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A SINCERE THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU
HAVE ALL BROUGHT TO THIS
CONFERENCE
THIS IS……………………
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LOUISE JACKSON’S OPENING
PLENARY
FOLLOWING POINTS RAISED IN THE TALK, WE HAD A
COUPLE OF COMMENTS THAT CNPS AND OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD TRY TO WORK WITH THE
FARM BUREAU AND ALSO RESOURCE CONSERVATION
DISTRICTS
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SESSION 1: PLANTS AND
CLIMATE CHANGE
1. Microhabitat niche availability (soils, foggy
days etc.)may moderate climatic effects on
plants
2. Rainfall, N- fertilization maybe more critical
than Temperature.
3. Not all trees will respond in similar ways.
4. Predictive Models such as Climate Change
Vulnerability Index
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DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
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1. INTERDISCIPLINARY PREDICTIVE LOCAL CLIMATIC MODELS.
2. SPECIES TOLERANCE ENVELOPES/LIFE HISTORY TRAITS
3. SPECIES/ PLANT ASSOCIATION CONSERVATION PRIORITIZATION
4. VEG. MONITORING PLOT GRID TIED TO WEATHER STATIONS / SAMPLING
PROTOCOL RE: CHANGES
• 5. SOMETHING LIKE CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT TO DETECT CHANGES. USE
OF SOCIAL MEDIA.
• 5. INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE: WHO? WHERE? HOW?
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SESSION 2: RARE AND ENDANGERED PLANTS
1. We CAN restore endangered plant
populations, but precise knowledge of
habitat needs, taxonomy genetics
often vital.
2. Herbaria, historic notes critical but
can’t beat field observation that can
result in new species recognition.
3. Different plants in the same area
may require different management
strategies
4. Species-site-specific monitoring
protocols necessary
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R & E PLANTS
• 1. KEEP SPECIES-SPECIFIC MORPHOLOGICAL/GENETIC DATA COMING
• 2. EXPAND WEB-BASED ‘CALFLORA-LIKE’ KEYS ON FINE DETAILS OF PLANT
MORPHOLOGY
• 3. RESTORATION/CONSERVATION OPTIONS UNDER INCREASING BUDGET
CONSTRAINTS- CONDOR ANALOGS
• 4. SPECIES/ PLANT ASSOCIATION CONSERVATION PRIORITIZATION &
SPONSORSHIP
• 5. LANDSCAPE LEVEL PROTECTION OPTIONS (WIDE AREAS, DIFFERING
SOILS, DFFERING ASPECTS FOR MULTI-SPECIES OPTIMUM PROTECTION)
• 6. THERE ARE PRIVATE HERBERIA.. LINK THEM IN.
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SESSION 3: CENTRAL VALLEYCENTRAL COAST
1. Successful Restoration Stories (Camissonia-OHV control,
Arenaria- suitable sites, Presidio flora)
2. Environmental change stressors in cypress (no fire) oak
(don’t know) and manzanitas (light-fog & competition).
3. Fire required for Cypress, Sierran meadows
4. CV Grasslands classified to MCV
5. Monterey Pine Information Text.
6. CV vernal pools likely will be affected by rain pattern
changes
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CENTRAL COAST & VALLEY
• 1. SHOULD CV VERNAL POOLS BE SPECIES-MANIPULATED AS
RAINFALL PATTERNS CHANGE?
• 2. MONT. PINE: ARE PUBLICATIONS A WAY TO PUBLIC’S
HEARTS AND MINDS?
• 3. HOW DO WE USE FIRE IN THE FACE OF APCD OPPOSITION?
(CYPRESS, MEADOWS, OAKS)
• 4. WILL NEW GRASSLAND PLANT ASSOCIATIONS WORK
RESULT IN CONSERVATION PRIORITIZATION BEYOND G# S#
RANKING?
