darlingtonia newsletter, winter 2005 ~ north coast chapter, california native plant society

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DarlingtoniaWINTER-06

Newsletter of the North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society

Dedicated to the Preservation of California Native Flora

Crescent City Marsh and Western

Lily Threatened by Two Proposed

Developments

By Jen Kalt

The Crescent City Marsh is one of the most biologi-

cally diverse wetlands in California and home to the

worlds largest population of the federally endan-gered western lily (Lilium occidentale). More than

230 plant species are found in the Marsh, at least adozen of which are considered rare, threatened, or

endangered. The Department of

Fish and Game purchased the landin 1979 to protect coastal freshwa-

ter wetlands.

The Marsh is currently threatenedby two proposed developments.

The Elk Valley Rancherias 15-acrecasino-resort complex is proposedon an adjacent property known as

the Martin Ranch. This project

originally included a golf course tobe built on coastal wetlands; fortu-

nately it has been dropped from the

current proposal. However, the de-velopment as proposed would be

built within the watershed of the

Crescent City Marsh, and would

very likely alter the hydrology ofthe Marsh. Because not enough is known to ensure

that the Marsh and lily populations would be pro-tected, CNPS would like to see the project moved tothe southern portion of the Martin Ranch, to an area

that does not drain directly into the Crescent City

Marsh.

Numerous public agencies and an ecohydrologist

recruited by CNPS to review the project have sub-

mitted comments regarding the inadequacies of the

hydrologic analysis. The Marsh is a very uniquecoastal wetland, and along with the lily population is

highly sensitive to changes in the water table and

soil moisture regime. Monitoring to establish base-line information on changes in the water table levels

throughout the seasons must be done to understand

the potential impacts of altering the Marshs hydrol-ogy with runoff from parking lots and roofs, irriga-

tion, and construction activities. The western lily is

highly sensitive to changes in timing and quantity ofrunoff to the Marsh, and not enough is known to en-

sure that proposed mitigation measures would pre-

vent negative impacts to the lily population and the

Marsh. Pre- and post-developmentmonitoring are crucial to prevent nega-

tive impacts to the Marsh from any

further development within the water-shed. For details on CNPSs concerns

with this project as currently proposed

in the Draft Environmental Impact

Statement, visit the North Coast Chap-ters Issues webpage.

Another proposed development in-volves a fish and wood by-products

composting facility and a retail land-

scaping materials business. This pro-ject features a proposed Army Corps

of Engineers permit to retain

unauthorized fill on 1 acre of coastalwetland within the Crescent City

Marsh. In other words, the proposalwould authorize the illegal filling of coastal wet-lands that was already done by the project applicant

without the required permits.

Hambro Forest Products and its subsidiary Eco-Nutrients currently operate a mill adjacent to the

Marsh. According to the public notice for the permit

from the Army Corps of Engineers, Hambro

(Continued on page 3)

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MONTHLY

MEETINGS &

PRESENTATIONS

The North Coast Chapter ofCNPS holds free Public Programs onthe second Wednesday of each month(September through May) at the Ar-cata Masonic Lodge, 351 Bayside Rd.,Arcata. Refreshments at 7:45 and pro-gram at 8:00 p.m. You dont have tobe a CNPS member to attend!

Please check our website for current

information on speakers. Presenta-tions are scheduled for:

Wedsnesday, February 8th

Wednesday, March 8th

Wednesday, April 12th

SEE YOU THERE!

CCCHAPTERHAPTERHAPTER PPPROGRAMSROGRAMSROGRAMS & E& E& EVENTSVENTSVENTS

Chapter Field Trips

February 25, Saturday. COASTAL TRAIL DAY HIKE. The easy, 4-mile

trail along the bluff between Requa, on the north side of the mouth of the

Klamath River, and Lagoon Creek, where 101 meets the ocean north of

Klamath, has some early spring treats, like huge gooseberries festooned with

red flowers, masses of dainty violets, and mats of unfurling false lily-of-the-

valley. Hope for one of those glorious February days, dress for the weather,

bring lunch and water. We'll return by dark. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Pacific Un-

ion School (3001 Janes Rd., Arcata). We will shuttle a car to the north end of

the hike, so we'll only have to walk one way. Call Carol Ralph (822-2015) to

say you are coming or to arrange another meeting place.

