CONFERENCE PROGRAM€¦ · At-A-Glance or Conference Program. Conference Registration Desk will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and is located in the East Lobby of the Sacramento

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Table of Contents

Conference Organizing Committees 2

California Native Plant Society Organization 3

Take Note! Conference Logistics and Miscellaneous Information 4

Daily Schedule 6

Special Events 8

Workshops 13

Associated Meetings 17

Keynote Speakers 18

Program 22

Schedule-at-a-Glance 34

Speaker Contact Information Index, Cross-referenced to Session 55

Floor Diagrams and Site Maps 68

Welcome to the CNPS 2009 Conservation Conference: Strategies and Solutions!

This conference is a catalyst. We gather here with a common purpose to protect and restore California’s nativeplant landscapes. We share a unifying belief that we can make a difference, that California’s future habitats will bemore whole, healthy, and sustainable because of our coordinated efforts.

This conference is as much about learning how to synergize and work together more effectively as it is aboutscience. While our principal goal is to promote the transfer of strategies and solutions, this conference is about somuch more. It is designed to inspire and unify, and to promote a shared vision, as much as it is to present dataand ideas. Our intent is to build stronger, more effective partnerships among all stakeholders in California’sconservation community.

We will leave this meeting with a deeper understanding and appreciation for California’s diverse flora and thechallenges that confront it, as well as with a renewed sense of how to work together to conserve it.

This conference took two years of planning and organizing. It would not have been possible without thecommitment, creativity, expertise, and generosity of over 100 organizers, volunteers, and sponsors. For theirdedication and generosity, we are profoundly grateful.

We hope you enjoy all the events and the numerous opportunities for sharing, learning, networking, and fun asCNPS celebrates this gathering and looks forward to making a difference.

Susan Britting Amanda Jorgenson2008 President Executive Director

Gordon Leppig Diana HicksonChair, Executive and Steering Committees Chair, Program Committee

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Conference Organizing Committees

Russ HuddlestonJohn HunterNick JensenDoug JohnsonTony LaBancaStephen McCabePatrick McIntyreLech NaumovichBart O’BrienBruce OrrBruce PavlikEmily RobersonSteve SchoenigSula VanderplankGary WallaceCarol Witham

Additional Assistance:Tony McKinneyJonathan Snapp-CookAlison Shilling

ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE:Josie Crawford, Co-ChairKristie Haydu, Co-Chair

Audio/Visual:Joe Carboni, ChairTim NosalEric Peterson

Book Signings:Betsey Landis

Botanical Art:Geri-Hulse Stephens, Co-ChairJudy McCrary, Co-ChairSusan BlazellKristin JacobLee McCaffree

CNPS Chapter and ProgramPosters:

Kristie Haydu, Co-ChairBetsey Landis, Co-ChairSue BrittingAndrew GeorgeadesEric Peterson

CNPS Booth:Steve Hartman, ChairLeslie Hartman

CNPS Posters:Bertha McKinley

Facebook:Jack Tracey, ChairSuzanne HarmonLisa Stelzner

Food and Beverage:Cari Porter, ChairDavid Passovoy

Exhibitors:Melissa Hostler, Co-ChairDebra Sykes, Co-ChairKaren Kirtland

Film: Nature’s Refuge:Stephen FisherBetsey LandisGordon Leppig

Fundraising:Amanda Jorgenson, ChairMelissa CironeAlan HarperGordon LeppigWilliam B. McCoyAlana SchwarzDebra StoutJack TraceyPetra UngerCarol Witham

Local Information:Nick Jensen, ChairRachel Hutchinson

Media Relations andPhotography:

Lech Naumovich, ChairJim AlfordBob HassGary HundtChris LewisLincoln Crow Strategic CommunicationsJulie SerencesDavis StewartCarol Witham

Merchandise:Stacey Flowerdew, ChairDaria Snider

Photography Contest:Stacey Flowerdew, ChairNick JensenSally MackRee Slocum

STEERING COMMITTEE:Gordon Leppig, CDFG, ChairDiane Elam, USFWSDiana Hickson, CDFGDiane Ikeda, USFSDoug Johnson, Cal-IPCAmanda Jorgenson, CNPSStaci Markos, Jepson HerbariumBruce Pavlik, Mills CollegePetra Unger, EDAWJohn Willoughby, BLMAndrea Williams, NPS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEGorgon Leppig, CDFG, ChairJosie Crawford, CNPSDiana Hickson, CDFGAmanda Jorgenson, CNPSCynthia PerrineCari Porter, CNPS

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:Diana Hickson, ChairJim AndréBrett HallJim NelsonPetra Unger

Contributed Posters:Ellen Dean, ChairMark BibboEd KentnerKate Mawdsley

Workshops:Josie CrawfordJim Nelson

Abstract Review:Ann HowaldBruce PavlikKristina SchierenbeckJohn Willoughby

Session Chairs:Jim AndréEllen DeanMichael EatonMelanie Gogol-ProkuratBrett HallLinnea HansonAlan HarperDiana HicksonDeb HillyardAnn Howald

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Poetry Reading:Chris Olander, ChairGordon LeppigAndrea Williams

Policy/Legislative Activities:Vern GoehringAlison Shilling

Student Activities:Lee Chi Huynh, ChairJim AlfordMatt BrownEmi Kiyan

Silent Auction and Raffle:Rachel Hutchinson, Co-ChairNick Jensen, Co-ChairJeffrey CoxShelly Davis-KingJulie EvensAmi GoerdtDebra SykesDelia Taylor

Sustainable Conference:Suellen Rowlison, ChairWendy Boes

Volunteers:Andrea Williams, ChairJim Alford

Webmaster:Mark Naftzger

General Support:Emmy BronnyAndrew DoranChris LewisStaci MarkosAnna OstrowerchaJulie Serences

The 2009 meeting logo was developed by Mark Naftzger.Program compilation by Cynthia Perrine.Program design and typesetting by Beth Hansen-Winter.Printing by Commerce Printing, Sacramento, CA.

Conference Organizing Committees

Chapter Council:Chair ------------------- Kevin BryantVice Chair -------------- Larry LevineSecretary ---------------- Laura Camp

Staff:Executive Director Amanda Jorgenson (outgoing) Tara Hansen (incoming)

Program Staff:Jennifer BuckJosie CrawfordJulie EvensAndra ForneyBetsy HarbertSuzanne HarmonNick JensenTheresa JohnsonEric PetersonDanielle RoachKendra SikesLisa StelznerFrank Wallace

Board of Directors:President ------------------- Brett HallVice President -------- Carol WithamSecretary --------------- Lynn HouserTreasurer --------------- Brad Jenkins

Directors:Ellen DeanJane HicksArvind KumarVince ScheidtAlison Shilling

Chapter Council Representative:Lauren BrownBrian LeNeve

California Native Plant SocietyDedicated to the preservation of California’s native flora

Contract Staff:Vern GoeringBob HassBart O’Brien

Finance, Administration,Sales & Development Staff:

Jack TraceyCari PorterStacey FlowerdewAnna Ostrowercha

Chapter Staff:Terry ChappellMargot CunninghamSteven KonakisLech Naumovich

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Conference Events are held entirely in the East Lobby of the Sacramento Convention Center or the SheratonGrand Hotel. In general, daytime events are held in the Sacramento Convention Center and evening events areheld in the Sheraton Grand Hotel. For more information on event times and locations, consult the Conference-At-A-Glance or Conference Program.

Conference Registration Desk will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and is located in the East Lobby of theSacramento Convention Center. In addition to conference materials distribution, the Registration Desk is thebest place to direct questions about conference activities or logistics. The back side of the Registration Deskalso serves as the Speaker and Volunteer check-in points, Local Information Desk, and Lost and Found.

Conference Name Badges are required to gain entry into all conference events. If you lose your name badge,please check in with the Registration Desk staff.

Accessibility is a priority for CNPS and the Conference venues. The Sacramento Convention Center andSheraton Grand Hotel are ADA compliant and all events may be reached by elevator. Please contact the CNPSRegistration Desk if you encounter any problems or have accessibility questions.

CNPS Books and Merchandise is located immediately behind the Conference Registration Desk, in the EastLobby. Conference merchandise, as well as CNPS publications and accessories are offered for purchase. Cash,checks, and credit cards (MasterCard and Visa) are accepted.

Abstracts may be downloaded onto your laptop by checking-out a USB “thumb-drive” from the ConferenceRegistration Desk, or viewed at the computer located on the back side of the Conference Registration Desk orviewed online at www.cnps.org/2009abstracts.

Sessions are concurrent, allowing participants to change sessions during the breaks between talks. Whenentering or leaving a session, please make sure to use the main doors and make sure the doors do not slamshut behind you. Please only enter or leave a session between talks.

Speaker Check-In is located at the back side of the Conference Registration Desk, in the East Lobby. Speakersare required to check in and submit their presentations by 5:30 p.m. the night before presenting in a morningsession, and by 10:30 a.m. the morning before presenting in an afternoon session. A labeled CD-Rom ispreferred; a labeled USB thumb-drive is also acceptable.

Lunch is catered during Sunday’s Poster Session for all conference participants attending on Sunday. Lunchbreaks on Saturday and Monday are on your own so take this opportunity to get outside and enjoy one ofDowntown Sacramento’s many restaurants. Visit the local information booth for more information.

Speaker Office Hours will be held at the East Lobby. Speakers wishing to hold office hours may sign up on thesheet located near the Office Hours Desk. Speakers are encouraged to sign up for at least one 1/2 hour slotduring the conference.

Speaker Practice Room is located in room 315. A computer and LCD projector are available for speakers toreview their presentations. Check out a room key from the Speaker Check-in, located at the back side of theRegistration Desk at the Sacramento Convention Center East Lobby.

Local Information, including the location of restaurants within walking distance and sight-seeing activities,can be found at the Local Information Booth, located on the back side of the Registration desk.

Message and Job Boards are located near the Registration Desk, in the East Lobby of the SacramentoConvention Center. Any conference registrant may post messages or announcements to either board. Pleasemake an attempt to remove your post if it is no longer applicable to conference attendees.

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Conference Sustainability

Refreshment Breaks are scheduled for both mornings and afternoons on each day of the Conference. Coffee,tea, and other refreshments are located in the East Lobby and the South-west corridor, outside the concurrentsession rooms.

Smoking is prohibited in the Sacramento Convention Center and Sheraton Grand Hotel. The City ofSacramento has adopted a “Smoke Free Policy.” Please help CNPS maintain this policy and refrain fromsmoking during conference activities, even in outdoor locations adjacent to the Conference events.

Special Accommodation or additional requests by any conference participant should be directed to theConference Registration Desk or to any person wearing a “host” ribbon.

Lost and Found items will be managed by the CNPS Registration Desk during the conference. Please turn“found” items in to the CNPS Registration Desk and check first here for any “lost” items. After the conference,any inquiries regarding lost and found items should be directed to the Sacramento Convention Center’sAdministrative Offices at 916-808-5291 Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. All lost and found articlesare cataloged and stored by the Sacramento Convention Center for 30 days.

• Provided a roomshare/rideshareservice (spaceshare) to reduceyour costs, save energy, andbuild community.

• Provided an opportunity topurchase carbon offset credits.

• Asked exhibitors, presenters, andparticipants to help reduce solidwaste contributions.

CNPS is dedicated to the preservation of California native flora. To be true to our conservation mission, CNPSwants to extend conservation and sustainability to every aspect of our organization. Help us make thisconference as green as possible by reducing waste, recycling, and saving energy and other resources. Tofacilitate this, CNPS Conservation Conference 2009 has taken the following measures:

Venue Energy Reduction

• Provided bins to recycle all yourpaper, bottles, cans, andplastics.

• Provided water in bulkdispensers instead of individualplastic bottles.

• Provided ceramic mugs insteadof disposable cups and avoidedplastic utensils.

• Worked with the venue caterersto use a percentage of local, in-season food (organic, whenpossible).

• Provided abstracts online.

• Printed preliminary and finalprograms on recycled paper,using soy-based inks.

Sacramento is leading the way in reducing energy consumption at the Convention Center. The SacramentoConvention and Visitors Bureau has partnered with SMUD, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, tosupport “green power” produced from renewal resources which helps the Center offset its carbon use. Inaddition the Center has instituted energy reductions in their lighting, heating and cooling. The SheratonGrand Hotel has also implemented many energy and water saving practices (low flow toilets, compactflorescent bulbs, reduced sheet and towel changes, etc.).

Conference Logistics and Miscellaneous Information

Thank you for helping make this conference green!

We welcome your suggestions to make the next conference even greener.

Visit our Sustainable Conference table to purchase carbon off-set credits.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

7:00 a.m. Registration Desk Opens, Speaker Check-in Opens

8:00 a.m. Opening Plenary: Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Jerome Ringo, Apollo Alliance

9:30 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions: Climate Change and California’s Native Flora, Planning Tools forConservation and Natural Communities, Rare Plants

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break (on own); Exhibitors and Trade Show Opens; Photography and BotanicalIllustration Contest Viewing Opens; Poster Session Opens

1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Great Basin and Deserts Conservation, Central Coast and Central ValleyConservation, California Floristic Province in Baja California, Rare Plants

3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break

4:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Great Basin and Deserts Conservation, Central Coast and Central ValleyConservation, California Floristic Province in Baja California, Rare Plants

6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception

7:30 p.m. Associated Meetings: Consortium of California Herbaria

8:00 p.m. Poetry Readings, “Nature’s Refuge” Film Premier

Sunday, January 18, 2009

7:00 a.m. Registration Opens, Exhibitors and Trade Show Viewing; Photography and BotanicalIllustration Contest Viewing; Poster Viewing

8:00 a.m. Sunday Plenary: CNPS Vision Address and Acknowledgments

8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Stephen Hopper, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens


10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions: Assessing and Mitigating Impacts – Sensitive Plants and Communities,Land Management, Restoring Rare Plant Populations, Plant Science for Conservation

11:40 a.m. Poster Session with Authors with Catered Lunch and Silent Auction

1:40 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Assessing and Mitigating Impacts – Sensitive Plants and Communities,Land Management, Restoring Rare Plant Populations, Plant Science for Conservation


4:10 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Assessing and Mitigating Impacts – Sensitive Plants and Communities,Land Management, Restoring Rare Plant Populations, Plant Science for Conservation

6:00 p.m. Poster Session with Authors with No-host Cocktails and Silent Auction

7:00 p.m. Banquet begins

8:00 p.m. Keynote Address: John Muir Laws, Naturalist

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7:00 a.m. Registration Opens, Exhibitors and Trade Show Viewing; Photography and BotanicalIllustration Contest Viewing; Poster Viewing

8:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions: Invasive Plants, Equal Protection for Plants, Using VegetationClassification and Mapping to Promote Native Plant Conservation, Plant Science forConservation


10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions: Invasive Plants, Southwestern California and Channel IslandsConservation, Northern California and Sierra Nevada Conservation, Using VegetationClassification and Mapping to Promote Native Plant Conservation,

11:40 a.m. Lunch Break (on own)

1:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Land Acquisition for Plant Conservation, Southwestern California andChannel Islands Conservation, Northern California and Sierra Nevada Conservation, UsingVegetation Classification and Mapping to Promote Native Plant Conservation


3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Land Acquisition for Plant Conservation, Southwestern California andChannel Islands Conservation, Northern California and Sierra Nevada Conservation UsingVegetation Classification and Mapping to Promote Native Plant Conservation


5:00 p.m. Plenary Close and Evaluation Session

7:30 p.m. Associated Meetings: CNPS Rare Plant Committee

8:00 p.m. Debrief Meeting for Executive and Steering Committees

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

8:00 a.m. Workshops (Separate registration fee; inquire about openings at the Conference RegistrationDesk)

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

8:00 a.m. Workshops (Separate registration fee; inquire about openings at the Conference RegistrationDesk)

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Welcome Plenary with Keynote Address by Jerome Ringo8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom

Join us for the official conference welcome, with opening remarks by CNPS staff and Conference organizers.In his Keynote Address, Jerome Ringo promises to inspire the conference participants to think about aligningconservation strategies and solutions with environmental justice and clean energy.

Exhibitor and Vendor Trade ShowOpen 12:00 to 6:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

The Trade Show provides a prime opportunity to learn about and see demonstrations on new technology orvisit with conservation organizations, environmental consulting firms and state and federal agencyrepresentatives. Over 25 companies and vendors display tools, books, technology, and conservation resources.Please visit their booths; their fees help to defray the cost of putting on the Conservation Conference.

Photography Contest Gallery and “Conference Choice” CompetitionOpen 12:00 to 6:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

View entries to this year’s photography contest, themed “California Native Plants.” Photos were taken in theCalifornia Floristic Province and were judged by a panel of experts. Images range from species-specific macroshots, wide-angle landscape photos, and even a few aerial perspectives. Voting for the “Conference Choice”photo will be open until noon on January 18th. The photo selected by conference attendees will be chosen asthe cover of the conference proceedings when published. All entries in this year’s contest will be displayedwith the photographer’s name and title of entry on the final day of the conference, January 19th.

