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January 13-17, 2015DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose

2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, California 95110

PROGRAM

CONSERVATION CONFERENCE

Carol Witham Conference Executive Committee Chair

Josie Crawford Conference Coordinator & Education Program Director

Greg Suba Conservation Program Director

Welcome to the CNPS 2015 Conservation Conference: Celebrating 50 Years of Progress and Promise!

CNPS is 50 years young! This year’s conference is a celebration of the work of those who have gone before us. Throughout the conference you will see reminders of 50 years of accomplishments by our conservation community. This conference also serves as our promise to their legacy – to conserve California’s native flora for future generations. To that end, over the next few days nearly 300 speakers will share conservation-related presentations and posters. Thank you for helping to celebrate and advance plant conservation in California.

So many people have worked for the past two years – and then some – to make the next few days happen. We are grateful for the incredible support we have received from our community of organizers – our volunteers, members, sponsors, donors, and staff who have put this event together. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity they have provided us to meet up with colleagues, share ideas, appreciate and question the work of others, and explore new connections.

And remember there is life beyond the 20-minute PowerPoint interval! Take time to discover chances for collaboration and celebration during social and art events each evening.

We hope that when we adjourn on Saturday, super-saturated with new information, we will return to our respective watersheds and bioregions with expanded networks and renewed vigor, better prepared to resolve plant conservation challenges lying dormant in e-mails, management plans, and research projects that await us.

As a famous botanist once said, “Plants are not an option.” So embrace the inevitable. Seek out and engage in the issues that inspire you to act, and together let us be voices for plant conservation for the next fifty years.

On behalf of all those who helped make this conference happen, we welcome you to the 2015 CNPS Conservation Conference. Happy 50th Birthday CNPS!

Welcome!

Dan Gluesenkamp Executive Director

Contents

Conference Planning Committees 2

CNPS Staff, Board, and Leadership 4

Important Logistics & Information 5

Pre-Conference Field Trips 6

Pre-Conference Workshops 7

Conservation Conference Schedule 8

Special Events 11

Exhibitors & Vendors 13

Key Speakers 14

Scientific Sessions 16

Contributed Posters 46

Presenter Index 50

Venue & Area Maps Inside back cover

Conference Sponsors Back cover

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CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Carol Witham, Conference Chair

David Bigham, CNPS Board of Directors

Josie Crawford, Conference Coordinator

Dan Gluesenkamp, CNPS Executive Director

Cari Porter, CNPS Finance and Administration Manager

Greg Suba, CNPS Conservation Program Director

Steve Windhager, CNPS Board of Directors

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Carol Witham, Conference Chair