March 18, Saturday. MYRTLE CREEK DAY HIKE. This 2-mile roundtrip

trail off highway 199 in the Myrtle Creek Botanical Area of the Six Rivers

National Forest was a traditional spring destination of our chapter for many

years. Vegetation includes coastal redwood, serpentine slopes and seeps, ri-

parian, mixed evergreen forest, and colonizers after mining. We might see

goldthread (Coptis laciniata) and Trillium rivale blooming at this early date.

Let's leave promptly at 8:30 a.m. from Pacific Union School (3001 Janes Rd.,

Arcata), ready for the weather, with lunch and water packed. We'll return by

dark. Call Carol Ralph (822-2015) to say you are coming or to arrange a

more northern meeting place. (Depending on time, some of us might do an-

other trail on the way home.)

APRIL FIELD TRIP to be announced. Please watch for the schedule in the

spring newsletter.

May 20, Saturday. GRASSHOPPER PEAK DAYHIKE and PLANT SUR-

VEY. In return for a lift to the top of Grasshopper Peak in Humboldt Red-

woods State Park (a 7 mile hike), we will create for the park plant lists of all

we find in this area that was burned by the Canoe Creek Fire two years ago.

Lots of surprises have popped up in this chaparral and grassland above the

Douglas fir forest. The more eyes we have, the more we will find; you don't

have to be an expert to be helpful. Walking down the mountain is an option,

if we have time and energy, or we can ride down. Check the spring

"Darlingtonia" or the website for details.

PS. Watch the calendar on the chapter web site (www.northcoastcnps.org) for

possible other outings. We hope to see you in the great outdoors!


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2006 IS AROUND THE CORNER

The Spring Wildflower Show will be

May 5-7 at the Manila Community Center. If

you are not already on our lists to help collect,

identify, set up, lead classes, clean up, etc., con-

tact us, so you can be part of this fun event.The CNPS-Redwood Audubon Society

Wildlife and Native Plant

is on track for 2006, with Jennifer Tompkins and

Frances Madrone at the helm. The date for the

tour is yet to be decided; it will probably be in

July. If you would like to nominate a garden,

want to help, or have questions, call Jennifer

(443-6959).

temporarily stockpiled

soil on 2.5 acres of wet-lands. This wetland wassuitable habitat for the west-

ern lily, and in 1994 a small

population of the lily wasdocumented on the site.

CNPS believes that granting

a retroactive permit for ille-

gal fill of wetlands that de-stroyed western lily habitat

is inappropriate, and that the

landowner should be heldresponsible for this illegal

activity.

CNPS also believes that a

composting facility does not

meet the definition of acoastal-dependent use that is

the only legal use for filling

coastal wetlands. Such

coastal dependent uses in-

clude boat launches, docks,and other facilities that are

listed in state and federalCoastal Zone Management

regulations. Any further de-

struction of coastal wetlandsin western lily habitat is un-

acceptable, especially for

land use activities that are

not coastal dependent uses.

Comments are due on theArmy Corps of Engineerspermit in early January, and

CNPS will be watching this

proposal very carefully as itmoves through the regula-

tory process.

(Continued from page 1)

THANK YOU to

these volunteers

who visit people'syards or properties

as our Native Plant

Consultation Ser-vice. This is a

great way to

spread the enthusi-asm for native

plants.

Kathy DilleyJim Waters

Virginia WatersCarol Ralph

Judie HinmanAnnie Eicher

Pete Haggard

Donna WildearthSuzanne Isaacs

Joan Doherty

Janelle EggerWanda Naylor

Kristen Brown

Sabra SteinbergSydney CarothersTim McKay

Andrea Williams

Liz McGeeMelissa Brooks

Chris Rall

INVASIVE PLANTS RESOURCE GUIDEfrom the Yerba Buena Chapter newsletter

Developed by the Center for Invasive Plant Management, the onlineInvasivePlant Resource Guide is a reference for materials (fact sheets, handbooks,

booklets, etc.) that support invasive plant management and education. The

materials cover a wide array of topics ranging from weed management

strategies to natural resources to "working with people" skills. For each

item, a description is provided as well as a link to the source. Most items are

available for download or in hard copy at no cost. Find it at:

