Easy Access To Rare and Unusual Plants Data Now Available Online
People looking for information about rare and unusual (locally rare) plants in the East Bay now have an easier way to find it. Our chapter’s Rare and Unusual Plants committees have developed a new set of web pages that make this data more easily accessible and also provide easy links to other sources. Instead of filling in parameters to search our database, users can simply select the type of information they seek from a set of lists and get the data instantaneously. Check it out!
Three Trees Make an Instant Park at Point Isabel
Volunteer weeding and planting efforts over the years have created a natural environment along east side of the trail at Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, but the west side of the trail is a naked stretch of land where only the toughest weeds and grasses make their homes. Greens at Work volunteers decided it was time to start making the west side of the trail more appealing to people and other animals. Randal DeLuchi tells the story of their first project: planting three oak trees to welcome visitors and create habitat at the trail entrance.
Contra Costa County Library Wants You to Plant Natives
The Contra Costa County Library system is promoting California native plants to its patrons and has created a list of books in county libraries about planting natives in your garden. The selections include some of the very best books on native gardening, both classic and newer publications.
Online Lecture
Meet Jun Bando, Our New Statewide CNPS Executive Director
Speaker: Jun Bando
Wednesday, January 25, 7:30 pm
This past October, Jun Bando, PhD, started in her role as executive director of the statewide CNPS organization, succeeding interim executive director Vince Scheidt. After a 20-year career in higher education, international diplomacy, and advocacy, Dr. Bando is excited to return to her Bay Area roots and to focus on her core interest in conservation. Join us to get to know Dr. Bando.
