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Tours of Native Plant Gardens in San Anselmo, May 24, 2025

Tours of Native Plant Gardens in San Anselmo, May 24, 2025

Native plant enthusiasts toured two San Anselmo gardens on Saturday, May 24.  Less than one mile apart, the gardens were quite different in location, plants, and topography.  The tour was organized by subscribers to the native plant email group of Marin CNPS. Harold's...

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Tours of Native Plant Gardens in San Anselmo, May 24, 2025

Native plant enthusiasts toured two San Anselmo gardens on Saturday, May 24.  Less than one mile apart, the gardens were quite different in location, plants, and topography.  The tour was organized by subscribers to the native plant email group of Marin CNPS. Harold's...

CNPS Statewide Invasive Species Committee News

Latest News from the CNPS Statewide Invasive Species Committee March 2025 - Caroline Christman Announcements Redbud CNPS Chapter (Placer and Nevada Counties) is working with CNPS State staff on surveying 80,000 acre Mosquito Fire scar for rare and special status...

Case Against Marin Water’s Bicycle “Pilot Programs” Settled

By David Long, CNPS Marin Chapter Board Member In September 2024, CNPS, Marin Conservation League (MCL), and Marin Audubon Society brought an action against the Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD, aka Marin Water) for approving, without CEQA* review, two pilot...

50 Acts of Caring

This year, we are inviting everyone to think about the wider effects of choices we make on our property. People still think of land as a resource for human use, not as a home for thousands of other living things. Can we make room for lichens, lace wings, bunchgrasses...

Join the 50th Anniversary Marin Native Plant Challenge

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...

Marin CNPS Celebrates 50

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...

Join the 50th Anniversary Marin Native Plant Challenge

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...

Phyllis Faber – Environmental Activist

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...

Kristin Jakob – CNPS Fellow

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...

Native Plant Sales Go Online During COVID-19

by Laura Lovett During this pandemic year, many of us took pleasure in gardening. Our garden plots got much more attention than they usually receive, and in response they flourished! However, spring came and went without a CNPS Marin Chapter native plant sale due to...

State Publications and Newsletters of Other CNPS Chapters

State CNPS Publications Other CNPS chapters' newsletters: Bay Area and beyond: Milo Baker Chapter (Sonoma County) September 2013 Napa Valley Chapter Willis Linn Jepson Chapter (Solano County) East Bay Chapter (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) The Bay Leaf Yerba...