Botanical Art ContestOpen 12:00 to 6:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

This year’s botanical illustration contest entries are exhibited as part of the trade show. Entries were judged bya panel of experts and there is ongoing voting for “Conference Choice,” the winner of which will have his orher artwork included in the Conference proceedings. Be sure to stop in and vote for your personal favorite,and enjoy the artwork!

Welcome Reception6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel, Camellia & Gardenia Ballrooms

The official beginning of the 2009 Conservation Conference networking opportunities will be heldimmediately following Saturday’s concurrent sessions. Take the short walk back to the Sheraton Grand Hotelfor a no-host cocktail reception. Meet old friends and make new ones and celebrate the close of the first dayof the 2009 Conservation Conference. The reception also provides the first bidding opportunity for the SilentAuction, with proceeds benefiting the CNPS Conservation Program.

Silent Auction – Support Conservation!First Bidding: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Sacramento Grand Sheraton BallroomFinal Bidding: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Poster Session, Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom

A Silent Auction will be held over the first two days of the conference, with proceeds benefiting the CNPSstatewide Conservation programs. The first bidding is at the Welcome Reception on Saturday evening. Thesecond bidding is during the poster session and cocktail hour preceding the banquet. Winning bidders will beposted on Monday morning at the CNPS Registration Desk. Bring your wallet, be generous and help supportthis important fundraising event!

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Nature’s Refuge Film Preview8:00 to 9:00 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel, Camellia & Gardenia Ballrooms

At the end of the Welcome Reception, conference participants will be treated to a very special documentaryfilm preview.

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Nature’s Refuge Film PreviewA Visually Stunning Exploration of the Klamath-Siskiyou BioregionWorld Premiere of the Documentary Film NATURE’S REFUGEProduced by Steve FisherRoom: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Camellia and Gardenia Ballrooms

Nature’s Refuge is a documentary film made for Public Television that explores the biodiversity andevolutionary ecology of the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion of Northwestern California and SouthwesternOregon, a region richly representative of the California Floristic Province. Excerpts from the film will beshown in this special presentation to be hosted by ecosystem scientist Dominick DellaSala, author DavidRains Wallace, and producer Steve Fisher.

The film takes the viewer into the little explored depths of one of the nation’s most enchanting forests, aland where ancient evolutionary plant and animal lineages mix with newly adapted species. This filmallows the viewer to look in on a cross section of millions of years of evolutionary change. Climatic factors,along with a favorable location and unusual geological features have combined in the Klamath-SiskiyouBioregion to foster a record-breaking number of plant and animal species, very likely unmatched anywherein the temperate coniferous ecosystems of the planet.

The film is hosted by actor Ed Begley, Jr., and features experts such as Frank Callahan, an explorer devotedto the discovery of record-breaking conifers; Barbara Ertter of the Jepson Herbarium; Michael Mesler ofthe Humboldt State University Herbarium; and Arthur Kruckeberg, known worldwide for his evolutionarystudies of serpentine endemics.

On Hand to Celebrate and Introduce the Film Will Be:

Dominick DellaSala, Scientist for the World Wildlife Fund who assembled the biodiversity data that gaverecognition to the Klamath-Siskiyou Region.

David Rains Wallace. prominent natural history writer who wrote the classic work on the Klamath-Siskiyou,The Klamath Knot, and whose recent works include Beasts of Eden (2004), and Neptune’s Ark (2007) (bothUC Press).

Steve Fisher, producer of environmental films for over thirty years. Steve’s previous national productionson Public Television include “Wilderness Journal,” with William Devane, “The Battle for Mono Lake,” withRichard Hatch, and “Wallace Stegner: A Writer’s Life,” with Robert Redford.

Saturday, January 17 (cont’d)

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Words Bloom HereAn Evening of Poetry Connected to California’s Landscape and FloraRoom: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Tofanelli Conference RoomReadings by Acclaimed and Award-Winning California PoetsOpen Microphone Sessions to Share Your Original Nature PoemsBring poems to share or just come to listen and be inspiredChris Olander, Organizer and Master of Ceremonies

Guest PoetsLinda Noel is a member of the Koyungkowi tribe from the northern Sierra, upper Yuba River area. She hasbeen writing poetry for twenty-five years and her poems have been included in many anthologies andjournals. She was the Poet Laureate of Ukiah, CA, 2004-2006. Her work will be included in the upcominganthology of California Poets Laureate. She was first published in 1983 with a chap book titled Where YouFirst Saw the Eyes of Coyote. Most recently she has been involved in the traveling exhibit Sing Me YourStory, Dance Me Home, which was developed to showcase the book The Dirt Is Red Here, Art and Poetryfrom Native California (Heyday Books 2002).

Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press 2008), a letterpress collection,The Book of Insects and seven small press collections, most recently Cassiopeia above the Banyan Tree andPoems About Hawaii. Her work has appeared on Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and in many national andregional anthologies. She is a member of the National Book Critic’s Circle, the Northern California BookReviewers Association and the Creative Writing Advisory Committee for the University of California, DavisExtension. Her honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Chicago Literary Award, and a recentnomination for Poet Laureate of Sacramento, CA, where she lives and teaches for UC Davis Extension.

Kirk Lumpkin has been an important part of the Bay Area (and beyond) poetry scene for years, hostingreadings in San Francisco and Berkeley, helping to facilitate the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festivaland hosting open mics at Burning Man. He is the author of twoºbooks of poetry,ºIn Deepº(2004) andºCo-Hearing (1983), (both published by Zyga Multimedia Research). His poems have appeared in numerousanthologies. As a solo poet, he has performed widely across North America and Europe. He is the founderof The Word-Music Continuum, a poetry/music band that recently released its second CD, Sound Poems.His own recently-released CD of original rock songs is entitled Moondog Sessions.

Poetry Reading – “Words Bloom Here”8:00 to 9:30 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel, Tofanelli Conference Room

This event offers an evening for participants to share their own poems and listen as acclaimed poets sharepoetry connected to California’s landscape and flora.

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Sunday Plenary with Keynote Address by Stephen Hopper8:00 to 9:30 a.m., Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom

Start the second day of the conference by hearing some thoughts on the CNPS vision for the future. Beintroduced to the new Executive Director and CNPS President. Stephen Hopper’s Keynote Address will providean overview of the Breathing Planet Program, encouraging us to change our behaviors and landscape ethics toencourage plant diversity and make a greener world.

Poster Sessions with Authors11:40 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. with catered lunch, Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby6:00 to 7:00 p.m., cocktail hour, Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

The contributed posters, as well as the CNPS chapter and Program posters, take center stage during twodedicated sessions in which the posters’ authors or contributors will be present to answer questions andfurther discuss collaboration opportunities. A catered lunch is provided at the mid-day session and a no-hostbar will accompany the early evening session. This event provides the second bidding opportunity for theSilent Auction.

Exhibitor and Vendor Trade ShowOpen 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

Photography Contest Gallery and “Conference Choice” CompetitionOpen 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

Botanical Art ContestOpen 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

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Legislative Action Workshop—Learn How to Apply the Heat!1:40 to 3:40 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel, Bondi Conference Room

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.” —former US Senator Everett Dirksen

Learn how grassroots activism can effectively apply some heat and increase your chances of success with theState Legislature or any elected body.

Everyone knows that our elected officials are bombarded from all sides and from powerful interests. Gettingtheir attention can be difficult, and it is tempting to conclude that only big money interests get heard. Butthere are many examples of well-organized grassroots campaigns winning the day with compelling argumentsand successful strategies.

This panel will discuss what works, including what information is most helpful to friendly legislators and whatapproaches may be effective with not-so-friendly legislators. It will review the legislative process, howcommittees fit into that process and where the best opportunities for our conservation organizations lie. It willaddress the need for year-round engagement and diligent preparation.

Key legislative staff and experienced advocates for non-governmental organizations will share their personalexperiences and tips for success. There will be ample time for questions. Although some reference materialswill be provided, please bring a tablet and pen.

A new Legislative Session is just getting underway, so introducing yourself and your issues at this time iscritical. Check out the Conference website for tips on identifying your representatives, scheduling a meeting,and preparing appropriately.

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OUTSIDE OF THE CONFERENCE: We hope you will take time to visit the

offices of your local Assembly-member and Senator while you are in Sacramento.

Due to the three-day holiday weekend and the Presidential Inauguration in

Washington D.C., many legislators will be away from the State Capitol. Their

staff, however, will be at work on the days following the Conference, and meeting

with them can often be as effective as meeting with their boss.

Sunday, January 18 (cont’d)

Silent Auction – Support Conservation!Second (and Final) Bidding: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Poster Session, Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom

California Native Plant Society and California Botanical Society Banquet7:00 to 10:00 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel Ballroom

Enjoy warm conversation over a delicious buffet dinner to conclude the second Conference day. A briefmeeting of the California Botanical Society will precede a program that includes an inspiring talk on the topicof stewardship by California Naturalist John Muir Laws. Winners of the Botanical Art, Photography, andStudent Poster Competitions will be announced and awards handed out. A brief live auction and drawing willbe held to benefit the CNPS Conservation Program.

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Monday, January 19

Exhibitor and Vendor Trade ShowOpen 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

Photography Contest Gallery and “Conference Choice” CompetitionOpen 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

Botanical Art ContestOpen 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Sacramento Convention Center, East Lobby

Plenary Close and Evaluation (with activity facilitated by Jim Nelson)5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel, Magnolia Ballroom

This is your chance to evaluate the 2009 Conservation Conference and to help shape the next steps for CNPSand the conservation community. Botanist and expert facilitator Jim Nelson (instrumental in coordinating the1986 CNPS conference) will facilitate discussion and brainstorming sessions, readying participants toimplement the Conference’s Strategies and Solutions as we leave the conference behind and step back out intothe real world!

Tuesday, January 20 and Wednesday, January 21

Post-Conference WorkshopsOne-day and Two-day workshops are offered as a separate registration event. Pre-registered workshopparticipants will receive additional logistics information with their conference packet. Unless otherwisespecified, all workshops are held in 2nd floor conference rooms at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, and run from8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. All workshops require pre-registration; some workshops are sold out. Inquire aboutavailability and registration details at the Conference Registration Desk.

1. The Art of Field Sketching: Drawing PlantsJohn (Jack) Muir Laws, California Academy of ScienceJanuary 20, Location: Bataglieri conference room

A full day of sketching and art instruction to jump start you in keeping your own field journal or re-inspire youto pick up your sketchbook again. We will examine tricks and techniques to help you simplify a complex flowershape, draw wildflowers in perspective, and simple ways to add color to your drawings in the field. Bring paperand pencil if you have it, supplies will be provided for those who do not have their own. Participants willreceive worksheets and technique pages to supplement their notes.

2. The Art of Field Sketching: Drawing WildlifeJohn (Jack) Muir Laws, California Academy of ScienceJanuary 21, Location: Bataglieri conference room

A full day of sketching and art instruction to jump start you in keeping your own field journal or re-inspire youto pick up your sketchbook again. We will examine tricks and techniques to help you draw birds and mammals,tricks to get animals in motion, simple ways to add color to your drawings in the field. Bring paper and pencilif you have it, supplies will be provided for those who do not have their own. Participants will receiveworksheets and technique pages to supplement their notes.

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3. Basics of Native Grass Seed Collection and StorageSusan Erwin & Linnea Hanson, USFSJanuary 20, Location: Carr conference room

Susan and Linnea will provide an overview of techniques and equipment associated with native grass seedcollection, processing, and storage, as well as an introduction to seed transfer guidelines and use of locallyadapted native plant materials.

4. Basic Wilderness First AidInstructor: Bobbie Foster, Wilderness-EMT, Foster CalmJanuary 20, Location: Tofanelli conference room

If you work and play in remote areas (more than 1 hour respond time for 911), this class is for you. You willlearn what to do in case of an emergency (e.g., bleeding, shock, head and spine injuries, hypothermia andhyperthermia, medical emergencies, etc.) Participants will receive handouts, a small wilderness first aid bookand a three-year certificate in Basic Wilderness First Aid.

5. California Natural Diversity Database Tools Workshop (SOLD OUT)

Roxanne Bittman, California Department of Fish and GameJanuary 20, Location: Computer Lab, Office of Training and Development, Natomas

The California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) is a natural heritage program which inventories thelocations and status of California’s rare species and natural communities. CNDDB data are used in many kindsof environmental work such as pre-project surveys, rare plant and animal monitoring projects, in thedevelopment of land management plans, agency species recovery work, etc. This workshop will focusprimarily on the use of CNDDB tools including RareFind, “web RareFind,” CNDDB on BIOS and the CNDDBQuick Viewer. We will also discuss the appropriate use of each tool in various kinds of environmental work aswell as data submittal.

6. Fifty Plant Families and Introduction to the 2nd Edition of The Jepson Manual (SOLD OUT)Instructor: Dean Kelch, Jepson Herbarium and California Department of Food and AgricultureJanuary 20 and 21, Location: Bondi room

We will provide an introduction to the most diverse vascular plant families in California, with emphasis givento identification, family realignments, and reasons for the significant taxonomic changes that will be reflectedin the second edition of The Jepson Manual (TJM2). Material will be presented at an introductory level butparticipants are encouraged to have familiarity with basic plant morphology.

7. Invasive Plant Management WorkshopInstructors: Ingrid Hogle, Invasive Spartina Project; John Knapp, Native Range, Inc., Cal-IPC Board ofDirectors; Mark Newhouser, Sonoma Ecology Center, Cal-IPC Board of Directors; Mark Heath, ShelterbeltBuilders; California Invasive Plant CouncilJanuary 20, Location: Campagno conference room

We will cover basic principles of invasive plant identification, biology, control methods, mapping and re-vegetation. This broad overview will provide those in the restoration field with a framework for addressinginvasive plants in their work.

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8. Introduction to NEPA/CEQA for Botanists (SOLD OUT)In cooperation with Friends of the Chico Herbarium and Northern California BotanistsInstructors: Linnea Hanson, USFS, and Jenny Marr, CDFGJanuary 21, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Location: Compagno conference room

Participants will be introduced to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the CaliforniaEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) as they relate to rare and endangered plant species, invasive plant speciesand natural biological communities. Emphasis will be placed on guidelines and requirements of regulatoryagencies for conducting botanical surveys, preparing reports, conducting impact assessments, and developingmitigation and monitoring plans. This workshop is geared towards consultants or other interested individualswho desire a fundamental understanding of these regulatory frameworks and how they apply to protectingCalifornia’s native plant biodiversity.

9. Introduction to the 2nd Edition of A Manual of California Vegetation (SOLD OUT)

Instructors: John O. Sawyer, Professor Emeritus Humboldt State University, Todd Keeler Wolf, CaliforniaDepartment of Fish and Game, and Julie Evens, CNPS.January 20, Location: Visitors Center, Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, Davis

The authors will debut the second edition of A Manual of California Vegetation. They will provide an overviewof additions and changes to the manual, including new vegetation types recognized or redefined across manyhabitats. You will learn how to use the new manual in conservation and management of California’s diversevegetation types.

10. Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations and Vegetation (SOLD OUT)John Willoughby, former State Botanist for the Bureau of Land ManagementJanuary 21, Location: Tofanelli conference room

The workshop will focus on the role of plant population monitoring for adaptive management. Participantswill learn how to develop good management objectives. Topics cover principles of sampling and severalsampling designs, field techniques for measuring vegetation, analyzing monitoring data and presentingresults. Participants will receive a copy of the BLM-published book, Measuring and Monitoring PlantPopulations by Caryl Elzinga, Dan Salzer, and John Willoughby.

11. Naturalizing the Urban Fabric – Creating Habitat in the CityJulie Serences, Audubon At Home Program, Sacramento AudubonJennifer Hogan and Melinda Rivasplata, Sacramento Valley Chapter of CNPSJanuary 20, Location: Shepard Garden and Art Center in McKinley Park, Sacramento

The Sacramento area Audubon at Home program encourages individual conservation actions that can sustainbirds, other wildlife, and healthy habitats in our yards and neighborhoods. We will begin with a plantpropagation workshop where you will learn about native plants and landscape practices benefiting birdconservation and environmental health. You will take home several native plants suitable for your garden!. Then,we will go into the neighborhood and discover the variety of bird life around Sacramento, with local experts.

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Participate in an overview of how to plan, conduct and review rare plant surveys. We will cover the legal basisfor requiring surveys, the accepted methodologies for conducting surveys, and provide insights on how toreview rare plant survey reports. This workshop is intended for botanists, wildlife biologists and land mangerswho must conduct, request, or review surveys in the course of their duties.

13. Mutual Gains Negotiations

Instructor: Steve BarberJanuary 20 and 21, Location: Falor conference room

How can one protect resource values in the face of development pressures? Must every negotiation be a full-onbattle? Come learn methods of developing the best-negotiated outcomes. Learn to define the problem, bringpeople to the table, consider alternatives, and develop joint solutions. Learn how to give negotiation its bestchance.

14. Vernal Pool InvertebratesInstructor: Carol Witham, CNPSJanuary 21, Location: three to four vernal pools sites around the Sacramento ValleyTransportation to sites will be arranged

An introductory level field course for botanists and wildlife biologists focused on the ecology of California’svernal pools with emphasis on the aquatic phase and various federally listed species. Participants will learnabout 1) the common and endangered macro fauna that occupy vernal pools during the aquatic phase, plusassociated food chains and unusual survival strategies; and 2) the unique morphological and photosyntheticstrategies of vernal pool endemic plants during their submerged aquatic phase.