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SESSION 4: INVASIVES
1. Cal-IPPC Invasive Species Mapping, Risk
Assessment & Predictive Models
2. Bay Area Early Detection Network
3. WHIPPET Prioritization Tool, in general and
as applied to Red Sesbiana
4. Invasives within San Diego MSCP
5. Arundo Control Management Options.
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INVASIVES
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1. EXPLORE CALFLORA/ CAL-IPPC TOOLS
2. WHIPPET AND OTHER MANAGEMENT TOOLS
3. PARTICIPATION IN WEED MANAGEMENT AREAS
4. EXPLORE NEW AVENUES SUCH AS RESOURCE
CONSERVATION DISTRICTS FOR FUNDING, AND LOOK TO
CHANGES IN 2012 FARM BILL
• 5. ENSURE THAT LARGE SCALE CONSERVATION PLANS ARE
WEED-SENSITIVE
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SESSION 5: BORDER AND BEYOND
1. Flora and Threats on Baja’s islands
2. Studies of Chaparral Distribution,
Popcorn Flowers, Vernal Pools,
Succulent Scrubs
3. Mafic Soils and Endemic Species
4. CNPS List 5 (Endemic to CFP-Baja)
5. Survey work (RSABG SDNHM ECFN)
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BORDER & BEYOND
• From Sula Vanderplank:
• Baja’s Biodiversity and Plant Ranges for Known Plants Still Full of
Unknowns. Vegetation needs to be better classified
• Lots of stuff we have trashed north of the border is in currently in way
better shape to the south, but it is getting trashed fast, especialy along
the coast
• The non-profit Terra Peninsular is working to conserve land.
• Google-group “baja-california-conservation-science” is open to anyone
interested in conservation science in Baja California.
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SESSION 6: VEGETATION AND CONSERVATION
1. CDFG uses a multiple attribute National Standard
Vegetation Classification
2. CDFG’s VegCAMP mapping of NCCP-HCP lands, using
MCV methodology
3. Large Area Projects •Tejon Ranch Joshua Tree
Habitat • Bay Area Upland Habitats • Santa Monica
Mountains
4. Northern Sierra Foothills Mapping (17.45 acre pixels)
associated with Regional Management Goals.
5. High Resolution Image Analysis (1m resolution)
6. Application of (5) to Sierran Meadows
7. Forensic Vegetation Mapping on Santa Rosa Island.
8. Mapping to Develop Restoration Planting ‘Palettes’
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VEGETATION MAPPING
• ANALYSIS GETS BETTER AND BETTER, DEFINITIONS OF RARITY EASIER TO
MAKE…. BUT WHAT ABOUT PROTECTION? (FOR EXAMPLE- IONE FLORA)
• THE DANCE BETWEEN VEGETATION MAPPING AND LANDSCAPE-LEVEL
PLANNING (MSCP etc)- WILL WE SEE ONLY THE FOREST AND NOT THE
TREES, OR WILL THE TREES BE MORE DISCOVERABLE?
• GIVEN 1m RESOLUTION, WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?
• THE VALUE OF REGIONAL MAPPING IN TRACKING LARGE SCALE
RESPONSES OF VEGETATION TO CHANGE. WHICH RED FLAGS DO WE
CHOOSE?
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FROM THE VEGETATION COMMITTEE
1.Collaborate with other disciplines involved in landscape assessment, such
as geologists, geomorphologists, soil scientists, fire ecologists,
conservation biologists, habitat modelers, etc, and come up with agreedupon scales of assessment.
2. Efficient delivery and updating of vegetation information via web-based
databases of descriptive information (keys, definitions, digital
photographs, etc.)?
3. Promote the education and outreach for vegetation and related fields.
4. Complete classification and mapping of vegetation for the rest of the
state. Priority areas include the remaining pieces of the Mojave and
Colorado Desert, the southern Sierra Foothills, the Central and North
Coast Ranges
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SESSION 7: CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY ACT
1. Streamlining CEQA: Legislative End Runs.
2. What would changes would the
environmental community support?
3. AEP’s Desires to tinker with CEQA
4. CEQA in Protection of Forested Lands
5. Why doesn’t Environmental Community
become more Proactive?
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CEQA
• WHY DOES ALL THE NOISE COME FROM THE DEVELOPERS? HOW DO WE
DEFEND IT IN AN “ENVIRONMENTALISTS VS JOBS” DISINFORMATION
CAMPAIGN?
