ex Board Meetings at 7 pm on the 3rd Wednesday of most months. You will learn the glorious details of how the Chapter works and perhaps get motivated to help out in a fashion that best suits you. Contact me for more information. Talk of Ann and I moving to west Marin County this year was premature. We appreciate the “concerning” feedback from our Chico friends caused by this possibility. But it has morphed into us merely hoping to spend more time at our Inverness CA “re¬ tirement” retreat near Pt. Reyes National Seashore without pull¬ ing up stakes in Chico. We are looking forward to a year of more wonderful adventures with Mount Lassen Chapter. Cheers! NEW ADDRESS PO BOX 4067 CHICO CA 95927-4067 Legislative Notes by DAVID ANDERSON CALL TO ARMS I ndications are that the Trump Administration and 115th Congress will be making major efforts to repeal or neu¬ tralize many of our federal environmental protection laws. The laws under attack will probably include the Endangered Species Act, the Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the Antiquities Act and regulations of federal agencies having the effect of statutes. The federal environmental laws are vital for the protection of California native plants and ecosystems because much of California land is federally owned. To help save our federal environmental protection laws from disaster, we will need, as never before, communications from individual environmentalists to their elected federal officials to express opposition to bad proposed bills or agency actions. Any form of communication will do to let them know that you as a constituent are aware and will hold them accountable for environ¬ mentally harmful measures. Your message will count. If you do not have access to information on the net, your telephone book has information as to your representatives and their addresses and telephone numbers etc. WORKDAYS ALICE HECKER NATIVE PLANT GARDEN CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER BIDWELL PARK February 16, Thursday 9-11 am Contact ANN ELLIOTT 530-521-4402 The Pipevine February 2017 3. CALIFORNIA LICHEN SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING January 28, 2017 The Nature Conservancy’s Dye Creek Preserve Los Molinos, CA CALS members have an opportunity for a distinctly different ex¬ perience at the January 2017 Annual Meeting, which also marks the Society’s 23rd birthday celebration. This year’s meeting will be held at The Nature Conservancy’s Dye Creek Preserve, near Los Molinos, CA. Because Dye Creek Preserve is a working cattle ranch with an active hunting program, public access is limited. Individuals may participate in scheduled docent-led hikes, but the preserve’s manager has been gracious enough to lend the Preserve’s field station to CALS for our annual event. TNC Dye Creek Preserve lies in the heart of the Lassen Foothills region, a largely unfragmented 900,000-acre landscape, and includes just over 37,500 acres of Cascade and Sierra Nevada foothill in the north end of the Sacramento River Valley. Located in the foothills below Lassen Peak, the 37,540-acre preserve is an expansive landscape of blue oak woodlands, volcanic buttes, and rolling wildflower fields that range up to 2300’ elevation. It is bounded by Mill Creek to the south and southeast, the Lassen National Forest to the northeast, and State Flighway 99 to the west. The preserve has a long history of hog and cattle ranching, and the hunting of feral pigs, boar and deer has taken place historically as a routine activity, but the preserve has also been managed as a commercial hunting preserve, beginning as long ago as 1963. As always, the day’s activities are open to all California Lichen Society members, and ALSO TO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Because of the limited access to the preserve, anyone interested in attending must RSVP to secretary@californialichens. org. Those who choose to attend must also sign a liability waiver, which will be provided during the RSVP process. Maps and geo¬ graphic coordinates will be distributed to those who RSVP, and the passcode to the gate will be distributed shortly before the day. 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SASHA DUERR, pro¬ fessor at California College of the Arts with a joint appointment in textiles and fine arts. His extensive work with plant-based dyes and ecological principles through local land-based sources and com¬ munity has been featured in the New York Times, American Craft, Selvedge, and Huffington Post. Please register in advance. March 11, 2017 INTRODUCTION TO FERN BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION Become fern fluent! This workshop will be a crash-course introduc¬ tion to the ferns of the world with a focus on species that can be observed in the wild in California. Led by CARL ROTHFELS, curator of ferns at UC Berkeley’s University Herbarium. In graduate school Carl became a full- fledged fernologist. Prior to that time he was a field botanist, herbarium curator, and natural history interpreter in southern Ontario, Canada. Please register in advance. For more information about these and other upcoming work¬ shops please contact: www.friendsofthechicostateherbarium. com/eventsviewcalendar/ For more information about registration please contact the Biology office at (530)898-5356 or chatfield@csuchico.edu MEMBERSHIP MLC If you have changed your. . . address, phone number or e-mail or leave temporarily please notify Mount Lassen Chapter CNPS Membership Chair, MERYL BOND at 707-971-9272 or merylbond@sbcglobal.net This will help eliminate returned Pipevines from the Post Office. Thank You Keep up with MLC Activities on our website and Facebook California Native Plant Society, Mount Lassen Chapter and LIKE US facebook ( 530 ) ELECTED OFFICERS President Past-President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Members-at-Large WOODY ELLIOTT 588-2555 woodyelliott@gmail.com CAT IE BISHOP cjbishop1991@sbcglobal.net JIM BISHOP cj bi shop 1991 @sbcg lobal.net CHRISTIAN SMIT 815-5892 christian.pt.smit@gmail.com NANCY PRAIZLER 899-1333 praizlermom@gmail.com HESH KAPLAN heshelak@gmail.com 898-9938 MERYL BOND (707)971-9272 merylbond@sbcglobal.net CINDY WEINER 588-1906 wildflowermaven@comcast.net CHAIRS Conservation / Web Administrator WOODY ELLIOTT Education Events Field Trips Horticulture Hospitality Invasive Plants 588-2555 woodyelliott@gmail.com OPEN JANNA LATHROP 228 0010 jlathrop4mlc@comcast.net MARJORIE MCNAIRN mlmcnairn@aol.com OPEN KARROLYNN YELLS karrolynny@att.net OPEN 343-2397 534-3551 Membership/Mailing MERYL BOND (707) 971-9272 merylbond@sbcglobal.net DENISE DEVINE 345-8444 dsrdevine@hotmail.com JIM BISHOP cj bi shop 1991 @sbcg lobal.net WOODY ELLIOTT 588-2555 woodyelliott@gmail.com CINDY WEINER 588-1906 wildflowermaven@comcast.net OPEN NANCY PRAIZLER 899-1333 praizlermom@gmail.com Vol. Recognition / Chapter Council Delegate CAT IE BISHOP cj bish op 1991 @sbcg I obal.net STEPHEN OVERLOOK 892-0635 stephenoverlock@sbcglobal.net ANN ELLIOTT 521-4402 annonfire@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Programs Co-chairs Publicity Rare Plants Sales Yahi Trail CCNC Gardens mountlassen.cnps.org The Pipevine February 2017 5. MOUNT LASSEN CHAPTER CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY P. O. BOX 4067 CHICO, CA 95927-4067 Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Chico, CA Permit No. 553 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Time Value FEBRUARY 2017 issue FEB 1 orchids Phyllis would say Join Today ! MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Calendar 2017 CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY I wish to affiliate with the Mount Lassen Chapter new renew Name _ Address _ City _ State _ Zip _ Phone February 1 - General Meeting 3 - Genetic Research Center 11 - UC Davis Arboretum 15- Ex Board Meeting 16- CCNC Garden Workday 25 - Turtle Bay Arboretum Email Send Membership Application to: CNPS 2707 K STREET, SUITE 1 SACRAMENTO, CA 95816-5113 mountlassen.cnps.org Student / Limited Income. $25 Individual. $45 Family / Library. $75 Plant Lover. $100 Patron. $300 Benefactor. $600 March 1 - General Meeting 15- Ex Board Meeting