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Saturday, January 17Consortium of California Herbaria Meeting7:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Coordinators: Staci Markos and Sula Vanderplank

Open to all California Herbaria; an RSVP is requested. RSVP to Staci Markos, [email protected] [email protected].

Monday, January 19CNPS Rare Plant Committee Meeting7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Coordinator: Nick Jensen

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Jerome Ringo, Saturday PlenaryJerome Ringo is a dedicated champion of environmental justice and vocal advocate of cleanenergy. He has first hand experience with environmental challenges we are facing after havingworked for more than 20 years in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry. Jerome spent most of hiscareer as an active union member working with his fellow members to secure a safe workenvironment and quality jobs. Louisiana’s petrochemical industry focuses on the productionof gasoline, rocket fuel, and plastics – many of which contain cancer causing chemicals. As hebegan observing the negative impacts of the industry’s pollution on local communities,

primarily poor, minority communities, Ringo began organizing community environmental justice groups.

In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors and, in 2005, Jeromebecame the Chair of the board. In so doing, he also became the first African-American to head a major conservationorganization. Jerome is now the Immediate Past Chairman for the National Wildlife Federation. Jerome Ringowas the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan. Inaddition to being present during Kyoto Treaty Negotiations, Ringo represented the National Wildlife Federationat the United Nations’ conference on sustainable development in 1999.

Jerome serves as president of the Apollo Alliance, whose member organizations represent more than 17 millionpeople across the country and has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO and 22 international labor unions. The ApolloAlliance is a coalition of labor, environmental, national security, civil rights and business leaders fighting to makeAmerica independent from foreign energy in 10 years. The Apollo Alliance is a broad coalition of major nationalenvironmental organizations, more than 50 businesses, and the support of more than 100 organizations in thenation’s states and cities.

Stephen Hopper, Sunday PlenaryProfessor Steve Hopper is the 14th Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He joinedKew in October 2006. He holds Visiting Professorships at University of Reading, Universityof Western Australia and at Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth. He was awarded aCommonwealth Centenary Medal for service to the community in 2003. He is a Fellow ofthe Linnean Society and a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America.

Steve Hopper is a plant conservation biologist, best known for pioneering research leadingto positive conservation outcomes in south-west Australia (one of the few temperate-zoneglobal biodiversity hotspots) and for the collaborative description of 300 new plant taxa

(eucalypts, orchids, Haemodoraceae). In 1990 he was Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Georgia andMiller Visiting Research Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, working on granite outcrop plant life,which continues as a research interest.

Professor Hopper joined Kings Park and Botanic Garden as the Director in 1992, and from 1999 to 2004 served asChief Executive Officer of the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (which manages Kings Park and BotanicGarden and Bold Park), leading the delivery of improvements to programs and infrastructure to world-classstandards.

Apart from extensive research in southwest Australia, Steve Hopper has explored Australian deserts since 1980,and conducted field research in South Africa and the USA. While Foundation Professor of Plant ConservationBiology at The University of Western Australia from 2004-2006, he developed new theory on the evolution andconservation of biodiversity on the world’s oldest landscapes, and led the establishment of new degrees inconservation biology.

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John Muir Laws, Sunday BanquetNaturalist, educator, artist, and author John (Jack) Muir Laws delights in exploring thenatural world and sharing this love with others. He has worked as an environmentaleducator for over 25 years in California, Wyoming, and Alaska. He has written and illustratedfield guides on the natural history of California and teaches classes on natural history,conservation biology, scientific illustration, and field sketching.

Jack Laws’ interest in natural history and art developed as he started birding and keepingdetailed illustrated journals. He began working in environmental education while in highschool and college. While earning his B.S. at UC Berkeley in Conservation and Resource

Studies, he worked as an interpretive aid at a regional park in Berkeley, worked summers at the Teton ScienceSchool and started leading adult education classes at the California Academy of Sciences. He then served as anaturalist at Walker Creek environmental education center, where he refined techniques for incorporating fieldjournaling into the science curriculum. After getting his Masters in Wildlife Biology at University of Montana, hereturned to California Academy of Sciences as the senior environmental educator, then manager of field studies.Most recently, he completed a degree in Scientific Illustration at the University of California at Santa Cruz and isnow an Associate in the Research Division of the California Academy of Sciences.

In the summer of 2004, Laws published Sierra Birds: a Hiker’s Guide. His most recent book, The Laws Guide to theSierra Nevada, is an illustrated field guide to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals and is beautifullyillustrated with 2,710 original watercolor paintings. This comprehensive and easy to use guide allows botaniststo identify the insects that come to their flowers, birders to identify the trees in which the birds perch, or hikers toidentify the stars overhead at night. His illustrations capture the feeling of the living plant or animal, while alsoincluding details critical for identification. He is also a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his“Naturalists Notebook” column.

Laws is currently coordinating efforts to create a curriculum to tie the field guide to the State of California edu-cation standards and secure funding to donate sets of field guides to every elementary and high school in theSierra Nevada and teaching field sketching and natural history classes throughout the state. More info atwww.johnmuirlaws.com

Jim Nelson, Monday PlenaryJim’s childhood near Lake Tahoe gave him a love of nature and the skills to enjoy playingand working outdoors. After completing a B.S. in Biological Sciences and an M.S. inBiological Resource Planning, both from CSU Chico, he went to work for the state ofCalifornia as a biologist and conservation planner, first for the California EnergyCommission and then for the Department of Fish and Game. In addition to his work as abiologist and resource manager, Jim was an active advisor to the Department’s Trainingand Development programs and served as a facilitator for the Department.

Jim retired from state service in 2006 and lives with his family near Redding, California. Hecurrently works as a facilitator and trainer to promote natural resource conservation.

Jim was deeply involved in organizing the first CNPS conservation conference in Sacramento, in 1986, andcontributed a paper there on “Rare Plant Surveys: Techniques for Impact Assessment.”

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Session 1: Welcome PlenaryRoom: Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom

8:00 a.m. 2009 Conservation Conference Welcome: Gordon Leppig, Executive Committee Chair, CaliforniaDepartment of Fish and Game

8:05 a.m. Recognizing the First CNPS Conservation Conference (1986): Ann Howald, Garcia and Associates

8:15 a.m. CNPS Address: Amanda Jorgenson, Executive Director, California Native Plant Society

8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Jerome Ringo, President, Apollo Alliance

9:30 a.m. Refreshment Break – 30 minutes

Session 2: Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing its Impacts on California’s Flora

Session Chair and Moderator: Ann Howald, Garcia and Associates

Room: 306 & 307

Climate change is underway, and it will influence the future distribution, evolution and even survival ofCalifornia’s plant life. A warming world may cause range expansion or contraction of native species, creatingnew and novel plant communities. Invasive plants may push beyond their current areas of infestation. Historicdata show that some endemic-rich communities are already affected. This session explores new and evolvingmanagement strategies needed to conserve California’s flora.

10:00 a.m. Climate change: confronting the global experiment. Connie Millar

10:40 a.m. Climate change and the future of California’s endemic flora. Scott R. Loarie

11:00 a.m. Ecological consequences of snow climate change in Eastern California. Michael Loik

11:20 a.m. Predicting future spread of invasive plants in California. Elizabeth Brusati, Douglas Johnson, andJoseph DiTomaso

11:40 a.m. North America’s richest edaphic endemic flora declines in response to 57 years of climate changeand fire suppression. Susan Harrison, Ellen Damschen, and James Grace

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break (on your own) – 1 hour, 30 minutes

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Session Chair and Moderator: Russell Huddleston, CH2M Hill

Room: 314

In many cases, taking a regional, watershed, or landscape-level approach is the most effective means toconserve plant populations and natural communities. This session includes a broad overview of these tools,reviews lessons learned from established planning mechanisms, and explores new opportunities andchallenges for regional conservation planning. A success story is presented in which the environmentalcommunity, working in cooperation with state and federal agencies, reached consensus on a largedevelopment that included a regional conservation plan.

10:00 a.m. Stakeholder involvement in obtaining effective Habitat Conservation Plans. John Hopkins

10:20 a.m. NCCP truth and consequences—a retrospective on conservation planning tools. Jenny Marr

10:40 a.m. Senate Bill 375: a new, regional level planning tool and natural resource protection law. KeithWagner

11:20 a.m. Coordinating Habitat Conservation Plans and Natural Community Conservation Plans withregional approaches for wetlands conservation and permitting. John Kopchik

11:00 a.m. Ventura County Locally Important Species and Communities. David Magney

11:40 a.m. U.C. Merced, a consensus planning success story? Carol Witham


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Session 4: Rare Plant Conservation: Case Studies and ToolsSession Chairs and Moderators: Nick Jensen, California Native Plant Society and

Patrick McIntyre, UC Davis Center for Population Biology

Room: 315

The Rare Plant Session will provide a venue for individuals to discuss current research and activities thatpromote the conservation of California’s rare plants. Topics that will be discussed include recent rare plantdiscoveries, single and multi-species research, conservation plans, and successful management activities.Talks will focus on research methods and actions that can be used to aid rare plant conservation efforts withinCalifornia and beyond.

Rare Plant Conservation I: Case Studies and Tools

10:00 a.m. Building on botanical serendipity. Steve Boyd

10:20 a.m. Woodwardia Canyon: the search for a “lost” population of the endangered Fremontodendronmexicanum (Mexican flannelbush) in San Diego County. Jonathan Snapp-Cook and GaryWallace

10:40 a.m. Conserving endangered plant species using fire and fire surrogates in an invaded, fire-adaptedcommunity at the wildland-urban interface. Jodi McGraw

11:00 a.m. The exotic plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi: a major threat to rare Arctostaphylos andmuch more. Tedmund Swiecki, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Matteo Garbelotto, and Elizabeth Fitchner

11:20 a.m. The conservation of two endangered plant species on private lands in the North Bay of SanFrancisco Bay. Kate Symonds, Holly Forbes, and Barbara Keller

11:40 a.m. Status and proposed conservation measures for the San Jacinto Valley crownscale (Atriplexcoronata var. notatior) in Western Riverside County, California. David Bramlet


1:30 p.m. Summer dormancy in purple amole (Chlorogalum purpureum var. purpureum), an endangeredlily endemic to Monterey County. Robert F. Holland and Jodi Olson

1:50 p.m. Recovery status and population growth of the endangered Humboldt Bay wallflower (Erysimummenziesii ssp. eurekense) over two decades of management. Andrea Pickart, Annie Eicher, andLaurel Goldsmith

2:10 p.m. Fish Slough milk-vetch (Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis): ecology, trend and habitatrestoration within an isolated desert wetland system. Anne Halford

2:30 p.m. Genetic variability and pollination ecology of the endemic Abronia alpina (Nyctaginaceae), afederally listed species. Meredith Jabis (student) and Tina Ayers

2:50 p.m. A conservation plan for Allium munzii (Alliaceae). Saeideh Mashayekhi (student) and ElizabethFriar

3:10 p.m. Seedling establishment and survival of Lane Mountain milk-vetch (Astragalus jaegerianusMunz), an endangered species, under field and controlled greenhouse conditions. RasoulSharifi, Barry Prigge, and Philip W. Rundel

3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break – 30 minutes

4:00 p.m. Utilizing simple geographic information systems (GIS) techniques to inventory, analyze andprioritize chapter hot spots in the East Bay. Heath Bartosh

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4:20 p.m. 25 years of rare plant management at Point Reyes National Seashore. John DiGregoria and JaneRodgers

4:40 p.m. Regional Habitat Conservation Plans as tools to conserve rare plants in California. David Zippin

5:00 p.m. Results of an experimental herbicidal spraying over the top of Ambrosia pumila, a federally listedspecies, to control invasive weeds. Mike Kelly, Cindy Burrascano, and Melanie Johnson-Rocks

5:20 p.m. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area endangered species big year: a race against time tosee and save the GGNRA’s endangered species. Brent Plater

5:40 p.m. Where the rare plants are common: a community collecting project at the BLM Payne Ranch,Colusa County. Ellen Dean, Gordon Harrington, and Craig Thomsen

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Session 5: Great Basin and Deserts ConservationSession Chair and Moderator: Jim André, Granite Mountains Desert Research Center,

University of California – Riverside

Room: 306

The Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin Deserts comprise approximately one-third of California’s landmass, yettheir combined vascular plant diversity rivals that of cismontane California. Managing desert ecosystemsdemands a broad understanding of the organisms, the environment that supports them, and the deserts’unique complex processes that occur over time and space. This session synthesizes a broad range of topics,including cryptobiotic soil crust ecology, regional floristic studies, threats that cross spatial and temporalscales, and vegetation and rare plant management programs.

1:30 p.m. A profile of rarity and rare plant conservation in the California deserts. James M. André

2:10 p.m. Stuck on cactus: a closer look at rare Cactaceae in California’s deserts. Stephen Ingram and JonRebman

2:30 p.m. Peirson’s milkvetch (Astragalus peirsonii, Fabaceae): conservation in light of improved biologicalunderstanding. Mark J. Porter and Linda M. Prince

2:50 p.m. The flora of Joshua Tree National Park. Tasha La Doux

3:10 p.m. Microbiotic soil crusts in California: biodiversity, ecology and conservation. Jeffrey R Johansen,Nicole Pietrasiak, and Valerie R. Flechtner


4:00 p.m. Quantifying herbivore impacts on rare plants at Ash Meadows. Bruce Pavlik, Kara Moore, andAlison Stanton

4:20 p.m. Impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on invasive and native species at Joshua TreeNational Park. Edith B. Allen, Leela E. Rao, Robert J. Steers, Mark E. Fenn, and AndrzejBytnerowicz

4:40 p.m. Impact of fire on creosote bush scrub in the northwest Colorado Desert. Robert Steers (student)and Edith Allen

5:00 p.m. Groundwater pumping effects on native vegetation in Owens Valley. Sara J. Manning

5:20 p.m. Drivers of Pinus jeffreyi establishment at a conifer forest-sagebrush steppe ecotone. Holly Alpert(student) and Michael E. Loik

5:40 p.m. Transmontane vernal pools in Modoc National Forest. Robert Holland

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Session 6: Central Coast and Central Valley ConservationSession Chairs and Moderators: Lech Naumovich (California Native Plant Society) and

Carol Witham (Vernalpools.org)

Room: 307

From vernal pools to grasslands and maritime chaparral to serpentine outcrops, the Great Central Valley andthe Central Coast have extraordinary floristic diversity as well as unprecedented development pressure.Presentations cover a diversity of topics including landscape-scale processes, regional floristic studies, andcase studies on the conservation biology of endemic species.

Subsession I: Understanding Diversity; Historic, Present, and Future

1:30 p.m. Smog as a slow-release nitrogen fertilizer: implications for conservation of Californiabiodiversity. Stuart Weiss

2:10 p.m. Patterns of plant diversity in northern coastal scrub. Eric Wrubel (student) and V. Thomas Parker

2:30 p.m. California’s fading wildflowers: lost legacy and biological invasions. Richard A. Minnich

2:50 p.m. Climate change and serpentine edaphic endemics: the effects of precipitation and competition.Barbara Going (student) and Susan Harrison

3:10 p.m. Manzanitas, maritime chaparral, and land use dilemmas. Michael Vasey (student)


Subsession II: Unveiling the Great Central Valley

4:00 p.m. Vernal pool conservation: past, present and future. Carol W. Witham

4:20 p.m. Great Valley vernal pool distribution, rephotorevised 2005. Robert Holland

4:40 p.m. A floristic analysis of exotic plants in vernal pools. Robert Preston

5:00 p.m. Distribution and diversity of native grasses in the rangelands of Mount Hamilton. Sasha Gennetand Lech Naumovich

5:20 p.m. A CNPS initiative to describe and protect California grasslands. Jennifer Buck

5:40 p.m. California’s GreatCentral Valley: currentconservationcollaborations. KimberleyDelfino

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Session 7: The California Floristic Zone in Baja California

Session Chairs and Moderators: Alan Harper, Ph.D., Terra Peninsular, A.C.,Bart O’Brien, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, and

Sula Vanderplank, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Claremont Graduate University

Room: 314

The California Floristic Province extends approximately 300 km south of California into the Mexican State ofBaja California. This session highlights the unique nature of the southern portion of the Province.Presentations address identification of areas of regional importance for plant conservation; what we knowabout areas that have already been identified as conservation priorities; legal tools that are available forconservation in Mexico; and tools that are available to plant conservation biologists in the region.