• PROBLEMS OF NEW PLANT DISCOVERIES AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT
CLOSES, PARTICULARLY AFTER ‘BAD YEARS’
• IS CEQA-EQUIVALENCY IN DFG EVALUATION OF THPs INVALID IF DFG
CAN’T DO THE JOB?
• GOVERNOR’S STRATEGIC GROWTH COUNCIL & INFILL
• CONSIDERATION OF LOCALLY RARE
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CEQA- PLANT SURVEYS
• SOME CNPS CHAPTER RESPONSES TO BIOLOGICAL WORK DONE BY
CONSULTANTS HAS SHOWN DISRESPECT WHEN SURVEY RESULTS WERE
NOT LIKED.
• BUT… SOME COMPANIES DON’T USE QUALIFIED PEOPLE IN DOING
SURVEYS
• THERE IS USUALLY NO FOLLOW-THROUGH ON MITIGATION SUCCESS OR
EVEN IMPLEMENTATION
• THERE SHOULD BE SOME MAPPING STANDARDS RE: PLANT SURVEYS
• INSUFFICIENT ATTENTION PAID TO EXOTIC INVASION POTENTIAL
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A COMMON COMMENT
• WE SHOULD COOPERATE MORE WITH
OTHER CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS
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• SUE THEM
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SESSION 8: ADVANCES IN PLANT SCIENCE
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Interactive Plant Keys and Mobile Field Guides For The
Field
Digital On-Line Databases, Keys
A Central Sierra Nevada Regional Flora
The San Diego County Plant Atlas & Volunteers
Many Species-Specific Ecological Studies (Astragalus,
Clarkia, Lasthenia, Poa, Arctostaphylos)
Post Clearcut Species Richness
Invasive Species Competition (Bromus, Eucalyptus,
Alyssum hyperaccumulators)
Soil Microbes and Nitrogen on species success.
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ADVANCES IN PLANT SCIENCE
• EXCELLENT METHODS THAT BRING ONCE-PRINTED
RESOURCES INTO THE FIELD. LET’S HAVE LOCAL FLORA
LIKE THIS. LET’S MAKE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FREELY
ACCESSIBLE BY MOUNTING ON CNPS WEB SITES.
• MORE LOCAL FLORA. HEARTS AND MINDS!!!!! MORE
PRETTY LOCAL FLORA
• WILL OF THIS SESSION’S WONDERFUL SPECIES/SITE
SPECIFIC RESEARCH BE LOST IN THE SEA OF GREY
LITERATURE? WE NEED A REPOSITORY.
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SESSION 9: RARE PLANT COMMUNITIES
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Mixed Evergreen Forest Conifer/Hardwood Interface
Might be Controlled By Fog?
North Coastal Bishop Pine in Trouble
Models Are Being Refined to Predict Desert Rare
Plant Occurrences
Ash Meadows Rare Plants Tend to Cluster
Data Mining To Find San Luis Obispo Biodiversity Hot
Spots
Defining Maritime Chaparral From Interior Chaparral
Using Water Requirements
CNPS-USFS Find New Plant Associations in Sierran
Fens.
Followup Study of Baja and S. California Vernal Pools
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RARE PLANT COMMUNITIES
• ENCOURAGING WORK IS BEING DONE ON HABITAT-LIMITING FACTORS
AND CONSTRAINTS!. THIS SHOULD BE ATTEMPTED FOR ALL CNPS-LISTED
TAXA
• BIODIVERSITY HOT SPOTS A GREAT TOOL. REMEMBER THE TNC BLOB
MAPS… LETS GET TOGETHER WITH TNC AND OTHERS.
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SESSION 10: SCIENCE & RESTORATION SUCCESS
1. Functional Traits Analysis in Desert
Restoration- Don’t Add Carbon To Soil
2. Soil Chemistry Affected by Invading Species
3. Seed Bank Reduction and Herbicide Most
Effective in San Diego Weed Control
4. Examples of Weed Control Experiments
(Irvine Ranch, Starr Ranch, Catalina Island,
Santa Cruz)
5. Successful Sacramento River and Planned
Tijuana Estuary Restoration Projects
6. Ground Penetrating Radar in Vernal Pool
Restoration
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RESTORATION SUCCESS
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FUNCTIONAL TRAITS ANALYSIS: JUST ONE INDICATOR THAT RESTORATION IS LOOKING
AT PROCESS AT SPECIES & ECOSYSTEM LEVEL
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RESTORATION TAKES A LONG TIME
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WHEN HERBICIDE WORKS BEST- IS THERE ANY POLITICAL BLOWBACK?
