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Newsletter of the Mount Lassen Chapter
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY

General Meeting
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Wednesday 7:00 pm
Butte County Library, Chico

KF/7/L©M7/^/M in California Landscapes

Presented by JIM BISHOP,
retired CalFire

F ire is a major influence on California’s plant landscapes. The behavior
of wildfires is determined by the “fire environment”: terrain, fuels, and
weather. It can vary from smoldering to raging, from benign to destruc¬
tive. Understanding how wildfires behave is basic to understanding fire control,
fire effects, the beneficial use of fire, and the nature of threats to property such
as homes.

This overview will introduce you to how the fire environment affects fire behav¬
ior...the roles of humidity, solar heating, fuel type, seasonal drying, slope and
wind. We’ll consider typical fire rates-of-spread values, how fire will respond
to changing conditions, and some common weather processes. We’ll take a
brief look at the role of fire behavior in such things as presumed “natural” fire
levels and in fireline accidents.

Jim Bishop retired from a career in CalFire, much of which was spent in wild¬
land fire control and training. He is trained as a Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN)
and has filled that position on major fires and prescribed burns, has taught in
several national fire-behavior courses, served on the FBAN steering committee,
and has developed materials used in those courses.

M Trips

MYSTERY WALK
IN BUTTE CREEK CANYON

December 3
Sunday

Meet at Chico Park & Ride (Hwy 32 & 99) east lot at 9:30
am for an easy walk of about 3 miles. See what blooms
in December! Bring lunch, water and good hiking shoes.
Rain cancels. Leader: Marjorie McNairn 530-343-2397 or
MLMcNairn@aol.com.

SOUTH RIM TRAIL
UPPER BIDWELL PARK

December 9
Saturday

We’ll walk from the parking lot of Peregrine Point Disk
Golf Course to the south rim of Bidwell Park along a short
loop trail with the expansive views of Upper Park. Infor¬
mation will be presented and discussed on opening of
Upper Bidwell Park Rd to motor vehicles and mitigation
of adverse effects of disk golf on native landscape by the
City of Chico. Meet at 10 am, Chico Park & Ride (Hwy 32
& 99) west lot or at 10:20 am at Disk Golf Course Parking
Lot on north side of Hwy 32, 4.5 miles east of Bruce Rd.
Leader: Woody Elliott 530 588-2555, woodyelliott@gmail.
com

FERN CLIFF IN
MIDDLE BIDWELL PARK

January 7
Sunday

Meet at 10 am at the middle Bidwell Park trailhead where
Centennial Ave and Chico Canyon Rd join at their east
ends. Wear sturdy shoes, bring water, and wear cool
weather gear. We’ll walk for about a mile along the south
side of Big Chico Creek. We’ll be looking at ferns and allies
alongside the cliffs. End at noon. Rain cancels. Leader:
Marjorie McNairn 530 343- 2397, MLMcNairn@aol.com.

WINTER ©RSAIK

THE NEXT

Executive Board Meeting will be on January 17, 2018
General Meeting will be on February 7, 2018
and the Pipevine will be the February issue

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

NEW 2018 CHAPTER

EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTED

by JIM BISHOP, Nominating Committee Chair

A t our November 1,2017 General Meeting the members
present elected, by unanimous motion, the Mount Lassen
Chapter Executive Board for 2018.

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

PAUL MOORE
CINDY WEINER
CHRISTIAN SMIT
NANCY PRAIZLER

Members-at-Large

MERYL BOND
DODY DOMISH
PAULA SHAPIRO

TOM RESK

Past President: WOODY ELLIOTT

Nominations Committee: Jim Bishop, Ann Elliott, and Justine
Devoe

HOSPITALITY

by KARROLYNN YELLS, Hospitality Chair

T HANK YOU so much for your support this year. Many
thanks to the dedicated bakers who provided snacks
for the Mount Lassen Chapter of CNPS General Meetings:
Suzanne Garrett, Meryl Bond, and Anne Ferrill for December
General Meeting. In 2018 refreshments will be needed for the
General Meetings between March through May 2018. Your
help will be greatly appreciated.

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Legislative Notes

by DAVID ANDERSON

FEDERAL LEGISLATION
THREATENS

T here are many bad public land bills pending before Congress.

Fortunately Congress has been so preoccupied with health
care and tax bills that the bad bills have remained in Committee
to this date (11-10). It is doubtful that Congress will get to them
until after the first of the year.

After the first of the year environmentalists will have their hands
full opposing them There are far too many bills to be summarized
in this article, but if you want to see them Google: H.R. 232, H.R.
622, S 132, S 335, H.R. 3117, S. 33, H.R. 2950, H.R. 2661, H.R.
2907,H.R. 2907, H.R. 2936, H.R. 2074, H.R. 2167, H.R. 2284,
H.R. 2613, H.R.1106, H.R.1349, and H.R.1489.

FALL OUTREACH
EVENTS

by JANNA LATHROP, Events Chair

President’s Message

by WOODY ELLIOTT, President

A s I finish two years as President of Mount Lassen Chapter,
I am reminded of all the wonderful things we did together.

