Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dr. Peter Baye, our speaker at the June public meeting, has made a study and
prepared a management plan for the lily and its home. He will introduce us to 8/27 Annual Milo Baker
the plant and the site, and provide an overview of his recommendations for its Chapter Picnic
preservation.
A botanist specializing in coastal plant ecology and taxonomy, Dr. Baye has been
involved in the study and conservation of coastal plants and their communities,
and endangered species conservation, for nearly 30 years. He lives in the coastal
In This Issue
hills of the Gualala River watershed near Annapolis. President's Corner ....................... 2
Welcome New Members!............. 2
Come to Plant ID Hour before the June General Meeting! Chapter Events
Check out “Chapter Events & Activities” for more details! & Activities ................................... 2
Plant Sale News ........................... 2
No General Meetings in July and August! Chapter Field Trips ...................... 3
Conservation Report.................... 4
No general meetings during these months. Activities & Events
of Interest..................................... 4
Articles to Increase Your
Knowledge.................................... 4
Annual Chapter Picnic! – Sunday, August 27th, 2:00 pm Newsletter Submissions
& Website ..................................... 7
Plan to attend our potluck picnic at the Van Hoosear Wildflower Preserve, Support Our Local
courtesy of Marilyn Goode. The Preserve is part of a Goode family conservation Native Plant Nurseries................. 7
easement to preserve their ranchland. It's west of the town of Sonoma. Details in
the August newsletter.
*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 are held on the 2nd Tuesday nine months of the year at the Environmental Center, 404 Mendocino Ave,
Suite A, Santa Rosa. Next meeting is July 12th. Anyone interested in the work of the chapter is welcome to attend!
those friends are gone…people that were so important to
P resident's Corner the Chapter like Jack Guggolz, Vanette Bunyan, Marcus
and Betty Schmidt, and Ruth Hass. It was a privilege to
know them. Any time that I spent on chapter affairs,
Native plants are getting lots of whether it was the plant sale, attending meetings, or field
publicity in our local papers lately. I trips has really been an opportunity for me to develop
hope the attention will bring Sonoma and grow, to make friends, and to learn more about our
County flora to the public’s attention in a positive light. California flora. I am pleased to join my good friend
We now have a volunteer, John Herrick, who will be Betty Lovell Guggolz, the founder of the Milo Baker
working on our responses to City/County Development Chapter, as a CNPS Fellow. It is an honor for me to be in
Proposals. When rare and/or endangered plants are in her company. The Chapter is giving me a gift of a
the path of proposed developments the chapter sends botanical painting by Pamela Glasscock. Pamela now is
comments as requested. John also heads up our rare plant working on a Calochortus luteus (Gold Nuggets) and I
group and is our RAREFIND coordinator. He has agreed look forward to receiving it when she is finished. I think
to work on this project until September to learn the that it is one of Sonoma County's most beautiful flowers
process and details involved. If anyone has an interest in and I will treasure the painting by one of the premier
being a resource person or assisting John, please contact botanical artists of our time. Liz Parsons
him at rdherr@yahoo.com. This is an extremely important
and necessary position for the chapter. Bob Hass has
come back on the board as Conservation Chair through Welcome New Members!
the end of the year. He will be working specifically on the Welcome to our new chapter members this month:
Sonoma County General Plan. Bob worked on this in the • Rick Mead
past so is familiar with all that is required. Let Bob know Thanks for joining and we look forward to seeing you
if you are willing to help out. Welcome back, Bob! around!
Jeff Woodward has been the t-shirt and poster
chairperson for over 10 years! He’s movin’ on from that
position to be director at large. A big thank you to Jeff for
Chapter Events & Activities
all his time and energy devoted to the chapter and his Plant ID Before the June General Meeting
willingness to remain on the board. Hope you all have a Arrive at 6:30, an hour before the June 21st General
great summer. Reny Parker Meeting, and bring specimens of plants you want to
identify. You’ll see some current plants of interest from
CNPS 40th Anniversary Celebration the local area, have a look through a dissecting
The 40th Anniversary Celebration will be held in microscope, and discover the differences between our
conjunction with the Chapter Council meeting and many native plants. I’ll bring some field guides, and can
related events on June 10-12 at the Sierra Friends help you work through the keys in The Jepson Manual and
Conference Center near Nevada City. The facility covers A Sonoma County Flora. Keying can be fun, even if you
over 200 acres of foothill landscapes, a lovely peaceful get stuck. The best-learned plants are those learned with
setting. There will be plenty to do with many activities friends! Bring your dinner if you want to, a hand lens
and opportunities to interact with other chapters. Plant and a copy of Jepson or Sonoma Co. Flora if you have them.