WILL THERE BE ANY LONG TERM EFFECTS?
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HOW DO WE KNOW SMALL-PLOT RESEARCH WILL SCALES TO BROADER LANDSCAPE
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IS CEQA-EQUIVALENCY IN DFG EVALUATION OF THPs INVALID IF DFG CAN’T DO THE
JOB?
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SESSION 11: LAND ACQUISITION FOR PLANT CONSERVATION
1. It Takes More Work Than You Might Think!
Land Acquisition Pitfalls.
2. DFG Areas Of Conservation Emphasis Data
Layers (Biological and Recreational Input)
3. Prioritization of Mitigation Lands in Orange
County Stress Connectivity
4. CNPS- A Guidebook to Botanical Priority
Protection Areas (BPPA) of the East Bay
5. Interagency Cooperation at Pine Hill
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LAND ACQUISITION
• HOW CAN CNPS STEER THE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS?
• WHAT ROLE DOES CNPS HAVE IF THE PROCESS IS
DOMINATED BY ISSUES SUCH AS LANDSCAPE
CONNECTIVITY AND THE ADDRESSING OF UNEQUAL
ANIMAL VS PLANT LEGAL PROTECTION STRENGTHS?
• ANTICIPATE AGRICULTURAL CONVERSION DUE TO
CLIMATE SHIFTS.
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SESSION 12: FIRE & NATIVE PLANTS
1. Poorly Managed Fuels Treatments,
Frequently Counter-Productive And
Needs Monitoring.
2. Public Attitudes Toward Shrubland Will
Require Education and Engagement
3. Fire Resistant Landscaping with Natives
Works.
4. Species-specific Information on Fire
Requirements for Species Recruitment
Being Gathered
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FIRE
• EXCELLENT LEADERSHIP POSITION TAKEN BY SAN DIEGO CHAPTER OF
CNPS, CHAPARRAL INSTITUTE, JON KEELEY & OTHERS. LEARN AND
DISSEMINATE BMPs.
• NEED FOR INTERACTION WITH FIRESAFE COUNCILS, CLEARING HOUSE,
GARDENING CLUBS,
• WHEN FIRE IS NEEDED, HOW TO GET AROUND APCD RESTRICTIONS ON
BURNING? DEPEND ON SMOKERS?
• PROACTIVE POSITION ON LANDSCAPING
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After fire……..WATER
• CNPS MUST STAY ON TOP OF WATER LAW, WATER EXCHANGES,
EMERGENCY WATER BASED CEQA EXEMPTIONS, AND GROUNDWATER
• FREQUENTLY THIS HAS A FAR GREATER INFLUENCE ON URBAN AND
COUNTY PLANNING THAT DO LIFEFORMS.
• THINK OWENS VALLEY, COLORADO DELTA
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SESSION 13: RENEWABLE ENERGY & CONSERVATION
1. Government and Industry Pressure, Current Market Forces, and
the risk to wildlands.
2. Institutional Attitudes toward Desert.
3. Poor knowledge of desert flora
4. …. But When We Look Closely… WOW
5. Speed of Projects vs. Speed of Good Science
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RENEWABLE ENERGY
• FINDING “BALANCE” WHEN ALL THE MONEY IS AT THE OTHER END OF THE
SEESAW. IS THIS PROCESS MORE POLITICS THAN SCIENCE?
• REGIONAL VEGETATION SURVEYS AND YEAR-TO-YEAR VARIABILITY OF
FLORA IS A REAL PROBLEM IN PRE-PROJECT SURVEYS
• POOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE FLORA AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION- LET’S GET
OUT THERE!