Josie Crawford

Dan Gluesenkamp

Cari Porter

Becky Reilly

Greg Suba

Meeting Planner

Terri Stevenson, CMP

STEERING COMMITTEE

Jim André

Mark Bibbo

David Bigham

Cherilyn Burton

Josie Crawford

Rebecca Crowe

Julie Evens

Judy Fenerty

Naomi Fraga

Dan Gluesenkamp

Vern Goehring

Matt Guilliams

Alan Harper

Kristie Haydu

Bill Hunt

Rachel Hutchinson

Diane Ikeda

Nick Jensen

Tony LaBanca

Gordon Leppig

Staci Markos

Sandy McCoy

Erin McDermott

Julie Nelson

Bruce Orr

Cari Porter

Becky Reilly

Ramona Robison

Stephen Rosenthal

Connie Rutherford

Vince Scheidt

Steve Schoenig

Aaron Sims

Shannon Still

Greg Suba

Petra Unger

David Varner

Gary Wallace

Steve Windhager

Carol Witham

Gordon Leppig

Staci Markos

Amy Merrill

Lech Naumovich

Julie Nelson

Jim Nelson

Bruce Orr

Ivan Parr

Eric Peterson

Helen Popper

Mona Robison

Karina Silvas-Bellanca

Aaron Sims

Shannon Still

Greg Suba

Petra Unger

Sula Vanderplank

Sam Veloz

Steve Windhager

Contributed Posters

Mark Bibbo, Chair

Sarah Bennett

Ed Kentner

Chapter Posters

Kristie Haydu, Chair

Workshops

Josie Crawford, Chair

Rebecca Crowe

Heather DeQuincy

Becky Reilly

Field Trips

Karen Cotter, Chair

Teri Barry

Toni Corelli

Becky Reilly

Cindy Roessler

Lars Rosengreen

Elise Scripps

Don Thomas

Conference Planning Committees

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carol Witham, Chair

Contributed Papers

Bob Patterson

Dieter Wilken

Kristina Schierenbeck

Abstract Review

Carol Witham, Chair

Aaron Sims

Genevieve Walden

Plenary Speakers

Matt Ritter, Chair

Session Chairs

Jeanne Marie Acceturo

Brian Anacker

Jim André

Rachel Brownsey

Elizabeth Brusati

Cherilyn Burton

Alison Colwell

Ellen Cypher

Stephanie Dashiell

Ellen Dean

Julie Evens

Naomi Fraga

Will Freyman

Matteo Garbelotto

Dan Gluesenkamp

Vern Goehring

Brett Hall

Alan Harper

Sylvia Haultain

Kristie Haydu

Diana Hickson

Deborah Hillyard

Nick Jensen

Todd Keeler-Wolf

Ken Kellman

Eric E. Knapp

Tony LaBanca

CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEES

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Gordon Leppig

Staci Markos

Amy Merrill

Lech Naumovich

Julie Nelson

Jim Nelson

Bruce Orr

Ivan Parr

Eric Peterson

Helen Popper

Mona Robison

Karina Silvas-Bellanca

Aaron Sims

Shannon Still

Greg Suba

Petra Unger

Sula Vanderplank

Sam Veloz

Steve Windhager

Contributed Posters

Mark Bibbo, Chair

Sarah Bennett

Ed Kentner

Chapter Posters

Kristie Haydu, Chair

Workshops

Josie Crawford, Chair

Rebecca Crowe

Heather DeQuincy

Becky Reilly

Field Trips

Karen Cotter, Chair

Teri Barry

Toni Corelli

Becky Reilly

Cindy Roessler

Lars Rosengreen

Elise Scripps

Don Thomas

VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS Melinda Elster, Co-Chair

Julie Wynia, Co-Chair

STUDENT EVENTS

Sarah Ratay, Co-Chair

Matt Guilliams, Co-Chair

Nick Jensen, Co-Chair

Jeanne Marie Aceturro

Angelica Amesquita

Marissa Caraginella

Lea Condon

Sharifa Crandall

Joy England

Amanda Everett

Erin Gottschalk Fisher

Will Freyman

Erika Gardner

Katie Gallagher

Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman

Emily Howe

Seth Kauppinen

Anne Kelly

Nissa Kriedler

Gary Li

Staci Markos

Mare Nazaire

J. Mark Porter

Jessica O’Brien

Jessica Orozco

Lee Ripma

Erin Riordian

Adam Schneider

Tommy Stoughton

Gary Wallace

Ben Wilder

Jenn Yost

AUCTIONS AND DRAWING

Sandy McCoy, Chair

Melanie Cross

Julie Evens

Stacey Flowerdew

Theresa Johnson

Don Mayall

Madeline Morrow

VIDEO

Stephen Rosenthal, Chair

Toni Gregorio-Bunch

Charley Pow

ASSOCIATED MEETINGS

Andrea Williams

ARTS COMMITTEES

Botanical Arts

Bernard Halliwell, Chair

Geri Hulse-Stephens

Kristin Jacob

Lee McCafree

Photography Contest

Stacey Flowerdew, Chair

Stephen Ingram

Nick Jensen

Ree Slocum

Poetry

Malcolm Margolin, Chair

Music

Steve Hartman, Chair

Audio Visual

Steve Schoenig

Greg Suba

Robert Fenerty

CNPS Store

Caroline Garland

Webmaster and Logo Design

Mark Naftzger

Preliminary and Final Program

Becky Reilly

Melinda Lang (Design)

CNPS Staff – Volunteer Committee Support

Julie Evens

Stacey Flowerdew

Caroline Garland

Shanna Goebel

Dan Gluesenkamp

Deidre Kennelly

Cari Porter

Becky Reilly

Aaron Sims

Greg Suba

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California Native Plant Society

Protecting California’s native flora since 1965

Throughout the conference, look for special photos and stories celebrating the history of CNPS as we kick off our 50th birthday celebration!

Staff

Executive Director Dan Gluesenkamp

Communications Manager Deidre Kennelly

Conservation Program Director Greg Suba

Events Coordinator Becky Reilly

Finance & Administration Manager Cari Porter

Horticulture Program Director Susan Krzywicki

Membership & Development Coordinator Stacey Flowerdew

Office and Sales Coordinator Caroline Garland

Project Coordinator, Rare Plant Treasure Hunt & Rare Plant Program Assistant Danny Slakey