• the biennial Wildflower Show & Plant Sale
• Water-Wise & Habitat-Friendly Garden Tours
• tending our CCNC native plant garden
• sharing our native plant conservation mission
at numerous local events
• Field Trips to northern California wildlands
• commenting on Conservation issues in our area
• informative presentations at General Meetings
complete with scrumptious refreshments,

• and all of it faithfully documented in The Pipevine,
https://mountlassen.cnps.org/, Facebook and Meetup.com

The energetic involvement of our members and their monetary
support continue to make these events possible. Our latest an¬
nual funding effort, Support Our Chapter, collected over $3000.
I look forward to Paul Moore, President Elect, guiding our hearty
group next year. Thanks to all of you for making Mount Lassen
Chapter, CNPS so vital and inspiring. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

W e participated in two back-to-back weekend outreach
events. The first was held at the Home and Garden Show
on Oct 28 - 29 at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds. Our chapter was
represented by members Karen Smith, Cindy Weiner, Ann Elliott,
Woody Elliot, Michele O’Neill and Janna Lathrop at our display
table featuring “Garden with Natives” in the Flower Building.

The following Saturday we were at the Farm City Celebration
Harvest Festival in front of the Bidwell Mansion. This was a rain or
shine event. This year we were under rainy skies and the turnout
was somewhat smaller. We had a combined outreach table and
native plant sale with Native Springs Nursery and Floral Native
Nursery each contributing a percentage of their day’s sales to
our chapter.

Again, with the help of chapter volunteers we were well repre¬
sented. A very special and heartfelt thank you to our members
who braved the elements and helped staff; Paula Shapiro (invalu¬
able help with the setup and coordination of the plant sale), Jim
Bishop, Catie Bishop, Dody Domish, KarroLynn Yells, Meryl Bond
and Woody Elliott who retrieved the all-important canopies from
storage. Thanks again to Nancy Schleiger, Native Springs Nurs¬
ery and Germain Boivin, Floral Native Nursery for the excellent
selection of native plants and making our day a success.

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FALL HIKE ALONG

DEER CREEK by ANN ELLIOTT

E arly fall colors along Highway 32 and Deer Creek delighted
about a dozen CNPS hikers on the last Saturday in October. We
descended gradually following the creek and enjoying leaves in fall
color: red dogwood, yellow big leaf maple, and golden black oak. On
dry slopes we found gold back, bird’s foot, and lace ferns. The only
bloom at this time of year was slender-stemmed lessingia, a pinky-
purple composite.

When we reached Lower Deer Creek Falls, we spoke to and watched
the construction contractor for the new fish ladder. U.S. Fish and Wild¬
life Service finally found funding to replace the 1940’s era fish ladder

to enhance access to spawning
areas for endangered spring-run
Chinook salmon. The contractor
was pouring the last few walls
connecting the zig-zagging met¬
al-caged fish ladder to the hole
in the rock face were the old fish
ladder had been. Construction
started in 2016, but the ladder
had to be redesigned when the
cliffside that it was to be built on
slid into the creek.

Most of our crew were back in
Chico mid-afternoon. One car took the back road to Colby Mountain
Lookout to extend the adventure and returned home through Jones-
ville. This perfect fall day hike, even with few flowers, is the reason I
love to take advantage of Mount Lassen Chapter outings.

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Officers & Chairs

December 9, 2017

WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP

Bring native plant beauty and cheer into your holiday season!
Learn about native plants and preserve them in a naturally fragrant
plant wreath. Led by JENNIFER JEWELL, host of “Cultivating
Place” on NPR and ADRIENNE EDWARDS, Adjunct Faculty at
Chico State; botanist, ecologist and arborist. You will create a
fragrant and beautiful wreath appropriate for the holidays. Please
register in advance.

For more information about upcoming workshops please contact:
www.friendsofthechicostateherbarium.com/eventsviewcalen-
dar/

For more information about registration please contact the Biology
office at (530)898-5356 or ssholten@csuchico.edu

February 1-3,2018

Workshops & Field Trips January 30-2

Los Angeles, CA

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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 bish op 1991 @sbcg lobal.net
CHRISTIAN SMIT 815-5892

christian.pt.smit@gmail.com

NANCY PRAIZLER 899-1333

HESH KAPLAN
heshelak@gmail.com

892-9938

MERYL BOND 487-7312

merylbond@sbcglobal.net

CINDY WEINER 588-1906

wildflowermaven@comcast.net

CHAIRS

Conservation / Web Administrator

WOODY ELLIOTT

Education

Events

588-2555

woodyelliott@gmail.com
JUSTINE DEVOE 917-7891

justinedevoeca@gmail.com
JANNA LATHROP 228 0010

jlathrop4mlc@comcast.net

Field Trips

Horticulture
Hospitality

Invasive Plants

Membership/Mailing

MERYL BOND

MARJORIE MCNAIRN
mlmcnairn@aol.com

OPEN

KARROLYNN YELLS
karrolynny@att.net

OPEN

343-2397

534-3551

487-7312

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
CHRISTIAN SMIT 815-5892

christian.pt.smit@gmail.com

ANN ELLIOTT 521-4402

annonfire@gmail.com

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Calendar

December

3 - Butte Creek Walk

6 - General Meeting

9 - South Rim Bidwell Park
NO Ex Board Meeting

January

7 - Ferns Bidwell Park
17 - Ex Board Meeting

27 - 29 - Snow Goose Festival

February

1 - 3 - CNPS Conservation Con
7 - General Meeting
21 - Ex Board Meeting