• PUT WIND GENERATORS IN AG LANDS, NOT WILDLANDS
• WE SHOULD FIGHT FOR DISTRIBUTED SOLAR
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SESSION 14: TRANSMONTANE FLORA
1. Genera-Specific Studies Monardella, Cryptantha,
Eschscholzia
2. Regional Desert Surveys- Arica Mts, Chemehuevi Mts.
3. The Impacts of Solar Energy Plants; Penstemon
Demography and Solar Siting
4. Desert Soils, Slope Aspect and Plant Suitability
5. Contaminating Nitrogen Sources
6. Water Issues in the Owens Valley
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TRANSMONTANE FLORA
• FINDING “BALANCE” ON DESERT SOLAR POWER WHEN ALL THE MONEY IS
AT THE OTHER END OF THE SEESAW. IS THIS MORE POLITICS THAN
SCIENCE?
• REGIONAL VEGETATION SURVEYS AND YEAR-TO-YEAR VARIABILITY OF
FLORA
• POOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE FLORA AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION
• OWENS VALLEY ISSUES. ANY HELP FROM THE L.A. END?
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TRANSMONTANE FLORA
• From Jim Andre:
• On the basis of the rate of discovery of new taxa, it is reasonable to
predict that 7-9% of desert flora is undescribed. This is the most undercollected area in California.
• Old Problems: Physical Disturbance (OHVs etc.), Grazing, Nitrogen and
Invasive Grasses
• New Problems: Power Plants and Power Corridors. National Environmental
Organizations Making Deals Without Science on the Basis of Carbon
Reduction With No Consultation With Desert Experts.
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SESSION 15: TRIBAL CONSERVATION & PLANT
USES
1. Deer Grass- Whiteroot Sedge and
Native Use
2. California Never “Pristine”, Always
Native-Managed
3. Native American Access To Plant
Resources
4. Native Plant Use Shows Complex
Utilization Strategies
5. Native Uses Garden- South Tahoe.
6. Basketry and Basket Uses
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TRIBAL CONSERVATION
• CNPS SHOULD WORK TO PROPAGATE THE ESSENCE OF THE NATIVE
AMERICAN CONSERVATION ETHIC…. THAT EVERYTHING IN THE
LANDSCAPE HAS SIGNIFICANCE.
• CNPS SHOULD BUILD ETHNOBOTANIC KNOWLEDGE, AND PROTECT
RESOURCES WHEREVER POSSIBLE.
• COULD A NETWORK OF PRIVATE GARDENS PROVIDE SUFFICIENT
RESOURCES FOR TRADITIONAL GATHERING?
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SESSION 16: HORTICULTURE & CONSERVATION
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Sustainable Germination Media
Emulate Native Ecology in Garden
Air- Filled Porosity & Nursery Mortality
Advantages of Local Nursery/Local Seed
Sources in Restoration (UCSB, Acterra).
Management Continuity
5. Conservation Gardens (UCSC)
6. Conservation Seed Banking (Kew, CPC,
BLM)
7. Role of Native Bees
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HORTICULTURE & CONSERVATION
• HAVE A CLEARING HOUSE ON SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION METHODS. SET
UP A WIKI.
• COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS ON LOCAL FLORA PRODUCTION FOR
RESTORATION AND FOR PLANT SALES.
• WHAT EXTRA RESOURCES ARE NEEDED AS FAR AS CONSERVATION SEED
COLLECTION IS CONCERNED?
• GET INVASIVES OUT OF LOCAL RETAIL TRADE
• NATIVE GARDENS AS HABITAT BRIDGES, ESP FOR BUTTERFLIES
• SMALL PUBLIC PLANTINGS=EDUCATION=CONSERVATION
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SESSION 17: EDUCATION &
CONSERVATION
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California Education & Environment Initiative
Ocean Discovery Institute Curriculum Model
San Diego’s Collaborative Chaparral- centered fourthgrade curriculum
CNPS Curriculum Uses Observation/Journaling/Drawing
Why Are Environmental Organizations So White? “Product
of the Product” Community-Centric Thinking
CNPS Rare Plant Treasure Hunt
Phenology Projects
The Value of Outreach From Herbaria
Student Produced List 1B Recovery Plans
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EDUCATION & CONSERVATION
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SOME GREAT PROJECTS. HOW DO WE ‘SELL’ THIS TO SCHOOLS, PTAs ETC.?
