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News Archive

  • Save the Date: Native Plant Seed Exchange on October 24! — Aug 2026
  • Summer-Dormant Time at Native Here Nursery — Aug 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in Late August — Aug 2026
  • Volunteer Opportunity: Tabling at the Solano Stroll on Sept. 13 — Aug 2026
  • Stinkwort Season Has Begun! Here’s What You Can Do — Aug 2026
  • Interested in a Chapter Seed Exchange? — Jul 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in July — Jul 2026
  • Voluntourism: Habitat Restoration in the Redwoods and Sandhills of the Santa Cruz Mountains — Jul 2026
  • Learn More About CNPS East Bay Chapter! — Jul 2026
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — May 2026
  • State CNPS Meetings in Berkeley on June 5-7: Can You Help? — May 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in Late May — May 2026
  • In-Person Speaker Program:
    A High-Intensity Mountain Bike Run in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park’s Designated Natural Area?
    — May 2026
  • Join the 2026 Contra Costa County SOD Blitz April 30–May 5 — Apr 2026
  • In-Person Speaker Program: Introduction to the Flora of the East Bay — Apr 2026
  • Please Sign the Petition to Protect Wildcat Canyon Regional Park — Apr 2026
  • CNPS State Board and Chapter Council Coming to the East Bay June 5-7 — Apr 2026
  • Upcoming Nature Activities with Local Environmental Groups — Apr 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in Late April and Early May — Apr 2026
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Apr 2026
  • Free Willow! — Apr 2026
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Field Trips — Mar 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in March — Mar 2026
  • Early Spring–Blooming Perennials — Mar 2026
  • Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour on May 2 and 3, 2026 — Mar 2026
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Feb 2026
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Field Trips — Feb 2026
  • CNPS Opportunities for You! — Feb 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in February — Feb 2026
  • Habitat Enhancement at Cerrito Creek West with Help from Boston — Feb 2026
  • Letter from the Chapter President — Feb 2026
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Jan 2026
  • Help Us Fill Orders for Flora of the East Bay — Jan 2026
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in January — Jan 2026
  • It’s Time to Spot the Elusive Western Leatherwood — Jan 2026
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Dec 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in Late December — Dec 2025
  • January 4 Field Trip to See Fetid Adder’s Tongue at Huddart County Park — Dec 2025
  • Lasting Last-Minute Gifts for Plant and Nature Lovers — Dec 2025
  • Late November Restoration and Stewardship Opportunity — Nov 2025
  • Flora of the East Bay, California Is Now Available to Order! — Nov 2025
  • Help Tesla Become a State Natural Reserve: Your Voice Can Make a Difference — Nov 2025
  • Conservation, Locally Rare Plants, the East Bay Regional Park District, and You — Nov 2025
  • Join Our Bioblitz at Garber Park (North Oakland) on November 28 — Nov 2025
  • Opportunity: Marketer and Order Filler for Flora of the East Bay, California — Nov 2025
  • Native Here Nursery: Open on Saturdays, Rain or Shine — Nov 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Nov 2025
  • Online Presentation: Beavers Can Help Us. Can We Let Them? — Nov 2025
  • One Million (LIRA) Down, On Our Way to the Next Million — Oct 2025
  • Why Plant Natives in the Fall? — Oct 2025
  • Online Presentation: The Recent New Introduction of Sudden Oak Death and Its Implications for California Forests — Oct 2025
  • Call for Chapter Officer Nominations — Oct 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in October — Sep 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Sep 2025
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Field Trips — Sep 2025
  • Write a Comment by September 19 to Protect Roadless Forests — Sep 2025
  • Second Call for Photos: Flora of the East Bay — Sep 2025
  • A Downhill Mountain Bike Run in the Heart of Wildcat Canyon? — Sep 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in September — Sep 2025
  • Dispatch from Stinkwort Land: The News Is Good — Sep 2025
