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.
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CNPS Conservation Director Nick Jensen and Secretary Deb Haaland during a visit to Molok Luyuk on Sept. 25, 2023.
By Nick Jensen
I FIRST VISITED MOLOK LUYUK IN 2009, when I was the Rare Plant Program Director for CNPS. The goal of that day was to get to know the rare plants of this spectacular ridge, which encompasses about 20,000 acres in Lake and Colusa Counties. Back then, there was no way that I could have anticipated writing today’s blog post, which memorializes a monumental conservation victory: Yesterday, President Biden used his powers under the Antiquities Act to permanently protect m ..read more
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Milky Way over Molok Luyuk; Image: Bob Wick
The protection represents a “new era” in conservation.
May 2, 2024, Sacramento—Today, native plant advocates across California celebrated President Biden’s action to expand the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in Southern California. The President used his powers under the Antiquities Act for today’s designations, which confer more than 122,000 acres of permanent protection for biodiverse native plant habitat in California.
“California faces the highest risks for species ..read more
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From top left to bottom right: Bluff lettuce (Dudleya farinosa); Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia); Syctheleaf onion (Allium falicifolium); Images: Abra Schlotz; A Darlingtonia stand located within a fen ecosystem; Image: Kelsey GuestExploring towering redwoods and lost coasts
Welcome to In the Field, a blog series where CNPS continues to highlight the important mapping work the Vegetation Program is conducting throughout the state.
By Thomas Van Eyk, with additions from Kelsey Guest, Abra Scholtz, and Michael Heine
Spanning more than 3 million acres from Del Norte to Mendocino County ..read more
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A silver lupine (Lupinus albifrons) stand; Image: Samantha Swatling-HolcombExploring Towering Redwoods and Lost Coasts
Welcome to In the Field, a blog series where CNPS continues to highlight the important mapping work the Vegetation Program is conducting throughout the state.
By Thomas Van Eyk, with additions from Kelsey Guest, Abra Scholtz, and Michael Heine
Spanning more than 3 million acres from Del Norte to Mendocino County, California’s North Coast and Coast Ranges feature rugged coastlines, fog-cloaked mountains, and seemingly endless forests of the tallest trees on Earth. This region b ..read more
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March 27, 2024, Sacramento – From lupines to poppies and everything in between, California is home to more plant species than any other state. From the California Native Plant Society, one of the foremost native plant organizations in the world, comes Wildflowers of California, which showcases nearly one thousand of the Golden State’s most commonly encountered wildflowers.
This comprehensive field guide is perfect for anyone looking to learn about the diverse wildflowers that can be found throughout the state. Organized by flower color and family, illustrated with over two thousand photograp ..read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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