Salix


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MAD RIVER BUTTESby Carol Ralph

Scheduling an outing to 4,000 ft. elevation

on 20 November is definitely gambling with the

weather. This year we won. It was sunny and

warm for the twenty seven people who followedDave Reckess of the California Wilderness Coali-

tion to see a bit of proposed wilderness just off

Forest Service Rte 1 about an hour south of Rte299 from Berry Summit. We parked near Board

Camp and walked a "moderately difficult" trail (all

of it was up or down; some was crumbly and verysteep) along a ridge, down to Bug Creek, and up

across serpentine balds, about 5 miles. The view

from the ridge is indeed vast, encompassing theTrinity Alps, Lassics, Yolla Bolly's, King Range,

and many closer mountains. We were reminded

of the season when we encountered ice on a wet,

shady part of the path, despite the warmth in thesun.

The varied vegetation included shady white

fir (Abies concolor) forest; sunny, brown patchesof deciduous, shrubby Brewer's oak (shrubby form

ofQuercus garryana), and in exposed, rocky

places, scratchy clumps of huckleberry oak (Q.

vaccinifolia), canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis, but

just short ones), manzanita (Arctostaphylospatula), and silk tassle (Garrya fremontii, leaves

not fuzzy underneath). In the shady gully of thestream were some impressively large Douglas fir

(Pseudotsuga menziesii), as well as white fir, in-

cense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), and onesmall, shrubby yew (Taxus brevifolia). The stream

was clear and mossy, already fed by autumn rains.

Very tantalizing were the goblet-shaped, single,

open pods of a lily family species, possibly a mari-posa tulip-type Calochortus. Some serpentine

slopes were barren, while others supported sparse,

dry, herbaceous vegetations. Mule ears (Wyethia)was especially abundant on one, and I noted yam-

pah (Perideridia).

The most interesting wildlife was brightyellow springtails (collembola), minute, wingless

SOUTH FORK TRINITY

by Carol Ralph

People on the October 29 hike led by the Califor-nia Wilderness Coalition to the South Fork Trail,

which accesses the proposed Underwood Wilder-

ness along the South Fork Trinity River, reportthat it was a delightful time to see an area we usu-

ally visit to see spring flowers. Fall colors of poi-

son oak, oaks, and maples were rewarding, andautumn temperatures were considerably lower

than those encountered in summer.

insects gathered in masses on the forest floor un-der the white fir, reminiscent of slime molds.

We saw tracks of a less desirable creature, a

quad recreational vehicle.The Northern California Coastal Wild

Heritage Wilderness Act, which would add the

Mad River Buttes area to the wilderness system,has good support in Congress, thanks to the thor-

ough work its proponents did before they intro-

duced it. Dave, whom you can contact at theNorthcoast Environmental Center, still empha-

sizes that we should tell our representatives in

Congress that we appreciate the wilderness and

thank them for protecting it. The bill is not fin-

ished yet! The Mad River Buttes is an attractiveand accessible addition.


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Typical section of a Headwaters road before restoration.

During excavation in 2002.

After restoration the hill slope is returned to its original contour

and planted with redwood seedlings.

HEADWATERS FORESTby Carol Ralph

Despite its fame as an important,hard-won, and expensive stand of red-woods, the Headwaters Forest Reserve is

a Bureau of Land Management preserve,

not a visitor-friendly state or nationalpark. It has only two trails open to the

public, and the one on the south side is

open only with a guide. Being escorted

to the "inner reaches" of the Reserve bythe botanist most knowledgeable about

its land management was a real treat for

the 13 people on the chapter field tripOct. 22.