  • Please Come to an Important Meeting and Help Make Tesla a State Reserve! — Sep 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Aug 2025
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Field Trips — Aug 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in August — Aug 2025
  • The LIRA Times, Sixth Edition: Approaching One Million LIRA Plants Removed — Aug 2025
  • 2025 District Plan Public Survey (East Bay Regional Park District) — Jul 2025
  • Be a Voice for Nature this week: Next step to defend CEQA — Jul 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Jul 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in July — Jul 2025
  • Stinkwort Season Begins — Jul 2025
  • Milkweeds and More at Native Here Nursery — Jul 2025
  • East Bay Checklist Update and Call for Photos — Jul 2025
  • After the Los Angeles Fires: Changing How We Respond to Wildland Fire — May 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in May — May 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — May 2025
  • The Endangered Species Act Is Under Threat: Submit a Comment by May 19 to Protect It — May 2025
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Field Trips — May 2025
  • Perennials for Your Garden from Native Here Nursery — May 2025
  • In-Person Speaker Program: The East Bay Dandelion Tribe, a Love Story — May 2025
  • Join the 2025 East Bay SOD Blitz June 5-10 — May 2025
  • Nick Jensen’s Presentation: Conservation Wins, Challenges, New Initiatives, and Opportunities for CNPS Members to Participate — May 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in April — Apr 2025
  • Spring Is in the Air at Native Here Nursery — Apr 2025
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Field Trips — Apr 2025
  • Field Trip to Blue Oak Ranch Reserve on Mount Hamilton — Apr 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Apr 2025
  • In-Person Speaker Program: Looking Back, Looking Forward–CNPS Conservation in 2025 — Apr 2025
  • The Volunteer Issue: Opportunities for You! — Apr 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in March — Mar 2025
  • Two CNPS Books for Native Flower Lovers — Mar 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Mar 2025
  • Field Trip: March 16 at Mitchell Canyon, Mount Diablo State Park — Mar 2025
  • In-Person Speaker Program: The Ever-Changing Scenes of Blue Oak Ranch Reserve–Flowers, Research, and Land Stewardship at a Bay Area Field Station — Mar 2025
  • Three Hours in 25 Seconds — Feb 2025
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in February — Feb 2025
  • Deciduous Trees — Feb 2025
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Feb 2025
  • In-Person Speaker Program: Demonstration of Natural Pruning for Native Plants — Feb 2025
  • November Field Trips: Coyote Hills Regional Park and the Hillside Natural Area — Nov 2024
  • Give the Gift of CNPS Membership to the Plant Lovers in Your Life! — Nov 2024
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in November and December — Nov 2024
  • Honoring Volunteers, Fetching Vetch, Stashing Trash — Nov 2024
  • In-Person Speaker Program: Design and Natural Process in Small Gardens — Nov 2024
  • The Stinkwort Chronicles: It Takes a Village — Oct 2024
  • Fall Has Arrived at Native Here Nursery with Manzanitas and More! — Oct 2024
  • Gardening for Butterflies and Caterpillars in the East Bay — Oct 2024
  • Groundwork Richmond Greens Another Stretch of Its City — Sep 2024
  • Volunteer Stewardship and Restoration Opportunities in Late September — Sep 2024
  • The Stinkwort Report: Persistence Pays Off — Sep 2024
  • The Building Blocks of Drought and Fire Resilience in California’s Grasslands — Sep 2024
  • CNPS East Bay Speaker Meetings Resume in September — Aug 2024
  • Native Here Nursery Needs Customer Service/Sales Help on Saturdays — Aug 2024
  • Interested in Learning More About CNPS East Bay Chapter? — Aug 2024
  • Volunteers Needed: Help Monitor Restoration Area Changes at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve — Aug 2024
  • The LIRA Times, Fifth Edition — Aug 2024
  • In Memoriam: Joe Willingham 1942-2023 — Aug 2024
  • 2024 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase — Apr 2024
  • Springtime Delights Along California’s Redbud Highway — Apr 2024
  • Volunteer to Be Our Chapter’s Membership Chair — Apr 2024
  • Join the 2024 East Bay SOD Blitz on April 27-29 — Apr 2024