Subsession I: Conservation Challenges

1:30 p.m. Hotspots along the northwest of Baja California. Hugo Riemann

1:50 p.m. Rare plants and habitats of Colonet Mesa, Baja Calfornia: current status and conservationchallenges. Mark Dodero, Alan Harper, Sergio Mata, and Kevin Clark

2:10 p.m. Changing land use patterns in a rapidly developing coastal zone: Ensenada, Baja California.Claudia Leyva, Ileana Espejel, and Ricardo Eaton

2:30 p.m. The threatened biological resources of Jesus Maria Mesa, Mexico. Kevin B. Clark, Mark Dodero,and Jonathan Snapp-Cook

2:50 p.m. The genus Suaeda (Amaranthaceae) and conservation of estuaries in Baja California, Sonora,and the Gulf of California. Wayne R. Ferren, Jr. and Fred Roberts

3:10 p.m. Conservation of plant diversity in Northwest Baja California. Juan Manuel Garcia-Caudillo


Subsession II: Rare Plants and Botanical Tools

4:00 p.m. Creating an inventory of rare, endangered, endemic, and near endemic vascular plants of theCalifornia Floristic Province in Baja California, Mexico. Bart O’Brien, Jose Delgadillo-Rodriguez,Steve Junak, Thomas Oberbauer, Jon Rebman, Hugo Reimann, and Sula Vanderplank

4:20 p.m. Using Google Earth imagery to improve mapping and conservation of Baja California’svegetation. Richard Minnich and Ernesto Franco

4:40 p.m. Status of native tree species on Guadalupe Island, B.C., Mexico, and insights from geneticstudies. Deborah Rogers and J. Jesús Vargas-Hernández

5:00 p.m. Rare plants of California and locally endemic taxa of San Quintín Bay, Baja California. SulaVanderplank (student)

5:20 p.m. Digital resources for the flora of Baja California. Jon Rebman

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Session 8: Sunday PlenaryRoom: Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom

8:00 a.m. 2009 Conservation Conference Sunday Welcome, Susan Britting, CNPS Past President

8:05 a.m. Address, Brett Hall, CNPS President, UC Santa Cruz Arboretum

8:10 a.m. CNPS Vision, Tara Hansen, Incoming Executive Director, California Native Plant Society

8:20 a.m. Acknowledgment of CNPS volunteers and conference organizers, Josie Crawford, CNPS EductionProgram Director

8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: Wildflowers, Kew, and You. Stephen Hopper, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew

For the first time, more people now live in cities than in rural areas globally, making the need to stay in touchwith nature all the more urgent for a sustainable future. The diversity of plant life in particular is essential tothe habitats that form our world, and is vital for our own well-being. The ongoing erosion of wild vegetation isdegrading the quality of life for billions of people and prejudicing the drive to eradicate poverty. Deforestationalone accounts for a fifth of man-made CO2 emissions (more than the world’s transport systems). Plant lifemust be conserved, repaired and restored if climate change is to be moderated and humanity is to have atolerable future. Over the past two years, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and its global network of partnershave been involved in a process of change – the Breathing Planet Program – that offers a major contribution tolong-term sustainability worldwide. By 2020, this program will make a substantial impact in countering theenvironmental challenge by saving threatened plants, restoring habitats and improving the quality of life forpeople. Every individual can make a difference to the fundamental need to ensure a breathing planet persists.If we change our behaviors and landscape ethics to encourage plant diversity and make a greener world, thefuture will be brighter than present forecasts suggest.


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Session 9: Assessing and Mitigating Impacts to Rare Plants and CommunitiesSession Chair and Moderator: Tony LaBanca, California Department of Fish and Game

Room: 306

Many human activities, from large-scale new construction and timber harvesting to development of greenenergy infrastructure and park maintenance, can impact rare plant populations and natural communities.How can these impacts be accurately assessed? What strategies are used to effectively minimize them to a less-than-significant level? This session takes a look at past assessment efforts and provides examples of newapproaches. Case studies present specific strategies including metapopulation and landscape-scaleconservation approaches. Presentations also review the effectiveness of monitoring and adaptive managementto ensure mitigation measures meet set objectives.

10:00 a.m. Critiquing botanical consulting from a 20 year perspective. Scott D. White

10:20 a.m. Ethics for/of the professional botanist. David Magney

10:40 a.m. A consensus-building process for developing rare plant protection guidelines for implementingfuel reduction projects in the wildland-urban interface. V. Thomas Parker, Wendy Poinsot, andAlison Forrestel

11:00 a.m. Impact and mitigation panel discussion (40 minute)

11:40 a.m. Catered Lunch Break (2 hours) and Poster Session

1:40 p.m. Obtaining precise estimates of the population size of a sparsely distributed rare plant speciesover its entire U.S. range: the example of Peirson’s milk-vetch. John W. Willoughby

2:00 p.m. Monitoring the seedbank of a rare desert sand dune species: a success story. Lloyd McKinney,Jeremy Gordon, John Willoughby, and Erin Dreyfuss

2:20 p.m. Implementation of restoration, mitigation, and monitoring for plant communities and rare plantspecies on two linear projects in the Great Basin of NE California. Richard Lis

2:40 p.m. Vernal pool restoration: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Sarah Egan

3:00 p.m. Vernal pool restoration: notes for the future. Carol W. Witham

3:20 p.m. Cumulative impacts to Central Valley vernal pool ecosystems. Matt Wacker and GerritPlatenkamp


4:10 p.m. Transplantation as mitigation for rare geophytic plant species. Andrew Thomson

4:30 p.m. Brodiaea filifolia: Documentation of the emergency salvage, transplantation, and longtermmonitoring of a threatened population. Vincent Scheidt

4:50 p.m. Long term monitoring of Mcdonald’s rock cress on Red Mountain (Mendocino County) providesmanagers with evidence of population decline due to successional changes following fire.Michael Baad

5:30 p.m. Monitoring rare plants in highly dynamic environments: demography, population dynamics andgeothermal environment of Geysers Dichanthelium. Gerrit Platenkamp and Sally de Becker

5:50 p.m. An interactive approach to science-based planning in California’s oak woodlands. Greg Giusti

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Session 10: Land Management and the Conservation of Plants and CommunitiesJohn Hunter, Ph.D., EDAW and Linnea Hanson, US Forest Service

Room: 307

Wildfires and fuels are managed throughout California, and most land is also managed for a variety ofecosystem products and services, ranging from timber and cattle production, to recreational experiences. Thissession focuses on how land management affects native plant populations and communities and on howproper land management can help sustain rare plant populations and natural communities.

10:00 a.m. Interactions between fire and livestock grazing in an arid scrub community in the southern SanJoaquin Valley. Ellen Cypher

10:20 a.m. Management for native flora diversity in basalt-flow vernal pool grasslands. Mary Ann McCrary

10:40 a.m. Evaluating the effects of cattle grazing on a coastal prairie in central California. Meghan J. Skaer,Dawn J. Graydon, and J. Hall Cushman

11:00 a.m. Effects of livestock grazing on the botanical composition of blue oak woodland protected byconservation easements. Rich Reiner and Andrea Craig

11:20 a.m. Plant communities of ski slopes: construction methods and community divergence. JenniferWilliamson Burt (student) and Kevin J. Rice


1:40 p.m. Fire impacts on native and non-native plants in California ecosystems. (40 minutes) Jon E.Keeley

2:20 p.m. Long-term changes in understory vegetation of mixed conifer forests in the absence of fire. EricKnapp

2:40 p.m. Predicting the persistence of a rare forest orchid (Cypripedium fasciculatum) under simulatedland management. Matt Brown

3:00 p.m. Burning bear grass for California Indian basketweavers. Chris Christofferson and Linnea Hanson

3:20 p.m. Chaparral does not “need” to burn: correcting fire ecology myths and understanding the impactof high fire frequency on California shrubland ecosystems. Richard W. Halsey


4:10 p.m. Successfully regenerating native California oaks: what we have learned in twenty years. DouglasD. McCreary

4:30 p.m. Oaks 2040: an inventory of carbon and California oaks. Tom Gaman

4:50 p.m. Using fire to restore Baker cypress populations in northern California. Kyle Merriam and ErinRentz

5:10 p.m. Fire and the persistence of McNab cypress populations in northern California. Chris Mallek(student)

5:30 p.m. The national native plant materials development program. Mary K. Byrne, Christina Lund, andPeggy Olwell

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Session 11: The Science and Synergy of Restoring Rare Plant PopulationsSession Chair: Bruce Pavlik, Ph.D. (Mills College)

Room: 314

How can damaged populations of rare plants be restored? Techniques for understanding and manipulatingpopulation size, vital rates, habitat quality, and genetic composition have been developed over the last twodecades, but not widely or convincingly implemented. Perhaps species with “cooperative” life historycharacteristics should receive priority over those under the most dire of circumstances as we learn to dorestoration. This session presents a critical assessment of the scientific and institutional requirements for“successful” enhancement and creation of populations in situ. Speakers will provide examples of rare plantrestoration projects, analyze characteristics that determine success and underscore the importance ofstructured decision-making, long-term commitment, and stakeholder cooperation.

10:00 a.m. Recovery of the federally endangered Santa Cruz bush mallow. Dieter Wilken and KathrynMcKeachern

10:20 a.m. Effects of restoration and monitoring activities on Santa Clara Valley Dudleya (Dudleyasetchellii). Amy Langston and Tom Fraser

10:40 a.m. Camatta Canyon Amole (Chlorogalum purpureum var. reductum) experimental restoration. AliceKoch and Deborah Hillyard

11:00 a.m. Experimental treatments and management of endangered Presidio Clarkia (Clarkia franciscana).Lewis Stringer, Christal Niederer and Stuart Weiss

11:20 a.m. New approaches to restoration, management, and reintroduction of an endangered wildflower.Grey F. Hayes and Karen D. Holl


1:40 p.m. Constraints on population recruitment for a rare serpentine seep thistle. Janell M. Hillman and V.Thomas Parker

2:00 p.m. Survivorship and plant-plant interactions: effects on population evolutionary potential. Erin K.Espeland and Elizabeth A. Leger

2:20 p.m. Silverswords and lobeliads: restoring Hawaii’s marvels of evolution. Robert Robichaux, PattyMoriyasu, Ane Bakutis, Lyman Perry, Kealii Bio, Steven Bergfeld, Tim Tunison, Tanya Rubenstein,Marie Bruegmann, Rhonda Loh, Rick Warshauer, Thomas Belfield, and Nick Agorastos

2:40 p.m. Back to the future: rare plant protection in the Golden Gate Estuary. Peggy L. Fiedler, A. KateKnox, and Esa K. Crumb

3:00 p.m. Nine endangered taxa, one recovering ecosystem: identifying common ground for restoration onSanta Cruz Island. Kathryn McEachern and Dieter Wilken

3:20 p.m. Managing natural and reintroduced rare annual plant populations within a large governmentreservation. Tina Carlsen, Lisa Paterson, and Teneile Alfaro


4:10 p.m. Towards successful reintroductions: the combined importance of species traits, site quality, andrestoration technique. Thomas N. Kaye

4:30 p.m. Success breeds success: adaptive management of Tahoe yellow cress. Alison E. Stanton andBruce M. Pavlik

4:50 p.m. Institutions and adaptive management. Holly Doremus

5:10 p.m. Panel Discussion (40 minutes)

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Session 12: Plant Science for ConservationSession Chairs and Moderators: Melanie Gogol-Prokurat, California Department of Fish and Game,

Ellen Dean, Ph.D., UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity, and Stephen McCabe, UC Santa Cruz Arboretum

Room: 315

Subsession I: Genetic Structure and Adaptive Potential

Understanding the genetic structure and adaptive potential of plant populations is an important componentof predicting their responses to change over time, including the effects of habitat fragmentation and climatechange. Studies on local adaptation, local and regional patterns of population genetics, and adaptive potentialprovide valuable data to inform conservation and restoration strategies. Presentations in this subsession willaddress recent research advances in these areas.

10:00 a.m. Assessing climate change adaptive potential in a Sierra Nevada endemic. Jason P. Sexton, KevinJ. Rice, and Sharon Y. Strauss

10:20 a.m. Comparing field and molecular genetic results in evaluating local adaptation: a cautionary tale.Jessica W. Wright

10:40 a.m. Genetic structure and reproduction of the winter-blooming shrub Dirca occidentalis, a Bay-areaendemic. William Graves and James Schrader

11:00 a.m. Spatial and temporal genetic structure of two rare vernal pool grasses: Neostapfia colusana andTuctoria greenei. Sarah P. Gordon, Heather P. Davis, and Christina M. Sloop

11:20 a.m. Genetic structure of three endangered plants of the Santa Rosa Plain: Lasthenia burkei,Blennosperma bakeri, and Limnanthes vinculans. Christina Sloop and Debra R. Ayres

Subsession II: Taxing Taxonomy: Why is it so hard to know what plant name to use?

Presentations in this subsession provide an update on new methods in plant systematics used to determinethe limits of taxa. Presentations also cover recent name changes in the California flora that will be used in theupcoming revision of The Jepson Manual and new updates to the California Consortium of Herbaria websitethat help track the geographic distribution of California species. Speakers will address conservation issuesaffected by plant taxonomy and systematics.

1:40 p.m. Upcoming name changes in the California flora. Dan Potter

2:00 p.m. The Consortium of California Herbaria: a community approach to maintaining specimeninformation. Richard Moe, Staci Markos, and Sula Vanderplank

2:20 p.m. Cryptic vascular-plant diversity and conservation of the California flora. Bruce G. Baldwin

2:40 p.m. Invasive species hybridization and its significance to conservation. Kristina A. Schierenbeck

3:00 p.m. Polyploids and conservation decision making: incorporating recent genomic insights and GIStools to identify polyploids of conservation interest. Patrick McIntyre (student)

3:20 p.m. Morphometrics, molecules and the coalescence: evolutionary relations in Astragaluslentiginosus, the most taxon-rich species in the US flora. Brian J. Knaus (student)


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S A T U R D AY, J A N U A R Y 1 7

7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration Open

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Session 1: Keynote Address: Jerome Ringo, Apollo Alliance

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break

Session 2: Climate Change and Session 3: Planning Tools for

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon California’s Native Flora Conservation of Rare Plants Session 4: Rare PlantsRoom: Sac Convention Center and Natural Communities Room: SCC 315

(SCC) 306 & 307 Room: SCC 314

12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break (on own)

12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Exhibitors & Trade Show, Photo & Botanical Illustration Contests, Poster Session OpenRoom: East Lobby

Session 5: Regional: Session 6: Regional: Session 7: Regional: Session 4:

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Great Basin and Central Coast California Floristic Province Rare PlantsDesert Provinces and Valley in Baja California Room: SCC 315Room: SCC 306 Room: SCC 307 Room: SCC 314

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Refreshment Break

Session 5: Regional: Session 6: Regional: Session 7: Regional: Session 4:

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Great Basin and Central Coast California Floristic Province Rare PlantsDesert Provinces and Valley in Baja California Room: SCC 315Room: SCC 306 Room: SCC 307 Room: SCC 314

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Reception: 6:30 Welcome Address, Appetizers & No-host bar and Silent Auction 1st biddingRoom: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Camellia & Gardenia Ballrooms

7:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Poetry Reading Consortium of CA Film: Nature’s Refuge(8:00 p.m.) Herbaria (8:00 p.m.)

Room: Tofanelli Room: Bataglieri Room: Camellia & Gardenia

S U N D AY, J A N U A R Y 1 8

7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration Open

7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Exhibitors & Trade Show, Photo & Botanical Illustration Contests, Poster Session Open – East Lobby

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Session 8: Keynote Address: Stephen Hopper, Executive Director Kew Royal Botanic Gardens


Session 9: Assessing and Session 10: Session 11: Session 12:

10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Mitigating Impacts—Sensitive Land Restoring Rare Plant SciencePlants and Communities Management Plant Populations for Conservation

Room: SCC 306 Room: SCC 307 Room: SCC 314 Room: SCC 315

11:40 a.m. – 1:40 p.m. Session 13: Poster Session w/ authors and Catered Lunch & Silent Auction – East Lobby

1:40 – 3:40 p.m. Legislative Workshop, Room: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Bondi Conference Room


1:40 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Mitigating Impacts—Sensitive Land Restoring Rare Plant SciencePlants and Communities Management Plant Populations for Conservation




4:10 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. Mitigating Impacts—Sensitive Land Restoring Rare Plant SciencePlants and Communities Management Plant Populations for Conservation


6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Poster Session w/ authors and No-host Cocktails & Silent Auction – East Lobby

Session 14: Banquet California Native Plant Society – California Botanical Society 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Keynote Address: John Muir Laws, Naturalist

Room: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Camellia and Gardenia Ballroom

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7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration OpenExhibitors & Trade Show, Photo & Botanical Illustration Contests, Poster Session Open – East Lobby

Session 15: Session 16: Session 17: Using Session 12:Invasive Plants Equal Protection Vegetation Classification Plant Science for

8:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. Room: SCC 306 for Plants and Mapping to Promote ConservationRoom: SCC 307 Native Plant Conservation Room: SCC 315

Room: SCC 314


Session 15: Session 18: Regional: Session 17: Using Session 19:Invasive Plants Southern California Vegetation Classification Regional:

10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. Room: SCC 306 Room: SCC 307 and Mapping to Promote North WesternNative Plant Conservation Room: SCC 315

Room: SCC 314

11:40 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break (on own)

Session 20: Session 18: Regional: Session 17: Using Session 19:Land Acquisition for Southern California Vegetation Classification Regional:

1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. Plant Conservation Room: SCC 307 and Mapping to Promote North WesternRoom: SCC 306 Native Plant Conservation Room: SCC 315

Room: SCC 314


Session 20: Session 18: Regional: Session 17: Using Session 19:Land Acquisition for Southern California Vegetation Classification Regional:

3:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. Plant Conservation Room: SCC 307 and Mapping to Promote North WesternRoom: SCC 306 Native Plant Conservation Room: SCC 315

Room: SCC 314


5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Session 21: Plenary Close and Evaluation: Jim NelsonRoom: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Magnolia Ballroom

7:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. CNPS Rare Plant Committee Meeting, Room: Tofanelli

8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Debrief Meeting for Executive and Steering Committees

T U E S D AY, J A N U A R Y 2 0

The Art of Field Sketching: Drawing Plants, Basics of Native Grass Seed Collection and StorageBasic Wilderness First Aid, California Natural Diversity Data base Tools Workshop

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Fifty Plant Families and Introduction to the 2nd Edition of The Jepson ManualInvasive Plant Management Workshop

Introduction to the 2nd Edition of A Manual of California VegetationRare Plant Surveys, Mutual Gains Negotiations, Audubon at Home/plant propagation

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The Art of Field Sketching: Drawing Wildlife

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Fifty Plant Families and Introduction to the 2nd Edition of The Jepson ManualIntroduction to NEPA/CEQA for Botanists, Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations and Vegetation

Rare Plant Surveys, Mutual Gains Negotiations Vernal Pool Invertebrates

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Subsession III: Plant Science for Conservation: Considerations in Restoration and Reserve Design

The success of native plant restoration and reserve design hinges on many factors. Species, population, andcommunity attributes, such as genetic structure, habitat requirements, and species interactions, affect long-term population sustainability. Spatial habitat configuration, including size and isolation, affect processessuch as dispersal, pollination, and gene flow. Climate change and other factors causing changes in habitatsover time may affect long-term conservation outcomes. Talks in this subsession (and in the fourth subsessionon Monday morning) will focus on research, monitoring and models addressing these issues.