About 3,000 of the 7,500 acres of

the Headwaters Forest is old growth; therest was logged before the property came

into public ownership in 1999, leaving a

network of logging roads and young,even-aged stands of trees. BLM is work-

ing to reduce the erosion, and resulting

stream siltation, caused by the roads and

to hurry along the development of old-

growth characteristics in the young, re-covering forest. Greg Jennings took us

to an area where the logging roads arebeing erased by recontouring the slopes

they crossed and, most important, by re-

moving the dirt and log fill that had beenpiled into streams to cross them. With or

without culverts, these stream crossings

are a continual source of loose sediments

that wash into the streams unless the fillis removed down to the original surface

level. To cross Salmon Creek, a 6 ft.diameter culvert and enough dirt andlogs had been dumped in to fill up the

20-ft. deep channel. Now it has been

removed by a huge excavator andtrucked to a log landing on a ridge.

Some 2500 truckfuls of dirt were hauled(Continued on page 8)


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BBBOOKOOKOOK RRREVIEWEVIEWEVIEW


Book Review: Tending the Wild,

by M. Kat Anderson.

University of California Press, 2005.

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Man-

agement of Californias Natural Resources is an insightful re-

source on indigenous peoples influence on the California land-

scape, particularly coastal prairies, valley grasslands, and oak

woodlands. Using a blend of traditional and scientific ecologi-

cal knowledge, the author describes the ecological basis for

indigenous land management practices that shaped the natural

world.

Traditional ecological knowledge

isthe rich knowledge of how nature

works and how to judiciously harvest

and steward its plants and animals

without destroying them[It is] the

product of keen observation, patience,

experimentation, and long-term rela-

tionships with plants and animals

built on a history, gained through

many generations of learning passed

down by elders about practical as well

as spiritual practices. (p. 4)

Upon their arrival in California, Europeans

observed lush hills and valleys teeming

with wildlife, acorns, seeds, and berries.Although they often compared the scenery

to parks, gardens, and orchards, these early

immigrants failed to recognize the role of

tribal management on this thriving biodi-

versity. Todays society has inherited this

view of a formerly pristine world un-

touched by human influence, yet ecologists are beginning to

understand that burning, pruning, weeding, sowing, transplant-

ing, irrigating, and harvesting by indigenous peoples played an

integral role in shaping many ecosystems.

The cultures of the indigenous people of California

are rooted in a belief that nature has an inherent abilityto renew itself, to cause the return of the geese, the

regrowth of the plants with edible bulbs, the germina-

tion of next years crop of wildflowersBut native

peoples also believe that renewal cannot happen in the

absence of appropriate human behavior toward na-

ture. (p. 9)

The traditional use of the renewal power of fire is a central

topic. Fire has been used in California since time immemo-

rial to promote high-quality basketweaving materials, forage

for wildlife, healthy pest-free acorns, and other important

resources. Through numerous quotes gleaned from inter-views with elders and basketweavers, Anderson describes

Native methods of caring for the land. She describes in detail

traditional methods for producing high-quality basketweav-

ing materials and food sources such as bulbs, grains, and

acorns, and maintaining open grasslands and oak woodlands.

Examples from biological research illustrate the scientific

basis for many of these cultural traditions, and historical ob-

servations abound. Several passages from the late 19 th cen-

tury describe the loss of meadow to encroaching trees and

shrubs in Yosemite Valley due to the lack

of Indian burning. In 1910, botanist Willis

Linn Jepson observed that a colony of Cali-fornia walnut near an old village site is

gradually being exterminated by the ad-

vance of the primitive forest which is no

longer held in check by the one-time occu-

pants of the tribal settlement. (p. 151)

A chapter on contemporary gathering and

management practices addresses barriers

that face todays traditional Native gather-

ers, and how they continue their traditions

despite these barriers. Californias indige-

nous people had one of the highest popula-

tion densities in North America at the time

of European contact, yet their descendantscontrol a tiny fraction of their ancestral ter-

ritories. As a result, most tribes depend on

government agencies to manage public

lands in ways that are compatible with tra-

ditional gathering practices. The ever-

increasing pace of development, agricul-

ture, and industrial timber production results in more lost

habitat for native plants and animals each year. Some of the

most important native habitats for culturally important spe-

cies are also some of the most threatened. Riparian wood-

lands, freshwater wetlands, and native grasslands have been

reduced to a small fraction of their former extent. This infor-

mative blending of indigenous and scientific knowledge willgive land managers more tools to help preserve Californias

biological diversity by documenting the cultural traditions

that can help restore these landscapes.

