by Vernon Smith | Sep 21, 2024 | News Items
Our long-awaited gala dinner to celebrate our 50th year took place on August 24th at the Corte Madera Community Center. Friends and supporters joined us for a delicious dinner, and an entertaining program on the California Native Plant Society and our chapter’s place in it. It was a great treat to gather with many of you who have worked with and encouraged us all these years as we strove to make...
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by Vernon Smith | Jan 31, 2024 | News Items, Plant Identification
The Challenge As part of our 50th Anniversary festivities, the Marin CNPS Board presents you with the following Challenge: find and photo-document 50 native plants in Marin’s glorious wildlands and be eligible for a drawing at our August 24th Celebration! Prizes may include plant-oriented books, restaurant gift certificates, and more! The goals of the Challenge are to highlight the beauty and...
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by Vernon Smith | Apr 23, 2023 | News Items
Mostly by Kristin Jakob
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by Vernon Smith | Apr 27, 2024 | About, News Items
Protecting while enjoying our favorite public land
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by Vernon Smith | Jan 12, 2023 | News Items
In Memoriam It is with sadness, but also with many fond memories, that we mark the passing of environmental heroine Phyllis Faber on Jan 15 at age 95. The California Native Plant Society and Marin County have lost a visionary leader. Phyllis grew up in an 11th floor apartment in New York City and came to love wildflowers while at summer camps in Maine. She graduated from Yale with an MA in...
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by Bonnie Gosliner | Jun 23, 2022 | About, News Items
Congratulations are in order for Kristin Jakob who was made a CNPS Fellow at last Saturday’s Chapter Council meeting held at Point Reyes Station. This award was richly deserved. For those of you who are not aware of Kristin’s many years of dedicated service to the Marin Chapter of CNPS and the full range of her contributions to the organization, I have included a summary of her...
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