4:10 p.m. Can spatial isolation help predict dispersal-limited sites for native species restoration? KaraMoore, Sarah Elmendorf, and Susan Harrison

4:30 p.m. Importance of local vs. landscape factors affecting establishment of native understory plants atriparian forest restoration sites along the Sacramento River. Karen Holl, Charles McClain, PrairieL. Johnston, and David M. Wood

4:50 p.m. Seed zones for native grass restoration in the Sierra Nevada bioregion. Kevin Rice, Jay Kitzmiller,and Linnea Hanson

5:10 p.m. Predicting potential changes in vegetation patterns in an eastern Sierra Nevada plantcommunity using future climate scenarios. Sharon Martinson, Michael Loik, Holly Alpert, andRonald Neilson

5:30 p.m. Using predictive habitat modeling to prioritize habitats for conservation of the rare plants of thegabbroic soils in El Dorado County, California. Melanie Gogol-Prokurat (student) and MarcelHolyoak

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Session 13: Contributed PostersSession Chairs: Ellen Dean, UC Davis and Mark Bibbo, EDAW

Dedicated Poster Sessions with Author or Representative Present

11:40 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. Catered Lunch

6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. No-host Cocktail Hour

Room: East Lobby

Subsession: Outreach

1. Using university course projects to fulfill habitat management requirements of a landmanagement agency. Suzanne Worcester and Bruce Delgado

2. A 20-year volunteer monitoring project: Neostapfia colusana at Jepson Prairie Preserve. CarolW. Witham and Tom Griggs

3. The role of citizen scientist in plant conservation: The Santa Rosa Plain “Adopt a Vernal Pool”Endangered Plant Survey program. Christina M. Sloop

4. K-12 project based education and community partnerships for restoration of coastal plantcommunities. Amanda Yantos and Jane Atkins

5. The literary correlatives of California Floristic Provinces. Michael Ziser

Subsession: Habitat Conservation

6. Conservation planning for the conifer forest and chaparral in the Sierra de Juárez Baja California,Mexico. Jesús Zatarain, Juan Manuel García, and Alan Harper

7. Conservation easements on natural areas: the role of nonprofit organizations. Eliza Maher,Sasha Auer, and Deborah Rogers

8. Palo Prieto Conservation Bank: San Joaquin kit fox conservation benefits California native flora.Meg Perry, Daniel Meade, Jason Dart, LynneDee Althouse, and Audrey Woodruff

9. Critical habitat for Limnanthes floccosa ssp. californica. Barbara Vlamis and Mary Muchowski

10. U.C. Merced, a consensus planning success story? Carol W. Witham

11. Identification, mapping, and conservation of California’s Important Bird Areas. Mike Perlmutter,Andrea Jones, and Graham Chisholm

12. Using the “Federal Maritime Zone” to conserve wetlands in San Quintín Bay, Baja California,Mexico. Sergio Mata, Juan Manuel García, and Alan Harper

Subsession: Vegetation

13. Plant inventory and monitoring under a habitat conservation plan: the first four years in westernRiverside County. Diane Menuz

14. Mapping oak woodlands for impact assessment. John Hunter and Matt Wacker

15. Climate envelope modeling in California sage scrub: defining the bioclimatic niche. Erin C.Riordan (student) and Philip W. Rundel

16. Use of gradsects to strategize field sampling for large-area vegetation analyses. Eric B. Peterson,Todd Keeler-Wolf, Rosalie Yacoub, and Kristi Fien

17. Applying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ecosystem Framework to evaluate thecollective performance of meadow studies in Yosemite. Lisa Acree

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18. Native vegetation community monitoring in multiple species HCP/NCCP plans. Spring Strahmand Douglas Deutschman

19. Blackbrush and fire: regional assessment of recent losses. Karen L. Prentice, Todd C. Esque, andChristina L. Lund

20. Native plant species and community mapping in the Scotts Creek watershed. Kurt Payne(student), Brett Hall, Jim West, Dylan Neubauer, Brian Dietterick, and Matt Ritter

21. Identification and mapping of rare vegetation types in the East Bay (Alameda and Contra Costacounties). Susan Bainbridge

22. Linking vegetation dynamics with physical processes, a key step in developing restorationstrategies for a semi-arid river and its floodplain. Zooey Diggory, Bruce Orr, Amy Merrill, WilliamSears, and Peter Brand

Subsession: Seeds

23. The development of a seed increase program on the San Bernardino National Forest. ErinShapiro (student)

24. Nursery production of local ecotype seed in the San Joaquin Valley of California. BriannaBorders, Nur Ritter, Ken Lair, and Patrick Kelly

25. Seed propagation of selected endangered species of the San Francisco Bay Area. Holly Forbes,Barbara Keller, and John Domzalski

26. King Range Native Perennial Bunchgrass program. Jennifer Wheeler

Subsession: Restoration

27. Restoring abandoned agricultural and grazing lands to coastal sage scrub and maritimesucculent scrub in coastal San Diego County. Robert MacAller and Mark W. Dodero

28. Long-term outcomes of experimental coastal sage scrub restoration in coastal San Diego. Tyler S.Lau and Isabelle S. Kay

29. Response of thirteen native plant species to addition of fertilizer or a moisture retaining productat planting. David Spencer, Greg Ksander, Pui-Sze Liow, and Wailun Tan

30. Assessing long-term recovery of native understory plants at riparian forest restoration sites alongthe Sacramento River. Charles D. McClain (student), Karen D. Holl, and David M. Wood

31. Putting northern California’s botanical bounty to work: using native plants for restoration on theShasta-Trinity National Forest. Susan Erwin, Twyla Miller, and Julie Kierstad Nelson

32. Restoration of rare natural communities in the eastern Sierra – from seed to community. AnneHalford, Diana Pietrasanta, and Kathleen Nelson

33. Meta-analysis of 17 riparian restoration sites in Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and theDelta. Amy Merrill, Megan Keever, and Nicole Jurjavcic

34. What to plant in Central Valley hedgerows: relative success of three native flowering forb mixes atthree densities. Marit L. Wilkerson (student), Katharina Ullmann, Claire Kremen, and Truman P.Young

35. Disturbance and vernal pool grasslands. Sherry Adams and Daniel Gluesenkamp

36. Restoring coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia): patterns in natural recruitment and best practicetechniques for establishment. Jutta Burger, Jennifer Briggs, Jared Considine, Megan Lulow, AprilNewlander, and David Olson

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37. Nutrient addition effects on plant composition in vernal pool mesocosms. Jamie M. Kneitel andCarrie Lessin

Subsession: Rare Plants

38. An emerging protocol for surveying rare moonworts in the Sierra Nevada mountains. AlisonColwell, Donald Farrar, Joanna Clines, and Dena Grossenbacher

39. Endemism and rarity in California’s flora: are most endemic and rare species edaphic specialists?Nishanta Rajakaruna and Nick Jensen

40. Aspects of reproductive biology of the California state-threatened plant Hazardia orcuttii(Orcutt’s goldenbush) (Asteraceae). Julie Miller (student) and George Vourlitis

41. Calystegia stebbinsii: a rare plant of the northern Sierra Nevada foothills. Karen Callahan andWayne Schwartzkopf

42. Relationships between rainfall periodicity and population dynamics of the rare and endangeredspecies Eriastrum densifolium spp. sanctorum. Youssef C. Atallah, C. Eugene Jones, Jack H. Burk,David F. Moskovitz, Heather Clayton, Sean E. Walker, Darren R. Sandquist, and Frances M.Shroshire

43. Population distribution and age structure of Baker cypress stands in northern California andsouthern Oregon. Erin Rentz and Kyle Merriam

44. Species distribution modeling of the rare manzanita Arctostaphylos rainbowensis andimplications for conservation of the species in southern California. C. Matt Guilliams (student),Janet Franklin, and Alexandra Syphard

45. Conservation genetics of the endangered Butte County meadowfoam (Limnanthes floccosa ssp.californica). Christina M. Sloop, Carolina Pickens, and Sarah P. Gordon

46. Incorporating demography, genetics, and cytology into long-term management plans for a rare,endemic alpine species: Draba asterophora. Emily Smith (student) and Loreen Allphin

47. Conservation and habitat restoration for a rare plant, Dudleya multicaulis, at the El Sobrantelandfill in Riverside County. Jeannine Ross, Diana Saucedo-Ortiz, Matt Guilliams, Mark Dodero,and Robert MacAller

48. Translocation and habitat restoration techniques for the state- and federally-listed Otay tarplant(Deinandra conjugens). Mark Dodero and Robert MacAller

49. Implications of certain timberland management effects on the Humboldt milk-vetch (Astragalusagnicidus), a state-endangered species. Maralyn A. Renner, David Bigger, Gordon Leppig, andElicia Wise

50. Site-specific management strategies for the endangered western lily (Lilium occidentale) inHumboldt and Del Norte counties. Jennifer l. Kalt and David K. Imper

51. Successful salvage and transplantation of federally endangered San Diego ambrosia (Ambrosiapumila): a case study. Josh Corona-Bennett (student)

52. Fountain thistle conservation efforts. Sonya Foree

53. Propagation and establishment of Potentilla hickmanii at a new site. Mary Goldman and ConnieRutherford

54. Scale considerations in monitoring and censusing Lane Mountain milk-vetch change over time.Mark B. Hessing and Connie Rutherford

55. A politicized Calystegia in Mendocino County. Julie A. Verran

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56. Conservation of a rare serpentine endemic, Lupinus constancei Nelson & Nelson (Lassics lupine).Sydney Carothers (student), David Imper, and Lisa D. Hoover

Subsession: Taxonomy

57. Comprehensive interactive plant keys for California. Bruce S. Barnes

58. Are morphotypes of Streptanthus polygaloides (Brassicaceae) distinct genotypes worthy oftaxonomic subdivision and conservation? Michael Fong (student), Robert Boyd, and NishantaRajakaruna

59. Exploring species relationships within the Mimulus palmeri Clade (Phrymaceae). Naomi Fraga(student)

60. Phylogenetic analysis of relationships within Phacelia (Boraginaceae) inferred from chloroplastand nuclear sequence data. Genevieve K. Walden (student) and Robert Patterson

61. A classification of Santa Barbara Channel Island Dudleya species based on molecularphylogenetic data. Jenn Yost (student), Stephen McCabe, and Matt Ritter

62. Genetic diversity of a California endemic terrestrial orchid assessed with ISSR polymorphisms.Jyotsna Sharma, Sheeja George, and Vern Yadon

63. A new annual rush (Juncus section Caespitosi) from Shasta County, California. Carol W. Withamand Peter F. Zika

Subsession: Ecology

64. Direct and indirect effects of a specialist herbivore on corn lily (Veratrum californicum) in asubalpine meadow community. Jim Alford (student) and Jamie M. Kneitel

65. Sierran endemic Mimulus laciniatus : adaptation to an ephemeral habitat. Megan Demarche(student), Jason P. Sexton, and Kevin J. Rice

66. Pollinator-mediated competition between two species of Limnanthes in vernal poolcommunities. Ryan Briscoe Runquist (student)

67. Lichens as biomonitors of air quality in the south coast air basin of California. Jennifer Riddell(student), Pamela Padgett, Thomas H. Nash III, and Sarah Jovan

68. Effects of altered fire regime and habitat loss on an obligate seeding plant in southern California.Helen Regan, Rebecca Swab, John Crookston, Janet Franklin, and Dawn Lawson

69. Effects of moisture and heat on the germination of two Ceanothus species (Rhamnaceae). SeanRyan (student), Erik Baxter, and Susan Lambrecht

Subsession: Climate Change

70. Climatic and edaphic drivers of ecosystem invasibility by Bromus tectorum L. in the easternSierra Nevada. Amy Concilio (student) and Michael Loik

71. The effect of increased salinity due to rising sea levels on germination rates in the San FranciscoBay-Delta. Bianca Dailey (student) and V. Thomas Parker

72. Detecting shifting stand structure and composition in subalpine woodland in the Sierra Nevada,USA. Christopher Dolanc (student)

73. Predicting the response of endemic woody plants to climate change using plant functional traits.Michal Shuldman (student) and Todd Dawson

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74. Tuolumne Meadows lodgepole encroachment and restoration. Lusetta Nelson and John King

75. Climate change impacts on San Francisco Bay-Delta tidal wetlands. V. Thomas Parker, JohnCallaway, Mike Vasey, Lisa Schile, and Ellen Herbert

76. The relevance of temperature to Bromus tectorum invasion in the Intermountain West, withestimates of habitat suitability over time. Eric B. Peterson

77. The effects of watering regime and invasive species on seasonal plant community structure inthe Mojave Desert. Megan E. Lulow and Jan H. Goerrissen

Subsession: Invasives

78. Decline in collections of native annuals and the increase in collections of nonnative species inthe California deserts. Richard Spjut

79. An analysis of the seedbank at Joshua Tree National Park in sites invaded by exotic annualgrasses. Heather Schneider (student) and Edith Allen

80. Effects of vehicular and mixed-use trails on recruitment of exotic flora in Zuma Canyon,California (Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area). John David Hodder, Maya E. S.Wille, Emmanuel V. Masongsong, Eric J. Daza, and Rudolf H. T. Mattoni

81. Above- and below-ground feedbacks following exotic plant invasion and restoration of coastalsage scrub of southern California. S. J. M. Dickens (student), E. B. Allen, and L. S. Santiago

82. Biology and management of non-native plant species in the Santa Monica Mountains NationalRecreation Area. Robin Kent, Emmeline Kiyan, Emily Althoen, Sarah Schliemann, and ElliotChasin

83. Nonnative plants and bees meet the natives along the Cosumnes and American Rivers. ByronLove (student) and Patrick Foley

84. Interactive effects of population genetic diversity and resident community composition on thesuccess of an annual invasive species. Heather McGray (student), Marlyse Lombardo, andKatharine N. Suding

85. Comparison of plant species and soil characteristics between native and non-native dominatedgrasslands in Santa Barbara County. Nicole Molinari (student) and Carla D’antonio

86. Community assembly in California grasslands differs with soil nitrogen. Rebecca Aicher(student) and Katharine N. Suding

87. Islands of invasion: dominance of exotic species beneath oak canopies in California grasslands.K. A. Stahlheber (student) and C. M. D’antonio

88. Habitat selection of an established population of non-native Rio Grande wild turkeys in aprotected open space preserve in Northern California. Sara Ornelas (student), Rachel O’malley,and Will Russell

89. Ecology and control of Spartina densiflora, and restoration of native salt marshes in HumboldtCounty, California. Andrea Pickart, Joel Gerwein, Andrea Craig, and Ellen Tatum

90. PlantRight: partnering with the horticultural industry to stop the sale of invasive plants.Christiana Conser

91. The cost and effectiveness of small-scale control methods on fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, inNatividad Creek Park, Salinas, California. Abigail Gwinn

92. Conserving the Siskiyou mariposa lily: dyer’s woad management. Marla Knight and NadineKanim

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93. Control of dyers woad (Isatis tinctoria) within Shasta Chaenactis (Chaenactis suffrutescens)populations in the upper Trinity River corridor. Shauna Hee