[originally published in Roots & Shoots, the newsletter of the

California Indian Basketweavers Association, Summer/Fall

2005.]

Thalictrum


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CCCONSERVATIONONSERVATIONONSERVATION NNNOTESOTESOTES

Stop off road vehicle impacts at

Californias Tolowa Dunes State Park

California Parks OHV Division seeks to establish newoff road vehicle riding areas in ecologically sensitive

State Parks and Park beaches

The California State Parks OHV Division is actively

championing a new and unprecedented proposal to for-mally sanction ORV use within Tolowa Dunes State

Park on Californias northern coast. The adoption of

such a policy would cause continued damage to sensi-

tive dune habitat, and endangered fish and wildlife spe-

cies habitat, including critical habitat

for the birds such as the snowy plover.

Please contact California State Park

Director Ruth Coleman and ask her to

halt this totally inappropriate attempt

by California State Parks OHV Divi-

sion to establish ORV riding areas

(most specifically on park beaches or

the illegal worm trail). Unregulated

ATV riding here, continually spills

over to other environmentally sensitive

areas of Tolowa Dunes State Park and

the adjoining Lake Earl Wildlife Area,and has greatly increased damage to

the park particularly since the park

stopped actively enforcement, and the

issuing of citations to violators

(particularly between 2001 to 2004).

Ruth Coleman, Director

Calif. Dept. of Parks & Recreation1416 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 653-8380; (916) 657-3903 fax;

[email protected]

When the Tolowa Dunes State Park was formally des-ignated in 2001, ORV use was expressly excluded in

the documentation accompanying the parks formal

designation. Previously, it had been allowed on the

beach, which led to increased illegal off road vehicle

use in the 10,500 acre park and adjacent State WildlifeArea. Most recently, Californias (gasoline tax funded)

OHV Division is now actively lobbying the State

Parks Sacramento staff to adopt a new policy for OHV

use at Tolowa Dunes, in total contradiction of the OHV

Divisions codes, State Park policy, and the previouslyexpressed intent of local State Park officials to try to

rein in area OHV lawlessness.

Areas now proposed for continued OHV and ATV useinclude varying portions of the State Park beach and

adjacent dunes (north and/or south of Kellogg Road).

This would enable the continued destruction of sensi-

tive and rare plant species in the dunes, and would con-

tinue to further impact the adjacent Tolowa/Lake Earlestuary, including disturbance to wildlife and USFWS

designated snowy plover critical

habitat in the Tolowa estuary area

(south of Kellogg Road) and the

Smith River mouth (north of Kel-logg Road).

In the adjoining Lake Earl Wildlife

Area, ORVs also have never been

legally allowed, but increased illegaluse on park lands regularly spills

over into these state lands where

California Fish and Game has been

able to provide little or no law en-

forcement. The areas general lack

of law enforcement has on various

occasions also resulted in the illegal

breaching (and draining) of the Park

and Wildlife Areas Lake Tolowa

and Lake Earlwhich together

comprise Californias and the Pa-

cific Coasts largest coastal lagoon.

Failure now to uphold local State Park staffs recent

2005 attempts to stop illegal ORV riding sets an unfor-

tunate and dangerous precedent for all other California

State Parks. Please write California State Park Director

Ruth Coleman specifically requesting ATVs not beallowed on State Park beaches--as 1) most off road ve-

hicle riders do not respect rules requiring on the beach

wave slope; 2) vehicles on the wave slope still im-

pact wildlife on the beach and in area estuaries; 3)