walks will be available on the grounds, both self-guided A copy of each and glossaries will be available. The
and leaderguided, The Saturday evening program will be native plants are what CNPS is about—come get to
a conversation between poet, Gary Snyder, and scientist, know them and some fellow chapter members too!
Michael Barbour. This will be a special opportunity in Lynn Houser
itself. We encourage chapter members, families and
friends to come and enjoy the 40th Anniversary Plant Sale News
celebration. Contact Reny if you would like more
Plant Sale Potting Workshop
information.
On Saturday, August 13 at 10 AM we will have our final
potting workshop of the season at Shone Farm. Mary
Jolly Good Fellow Aldrich and Alan Brubaker will be organizing this
I was very happy to receive the honor of becoming a workshop. If you have questions or need directions to
Fellow of the CA Native Plant Society. Thank you to the Shone Farm call Mary Aldrich, 539.9005 These plants will
Chapter for nominating me. I have enjoyed my 30 year be grown in the greenhouse at Shone Farm by our
association with the Milo Baker Chapter more than I can member Wendy Krupnik. We thank her for her effort!
express. When I first joined the chapter in 1975, I had
only lived in Sonoma County for 4 years and the field Potting Workshop Report
trips and programs have taught me all that I know about On Sunday, May 8, nine plant sale stalwarts potted up
California and Sonoma County wildflowers and habitats. over 300 rooted cuttings in driving rain! Thanks to Mary
The friendships that I have formed with fellow members Aldrich and her daughter Diane, John Akre, Alan
are so dear to me. Without the Milo Baker Chapter I Brubaker, Elmarie Hutchinson, Lynn Houser, and Anna
would never have made their acquaintance. Some of
Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June/July 2005 Page 2
and Dave Webster for braving the elements and getting I think the most mind-boggling display of plant life
the work done. Unfortunately, Shooting Star Nursery was the white ceanothus, Ceanothus incanus. The plants
generously gave us 500 rooted cuttings. On Friday, May were huge, perfect to the point of looking as if a gardener
13, Mary, Rob Fox, Kathy Dowdakin, and I finished the had been tending them, and in full bloom. Among the
final 200. We now have Myrica californica (CA wax many plants we saw that day were at least 15 species of
myrtle), Ceanothus 'Yankee Point', Ceanothus 'Ray clovers, 6 species of oaks, and a few mysteries for which
Hartman', Ceanothus confusus, Arctostaphylos 'Emerald we'll just need to return to identify.