94. Reproductive biology of cape ivy (Delairea odorata) in California. Ramona Robison

95. Using herbicide to control artichoke thistle in rare plant habitat. Joshua Tallis and Virginia White

96. California prairie: our unknown landscape. Glen Holstein

96b. Developing native seed recommendations for Southern California ecoregions. Arlee Montalvoand Jan Beyers

Subsession: Chapter Programs

97. Alta Peak Chapter: influencing land use decisions in Tulare county. Joan Stewart

98. Channel Islands Chapter: flora of Ventura county. David Magney

99. Channel Islands Chapter: Navarretia ojaiensis – a new rare species. David Magney

100. Dorothy King Young Chapter: coastal Mendocino community battles gorse: Glimmers ofprogress. Julie Larke

101. East Bay Chapter: conservation projects of the East Bay Chapter. Lech Naumovich, Laura Baker

102. East Bay Chapter: East Bay Chapter’s informational tools. Charli Danielson

103. East Bay Chapter: Native Here Nursery. Bob Case

104. El Dorado Chapter: conservation efforts in Pine Hill area of El Dorado county. Susan Durham,Joanne Geggatt, Cindy Podsiadlo

105. Kern County Chapter: members making a difference in Kern county habitat conservation. LauraStockton

106. Mount Lassen Chapter: removing invasive plants in public space working with volunteer labor inassociation with the California Native Plant Society, Mount Lassen Chapter. April Grossberger,Susan Mason, Jim Bishop

107. Redbud Chapter: creating a nature reserve with a native plant garden. Brad Carter

108. Redbud Chapter: Donner Summit-South: protecting watersheds, old-growth forests andmontane meadows. Eric Jorgenson

109. Los Angeles/Santa Monica Chapter: sod farms to riparian forest: a world-class urban wildliferefuge created in 20 years. Steve Hartman

110. Marin Chapter: twenty-two years of rare plant monitoring in Point Reyes National Seashore. BobSoost

111. Monterey Bay Chapter: protecting habitat in areas of high Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) use. BrianLeNeve

112. Napa Valley Chapter: a summary of chapter activities: a propagation nursery, native plantdocents, habitat garden, and non-native eradication programs. Steve Konakis

113. North Coast Chapter: Six Rivers National Forest’s challenge cost-share program: North CoastChapter stretches federal funding to conduct long-term monitoring and research. Jennifer Kalt,Sydney Carothers

114. Orange County Chapter: the Orange County Chapter of CNPS is the voice for preservation ofOrange County’s native plants and habitats and other conservation issues. Celia Kutcher

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115. Riverside/San Bernardino Chapter: conservation outreach activities of the CNPS, Riverside-SanBernardino Chapter. Arlee Montalvo

116. Sacramento Valley Chapter: Elderberry Farms Native Plant Nursery. Chris Lewis, Jennifer Stock

117. San Diego Chapter: revegetation quality following pipeline excavation project in Mission TrailsRegional Park. Carrie Schneider

118. Santa Clara Chapter: conservation on Coyote Ridge. Kevin Bryant

119. Santa Clara Chapter: the restoration of Edgewood County Park and Preserve. Kevin Bryant

120. Santa Cruz Chapter: Santa Cruz Chapter’s success stories. Linda Brodman

121. Sequoia Chapter: restoration, trailblazing, and interpretation in a county park. Warren Shaw

122. Sanhedrin Chapter: rare plant roulette: testing a habitat model in the search for Tracyina rostratain the Mendocino National Forest. Peter Warner, Vishnu, Kerry Heise, Tara Athan, SydneyCarothers, Lisa Hoover, Tom Carlberg

123. Yerba Buena Chapter: habitat restoration in San Francisco. Tom Annese

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Sunday Evening, January 18

Session 14: California Botanical Society and California Native Plant Society BanquetRoom: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Magnolia Ballroom

7:00 p.m. Banquet Dinner Served

7:45 p.m. Banquet Welcome, Amanda Jorgenson, California Native Plant Society

7:50 p.m. California Botanical Society Annual Members’ Meeting

7:55 p.m. Conference Awards, Drawing, and Live Auction

8:00 p.m. Keynote Address: A Fierce Green Fire: Renewing Commitment to Stewardship in Nature. JohnMuir Laws, Naturalist

Travelers among the peaks and meadows of the Sierra Nevada cannot but be inspired by its power and beauty.This range is both a source and a reservoir for rich biodiversity. Learning to distinguish and understanding the

relationships between the manyspecies enriches our experience anddeepens our love of them. This lovepowerfully motivates us as stewards ofthe species and the region. Powerfullymotivated communities of stewardshave sprung up throughout the region,organized around friends groups,watershed alliances, plant societies,and more. These groups are exposingpeople to the joy of exploring nature,educating youth and adults aboutbiodiversity, and motivating politicalaction. Stewardship groups areincreasingly interconnected andsupport each other in a commonmission and new scientific researchand tools have given us greater insightand ability to think about the Sierra asa system. The Sierra is the spine ofCalifornia, supplying much of ourwater and framing our identity. So toomay the conservation movement ofthe Sierra inspire and motivatestewardship throughout the state.

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Monday Morning, January 19

Session 12: Plant Science for ConservationSubsession IV: Considerations in Restoration and Reserve Design II

Room: 315

8:00 a.m. The way the wind is blowing: the reproductive fate of a rare wind-pollinated vernal pool grass(Neostapfia colusana). Heather G. Davis, Sarah P. Gordon, and Christina Sloop

8:20 a.m. Cryptic anthers and an endangered Sidalcea: elucidating the role of insect pollinators. Joan M.Leong

8:40 a.m. What rare plants can tell us about preserve management? Debra Ayres

9:00 a.m. Using the results of long-term monitoring to conserve Pedicularia crenulata in the EasternSierra. Ann Howald

9:20 a.m. Modeling the habitat distribution of Ione manzanita (Arctostaphylos myrtifolia) in AmadorCounty, California. Seth Hiatt, Barbara Holzman, and Jerry Davis

Session 15: Invasive Plants: Addressing a Top Threat to Native Plants in California

Session Chairs and Moderators: Doug Johnson, California Invasive Plant Council andSteve Schoenig, California Department of Fish and Game

Room: 306

Impacts from invasive species imperil California native ecosystems on a scale comparable to climate changeand habitat destruction. This subsession explores these impacts and the programs working to address“wildland weeds” in California. Topics include invasive plant classification, key research needs, currentmanagement tools and techniques, and how CNPS chapters are joining the effort.

8:00 a.m. Impact of invasive plants on native species in California and around the world. John Randall

8:20 a.m. Invasive weeds in California and major programs addressing them. Wendy West and JoannaClines

8:40 a.m. Tools and approaches for invasive plant management: integrating brains and brawn. DanielGluesenkamp

9:00 a.m. Assessing research priorities for invasive plants in California. Mona Robison

9:20 a.m. The role of the California Native Plant Society in invasive exotic plant management. Robert Caseand Donald Mayall


Subsession II: Innovative Case Studies in Invasive Plant Management and Research

A range of efforts are required to effectively address the ecological threat of invasive plants. This subsessionpresents examples of research on the efficacy of control techniques, historical analysis of invasion, and themapping, planning and executing of on-the-ground management programs.

10:00 a.m. Reproduction and potential for invasiveness of eucalyptus in California. Matt Ritter, Jenn Yost,and Melinda Kralj

10:20 a.m. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee: invasive plant survey and treatment by helicopter on SantaCruz Island. John Knapp, Coleen Cory, and Kevin Walker

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10:40 a.m. Native plant conservation program for BLM’s Payne Ranch Cache Creek Natural Area. CraigThomsen, Ellen Dean, Gregg Mangan, Gordon Harrington, and Jack Alderson

11:00 a.m. CNPS invasive plant control project at Edgewood County Park, San Mateo County, California.Paul Heiple, Ken Himes, and Christal Niederer

11:20 a.m. Impacts of the invasive forbs Brassica tournefortii and Erodium cicuatarium in the desert annualcommunities and strategies for management: a comparison. Robin Marushia (student) andJodie S. Holt

Session 16: Equal Protection for Plants

Session Chairs and Moderators: Emily Roberson, Native Plant Conservation Campaign andDiana Hickson, California Department of Fish and Game

Room: 307

Is equal protection for plants possible? Presentations in this session will discuss challenges and opportunitiesfor plant conservation in state and federal laws, budgets, and policies.

8:00 a.m. Equal protection for plants under state law. Keith G. Wagner

8:20 a.m. Do federal land management agencies give equal protection to plants? The California Bureau ofLand Management as a case study. John Willoughby

8:40 a.m. Hidden in plain sight: the role of plants in State Wildlife Action Plans. Bruce Stein and KellyGravuer

9:00 a.m. Equal protection for plants in the U.S.: challenges and opportunities. Emily Roberson

9:20 a.m. Panel Discussion

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Session 17: Vegetation Science

Deb Hillyard, California Department of Fish and Game and Bruce Orr, Ph.D., Stillwater Sciences

Room: 314

Subsession I: Focus on Mapping

Vegetation science provides many useful lessons and tools for native plant conservation in California. This firstsubsession provides examples of recent progress in developing more standardized, data-driven approaches tovegetation classification and mapping that should greatly improve our ability to coordinate and implementlocal, regional, and statewide planning efforts to protect and conserve native species, habitats, communities,and ecosystems.

8:00 a.m. How to build a state-wide vegetation map. Todd Keeler-Wolf and Diana Hickson

8:20 a.m. Vegetation photo interpretation: field ecology from the air. John Menke

8:40 a.m. A GIS model of the historical distribution of native woody vegetation on the valley floor of YoloCounty, California. Jahalel Lee Tuil, Steven E. Greco, and Michael Barbour

9:00 a.m. Mapping California’s vegetation prior to Euro-American modification: the historical ecologyapproach. Micha Salomon, Robin Grossinger, and Alison Whipple

9:20 a.m. Collaborative inter-agency classification and mapping of Humboldt County dunes. AndreaPickart, Ayzik Solomeshch, Leonel Arguello, Tamara Gedik, Jennifer Wheeler, and Gillian Levy


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Monday Morning/Afternoon, January 19

Session 17: Vegetation Science (continued)

Subsession II: Value of Vegetation Data for Conservation Planning

The second subsession focuses on the many ways in which vegetation data can be used for conservation andmanagement planning.

10:00 a.m. Using historic and recent vegetation maps to evaluate environmental drivers of landscape-scaleconversion of coastal sage scrub to exotic grassland. Kristine Preston, Peter Sadler, RobertJohnson, Greg Miller, and Edith Allen

10:20 a.m. Using vegetation data as the basis for regional conservation planning in the San Francisco BayArea. Ryan Branciforte and Stu Weiss

10:40 a.m. Mapping and monitoring regional vegetation distributions for use in conservation planning.Brian Fulfrost

11:00 a.m. What Grows Here as a tool for local conservation planning, and an alternative way of viewingvegetation data. John Malpas and Roy West

11:20 a.m. The power of vegetation mapping for informing conservation and management goals—a casestudy of the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve and adjacent lands. Colleen Hatfield and DeanFairbanks

11:40 a.m. Lunch Break (on your own) – 1 hour, 20 minutes

Subsession III: Use of Vegetation Data for Predictive Ecological Modeling

Presentations in the third subsession discuss modeling rare plant habitat, estimating fuel loads and likely firebehavior, documenting changes from historical conditions, and predicting future ecological trajectories undervarious management and environmental change scenarios.

1:00 p.m. Assessing pine bark beetle mortality in southern California forests 1997-2007. Mark Rosenbergand Jim Thompson

1:20 p.m. Vegetation change detection of Suisun Marsh, Solano County, California: 1999, 2003 and 2006.Rachelle Boul, Mehrey Vaghti, and Todd Keeler-Wolf

1:40 p.m. Using vegetation data to guide fire management. David Schmidt

2:00 p.m. Using vegetation maps for resource management planning: a case study from the Mt. Tamalpaiswatershed. Janet Klein and Nicolas Salcedo

2:20 p.m. Using vegetation indices derived from moderate resolution remote sensing data for conservationplanning in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Scott Phillips


Subsession IV: Conservation of Rare Natural Communities

Presentations in the fourth subsession provide a review of the role of existing laws and regulations inprotecting rare plant species and natural vegetation types, and an overview of recent and ongoing efforts toinventory and map both common and rare vegetation types throughout California.

3:00 p.m. Using existing laws to protect rare vegetation. Deborah Hillyard and Keith G. Wagner

3:20 p.m. The role of the California Coastal Act in the conservation of sensitive species and naturalcommunities. Jonna Engel and John Dixon

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3:40 p.m. Inventory and mapping of rare plant communities—state of knowledge and adoption ofstandardized techniques. Julie Evens

4:00 p.m. Recent progress in creating a robust vernal pool vegetation classification system. MichaelBarbour, Ayzik Solomeshch, Jennifer Buck, Virginia Meyer, and Christy Owens

4:20 p.m. Riparian vegetation classification, mapping and ecosystem dynamics analysis: Important toolsfor large-scale river corridor restoration in semi-arid lands. Bruce Orr, Amy Merrill, GretchenCoffman, William Sears, and Zooey Diggory


Session 18: Southwestern California and Channel Islands Conservation

Session Chair and Moderator: Gary Wallace, Ph.D., US Fish and Wildlife Service andRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Room: 307

Coastal Southern California has the highest concentration of rare and endemic plants as well as being thestate’s most populous region. This first of three subsessions includes presentations on the region’s flora,sources of rare plant data, and a conservation strategy for a rare non-listed annual plant.

10:00 a.m. Southwestern California and the Channel Islands: An overview. Gary Wallace

10:20 a.m. The remnant coastal dunes of southern California. Kevin B. Clark

10:40 a.m. Locally rare plants of Ventura County . David Magney

11:00 a.m. San Diego County Plant Atlas: Documenting the flora of a threatened biodiversity hotspot. JonRebman and Mary Ann Hawke

11:20 a.m. Conservation strategy for the Kelso Creek monkeyflower (Phrymaceae). Naomi Fraga


The second subsession continues with presentations on using field, museum, and laboratory data to developmanagement strategies. The final presentation of this session describes a multi-partner conservation strategyfor a rare listed annual plant.

1:00 p.m. Current status of sensitive plants on San Clemente Island, California. Steve Junak and JonathanDunn

1:20 p.m. Seeing climate change through the lives of plants: using data from herbarium specimens toassess climate change in San Diego County. Mary Anne Hawke and Layla Aerne Hains

1:40 p.m. Moving beyond genetic diversity: using genetic data to manage rare plant taxa. MitchellMcGlaughlin

2:00 p.m. The multi-faceted contributions to conservation of California plants from Ranch Santa AnaBotanic Garden. Lucinda McDade

2:20 p.m. A conservation strategy for Trichostema austromontanum subsp. compactum (Hidden LakeBluecurls; Lamiaceae). Naomi Fraga, Ken Keitzer, Jonathan Snapp-Cook, Michael Wall


The third subsession examines some of the various conservation strategies in place in southern California.These include strategies for a single nonlisted species, for private lands in Los Angeles County, for carbonate

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substrates on mining claims in the San Bernardino National Forest, and for lands under a large HCP in SanDiego. The final presentation will assess the effectiveness value of a variety of different conservation programs.

3:00 p.m. Conservation strategy for Agave shawii subsp. shawii. Sula Vanderplank (student)

3:20 p.m. A habitat management strategy for threatened and endangered carbonate-endemic plants of theSan Bernardino Mountains, southern California. Scott A. Eliason and Maile C. Neel

3:40 p.m. The significant ecological areas of Los Angeles County: a land use planning conservation tool.Daryl Koutnik

4:00 p.m. Building the foundation for rare plant conservation success in the San Diego South CountyMultiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP). Kathryn McEachern, Bruce Pavlik, Jon Rebmanand Rob Sutter

4:20 p.m. HCPs/NCCPs and other conservation plans – do they really conserve rare plants? IleeneAnderson


Session 19: Northern California and Sierra Nevada Conservation

Session Chair and Moderator: Brett Hall, UC Santa Cruz Arboretum

Room: 315

This session covers Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, and the White Mountains. This diverse regionharbors tremendous floristic diversity – from coastal wetlands and prairies, redwood forests, serpentinebarrens, to montane fens and subalpine communities. Presentations provide insight and perspective onnumerous single-species, habitat, and plant community conservation issues, including evolutionary biology,reproductive strategies, influence of wildfire, landscape-level stewardship, disturbance regimes, and more.