ATVs at Tolowa Dunes State Park continue to ille-

gally destroy native and rare plants, and harm and dis-

rupt the very resources the Park was designated to pro-

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from this single stream crossing. Ironically,

some of the stream crossings being re-moved now were originally installed by the

same heavy-equipment operator, who is a

former Pacific Lumber Company em-

ployee.Foresters long ago figured out how

to thin stands of young trees to maximize

growth and hence timber production. BLMnow is experimenting with thinning to de-

velop old growth forest structure and spe-

cies composition. Whereas a natural oldgrowth stand has a mix of redwood and

Douglas fir, clear cuts in this forest contain

mostly Douglas fir, which germinates read-ily on disturbed ground. In one 80-acre

stand that was clear-cut in 1991and cur-

rently has about 1200 trees/acre, 95%

Douglas fir, BLM has reduced the densitydown to 250 trees/acre by cutting Douglas

fir saplings. When the canopy fills in, the

stand will be thinned again to bring itcloser to the old growth target conditions

and then left alone to continue developing

on its own.At the top of a ridge behind a solid

slope of bushy, pointy-topped, young trees,

we came to a wall of tall, narrow-canopied,scraggly-topped trees at the edge of an old

growth forest, a forest with no stumps.

When we stepped into this forest, on a his-

toric trail trod by human feet for manythousands of years, we could feel the calm

of the ancient trees there, their patience and

tolerance, the slower pace of theirneighborhood than that of the sunny, bus-

tling second growth. This redwood forest

had all the usual suspects, the same specieslist you'd expect in Humboldt Redwoods or

Prairie Creek, but being on a ridge rather

than in a river bottom, the trees were not as

massive as in these other places.The expense and energy go-

ing into managing this special forest is con-

siderable. It will be interesting to watch theoutcome.

(Headwaters ForestContinued from page 5)

NATIVE PLANT CONSULTATION

SERVICEAre you wondering which plants in your yard

are native? Are you unsure if that vine in the corner is

an invasive exotic? Would you like to know some na-tive species that would grow well in your yard? The

North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant So-

ciety now offers the Nativ Plant Consultation Service toanswer these questions and to give advice on gardening

with natives. If you are a member of CNPS, this ser-vice is free, if not, you can join or make a donation toour chapter.A phone call or e-mail to our coordinator,

Kathy Dilley (825-7665 or [email protected]), will put

you in touch with a team of volunteer consultants who

will arrange a visit to your property to look at what you

have and help choose suitable plants for your garden.


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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!

Enrich your life by taking on a responsibility with our chapter. We guarantee you will meet

new people and learn new a lot. Contact the president +/or the appropriate person on the contact list

(see the back page).

Here are three rewarding positions needing people: Legislation Watch Dog. Learn the nitty gritty of the legislative process with CNPS Legislative

Consultant Vern Goehring. Super important for advancing CNPS's conservation goals. Work with

Vern and others to analyze bills, decide on which to focus, develop CNPS's position on them,

keep the chapter informed, be eyes and ears in our community for our local legislators' activities,

identify issues CNPS may want to sponsor, etc. Vern says even a little of your time would be valu-able.

Conservation issue specialist. Track some local conservation issue or agency (e.g. the CaliforniaCoastal Commission) and keep us informed.

Content Editor for this newsletter. Work with a

Layout Editor. Here is a position of power!

Here are some useful things you can do

on a smaller scale: Help tend our Arcata Plaza gardens, an hour now

and then

Grow plants for our plant sales Suggest a speaker for our evening program

(yourself included!)

Suggest a field trip

Lead a plant walk

Staff our information booth for an hour at an occa-

sional event

Suggest a workshop

Nominate a native plant garden for our garden tour

Post a few flyers about our events

Collect flowers for our spring wildflower show

VVVOLUNTEEROLUNTEEROLUNTEER OOOPPORTUNITIESPPORTUNITIESPPORTUNITIES



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JOIN CNPS NOW!North Coast Chapter

Membership in the California Native Plant Society,a statewide nonprofit organization, is open to all.The task and mission of CNPS is to increase aware-

ness, understanding, and appreciation of Californianative plants. The challenge is to preserve theirnatural habitat through scientific, educational, andconservation activities. Membership includes sub-scriptions to the informative quarterly journal Fre-montia, the statewide newsletter Bulletin, and ourlocal chapter newsletter Darlingtonia.

Name________________________________________

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Phone________________________________________

I wish to affiliate with the North Coast Chapter____

Or, (other chapter_____________________________

MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY

Student/Retired/Limited Income... $20

Individual or Library. $35Family or Group.... $45

Supporting... $75

Plant Lover...... $10

Patron $250

Benefactor.... $500

Dues to CNPS are tax deductible.