MORE PUBLIC OUTREACH. COMMON NAMES ARE O.K. REALLY!!!
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COLLECTIVE DATA GATHERING SUCH AS THE PHENOLOGY PROJECT SO USEFUL IN
MANY WAYS, , TEACH KIDS HOW TO COLLECT AND CLASSIFY, AND LINK PLANTS TO
GREATER ECOSYSTEMS.
BUT SO IS HAVING FUN IMPORTANT.. FIELD TRIPS, NAUGHTY SONGS ABOUT
WEEDS ETC,
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MENTIONED ELSEWHERE AND VITAL: LOCAL FLORAS AND WILDFLOWER GUIDES
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THE GREAT VALUE OF CALFLORA-LIKE ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC
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SESSION 18: STUDENT SESSION-(1)
• 3 Papers addressing taxonomy of Calystegia,
Polemonium, Lassics Lupine
• 2 Papers on Herbivore Control and Native
Species Recovery on Santa Rosa Island (it works!)
• 2 Papers on Climate Change - Deleterious Effects
on Coastal Sage Scrubs and voiding NCCP Plant
Protections (79% Loss)
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SESSION 18: STUDENT SESSION-(2)
• 1 Paper Addressing Locally Rare Species in Sonoma
County
• 2 Papers Monitoring Long Time Changes in Sierras
and Klamath Serpentine Woodland
• 2 Papers on Effects of Invasive Grasses on Native
Grassland and Associated Forbs
• 3 Papers on Oak Recruitment, Bishop Pine Response
to Fog, Solar Plant Effects on Annuals
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EDUCATIONAL CONSORTIA
• ALLOW STUDENTS TO GET OPTIMAL COURSE COVERAGE IN BOTANICAL
SUBJECTS
• INTEGRATE RESEARCH/RESOURCES REGARDING ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH TO
ALLOW STUDENTS BETTER ACCESS TO PROJECTS AND TO OPTIMIZE
PROGRAMMATIC RESEARCH.
• STUDENT ARE EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN HABITAT-CLIMATE CHANGE
ISSUES… LET THEM AT IT!!!!!
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FROM STUDENTS, I THINK
• WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO FIELD BOTANY AND TAXONOMY? ALL THE
FACULTY HIRES THESE DAYS ARE MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS.
• MAYBE A LITTLE MORE CONCENTRATION ON BIG-PICTURE PROBLEMS AND
A LITTLE LESS ON MINUTEA OF CLASSIFICATION IS IN ORDER AS WE ARE
ALL HEADING FOR THE CLIFF-EDGE. AAAAAAARGH!
• GET A TICKET ON THE CARBON SEQUESTRATION TRAIN
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More……..
• INCREASE AWARENESS/ACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE,
INCLUDING NATIVE BEE CONSERVATION
• MAYBE A LITTLE MORE CONCENTRATION ON BIG-PICTURE PROBLEMS AND
A LITTLE LESS ON MINUTEA OF CLASSIFICATION IS IN ORDER AS WE ARE
ALL HEADING FOR THE CLIFF-EDGE. AAAAAAARGH!
• GET A TICKET ON THE CARBON SEQUESTRATION TRAIN
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SESSION 19: LAND MANAGEMENT & CONSERVATION
1. Conservation Grazing From The Grazer’s Point Of
View
2. Grazing Serpentines Enhanced Native Species
Richness but Impacted Native Grasses
3. Herbicides effective on Invasive Grasses
4. California State Parks Special-status Plant
Management
5. PG&E Conservation Under Safe Harbors
Agreements
6. CalTrans Roadside Management Program
7. Successful Restoration Initiated on San Clemente
Island
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LAND MANAGEMENT
• HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CONSERVATION GRAZING, BOTH
REGARDING ECONOMICS AND EFFORT, AND FROM SUBMITTED
COMMENTS, WE STILL NEED TO SETTLE ARGUMENTS RE: PUBLIC LANDS
GRAZING
• HERBICIDES WORK, BUT CAUTION ON THE POLITICS
• THE VALUES OF SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENTS, BUT HOW LONG SHOULD
THEY RUN?