10:00 a.m. The importance of evolutionary context in the management of plant species and communities inNorthern California. Kristina A. Schierenbeck

10:20 a.m. Rare plant challenges in the Klamath Mountains. John Sawyer

10:40 a.m. Restoring former timberlands in Redwood National and State Parks, mile by mile, acre by acre.Leonel Arguello

11:00 a.m. Fens of the northern Sierra: their ecosystem character and conservation-strategy beginnings. JimBishop and Catie Bishop

11:20 a.m. The conifers of northwest California. Michael Kauffman


1:00 p.m. Regional collaboration to protect and restore meadows in North-central Sierra Nevada. AmyMerrill, Carrie Monohan, and Elizabeth Soderstrom

1:20 p.m. Managing serpentine outcrops to conserve rare plant species on the Feather River RangerDistrict of the Plumas National Forest. Linnea Hanson and Chris Christofferson

1:40 p.m. Setting the stage for plant conservation in the southern Sierra Nevada in the 21st century: anoverview of vegetation and plant studies in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. SylviaHaultain and Linda Mutch

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2:00 p.m. The effects of drought on life history trade-offs between time and size in the California Clarkias.Kathleen Kay and Kjell Bolmgren

2:20 p.m. Diversity and management of rare Arctostaphylos and Ceanothus species in chaparral. V. ThomasParker


3:00 p.m. A conservation strategy for ultramafic soil-associated rare plant species of the Rattlesnake CreekTerrane, Klamath Ranges, Northwestern CA. Julie K. Nelson

3:20 p.m. The Cedars, a Sonoma County floristic hot spot, becomes focus of conservation efforts. RogerRaiche

3:40 p.m. Lilium of Northwestern California: conservation challenges for the 21st Century. David Imper

4:00 p.m. Trends in fire severity and fire activity in the Sierra Nevada, California. Hugh Safford and Jay D.Miller

4:20 p.m. Five millennia of population dynamics in ahigh-altitude population of Bristlecone pine.Adelia Barber


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Monday Afternoon, January 19

Session 20: Land Acquisition for Plant ConservationMichael Eaton, Ph.D., Resources Legacy Fund Foundation

Room: 306

Large scale land acquisition—establishing broad pathways of permanent protection that bridge ecoregions,elevational zones, and floristic provinces—may offer the best hope for protecting native plant communities inthe face of climate change and other challenges. The good news? Conservation organizations and publicagencies are thinking big—from the desert to the redwoods and from the coast to the Sierra—and producingsome very exciting results. This session presents some great successes in ongoing regional conservationthrough land acquisition.

1:00 p.m. Conservation in the Tehachapi Connection. Mike White

1:20 p.m. Connectivity conservation: a key to preserving plant and animal biodiversity. Kristeen Penrod

1:40 p.m. Hidden landscape: the proposed Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area. BobSchneider

2:00 p.m. California’s Great Central Valley: current conservation collaborations. Kimberly Delfino

2:20 p.m. Master planning for strategic, prioritized conservation of the coast redwoods. Laura Kindsvaterand Daniel Porter


3:00 p.m. Native plant community conservation: a shared mission (with Audubon California). GrahamChisholm

3:20 p.m. Conservation partnerships protect significant plant/animal communities across California. JohnP. Donnelly

3:40 p.m. Mitigation in the service of conservation: an alternative financial model for perpetual preservemanagement. Deborah L. Rogers

4:00 p.m. Land acquisition for plant conservation:The experience and perspectives of theBureau of Land Management inCalifornia. Christina Lund and JohnWilloughby

4:20 p.m. Panel Discussion


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Monday Evening, January 19

Session 21: Closing Plenary: Setting the Vision in MotionRoom: Sheraton Grand Hotel, Magnolia Ballroom

5:00 p.m. Closing Plenary Welcome, Gordon Leppig, California Department of Fish and Game

5:05 p.m. Now what? A closing plenary activity, Jim Nelson, Nelson Facilitation

Where do we go from here? How do we convert the energy, enthusiasm and ideas at this conference intoaction? What conservation tools are missing or could be better used? What ideas or concerns were notpresented, but also need to go to the fore? This interactive brain-storming session calls upon participants topropose or envision what comes next. How can CNPS better implement its conservation and educationalmissions? How can state and federal agencies, cities and counties join forces more effectively? What of theranchers, land trusts and other strategic partners? Where is the synergism? Attend this session, be a catalyst,and help plan the future of conservation in California.

6:20 p.m. CNPS Closing Words, Tara Hansen, Incoming Executive Director, California Native PlantSociety

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Speaker Index

Acree, Lisa, National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, P.O. Box 700, El Portal CA 95318; [email protected] 13

Adams, Sherry, The Bouverie Preserve of Audubon Canyon Ranch, PO Box 1195, Glen Ellen CA 95442;[email protected] 13

Aicher, Rebecca, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Irvine, 5205 McGaughHall, Irvine CA 92697; [email protected] 13

Alford, Jim, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street,Sacramento CA 95819-6077; [email protected] 13

Allen, Edith, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside CA 92521-0124;[email protected] 5

Alpert, Holly, PO Box 504, Mammoth Lakes CA 93546; [email protected] 5

Anderson, Ileene, Center for Biological Diversity, PMB 447, 8033 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90046;[email protected] 18

André, James M., HC1 Box 101, Kelso CA 92351; [email protected] 5

Arguello, Leonel, Redwood National and State Parks, 121200 US Highway 101, Orick CA 95519;[email protected] 19

Atallah, Youssef C., Department of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton, California92834-6850; [email protected] 13

Ayres, Debra, Evolution and Ecology, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 12

Baad, Michael, Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento CA95819; [email protected] 20

Bainbridge, Susan, Jepson Herbarium, 1001 VLSB #2465, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720;[email protected] 13

Baldwin, Bruce G., Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building#2465, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-2465; [email protected] 12

Barber, Adelia L., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz CA 95062; [email protected] 19

Barbour, Michael, Plant Sciences Department, MS 1, University of California, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 17

Barnes, Bruce S., PO Box 1831, Pendleton OR 97801; [email protected] 13

Bartosh, Heath, East Bay Chapter CNPS, 832 Escobar Street, Martinez CA 94553; [email protected] 4

Bishop, Jim, Plumas National Forest, 785 Mitchell Ave., Oroville CA 95965; [email protected] 19

Borders, Brianna, California State University Stanislaus’ Endangered Species Recovery Program,1900 N. Gateway Boulevard, Suite 101, Fresno CA 93727; [email protected] 13

Boul, Rachelle, California Department of Fish & Game, 1807 13th St. Suite 202, Sacramento CA 95811;[email protected] 17

Boyd, Steve, Herbarium, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont CA 91711;[email protected] 4

Bramlet, David D., Bramlet Consulting Biologist, 1691 Mesa Dr. No. A-2, Santa Ana CA, 92707;[email protected] 4

Branciforte, Ryan, Bay Area Open Space Council, 631 Howard Street, Suite 510, San Francisco CA 94105;[email protected] 17

Brown, Matt, USDA Forest Service, Eldorado National Forest, 100 Forni Rd., Placerville CA 95667,[email protected] 10

Brusati, Elizabeth, California Invasive Plant Council, 1442-A Walnut St. #462, Berkeley CA 94709;[email protected] 2

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Buck, Jennifer, California Native Plant Society, 2707 K Street, Suite 1, Sacramento CA 95816; [email protected] 6

Burger, Jutta, Irvine Ranch Conservancy, 4727 Portola Parkway, Irvine CA 92602; [email protected] 13

Burt, Jennifer Williamson, (Student), Department of Plant Sciences (Mail Stop 1), University of California,1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 10

Callahan, Karen, Redbud Chapter, California Native Plant Society, 13896 Jesse Lane, Grass Valley 95945;[email protected] 13

Carlsen, Tina, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-179, Livermore CA 94551; [email protected] 11

Carothers, Sydney, CNPS North Coast Chapter, PO Box1607, Arcata CA 95521; [email protected] 13

Case, Robert, 2945 Corte Miguel Concord CA 94518; [email protected] 14

Chisolm,Graham, Audubon California, 4225 Hollis Street, Emeryville CA 94608; [email protected] 20

Christofferson, Chris, USDA Forest Service, Plumas National Forest, Feather River Ranger District,875 Mitchell Ave, Oroville CA 95965; [email protected] 10

Clark, Kevin B., Clark Biological Services, 7558 Northrup Drive, San Diego CA 92126;[email protected] 7, 18

Colwell, Alison, Resources Management & Science, Yosemite National Park, 4053 Foresta Road, El PortalCA 95318; [email protected] 13

Concilio, Amy; Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street,Santa Cruz CA 95060; [email protected] 13

Conser, Christiana, Sustainable Conservation, 98 Battery St., Suite 302, San Francisco California 94111;[email protected] 13

Corona-Bennett, Josh, EDAW, Inc., 1420 Kettner Blvd., Suite 500, San Diego CA 92101;[email protected] 13

Cypher, Ellen, California Department of Fish & Game, 1234 East Shaw Avenue, Fresno CA 93710;[email protected] 10

Dailey, Bianca, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco CA 94132; [email protected] 13

Davis, Heather G., Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA 94928; [email protected] 12

Dean, Ellen, UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity, Plant Sciences M.S. 7, One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 4

Delfino, Kim, Defenders of Wildlife, 1303 J Street, Suite 270, Sacramento CA 95818; [email protected] 6, 20

Demarche, Megan, University of California, Davis, Department of Plant Sciences Mail Stop 1, One ShieldsAve., Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 13

Dickens, S. J. M., Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, RiversideCA 92521; [email protected] 13

Diggory, Zooey, Stillwater Sciences, 2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 400, Berkeley California 94705;[email protected] 13

DiGregoria, John, Point Reyes National Seashore, 1 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station CA 94956;[email protected] 4

Dodero, Mark, RECON Environmental Inc., 1927 5th Ave. San Diego CA 92101; [email protected] 7, 13

Dolanc, Christopher, University of California, Davis, Ecology Graduate Group, and Department of PlantSciences, Plant and Environmental Sciences Building, MS1, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 13

Donnelly, John P., Wildlife Conservation Board 1807 13th Street, Suite 103, Sacramento CA, 95816;[email protected] 20

Doremus, Holly, School of Law, University of California, Davis, 400 Mrak Hall Dr., Davis CA, 95616;[email protected] 11

Egan, Sarah, ECORP Consulting, Inc., 2525 Warren Drive, Rocklin, CA 95677; [email protected] 20

Eliason, Scott, San Bernardino National Forest, PO Box 290, Fawnskin CA 92333-0290; [email protected] 18


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Erwin, Susan, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Weaverville Ranger District, PO Box 1190, Weaverville CA 96093;[email protected] 13

Espeland, Erin K., USDA ARS NPARL, 1500 N. Central Avenue, Sidney MT 59270; [email protected] 11

Evens, Julie M., California Native Plant Society, 2707 K Street, Suite 1, Sacramento CA 95816; [email protected] 17

Ferren Jr., Wayne R., Maser Consulting P. A., 332 Newman Springs Rd., Suite 203, Red Bank NJ 07701;[email protected] 7

Fiedler, Peggy L., WSP Environment & Energy, 160 Franklin Street, Suite 300, Oakland CA 94607;[email protected] 11

Fong, Michael, Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University, One Washington Square,San Jose CA 95192-0100; [email protected] 13

Forbes, Holly, University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, 200 Centennial Drive #5045, BerkeleyCA 94720-5045; [email protected] 13

Foree, Sonya, City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, 1657 Rollins Road,Burlingame CA 94010; [email protected] 13

Fraga, Naomi, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 1500 N. College Avenue, Claremont CA 91711;[email protected] 18 (2 presentations), 13

Fulfrost, Brian, Senior Associate, DCE Planning, 1625 Shattuck, Suite 300, Berkeley CA 94709 17

Gaman, Tom, California Oak Foundation, 24 Kehoe Way, PO Box 276, Inverness CA 94937 10

García-Caudillo, Juan Manuel, Terra Peninsular, PMB 189003, Ste 88, Coronado CA 92178;[email protected] 7

Gennet, Sasha, The Nature Conservancy, 201 Mission St., 4th Floor, San Francisco CA; [email protected] 6

Giusti, Greg, University of California Cooperative Extension Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program,890 N Bush Street, Ukiah CA 95482; [email protected] 20

Gluesenkamp, Daniel, Audubon Canyon Ranch, PO Box 1195, Glen Ellen CA 95442; [email protected] 15

Gogol-Prokurat, Melanie, Ecology Graduate Group, Department of Environmental Science and Policy,UC Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; [email protected] (student) 12

Going, Barbara, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, 2132 Wickson Hall, University of California,Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 02

Goldman, Mary, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060; [email protected] 13

Gordon, Sarah P., Department of Biology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA 94928;[email protected] 12

Graves, William, Iowa State University, 008 Horticulture Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1100; [email protected] 12

Gravuer, Kelly, NatureServe, 1101 Wilson Blvd., 15th floor, Arlington VA 22209; [email protected] 16

Guilliams, C. Matt, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego CA92182; [email protected] 13

Gwinn, Abigail, Return of the Natives Restoration Education Project at the Watershed Institute, Building 42,100 Campus Center, Seaside CA 93955; [email protected] 13

Halford, Anne, Botanist, Bishop Field Office, 351 Pacu Lane, Bishop CA 93514; [email protected] 4, 13

Halsey, Richard W., California Chaparral Institute, PO Box 545, Escondido CA 92033;[email protected] 10

Hanson, Linnea, USDA, Forest Service, Plumas National Forest, Feather River Ranger District, 875 MitchellAve., Oroville CA 95965; [email protected] 19

Harrison, Susan, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California – Davis, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 2

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Hatfield, Colleen, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University—Chico, Chico CA 95929;[email protected] 17

Haultain, Sylvia, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 47050 Generals Highway, Three Rivers CA 93271;[email protected] 19

Hawke, Mary Ann, San Diego Natural History Museum, PO Box 121390, San Diego CA 92112-1390;[email protected] 18

Hayes, Grey F., Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program, 1700 Elkhorn Road, Watsonville CA 95076;[email protected] 11

Hee, Shauna, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, PO Box 1190, Weaverville CA 96093; [email protected] 13

Heiple, Paul, 441 Conil Way, Portola Valley CA 94028; [email protected] 15

Hessing, Mark B., Fort Irwin Natural Resources Section, DPW-Env, PO Box 105085, Fort Irwin CA 92310;[email protected] 13

Hiatt, Seth, 245 Easy St. #16 Mountain View CA.; [email protected] 12

Hillman, Janell M., Santa Clara Valley Water District, 5750 Almaden Expwy, San Jose CA 95118;[email protected] 11

Hillyard, Deborah, California Department of Fish and Game, PO Box 1388, Morro Bay CA 93443;[email protected] 11, 17

Hillyard, Karen, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95064;[email protected] 12

Hodder, John David, California Wetlands Research, PO Box 3792 Manhattan Beach CA 90266;[email protected] 13

Holland, Bob, Geobotanical Phenomenology, 3371 Ayres Holmes Road, Auburn CA 95602;[email protected] 5, 4, 6

Holstein, Glen, 1509 Pacific Drive, Davis, California 95616; [email protected] 13

Hopkins, John, Institute for Ecological Health, 409 Jardin Place, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 3

Howald, Ann, Garcia and Associates, One Saunders Avenue, San Anselmo CA 94960;[email protected] 12

Hunter, John, EDAW, 2022 J Street, Sacramento CA 95811; [email protected] 13

Imper, David, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1655 Heindon Road, Arcata CA 95521; [email protected] 19

Ingram, Stephen, 140 Willow Road, Swall Meadows, CA 93514; [email protected] 5

Jabis, Meredith, Northern Arizona University, Biological Sciences, PO Box 5640, Flagstaff AZ 86011;[email protected] 4

Johansen, Jeff, Department of Biology, John Carroll University, University Heights, OH 44118;[email protected] 5

Junak, Steve, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara CA 93105;[email protected] 18

Kalt, Jennifer L, 1947 Ocean Drive, McKinleyville CA 95519; [email protected] 13

Kauffmann, Michael, 4312 Lentell Road, Eureka CA 95503; [email protected] 19

Kay, Kathleen, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, EMS A308, University of California,Santa Cruz CA 95064; [email protected] 19

Kaye, Thomas N., Institute for Applied Ecology, PO Box 2855, Corvallis Oregon 97339-2855;[email protected] 11

Keeler-Wolf, Todd, Biogeographic Data Branch, California Department of Fish and Game, 1807 13th St.Room 202, Sacramento CA 95811; [email protected] 17

Keeley, Jon E., U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Field Station,Three Rivers CA 93271, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, LosAngeles CA 90095; [email protected] 10

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Kelly, Mike, Kelly & Assoc., PO Box 26455, San Diego CA 92196; [email protected] 4

Kent, Robin, Devine Tarbell & Associates, Inc., 2720 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 300, Sacramento CA 95833;[email protected] 13

Kindsvater, Laura, Save the Redwoods League, 114 Sansome Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco CA 94104;[email protected] 20

Klein, Janet, Marin Municipal Water District, 220 Nellen Avenue, Corte Madera CA 94925; [email protected] 17

Knapp, Eric, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 3644 Avtech Parkway, Redding CA 96002;[email protected] 10

Knapp, John, 1129 N. Poppy St., Lompoc CA 93436; [email protected] 15

Knaus, Brian J., Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2082 Cordley Hall,Corvallis OR 97331; knausb@ science.oregonstate.edu 12

Kneitel, Jamie M., Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street,Sacramento CA 95819-6077; [email protected] 13

Knight, Marla, U.S. Forest Service, Klamath National Forest, 11263 N. Hwy 3, Fort Jones CA 96032;[email protected] 13

Kopchik, John, Contra Costa County Department of Conservation and Development, 651 Pine Street, NorthWing, 4th Floor, Martinez CA 94553; [email protected] 3