Please make check payable to CNPS and mail to:

2707 K Street, Suite 1Sacramento, CA 95816 5113

Or, join on-line at www.northcoastcnps.org

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REDWOOD MEDICINALSby Natalie Schaefer, M.S.

Illustrations by Rosemary Bauman

TrilliumovatumAlso known as birthroot, trillium has a long-standing history

of use during and after childbirth. The Karuk used the bulb

for labor pains (as well as a love charm), while other tribes

used the plant to stop hemorrhaging after birthing, for uterinedisorders, and for sore nipples. A poultice from the leaves is

useful for insect bites and skin irritation. The powdered root

can be used in milk, and is a diarrhea remedy. The juice of

the plant may be applied to boils, bringing them to a head.

Trillium has astringent, tonic, alterative, expectorant, and

antiseptic qualities.

FAWN LILIES GALORE

Early spring, usually the first weekend of April, is the time to revel in blooming fawn lilies(Erythronium). Our scheduled field trips won't necessarily see this spectacle this year, so here is a re-

minder that you can find it on your own at Burnt Ranch Campground (on Rte. 299 just east of Burnt

Ranch), along the road to South Fork Trail along the South Fork Trinity River, and on the Stony Creek

Trail (turn north off Rte 199 in Gasquet, go about 1 mile to end of road).


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FFFALLALLALL CCCALENDARALENDARALENDAR

Join us on our frequent, local plant walks. check the newspapers, visit the chapter web-

site at www.northcoastcnps.org, or join the e-mail notification list (contact [email protected]).

FEBRUARY8th Wednesday Monthly Program: 8:00 pm To Be Announced (Details on page 2)

25th Saturday Field Trip Coastal Prairie Dayhike. (see pg 2 for details)

MARCH8th Wednesday Monthly Program: 8:00 pm To Be Announced (Details on page 2)

18th Saturday Field Trip Myrtle Creek Dayhike (see pg 2 for details)

APRIL12th Wednesday - Monthly Program: 8:00 pm To Be Announced (Details on page 2)April Field Trip To Be Announced!

MAY10th Wednesday Monthly Program: 8:00 pm To BeAnnounced (Details on page 2)

20th Saturday Field Trip Grasshopper Peak Day-hike (see pg 2 for details)

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NORTH COAST CHAPTER, 2005 STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS/CONTACTSWEB SITE: HTTP://WWW.NORTHCOASTCNPS.ORG

PRESIDENT CAROL RALPH 822-2015 [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT FELICITY WASSER 826-7712 [email protected]

SECRETARY SUZANNE ISAAKS 825-7469 [email protected]

TREASURER TAMARA CAMPER [email protected]

MEMBERSHIP PEGGY DUNAVAN 954-4059 [email protected]

INVASIVE EXOTICS KYLE WEAR 826-1398 [email protected]

NATIVE PLANT GARDENING PETE HAGGARD 839-0307 [email protected]

NATIVE PLANT CONSULTATION KATHY DILLEY 825-7665 [email protected]

PLANT SALES JENNIFER KALT 839-1980 [email protected]

SUNNY BENNETT 441-9545 [email protected]

EDUCATION KAREN MAYER 476-8149 [email protected]

LEGISLATION NEEDED!

CONSERVATION JENNIFER KALT 839-1980 [email protected]

PROGRAMS TAMARA GEDIK 677-9073 [email protected] TRIPS CAROL RALPH 822-2015 [email protected]

RARE PLANTS KIM IMPER 444-2756 [email protected]

DAVID LOYA 834-5013 [email protected]

PLANT COMMUNITIES TONY LABANCA 826-7208 [email protected]

NEWSLETTER EDITOR GREG JENNINGS 668-1775 [email protected]

WEBPAGE & PUBLICITY LARRY LEVINE 822-7190 [email protected]

BOOK & POSTER SALES FELICITY WASSER 826-7712 [email protected]

WORKSHOPS GORDON LEPPIG 839-0458 [email protected]

ADDRESSSERVICEREQUESTED

darlingtonia newsletter, winter 2005 ~ north coast chapter, california native plant society

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