Carpet', Galvezia speciosa 'Firecracker' (Island
Snapdragon), Sidalcea malvafolia (Checkerbloom), Ribes Ring Mountain (with Marin CNPS)
sanguineum var. glutinosum (Pink-flowered currant), Ring Mountain, Tiburon, Phyllis Ellman Trail,
Heuchera maxima, Heteromeles arbutifolia (Toyon), Sequoia Saturday, June 4th at 9:30 am, hike with Marin
sempervirens 'Soquel' (Redwood), Achillea 'Pink Island Chapter. The logo of Marin's chapter is the
Form' (Yarrow), two Zauschneria clones: 'Calistoga' and Tiburon mariposa lily (Calochortus tiburonensis), that can
'Catalina' (CA fuchsia), and Mimulus aurantiacus. We be seen blooming from the end of May through mid-June
have a great start on plants for the plant sale. These among the serpentine rocks of Ring Mountain. Join Joe
plants will be grown on by members at very little cost of Kohn as we go off in search of this wild and beautiful
us and are the source of most of the profit we make at the plant. Afterwards we'll take a nearby trail to see the
sale. Tiburon jewel flower close to the St Hilary Preserve, an
If you would like to grow plants for our sale, we have area described by Howell as "one of the most interesting,
just purchased three yards of soil for you to use. If you remarkable and beautiful wildflower gardens in
have gallon containers you want to get rid of, please California (and therefore in all the world!)." Sonoma
bring them to Mary A.'s in Santa Rosa. Call Mary County residents will meet at 8:45, Noah's Bagels in the
Aldrich, 707.539.9005. Safeway parking lot on McDowell Blvd. Take the 101
Liz Parsons Washington St. exit in Petaluma, turn left across the
freeway and turn right on McDowell at the light. Then
turn left into the parking lot. Look for nature types
Chapter Field Trips lurking about. Bring a lunch, boots, plastic bag to sit on,
Galbreath Natural Preserve Field Trip Report hand lens & binoculars, if you have them, for the great
I am so sorry if you couldn't make this trip! The views, micro and macro. We'll meet the Marin chapter at
preserve is such an amazing place. We drove 9:30 at the Phyllis Ellman Trailhead, located on Paradise
into the preserve in five four- wheel drive Drive in Corte Madera, 1 mile east of the freeway exit,
vehicles, and were glad of them. Happily, the preserve just past Westward Drive. For more info, contact ML,
did not get much rain in the week previous, and there mlml@svn.net
was little mud. We bumped from place to place, getting
out of the vehicles at different sites and wandering about Mayacamas Mountains Audubon Sanctuary.
in the characteristic head-down-native-plant-nut- Lynn Houser, leader, Saturday, June 25th. Meet
position. We did have a birder nut, David Leland, whose at 9:00 at the River Road Park and Ride. Pine
head was inclined in the opposite direction. Both Flat Road takes us up into the area where
positions were well rewarded. The views were so thousands of acres were burned last summer. Alongside
spectacular, I wished I could have stuck my head out of the road a number of unusual species grow, and many
the top of the vehicle to soak them in better. But then, it interesting vistas present themselves to us as we wind up
might have induced delirium. toward the top, where on a clear day, you can see the
The people who attended were delirium-inducing as ocean. Red Hill, with its serpentine outcrops and
well. There were so many interesting minds to pry open. spectacular views, has been changing weekly and
We had sizable populations from three chapters: offering tremendous blooms this spring. This late June
Sanhedrin, Dorothy King Young, and Milo Baker. Dr. trip will highlight composites and other summer-
Hall Cushman, who presented a slide lecture on the flowering plants, and we'll see lots of new growth on
preserve earlier this year at our general meeting, gave us Madrones and Scrub oaks coming out beneath charcoal
the background on the preserve and led us over the skeletons. Come and see how the land is repairing itself
bumps, pointing out salient features in the landscape. and enjoy this remarkable landscape. Lynn Houser has
Peter Warner gave him advice on what to do about the been monitoring the rare plants in the area with Betty
invasives. (Guess what? There's broom and Italian thistle Guggolz for Audubon in the previous months, and we
at the preserve - and feral pigs and turkeys.) Reny Parker look forward to hearing what she has learned. Bring a
and Gary Hundt were our official photographers, and we lunch and a plastic bag to sit on. Cameras, binoculars and
should be able to see the results on line soon. Ann hand lenses will improve your experience. Please email
Howald and Peter Warner compiled an initial plant list as or call ML to sign up; the hike is limited to 20 people.
we went, with the help of Clare Wheeler, who co-wrote ML, mlml@svn.net
the Mendocino Flora and Brian Basor. The animal life had
been studied by biologists from Humboldt State, but Chimney Rock
there is no plant list for over 3,700 acres.
Milo Baker Chapter Newsletter – June/July 2005 Page 3
Sunday, July 10th. Believe it or not, there are the Youth Annex in Sebastopol at 425 Morris St. Bring
still things blooming. Leave at 8 from Noah's your binoculars and your questions. $5 donation
Bagels No limit, but please contact me. ML, requested. For further information, please contact Mary
mlml@svn.net Abbott @ 527.9277 x2 or mary@lagunadesantarosa.org
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