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Field Trip Reports -February, 2025 Vegetation Time Travelling & Winter Wonderland Walk in SP Taylor SP
Vegetation Time Traveling(Plant Succession) - 2/12/2025Ann Elliott Understanding plant succession helps to explain how vegetative landscapes change and function.Plants first establish themselves on new land or exposed rock, as after a volcanic eruption. They can...
Field Trip Report – Indian Valley Open Space Preserve, January 4, 2025
By Caroline Christman Participants in the Indian Valley Open Space Preserve plant walk were treated to a misty morning that blossomed into a lovely, sunny day. After we met at the Indian Valley College Campus, we walked past Pacheco Pond to the Ken Harth Waterfall...
Marin Chapter 50th Anniversary
Check out our 50th Anniversary activities.
The Road to Ring Mountain
Efforts to preserve this biological gem
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...
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Field Trip Reports -February, 2025 Vegetation Time Travelling & Winter Wonderland Walk in SP Taylor SP
Vegetation Time Traveling(Plant Succession) - 2/12/2025Ann Elliott Understanding plant succession helps to explain how vegetative landscapes change and function.Plants first establish themselves on new land or exposed rock, as after a volcanic eruption. They can...
Field Trip Report – Indian Valley Open Space Preserve, January 4, 2025
By Caroline Christman Participants in the Indian Valley Open Space Preserve plant walk were treated to a misty morning that blossomed into a lovely, sunny day. After we met at the Indian Valley College Campus, we walked past Pacheco Pond to the Ken Harth Waterfall...
Marin Chapter 50th Anniversary
Check out our 50th Anniversary activities.
The Road to Ring Mountain
Efforts to preserve this biological gem
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...
Wilma Follette Tribute
Mostly by Kristin Jakob
Mt. Tam: A Complicated Love Story
Protecting while enjoying our favorite public land
The Start of Something Great
The history of our founding
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...