JANUARY 2023

NEWS – Conservation: CNPS OC provides written comment for Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) meeting in general support of the Regional Advance Mitigation Program including the GreenPrint.

11 Wednesday

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom. “Out of the Ice Age and into the Pyrocene: A natural history of Southern California’s chaparral as told from fossils”. Presented by Regan Dunn of the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Click here for info and registration.

17 Wednesday

NEWS – Plant Science: We sold book #850 of WILDFLOWERS of Orange County and the Santa Ana Mountains by Robert Allen and Fred Roberts.

21 Saturday

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ the Dana Point Headlands Nature Interpretive Center 10:00 AM – Noon. 96 plants. 

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Orange Home Grown Education Farm, 356 N. Lemon St, Orange. 10 AM – Noon. 96 plants.

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Concordia University Heritage Garden, 1530 Concordia, Irvine. At the gate say you are picking up a free white sage. 10 AM. 96 plants.

Field Trip: Mosses, Lichens, Liverworts and More in Modjeska Canyon with Chris Wagner, UC Riverside

NEWS – Conservation: CNPS OC provides followup support letter for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Regional Advance Mitigation Program (RAMP).

FEBRUARY 2023

NEWS – Conservation: CNPS OC sends a comment letter to the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board. The letter outlines document discrepencies and nature disruptions (including habitat of FESA listed birds) for the proposed Reclamation Inert Waste Disposal Operation near a section of Santiago Creek. We recommend a full Environmantal Impact Report before the project proceeds.

Board of Directors Meeting – CNPS OC

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Environmental Nature Center, 1601 E 16th St., Newport Beach. 10 AM. 120 plants.

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Orange Home Grown Farmers Market. 9 AM. 48 plants.

Field Trip: Tour of Tree of Life Nursery

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: Michael Simpson presents Plant Dispersal between the American Continents and the Special Case of the Popcorn Flowers

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway returns to the Dana Point Headlands Nature Interpretive Center, 10AM, 96 plants. Sponsored by the City of Dana Point!

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church, 2845 Mesa Verde Dr. E., Costa Mesa. 10 AM. 50 plants.

Field Trip: Oak Canyon Nature Center, Anaheim Hills  Cancelled Due To Rain

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Shipley Nature Center, 17851 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach. 10 AM. 80 plants. Rescheduled to March 4 due to rain.

MARCH 2023

Board of Directors Meeting – CNPS OC

CNPS Board of Director Meeting and Chapter Council Meeting in Orange County

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Shipley Nature Center, 17851 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach. 10 AM. 80 plants.

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: Habitats and Habitat Gardening with Bob Allen 

Field Trip: O’Neill Regional Park, Trabuco Canyon

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom: The Flora of Camp Pendleton and Using iNaturalist to Improve Regional Floristics, with Jon Rebman

Field Trip: Laguna Coast Wilderness with the Laguna Canyon Foundation

FYI: March-Spring-Vernal Equinox

FYI: Tree of Life Nursery Wildflower Festival

Garden Tour: 16 local gardens with native plant and landscape inspiration! 10am-4pm.

2 Sunday

Field Trip: Weir Canyon with the Irvine Ranch Conservancy Cancelled due to rain soaked landscape

Board of Directors Meeting – CNPS OC

Event: We will be at Caspers Wilderness Park – Adventure Day. Come say Hi.

FYI: Theodore Payne Foundation Native Plant Garden Tour

Botany Blitz @ Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park 

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: California Dudleyas – In the Wild, In your Garden, and In Danger.  Steve McCabe, Ron Vanderhoff, Documentary Short Film, Plants for sale.

CNPS OC Plant Sale! @ South Coast Plaza Spring Garden Show, Costa Mesa

Field Trip: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Murrieta

Field Trip: Crystal Cove State Park, Newport Beach/Coast

Field Trip: Hot Springs Canyon

Field Trip: Seaview Park, Niguel Peak to Aliso Peak, Laguna Niguel

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom: Understanding, Appreciating, and Protecting our Native Bee Populations in California – A Community Science Perspective, with Krystle Hickman

CNPS OC Plant Giveaway @ Santa Ana Public Works Day. 107 plants given away.

Field Trip: Morgan Trail, Santa Ana Mountains with Lauren Quan, USFS

Field Trip: Family and Friends Picnic @ Irvine Regional Park, 10am – 2pm

FYI: Summer Solstice

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: Lightning Night – Local Students and Researchers share their Passion and their Projects

Chapter Public Meeting@ the Tustin Clifton Miller Community Center. Moth (and butterfly) Pollination and Native Plants with Chris Cosma.

FYI: September-Autumn Equinox

FYI: Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom. Naomi Fraga and Plant Conservation in Action: Utilizing research, collections, and advocacy to address the plant extinction crisis.

FYI: Southern California Botanists Annual Symposium. Pomona College Claremont.

FYI: Cal-IPC Symposium. CSU Chico and online.

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center. School Night with Tony Tubbs and Stacie Aguesse.

23 Thursday

FYI: Thanksgiving

29 November

Conservation:  Re – Santiago Creek component of the Santa Ana River Mainstem Flood Control Project (SARMP). The chapter sent a comment letter signed by Rebecca Crowe. “OC-CNPS urges the Army Corps of Engineers to reduce the impact and destruction of native plants and vegetation and increase the mitigation requirements in the Smith Basin area of the Santiago Creek component of the SARMP”.  Five categories of issues were identified with details provided.

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom. O’Neill Research Grant recipients from spring 2023.