Koutnik, Daryl, Impact Sciences, Inc., 803 Camarillo Springs Road, Suite A, Camarillo CA 93012;[email protected] 18

La Doux, Tasha, HC1 Box 101, Kelso CA 92351; [email protected] 5

Langston, Amy, WRA, Inc. 2169 East Francisco Blvd., Suite G, San Rafael CA 94901; [email protected] 11

Lau, Tyler S., University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093-0116; [email protected] 13

Leong, Joan M., Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 3801 WestTemple Ave., Pomona CA 91768; [email protected] 12

Leyva, Claudia, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. PMB-064 PO Box 189003, Coronado CA 92178;[email protected] 7

Lis, Richard, California Department of Fish and Game, 2440 Athens Avenue, Redding CA 96001; [email protected] 9

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Loarie, Scott R., Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305;[email protected] 02

Loik, Michael E., Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95064;[email protected] 02

Love, Byron, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Sacramento, 6000 J Street,Sacramento CA 95819-6077; [email protected] 13

Lulow, Megan E., California State University, 800 N. State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831 and the Universityof California Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, PO Box 101, Kelso CA 92309;[email protected] 13

Lund, Christina, Bureau of Land Management, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento CA 95825;[email protected] 20

Macaller, Robert, RECON Environmental Inc., 1927 5th Ave. San Diego CA 92101; [email protected] 13

Magney, David, CNPS Channel Islands Chapter, PO Box 6, Ojai CA 93024; [email protected] 18, 3, 9

Maher, Eliza, Center for Natural Lands Management, 215 West Ash Street, Fallbrook CA 92028;[email protected] 13

Mallek, Chris, Graduate Group in Ecology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California,1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 10

Malpas, John, The Calflora Database, 1700 Shattuck Av #198, Berkeley CA 94709; [email protected] 17

Manning, Sara, Inyo County Water Department, PO Box 337, Independence CA 93526; [email protected] 5

Marr, Jenny, California Department of Fish and Game, 1100 Fortress Street, Suite 2, Chico CA 95973;[email protected] 3

Martinson, Sharon, General Delivery, Mammoth Lakes CA 93546; [email protected] 12

Marushia, Robin, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, RiversideCA 92521; [email protected] 14

Mashayekhi, Saeideh, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 North College Avenue, Claremont CA 91711;[email protected] 4

Mata, Sergio, Terra Peninsular A. C., Lago Chapala 405 Valle Dorado, Ensenada 22890, Baja California, Mexico;[email protected] 13

McClain, Charles D., Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Chico CA 95929;[email protected] 13

McCrary, Mary Ann, California Department of Transportation, PO Box 993454, Redding CA 96099-3454;[email protected] 10

McCreary, Douglas D., University of California Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program,UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Sierra Foothill Researchand Extension Center, 8279 Scott Forbes Road, Browns Valley CA 95918; [email protected] 10

McDade, Lucinda, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Avenue, Claremont CA 91711;[email protected] 18

McEachern, Kathryn, USGS—Channel Islands Field Station, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura CA 93001;[email protected] 11, 18

McGlaughlin, Mitchell, School of Biology, University of Northern Colorado, 501 20th St., Ross Hall, GreeleyCO 80639; [email protected] 18

McGraw, Jodi, Population and Community Ecologist, PO Box 883, Boulder Creek CA 95006;[email protected] 4

McGray, Heather, University of California, Irvine Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5205 McGaugh Hall,Irvine CA 92697; [email protected] 13

McIntyre, Patrick J., University of California Davis, Center for Population Biology, 2320 Storer Hall,1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 12

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McKinney, Tony, Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, 6010 Hidden Valley Road, Carlsbad CA 92009;[email protected] 9

Menke, John, Aerial Information Systems, 112 First Street, Redlands CA 92373; [email protected] 17

Menuz, Diane, Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan Biological MonitoringProgram, 4500 Glenwood Dr, Bldg C, Riverside CA 92501; [email protected] 13

Merriam, Kyle, USDA Forest Service, Sierra-Cascade Province, 159 Lawrence Street, Quincy CA 95971;[email protected] 10

Merrill, Amy, Stillwater Sciences, 2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 400, Berkeley CA 94705;[email protected] 19, 13

Millar, Constance I., USDA Forest Service, Sierra Nevada Research Center, Albany CA 94710; [email protected] 02

Miller, Julie; California State University, San Marcos, Twin Oaks Valley Rd., San Marcos CA 92096;[email protected] 13


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Minnich, Richard, Department Of Earth Sciences, University Of California, Riverside CA 92521;[email protected] 06, 07

Moe, Richard, University and Jepson Herbaria, 1001 VLSB #2465, Berkeley CA 94720; [email protected] 12

Molinari, Nicole, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology University of California, Santa BarbaraCA 93106; [email protected] 13

Montalvo, Arlee, Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District, 4500 Glenwood Drive, Riverside Drive,Riverside, CA 92501; [email protected] 13

Moore, Kara, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 12

Nelson, Julie Kierstead, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, 2644 Avtech Parkway, Redding CA 96002;[email protected] 19

Nelson, Lusetta, 9736 Chapel Lane, PO BOX 700, El Portal CA 95318; [email protected] 13

O’Brien, Bart C., Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Avenue, Claremont CA 91711;[email protected] 7

Olwell, Peggy, Bureau of Land Management, Washington Office, 1620 L Street, NW, Washington DC 20036;[email protected] 10

Ornelas, Sara, San Jose State University, Environmental Sciences Graduate Department, One WashingtonSquare, San Jose CA 95192; [email protected] 13

Orr, Bruce, Stillwater Sciences, 2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 400, Berkeley CA 94705; [email protected] 17

Parker, V. Thomas, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue,San Francisco CA 94132; [email protected] 02 (alternate speaker), 9, 13, 19

Pavlik, Bruce, Department of Biology, Mills College, Oakland CA 94613; [email protected] 5

Payne, Kurt, Biological Sciences Department, Cal Poly, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo CA 93407;[email protected] 13

Perlmutter, Mike, Audubon California, 4225 Hollis Street, Emeryville CA 94608; [email protected] 13

Perry, Meg, Althouse and Meade, Inc., 1875 Wellsona Road, Paso Robles CA 93446; [email protected] 13

Peterson, Eric B., California Native Plant Society, 2707 K Street, Suite 1, Sacramento CA 95816-5113;[email protected] 13 (2 posters)

Penrod, Kristeen, South Coast Wildlands, PO Box 1052, Fair Oaks CA 95628; [email protected] 20

Phillips, Scott, California State University Stanislaus Endangered Species Recovery Program, 1900 N. GatewaySte. 101, Fresno CA 93727; [email protected] 17

Pickart, Andrea, Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 6800 Lanphere Road, Arcata CA 95521;[email protected] 4, 13

Platenkamp, Gerrit A. J., EDAW Inc., 2022 J Street, Sacramento CA 95811; [email protected] 9

Plater, Brent, Golden Gate National Recreation Area Endangered Species Big Year, 556 61st Street, # A, OaklandCA 94609; [email protected] 4

Porter, J. Mark, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont CA 91711;[email protected] 5

Potter, Dan, Plant Sciences M.S. 2, One Shields Ave., UC Davis, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 12

Prentice, Karen L., Bureau of Land Management, Ely District Office, HC 33 Box 33500, Ely NV 89301;[email protected] 13

Preston, Kristine, Assistant Research Ecologist, Center for Conservation Biology, University of CaliforniaRiverside, 1303C Webber Hall, Riverside CA 92521; [email protected] 17

Preston, Rob, ICF Jones & Stokes, 630 K Street, Sacramento CA 95814; [email protected] 6

Raiche, Roger, 2485 Old Lawley Toll Road, Calistoga CA 94515; [email protected] 19

Rajakaruna, Nishanta, Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University, One Washington Square,San Jose CA 95192-0100; [email protected] 13

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Randall, John, TNC Global Invasive Species Team, Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 4, University ofCalifornia, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 15

Rebman, Jon, San Diego Natural History Museum, PO Box 121390 San Diego, CA 92112-1390;[email protected] 7, 18

Regan, Helen, Biology Department, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside CA 92521;[email protected] 13

Reiner, Rich, The Nature Conservancy, 500 Main Street, Chico CA 95928; [email protected] 10

Renner, Maralyn A., Humboldt Redwood Company, LLC, PO Box 712, Scotia CA 95565; [email protected] 13

Rentz, Erin, Happy Camp Ranger District, Klamath National Forest, PO Box 377, Happy Camp CA 96039;[email protected] 13

Rice, Kevin, Department of Plant Sciences, 1 Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 12

Riddell, Jennifer, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, POB 874601, Tempe AZ 85287;[email protected] 13

Riemann, Hugo, Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y del Medio Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte,km 18.5 Carretera Escénica, Tijuana—Ensenada, San Antonio del Mar, Baja California 22709;[email protected] 7

Riordan, Erin C., Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E.Young Dr. South, Los Angeles CA 90095; [email protected] 13

Ritter, Matt, Biological Sciences Department, Cal Poly, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo CA 93407;[email protected] 15

Roberson, Emily, Native Plant Conservation Campaign, Center for Biological Diversity;[email protected] 16

Robichaux, Robert, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721and Hawaiian Silversword Foundation, PO Box 1097, Volcano HI 96785; [email protected] 11

Robison, Ramona, California Botany and California Invasive Plant Council, 1925 Meer Way, SacramentoCA 95822; [email protected] 13, 14

Rogers, Deborah, 184 Bobolink Way, Hercules CA 94547; [email protected] 7, 20

Rosenberg, Mark, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE); Fire and ResourceAssessment Program (FRAP); PO Box 944246, Sacramento CA 94244-2460; [email protected] 17

Ross, Jeannine, RECON Environmental, Inc., 1927 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101; [email protected] 13

Runquist, Ryan Briscoe, University of California, Davis, Section of Evolution and Ecology, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 13

Ryan, Sean, San Jose State University, Department of Biology Sciences, DH 254, One Washington SquareCA 95192; [email protected] 13

Safford, Hugh, USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo CA [email protected] 19

Salomon, Micha, San Francisco Estuary Institute, 7770 Pardee Lane, Oakland CA 94621; [email protected] 17

Sawyer, John O., 3673 McMillan Drive, Arcata CA 95521; [email protected] 19

Scheidt, Vince, 3158 Occidental Street, San Diego CA, 92122; [email protected] 9

Schierenbeck, Kristina, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Exotic and Invasive Weeds Research, 920 ValleyRoad, Reno NV 89512; [email protected] 12, 19

Schmidt, David, 3125 Wickson Hall, Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis, CA 95616;[email protected] 17

Schneider, Bob, Tuleyome, 607 North Street, Woodland CA 95695; [email protected] 20

Schneider, Heather, Department of Botany & Plant Sciences 2150 Batchelor Hall, University of California,Riverside CA 92521; [email protected] 13

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Sexton, Jason P., Department of Plant Sciences, 2211 PES (Mail Stop 1), University of California, Davis CA95616; [email protected] 12

Shapiro, Erin, United States Forest Service, 42300 North Shore Drive, Highway 38, Fawnskin CA 92333;[email protected] 13

Sharifi, Rasoul, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,900 Veteran Ave, Los Angeles CA 90095; [email protected] 4

Sharma, Jyotsna, University of Florida NFREC, 155 Research Road, Quincy FL 32351; [email protected] 13

Shuldman, Michal, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 3060 Valley LifeSciences Bldg #3140, Berkeley CA 94720-3140; [email protected] 13

Skaer, Meghan, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park CA 94928; [email protected] 10

Sloop, Christina, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, PO Box 7886, Santa Rosa CA 95407;[email protected] 12, 13 (2 posters)

Smith, Emily, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 275 WIDB, ProvoUT 84604; [email protected] 13

Snapp-Cook, Jonathan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 6010 Hidden Valley Road, Carlsbad CA 92011;[email protected] 4

Solomeshch, Ayzik, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616 17

Spencer, David, USDA ARS Exotic & Invasive Weeds Research Unit, Department of Plant Sciences, MS 4,1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616; [email protected] 13

Spjut, Richard, World Botanical Associates, PO Box 81145. Bakersfield CA 93380-1145; [email protected] 13

Stahlheber, K. A., University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution and MarineBiology 552 University Road, Santa Barbara CA 93106; [email protected] 13

Stanton, Alison, BMP Ecosciences, 2520 Lake Tahoe Blvd Suite #8 South Lake Tahoe CA 96150;[email protected] 11

Steers, Robert, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, 2150 Batchelor Hall, University of California,Riverside, Riverside CA 92521-0124; [email protected] 5

Strahm, Spring, San Diego State University, Mail Code 4614, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego CA 92182;[email protected] 13

Stringer, Lewis, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service. Building 201 Fort Mason, SanFrancisco CA 94123; [email protected] 11

Swiecki, Tedmund, Phytosphere Research, 1027 Davis Street, Vacaville CA 95687;[email protected] 4

Symonds, Kate, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 777 Sonoma Avenue, Rm 325, Santa Rosa CA 95404;[email protected] 4

Tallis, Joshua, ARCADIS U.S., 2033 North Main Street Suite 340, Walnut Creek CA 94596;[email protected] 13

Thomsen, Craig, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 15

Thomson, Andrew, Dudek Engineering and Environmental, 605 Third Street, Encinitas CA 92024;[email protected] 9

Tuil, Jahalel Lee, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 17

Vanderplank, Sula, Herbarium Collections Manager, (RSA-POM), Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden,1500 N College Ave, Claremont CA 91711, [email protected] 7, 18

Vasey, Michael, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street,Santa Cruz CA 95064; [email protected] 6

Verran, Julie A., PO Box 382, Gualala CA 95445; [email protected] 13

Vlamis, Barbara, Butte Environmental Council, 116 W. 2nd Street, Suite 3, Chico CA 95928; [email protected] 13


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Wacker, Matt, EDAW, Inc., 2022 J Street, Sacramento CA 95811; [email protected] 9

Wagner Keith G., 9333 Sparks Way, Sacramento CA 95827; [email protected] 3, 16

Walden, Genevieve K., San Francisco State University, Department of Biology, 1600 Holloway Avenue,San Francisco CA 94132; [email protected] 13

Wallace, Gary D., Botanist, Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, 6010 Hidden Valley Road, Carlsbad, CA92011; [email protected]; Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Avenue, ClaremontCA 91711; [email protected] 18

Weiss, Stuart B., Creekside Center for Earth Observation 27 Bishop Lane, Menlo Park CA 94025;[email protected] 6

West, Wendy, University of California Cooperative Extension, 311 Fair Lane, Placerville CA 95667;[email protected] 15

Wheeler, Jennifer, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Arcata Field Office, 1695 Heindon Road, ArcataCA 95521; [email protected] 13

White, Mike, Conservation Biology Institute, 815 Madison Avenue, San Diego CA 92116; [email protected] 20

White, Scott D., 201 North First Ave., No. 102, Upland CA 91786; [email protected] 9

Wilken, Dieter, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara CA 93105;[email protected] 11

Wilkerson, Marit L., Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 13

Willoughby, John, 2236 Mulberry Lane, Placerville CA 95667; [email protected] 16. 9

Witham, Carol, 1141 37th Street, Sacramento CA 95816; [email protected] 3, 6, 9, 13 (3 posters)

Worcester, Suzanne, Division of Science and Environmental Policy, California State University Monterey Bay,100 Campus Center, Seaside CA 93955; [email protected] 13

Wright, Jessica W., Institute of Forest Genetics, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA- Forest Service,1731 Research Park Drive, Davis CA 95618; [email protected] 12

Wrubel Eric, 1334 Curtis Street, Berkeley CA 94702; [email protected]. 6

Yantos, Amanda, Hilton Bialek Habitat, 4380 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel CA 93922; [email protected] 13

Yost, Jenn, Biological Sciences Department, Cal Poly, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo CA 93407; [email protected] 13

Zatarain, Jesús, Terra Peninsular A. C., Lago Chapala 405 Valle Dorado, Ensenada 22890, Baja California, Mexico;[email protected] 13

Zippin, David, ICF Jones & Stokes, 268 Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94610; [email protected] 4

Ziser, Michael, Department of English, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616;[email protected] 13

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The California Native Plant Society is thankful for all the generous sponsors of theCNPS 2009 Conservation Conference: Strategies and Solutions:

C A L I F O R N I A P O P P Y

Aerial Information Systems, Inc.; California Lichen Society; California Oak Foundation; Cornflower Farms;Ecological Concerns, Inc. (Central Coast Wilds); ECORP Consulting, Inc.; EDAW; ENTRIX; ESA; HedgerowFarms; Gordon Leppig and Julie Neander; LSA Associates, Inc.; Lowepro; Marin Municipal Water District;

Metropolitan Water District; Northern California Botanists; North State Resources; RECON; River Partners; SantaClara Valley Water District; J.P. Smith, Jr.; Southern California Botanists; Vollmar Consulting; Western Section of

The Wildlife Society; Westervelt Ecological Services; CNPS Chapters: East Bay, North Coast, and Santa Cruz

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Carol Witham Brad Jenkins

Documents

CONFERENCE PROGRAM€¦ · At-A-Glance or Conference Program. Conference Registration Desk will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and is located in the East Lobby of the Sacramento