Botanical Stuff

CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY

North Coast Chapter

Wildflower Show setup manager and Council delegate, originator of a public walks program, and until recently webmaster and later CMS administrator.

Statewide org.

Formerly Vice-chair of Chapter Council; was designer, manager, and web host of the orignial Online Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants; sponsor of the herbicide and integrated weed management policies (writing, negotiating, coordinating input), etc.  In June ’18 I had to sit quietly while someone recited a tedious list of alleged accomplishments, after which I was elected a Society fellow.  Since then have worked with the Phytophthora, Conservation Policy, and DEIJ committees.

STUDY & WORK

MA thesis

The reproduction and rarity of a rare saxifrage, Bensoniella oregana – Snow Camp, CA & Humboldt State University, 1996 (now Cal Poly Humboldt). A reduced version was published in the proceedings of an NPSO symposium (Conservation and Management of Native Plants and Fungi. 

Ecological study

Focused on a grass, Puccinellia howellii – salt springs near Whiskeytown, CA. The work was summarized in Madroño (Volume 49, Number 1 January-March 2002). During review I had to remove all mention of the word “competition”.  Fair enough – I should have known better.

Rare Plant Survey and Mitigation

For a street improvement project in Crescent City CA. The plant is a rare evening-primrose, Oenothera wolfii. It escaped cultivation and is now growing all over my back yard.

Dudlea lanceolata – from a Facebook discussion

Oenothera wolfii – rare plant in Crescent City