Newsletter Archives 1988-2014

1988-89 Fall-Winter Peacock Flat Hike
Ellen Frank, President, South Coast Chapter
Point Vicente Interpretive Center (PVIC) Native Garden
Fred Braden, Conservation Chair
1989 Winter-Spring PVIC Native Plant Garden Installation
1989-90 Fall-Winter Periodic Plant Watch
Ellen Frank, President
PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Ellen Frank, President
1990 Spring #1 Crossoma californicum – California Rockflower
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
History of South Coast Chapter, 1982-1990
1990 Spring #2 None
1991 January – March Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
– Marineland (Terranea)
– Forrestal Canyon
– Crest Road Development / Significant Ecological Areas
Native Plant Management – U.S. Navy
San Clemente Island and San Nicholas Island
Cleome isomeris – Bladderpod
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
Benefits of Composting
John Gault
1991 April – June Palos Verdes Peninsula – Significant Ecological Areas
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
Lavatera assurgentiflora – Island Mallow, Malva Rosa
Edward L. Peterson (text), Delores Braden (drawing)
Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
– Forrestal Canyon
– Field Survey, Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park
– Botanical Inventory Palos Verdes Peninsula
Claytonia perfoliata – Indian or Miner’s Lettuce
Charlotte Bringle Clarke (text), Delores Braden (drawing)
Significant Ecological Areas
Betsey Landis, L.A. / Santa Monica Mountains Chapter
Lycium californicum – California Boxthorn
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
Ancient Forests
California Ancient Forest Alliance
1991 September – December Botanical Inventory of the Palos Verdes Peninsula
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
Aphanisma blitoides – Aphanisma
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
Calandrinia maritima – Sea Kisses, Seaside Calandrinia
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
– Subregion 7 & 8 (Ocean Trails)
– Windport Drive / Agua Amarga Canyon
– Forrestal Canyon
1992 April – June Dichelostemma pulchellum – Blue Dicks and
Calachortus catalinae – Catalina Mariposa Lily
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
Native Plants Used by Southern California Indians
Layout of PVIC Native Plant Garden
1994 July – September Castilleja affinis – Paintbrush and
Castilleja exserta – Owl’s Clover
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1994 October – December Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
– Subregion 7 & 8 (Ocean Trails)
– Landslide Moratorium Area / NCCP
– San Pedro – Fort MacArthur Upper Reservation
Keckiella cordifolia – Climbing Penstemon
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1995 April – June Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
– Subregion 7 & 8 (Ocean Trails)
Astragalus tricopodus – Ocean Locoweed, Milkvetch
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
1995 October – December Conservation Report
South Coast Chapter comment letters submitted
PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Trichostema lanceolata – Vinegar Plant
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1996 January – March Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
– Ocean Trails
– Friendship Park, San Pedro
– Crest Road / Agua Amarga Canyon
Restoration Projects of the Palos Verdes Peninsula
– Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly Habitat, San Pedro Fuel Depot
– Linden H. Chandler Preserve
Encelia californica – California Bush Sunflower
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1996 April – June Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
– Landside Moratorium Area
– Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP)
Delphinium parryi – Parry’s Larkspur
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Judy Hamilton, Education Chair
1996 October – December Mimulus aurantiacus – Bush Monkey Flower
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1997 January – March PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Judy Hamilton
Epilobium canum – California Fuchsia
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
22 Charter Members of the South Coast Chapter (1982)
1997 April – June Catalina Island
Ranunculus californicus – California Buttercup
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1997 July – September Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
1997 October – December Asteraceae – Sunflower Family
Trichostema lanceolata – Vinegar Plant
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1998 January – March PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Judy Hamilton
1998 April – June Report on Death Valley
Judy Hamilton
Sanicula arguta – Snakeroot and
Sanicula crassicaulis – Pacific Sanicle
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1998 July – September Advisory Board for Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
Verbena lasiostachys – Common Vervain
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
