California Native Plant Society
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The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of California native plants and their natural habitats, and to increasing the understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants.
California Native Plant Society
1w ago
CEQA has been instrumental in work to defend sensitive habitat, like this desert wash south of Joshua Tree National Park; Image: Chris Clarke
By Delores Chan
The housing crisis in California is dire, and you might have seen articles from the NY Times, LA Times, or SF Chronicle that blame the California Environmental Quality Act, better known as CEQA. These articles have caught the attention of lawmakers around the state, some of whom believe the law must be reformed and weakened in order to allow more housing to be built. But is this actually true? In fact, there are a number of new bills this ..read more
California Native Plant Society
3w ago
Monarch butterflies at the California Botanic Garden; Image: Deb Woo
March 5, 2024, Sacramento—Today, the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) introduced two projects, funded through the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), to boost California native plant production and support pollinators statewide.
Totaling nearly $1.9M, the cooperative agreements will allow CNPS to create science-based, publicly available tools for native plant propagation protocols and critical biodiversity data. The resources will be integrated into CNPS’s popular native plant website, Calscape.o ..read more
California Native Plant Society
2M ago
Home / Stories / Artemisia / Seed-Based Restoration: Scaling Up for the Future
ARTEMISIA | Vol. 48 No. 1
Seed-Based Restoration Scaling Up for the Future
Fall 2020
By Matthew Garrambone and Sunny Saroa
Ecological restoration is the process of assisting in the recovery of degraded, damaged, and destroyed ecosystems (Society for Ecological Restoration 2004).
While it can have benefits at any spatial scale, ecologists increasingly recognize the value of working at the landscape scale, at which a relatively consistent mosaic of local ecosystems or land uses repeats across a large are ..read more
California Native Plant Society
4M ago
Home / Stories / Artemisia / Indigenous Ecologies: Cultivating Fire, Plants, and Climate Futurity
ARTEMISIA | Vol. 49 No. 2
Indigenous Ecologies Cultivating Fire, Plants, and Climate Futurity
Fall 2023
By Melinda M. Adams, N’dee, San Carlos Apache
Indigenous Peoples are currently being called on to participate in the public discourse on climate change and resilience.
Since time immemorial, many Native American Tribes conducted cultural fires as an ecological approach to tending and caring for our lands (Ericksen and Hankins 2014; Lake and Christianson 2019; Long et al. 2020). Cul ..read more
California Native Plant Society
4M ago
Home / Stories / Artemisia / Climate Change’s Effects on Tribal Cultural Plant Resources
ARTEMISIA | Vol. 49 No. 2
Climate Change’s Effects on Tribal Cultural Plant Resources How Traditional Cultural Practices Strengthen the Land Amid Climate Chaos
Fall 2023
By Tribal Chairman Ron Goode, Christina Oraftik, Hannah de la Calle
Climate normalcy is a period of stable and predictable water cycles with only occasional extreme events such as flooding or drought.
Normalcy allows us to make predictions (e.g., it’s going to rain in mid-September and early October, or frost will come by Nove ..read more
California Native Plant Society
4M ago
Home / Stories / Artemisia / What Is, and What Can Be
ARTEMISIA | Vol. 49 No. 2
What Is, and What Can Be Traditional Regenerative Horticulture in Syuxtun (Santa Barbara)
Fall 2023
By Julia Cordero-Lamb, Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation
“H ow long did it take you to make that basket? How did your ancestors figure out which medicinal plants to use? How were your people capable of living here for so long without ruining everything?”
They are simple questions.
My Relatives and I have our pat answers—sometimes friendly, sometimes salty—that we’ve developed over years. I have fumed ov ..read more
California Native Plant Society
4M ago
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What Is, and What Can Be Traditional Regenerative Horticulture in Syuxtun (Santa Barbara)
Fall 2023
By Julia Cordero-Lamb, Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation
“H ow long did it take you to make that basket? How did your ancestors figure out which medicinal plants to use? How were your people capable of living here for so long without ruining everything?”
They are simple questions.
My Relatives and I have our pat answers—sometimes friendly, sometimes salty—that we’ve developed over years. I have fumed over peop ..read more
California Native Plant Society
4M ago
The CNPS sampling team explored and surveyed a diversity of rock-outcrop, shrubland, woodland and forested communities in early August near Tamarack Lake; Image: Julie EvensRecording the area’s abundant biodiversity
By Michael Kauffmann and Julie Evens
The Klamath Mountains contain some of the most exceptional temperate plant communities in North America. Representative plants from the Cascades, North Coast Range, Sierra Nevada, and Great Basin all call the Klamath Mountains home. Botanical work within its geographic boundaries has recorded over 3,500 taxa (species, subspecies, and varie ..read more
California Native Plant Society
5M ago
Take Part in a Community Science-Led Project
By Jose Esparza Aguierre
Blue oak (Quercus douglasii); Image: Ger Erickson
Did you know that California is home to more than 20 species of native oak (Quercus spp.)? From the tough and shrubby leather oak (Quercus durata) to the majestic canopy of coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia), native oaks once covered 1/3 of our state. The oldest oak leaves found in California date back at least 16 million years to the Miocene period. Rightly, we honor our native oaks on November 3rd with California Native Oak Day.
Oaks are essential to life in Californi ..read more
California Native Plant Society
5M ago
Parish’s daisy (Erigeron parishii); Image: Chelsea Vollmer, USFS
October 20, 2023, San Bernardino—The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has banned new mining for 50 years on 2,841 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest to protect critical habitat for four threatened and endangered plant species.
The rare wildflowers grow only on soils containing calcium carbonate, which is used in medicines, toothpaste, cement, and other products.
“This mining withdrawal is a key step in protecting these highly restricted rare and endangered plants, whose habitat has already been significantly reduced by min ..read more