  • Grateful Thanks to the Mount Diablo Bird Alliance — Mar 2024
  • ‘Tis the Season for Monitoring Rare and Unusual Plants — Mar 2024
  • Online Presentation: CNPS and a Monumental Opportunity for California — Mar 2024
  • Native Here Nursery Needs Soil Wranglers — Mar 2024
  • Call for Nominations for 2024 Chapter Officers — Mar 2024
  • New Digs for Natives: A Nursery Surplus Benefits Habitat Restoration Projects — Mar 2024
  • Please Help Tesla Become a State Reserve — Mar 2024
  • From a Stinkwort Warrior: A Human View — Mar 2024
  • Myrtle Wolf Scholarship Fund: Application Notice and Guidelines for Grant Proposals — Jan 2024
  • Online Lecture: Climate Change, Latent Pathogens, and Large-Scale Tree Mortality in California — Nov 2023
  • Stinkwort Season Begins—All Aboard! — Jul 2023
  • Reflecting on East Bay Plants in the Wake of Winter Storms — Jul 2023
  • The LIRA Times, Fourth Edition — Jul 2023
  • Spectacular Hidden Eden in Jenner Headlands Preserve — Jul 2023
  • Wildflowers in Carrizo Plain National Monument and Nearby Areas — Jul 2023
  • Helping Preserve Jenner Headlands Preserve — Mar 2023
  • Annuals Are Now in Stock at Native Here Nursery! — Mar 2023
  • Join Us for Habitat Restoration Activities in March — Mar 2023
  • 2022: A Great Year for Rare and Unusual Plants — Feb 2023
  • Pollinators Need More Habitat:
    Create Some in Your Garden
    — Feb 2023
  • Online Lecture: San Bruno Mountain, a Bay Area Botanical Treasure — Feb 2023
  • Contra Costa County Library Wants You to Plant Natives — Dec 2022
  • Three Trees Make an Instant Park at Point Isabel — Dec 2022
  • Easy Access To Rare and Unusual Plants Data Now Available Online — Dec 2022
  • Online Tools to Help You Create a Native Plant Garden — Nov 2022
  • Give the Gift of CNPS Membership to the Plant Lovers in Your Life! — Nov 2022
  • Please Help Us Protect the East Bay’s Native Flora — Nov 2022
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Elections 2022 — Nov 2022
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Elections 2022
    Chapter Officer Candidates
    — Nov 2022
  • November Field Trip and Restoration Activities — Nov 2022
  • Tracking Chloropyron molle ssp. molle, a Rare East Bay Species with a New(ish) Name — Nov 2022
  • Little San Miguel (Island) — Nov 2022
  • 2022 Chapter Officer Nominations and Elections — Sep 2022
  • Pitkin Marsh Paintbrush: California’s Rarest Plant? — Aug 2022
  • Save the Dates: CNPS Conference in San Jose this October 20-22 — Jul 2022
  • Calling all Native Plant Lovers, Writers, and Photographers — Jul 2022
  • Trash and Splash — Jul 2022
  • Keep Your Native Garden Alive During the Drought — Jul 2022
  • Stop Neonic Pesticides: Support AB 2146 and Save Pollinators — Jun 2022
  • Remembering Sue Duckles, Weed Warrior — Jun 2022
  • Join Us for Restoration Activities This Summer — Jun 2022
  • Native Here Nursery’s Pollinator-Friendly Plants — Jun 2022
  • The LIRA Times, Third Edition — Jun 2022
  • New Names for Some East Bay Plants, Including Hound’s Tongue — May 2022
  • We Have Blooming Annuals for Sale at Native Here Nursery — May 2022
  • Making a Difference in Eastern Contra Costa County — Apr 2022
  • Help Save Our Oaks: Join the East Bay SOD Blitz on May 21-23 — Apr 2022
  • Mount Diablo Buckwheat Reminds Us of Why We Preserve Habitat — Apr 2022
  • Ensorcelled — Feb 2022
  • Hunting for Rare and Unusual Plants in 2022 — Feb 2022
  • Chapter Board of Directors and New Bylaws Election Results — Feb 2022
  • Eighteenth Annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase — Feb 2022
  • Native Here Nursery Is Looking for a Variety of Volunteers with a Variety of Skills — Feb 2022
  • King Tides Drown a Couple of Black Cottonwoods at Point Isabel — Feb 2022
  • Native Gardens Are for the Birds — Jan 2022
  • Native Here Nursery Needs Some Website Help — Jan 2022
  • A Milkweed Morning — Dec 2021
  • Grateful Thanks to Mount Diablo Audubon Society — Dec 2021
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Elections Are Online in 2021 — Dec 2021
  • Updated Chapter Bylaws on the December Ballot — Dec 2021
  • Native Here Nursery Opportunity: Plant Matchmaker — Dec 2021
  • Please Help Us Protect the East Bay’s Native Flora — Nov 2021
  • CNPS-East Bay Balloting to Go Electronic! — Nov 2021
  • You Too Can Be a Soil Wrangler — Nov 2021
  • Grants Available for Student Research on Native Plants; Apply by January 14 — Nov 2021
  • Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Against California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Sweeping Pesticide Use Program — Nov 2021
  • Native Here Nursery Resumes Educational Talks — Oct 2021
  • Moving Our Local Flora Wisdom into the Digital Era — Oct 2021
  • Conservation Advocate for CNPS-East Bay Hired! — Oct 2021
  • 2021 Chapter Officer Nominations and Elections — Oct 2021
  • Outstanding in Their Fields… — Sep 2021
  • Fire-Resilient Landscaping with Native Plants — Sep 2021
  • Keeping Track of Rare and Unusual Plants in 2021 — Jul 2021
  • Chasing LIRA: It Can’t Outrun Greens at Work — Jul 2021
  • Damned If It Rains or If It Doesn’t? Extreme Drought or Sudden Oak Death Threaten East Bay Coast Live Oaks — Jul 2021
  • Adding California Native Bunchgrasses to Your Garden — Jul 2021
  • Little Cuttings That Cut It — Jul 2021
  • Beaconsfield Canyon Restoration — Jun 2021
  • Native Here Nursery Reopens for In-Person Shopping — Jun 2021
  • Exciting Release of New CNPS Rare Plant Inventory — Jun 2021
  • East Bay Restoration Volunteer Opportunities — May 2021
  • Highlights of the 2021 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour — May 2021
  • This Spring in the East Bay: Dying Acacias and Blooming Wildflowers — May 2021
  • Douglas Iris Adds Color to Shady Garden Areas — Apr 2021
  • Ceanothus in Bloom Means Spring Has Arrived — Apr 2021
  • Generous Donation from Mount Diablo Audubon Society — Apr 2021
  • Our Outstanding Outgoing Board Members — Apr 2021
  • Manzanitas and Me (and Beware of Spreading Plant Pathogens) — Apr 2021
  • Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour Starts April 25 — Apr 2021
  • The Unusual Plant Committee Calls for Help: A Scavenger Hunt for Plants — Mar 2021
  • Plant California Fuchsias Now for Hummers, Bees, and Fall Color — Mar 2021
  • CNPS East Bay Chapter Board Election Results — Feb 2021
  • Native Here Nursery Seeks Donations of Tablet and Laptops — Feb 2021
  • President’s Message: CNPS East Bay’s Relevance During COVID-19 — Feb 2021
  • I Can’t Wait for My Pink Flowering Currant to Bloom! — Feb 2021
  • Improving the Way We Assess Rarity in the Unusual Plants Project — Dec 2020
  • Our Adopt-a-Spot’s Challenging Past (and Help from Bay View Tree Service) — Dec 2020
  • Now Is the Time to Plant Natives in Your Garden! — Dec 2020
  • A Big Year for Native Here — Nov 2020
  • Conservation Work Didn’t Let Up — Nov 2020
  • Restoring Habitat and Pandemic-Weary Volunteers — Nov 2020
  • Field Trips, 2020-Style — Nov 2020
  • Communication in the Time of COVID — Nov 2020
  • From the President — Nov 2020
  • Waiting for the Big Blue Butterfly — Nov 2020
  • The West Coast Rare 10 Challenge: We Need Your Help to Find Rare Fungi! — Nov 2020
  • Total-Plant.org: A California Native Database and Website — Nov 2020
  • She Was Not Lost, but Wild: Madia elegans at Skyline Gardens — Oct 2020
  • Super Cool Plants and Plant Communities on Public Land — Jul 2020
  • Native Here Nursery: Summer Favorites, Fall Talks, and Improvement Projects — Jul 2020
  • Narrow-Leaf Milkweed and Una, Dos, Tres—the Monarch Trio — Jul 2020
  • Algerian Sea Lavender Removal Project — Jul 2020
  • Native Here Nursery Reopens to the Public—with a Brand-New Website — Jul 2020
  • Native Here Nursery: We’re Here for You, and We Need You! — Jun 2020
  • Skyline Serpentine Prairie Revisited — Jun 2020
  • From the President: Volunteering for Our Chapter — Jun 2020
  • News from the Regional Parks Botanic Garden — Jun 2020
  • East Bay Calochortus: Photos, Figures, Facts, and Fun! — Jun 2020
  • From the President — May 2020
  • Rare and Unusual Plant Discoveries in the East Bay — Apr 2020
  • Volunteers Sought for 2020 East Bay SOD Blitz May 9-12 — Apr 2020
  • Spring is Happening … — Mar 2020
  • Native Here Adjusts to the Coronavirus — Mar 2020
  • Rare Plant Committee Holds Field Trips — Mar 2020
  • East Bay Chapter Board Members 2020 — Mar 2020
  • Phyto News from Native Here Nursery — Feb 2020
  • Take To The Hills! — Jan 2020
  • Unusual Plants – A Call For Volunteers — Jan 2020
  • California Milkweed at Native Here Nursery — Jan 2020
  • Partners Work to Help Monarch Butterflies by Expanding a Locally Scarce Milkweed Species — Dec 2019
  • Outreach at Martinez Historical Society Home Tour — Oct 2019

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