In Memory of Carole Taylor
Ellen Frank, Past President
Conservation Report
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Conservation Chair
– Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP)
Fort Tejon Road Wildflower Site
Judy Hamilton
1998 October – December A Trip to San Miguel Island
Dawn Aulenbrock
Epilobium canum – California Fuchsia
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1999 January – March Ribes californicum – Hillside Gooseberry
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1999 April – June Eriogonum cinereum – Ashy Leaf Buckwheat and
Eriogonum fasciculatum – California Buckwheat
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi, Rare Plants Chair
1999 July – September Heteromeles arbutifolia – Toyon, California Holly
Tony Baker, Rare Plants Chair
Marble Canyon, northern Owens Valley
Judy Hamilton
1999 October – December PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Closing for “perhaps two months” due to soil contamination
Judy Hamilton
Sagebrush
Jess Morton
2000 January – March Lyonothamnus floribunus – Catalina Ironwood
Specimen at South Coast Botanic Garden
2000 April – June Delphinium parryi – Parry’s Larkspur
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2000 July – September Talbert Nature Preserve – Costa Mesa
Dawn Aulenbrock
Sambucus mexicana – Blue Elderberry
Tony Baker, Rare Plants Chair
2000 October – December Frank O’Brien – Candidate for Los Angeles City Council
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2001 January – March Ranunculus californicus – California Buttercup
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2001 April – June PVIC Native Plant Garden Update
Probably closed until Summer 2003, due to soil contamination
Judy Hamilton
2001 July – September Independent Field Tip Reports
Pt. Mugu State Park
Antelope Valley and Red Rock Canyon State Park
Sierra Spring Sojourn
2001 October – December President’s Message
Friends of the Los Angeles River
Ellen Brubaker
2002 January – March Castilleja affinis – Paintbrush and
Castilleja exserta – Owl’s Clover
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2002 April – June Restoration of Forrestal Preserve
Barbara Sattler
2002 July – September Report on Chapter Council Meeting
Barbara Sattler
Update on the NCCP and the Portuguese Bend Nature Preserve
Barbara Sattler
Point Vicente Interpretive Center
(Closed since 1999 due to discovery of soil contamination)
Second ground-breaking ceremony – June 29, 2002
2002 October – December Friends of the Los Angeles River
“Down by the River” Tours
Dawn Aulenbrock
Dominguez Watershed Advisory Committee tours wetlands
Jess Morton
2003 January – March Ranunculus californicus – California Buttercup
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2003 April – June None
2003 July – September In Search of Wildflowers
Marjorie Crandall
2003 October – December Thoughts on Bees
John Gault
Travels in the Eastern Sierra
Joanne Iwens
2004 January – March Eschscholzia californica – California Poppy
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2004 April – June Conservation Report
Barbara Sattler
– Habitat Restoration work parties
– Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP)
– Forrestal Nature Preserve – Management Plan
Encelia californica – California Bush Sunflower
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2004 July – September Weeds, the Cancers of the Plant World
Charles Blair, Vice President, San Luis Obispo Chapter
Crossosoma californica – California Rockflower
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2004 October – December Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP) approved
by the City of Rancho Palos Verdes on August 31, 2004
Mimulus aurantiacus – Bush Monkey Flower
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2005 January – March Restoration Projects – Volunteers Needed
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
– White Point Nature Preserve
– Defense Fuel Depot, San Pedro
– Forrestal Nature Preserve
– Lunada Canyon
– Chandler Preserve
Marah macrocarpus – Man-root
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2005 April – June Lupinus succulentus – Succulent or Arroyo Lupine and
Lupinus longifolius – Bush Lupine
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2005 July – September Community Campaign to Portuguese Bend
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Malacothrix saxatilis var. tenuifolia – Cliff Aster
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
Tony Baker receives D.A.R. Conservation Award
Carol Roelen
2005 October – December Conservation News
Barbara Sattler
– Acquisition of Portuguese Bend Preserve
– Point View DEIR (Draft Environmental Impact Report)
– Long Point Resort Hotel (newly renamed “Terranea”)
– Pt. Vicente Interpretive Center reconstruction nearly complete
Native Plant Garden at Point Vicente Interpretive Center
Replanting scheduled for early November 2005
$4 Million Raised for Open Space Acquisition
422 acres added to Portuguese Bend Nature Preserve
Why Natives?