• ENCOURAGE CALTRANS ROADSIDE PROGRAMS
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SESSION 20: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOTANY
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History of Botany in Southern California
1987 Phenology Study Repeated in 2011
Scott’s “Story of Southern California Wildflowers”
San Diego County’s Most Endangered Plants
Monardella redefinition after DNA Analysis and
Listing Complications
6. Ex-Situ Conservation When In-Situ Is Insufficient
7. BLM’s Seeds For Success Program & Desert
Restoration
8. Ceanothus in San Diego County
9. Community Conservation in Swan Canyon
10. Rare Plant Treasure Hunt and Breakable Surveys
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOTANY
• GOOD EXAMPLE OF DNA WORK RESULTING IN SPECIES SPLITTING, AND
THE COMPLICATIONS THAT MIGHT RESULT IN A CONFINED
CONSERVATION SPACE.
• THE VALUABLE STUDY OF THE 10 MOST ENDANGERED SAN DIEGO
PLANTS… CAN SUCH A STUDY BE MASSAGED INTO CONSERVATION
ACTION?
• SAN DIEGO RARE PLANT TREASURE HUNT AND SWAN CANYON
COMMUNITY BUILDING FUNCTIONS
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SESSION 21: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOTANY
1. Rare Endemic Manzanitas of San Francisco
2. Conservation Issues at the Subspecies Level
3. P. picta species complex
4. Possibly Confusing Relationships between Listed/
Unlisted Fawn Lilies On Timberland
5. Bee Visitation at Constructed Vernal Pools
6. Choice of Plants For Ski Slope Restoration
7. Monitoring Peat Moss Meadows
8. Patch Size Important in Maintaining Serpentine
Species Integrity
9. Regional Landscape Analysis in Sierran Foothills
For Conservation Needs
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOTANY
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HOW FAR DO YOU GO FOR A SUBSPECIES? NO CONSENSUS YET ON
PRIORITIZATION OF CONSERVATION ACROSS A SPECIES RANGE. OUTLIERS VS.
CORES.
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PYROLA SPECIATION AND PHENOLOGY. NEOSPECIATION AND PROTECTION
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ERYTHRONIUM SPECIES CONFUSION AND FOREST TIMBER PLANNING
AROUND LISTED SPECIES
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POLLINATOR STUDIES MAY BE VITAL IN RECONSTRUCTED WETLANDS
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SESSION 22: PLANNING TOOLS & RARE
PLANT CONSERVATION
1. San Diego County MSCP. The
Good and the Bad
2. Coachella Valley MSHCP
3. Northern California Regional
Conservation Plans
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HCP- NCCP-MSCP
• EXPERIENCE SHOWS SUCH PLANS HAVE VARIABLE OUTCOME FOR PLANTS.
• DUE TO ESA, ANIMALS WIN- PLANTS 2ND CLASS CITIZENS
• GOOD AS WE CAN GET? OR WAM BAM, THANK YOU MOTHER NATURE IN
THE DESERT
• JOHN HOPKINS: INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL HEALTH
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SESSION 23: IMPACTS AND MITIGATION
1. Success with Chaenactis (L.A.)
2. Mixed Results On Vernal Pools
3. Rapid Assessment Of Vernal Pools
(CRAM)
4. Multiple Resources Available For
Restoration Planning at CalFlora
5. Real Problems From Nitrogen Deposition
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COMMENTS ALL BLENDED EARLIER
• HOWEVER……… THE RESTORATION SESSIONS SEEMED TO BE THE MOST
CROWDED. SIT ON THE FLOOR CROWDED.
• WE NOTICED!
• HOW ABOUT SOME CONSERVATION BLOGS?
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WE ARRIVE AT THE VERY LAST SLIDE
1. ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR
COMING
2. THANKS TO THE FANTASTIC CREW
WHO PULLED THIS OFF
3. GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY
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I LIED. THIS IS THE VERY LAST SLIDE
TAKE BACK THE BIT ABOUT
GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY
OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS
POPULATION
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