Tony Baker
Trichostema lanceolata – Vinegar Plant
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2006 January – March Replanting of the Point Vicente Native Plant Garden
2006 April – June Point Vicente Native Plant Garden Update
Protecting Locally Rare Plants
Elizabeth Chattin, Staff Biologist, for Ventura County
2006 July – September Point Vicente Interpretive Center and Native Plant Garden
Official Grand Re-Opening Scheduled for July 15, 2006
2006 October – December Gutierrezia californica – California Matchweed
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
Carole Taylor Memorial at Point Vicente
2007 February – April Update – Friendship Park
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
Update – Point Vicente Native Plant Garden
Barbara Sattler
Water Quality and Habitat Improvements at Harbor Park
Proposition O providing $117 million in funding
2007 May – June Update – Point Vicente Native Plant Garden
Barbara Sattler
Prisk Elementary School Native Plant Garden
Barbara Sattler
2007 July – September Farewell to Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2007 October – December None
2008 January – March Blue Elderberry – Sambucus Mexicana
Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chair
2008 April – June None
2008 July – September Toyon – Heteromeles arbutifolia
Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chair
Suggestions for Summer Watering
Dan Songster, CNPS Orange County Chapter
2008 October – December CNPS 2009 Conservation Conference
Barbara Sattler, Conservation Chair
2009 January – March CNPS 2009 Conservation Conference
Barbara Sattler, Conservation Chair
2009 April – May Where have all the Pashi gone?
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
2009 June – August Remembering Lupine
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
2009 September – November Sand Food – Pholisma arenanium
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
2009 December – February Conservation Report
David Sundstrom
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Book Review by Loretta Rose
Sympathy for the Devil’s Trumpet
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
2010 March – May Orache: Wild Culinary Green –
Past, Present and Future
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
Dog Gone It –
Sheepdog Successful in Finding Rare Plant
Kayla Gunderson
2010 June – August Tree Mallow – Lavatera Assurgentiflora
Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chair
Seaside Calandrina – Calindrina Maritima
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
2010 September – November Orcutt’s Yellow Pincushion
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
Remembering Ann Mitchell
2010 December – February California Fan Palm
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
Lomita Waterwise Garden Award
Rob Friedrich and Sharon Houston
2011 March – May Meet Our New Board Members
Yas Osako, Rosalie Preston. Anne Eli Rizzardi and Karen Thordarson
2011 June – August Conze Grant Program
Plant of the Month – Lupine
Angelika Brinkmann-Busi
2011 September – November Fall Plant Sale, October 1, 2011
Fun Stuff to do Around Town
2012 January – March Plant of the Quarter: Artemisia
Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chair
Saving Lower Point Vicente
David Sundstrom, Vice President
2012 April – June Chapter archives now reside at CSU Dominguez Hills
Rosalie Preston, Board Member
Plant of the Quarter: Watercress
Ivan Snyder, Rare Plants Chair
Lawns, Lawns and More Lawns
Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chair
2012 July – September Mother Nature’s Backyard – A Water-Wise Demonstration Garden at Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve
Dr. Connie Vadheim, CSU Dominguez Hills
2012 October – December Mystery of the Palos Verdes Walnut
Ivan Snyder, Ethnobotany Chair
2013 January – March Mystery of the Palos Verdes Walnut, Part II
Ivan Snyder, Ethnobotany Chair
Preserving the Preserve (Portuguese Bend)
Jess Morton, Endangered Habitats League
2013 April – June Fighting the Fennel Forest: What a Dedicated Crew and the Right Tools Can Do
Dr. John Thomlinson, CSU Dominguez Hills
2013 July – September Making Tea with California Native Plants
Dr. Connie Vadheim, CSU Dominguez Hills
2013 October – December Wild Cherries
Ivan Snyder, Ethnobotany Chair
We’ve Got the Blues! (7th Annual Butterfly Count)
Lisa Fimiani, Executive Director, Friends of Ballona Wetlands
2014 January – March South Coast Chapter donates $10,000 to CNPS Horticulture Program
David Berman, President
Focus Group completes base plan for Lower Point Vicente; public meetings plannted for 2014
David Sundstrom, Conservation Committee
2014 April – June Stinging Nettle: Friend or Foe?
Ivan Snyder, Ethnobotany Chair
Chapter Field Trip: Tour of Tejon Ranch conserved lands on April 26, 2014
Dr. Michael White and the Tejon Ranch Conservancy staff
2014 July – September Pitseed Goosefoot: Epic Tale of Our Native Quinoa and Wild Spinach
Ivan Snyder, Ethnobotany Chair
Native Plants and Their Pollinators
Dr. Connie Vadheim, CSU Dominguez Hills
Conze Funds Put to Work in Hermosa Beach’s Valley Park
David Berman, President
2014 October – December Tumblin’ Tumbleweed (Russian Thistle)
Tony Baker, Horticulture Co-Chair
Bixby Marshland Turns Five
Mary Jacobs, Sanitation District of Los Angeles County

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