Rare Plant Botanist Aaron Sims

Sales/Administrative Assistant Shanna Goebel

Special Projects Coordinator Hei-Ock Kim

Vegetation Program Director Julie Evens

Vegetation Ecologist Jennifer Buck-Diaz

Vegetation Ecologist Kendra Sikes

Vegetation Program Staff Joslyn Curtis

Vegetation Program Staff Daniel Hastings

Vegetation Program Staff Jaime Ratchford

Vegetation Program Staff Sara Taylor

East Bay Conservation Analyst Mack Casterman

Native Here Nursery Manager Theo Fitanides

Native Here Nursery Inventory Specialist Adam Huggins

Elderberry Farms Native Plant Nursery Propagation Assistant Alex Morton

Contract Staff

Fremontia and CNPS Bulletin Editor Bob Hass

Legislative Consultant Vern Goehring

Webmaster Mark Naftzger

Board of Directors

President Laura Camp

Vice President David Bigham

Secretary Carolyn Longstreth

Treasurer Nancy Morin

Director Kristie Haydu

Director Gordon Leppig

Director Jean Robertson

Director Michael Vasey

Director Steve Windhager

Director Carol Witham

Chapter Council Representative Glen Holstein

Chapter Council Representative David Varner

Chapter Council Leadership

Chair Orchid Black

Vice Chair Larry Levine

Secretary Marty Foltyn

Please join us in thanking outgoing CNPS Education Program Director Josie Crawford for all her work on the Conservation Conference, and for growing the CNPS Education Program over the last 10 years into the great program it is today. Thank you Josie!

Want to get involved with CNPS? Become a member today!Visit the membership table in the Bayshore Foyer, near registration check-in! Or you can go online to www.cnps.org/join to learn more about the benefits of membership, find your local chapter, and join or support CNPS at any time.

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Important Logistics & Information

Please check-in upon arrival:

• CNPS Registration Check-In tables are in the Bayshore Foyer, near the stairs on the first floor.

• Volunteers must check-in at general registration, then proceed to the volunteer check-in tables (located next to general registration in the Bayshore Foyer).

• Speakers must check-in at general registration, then proceed to the speaker check-in table (in the registration area) to deliver a digital copy of their presentation. The presentation file must be on a clean CD or USB drive, clearly labeled with the session title and presenter name. For those speaking during morning sessions, the presentation must be delivered to the speaker check-in desk by 4:30 pm on the day before the session, and for those presenting during afternoon sessions, the presentation must be delivered to the speaker check-in desk by 10:30 am on the morning of the session.

• Exhibitors must check-in at general registration, then proceed to the Exhibit Hall, located in the Bayshore Ballroom (Sierra, Cascade, and Siskiyou rooms), to be directed to their table.

• Name badges, obtained at registration check-in, are required to gain entry into all conference events and sessions, including the Exhibit Hall and all workshops and field trips. If you lose your name badge, please check in at the registration desk. All guests must display guest passes.

• Registration hours are:

Monday, January 12, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Tuesday, January 13, 7:30 am – 5:00 pm

Wednesday, January 14, 7:30 am – 8:00 pm

Thursday, January 15, 7:00 am – 4:40 pm

Friday, January 16, 7:30 am – 4:40 pm

Saturday, January 17, 7:30 am – 11:00 am

Exhibitor set-up/break down: Exhibitor set-up is scheduled from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm on Wednesday, January 14, and from 7:30 am – 9:00 am on Thursday, January 15. All exhibits must be set by 9:00 am on Thursday, January 15 for a 9:30 am opening. On Friday and Saturday, the Exhibit Hall will open for exhibitor set-up at 9:00 am, and will open to conference attendees at 9:40 each morning. Exhibitor break-down is scheduled from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm on Saturday, January 17.

CNPS Store: The CNPS Store for books and merchandise is located in the Exhibit Hall (Bayshore Ballroom). Cash, check, and major credit cards are accepted forms of payment.

Moving between sessions: Sessions are concurrent, and you may move from session to session, but please do so during the breaks between presentations so as not to disrupt the speakers. Four of the concurrent sessions will be held in the partitioned rooms of the 2nd floor Gateway Ballroom (Cedar, Pine, Fir, and Oak), and the fifth will be held in a partitioned room of the downstairs Bayshore Ballroom (Donner Pass). The ballrooms are “stacked” and located right next to the stairway and elevator, allowing for quick and simple movement between session rooms.

Accessibility: Accessibility is a priority for CNPS. All meeting spaces are fully accessible and can be reached by elevator. Please contact the CNPS Registration Desk if you encounter any problems or have any accessibility questions.

Abstracts: Presentation abstracts are available for download on the conference website, www.cnps.org/2015.

Speaker-Ready Room: A practice room will be available for all speakers, including a computer which may be used for reviewing presentations (please bring your own copy of your presentation). For access to the room, please visit the Speaker Check-In table.

Meals and Refreshments: Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided in the Exhibit Hall during breaks, and will include coffee, tea, and snacks. “Cash Express” lunches will be available for purchase in the Sprigs restaurant, next to CNPS Registration Check-In, Thursday through Saturday. There are several other onsite dining options at the DoubleTree, and more within a short walk outside the hotel.

Local Information: Please visit www.cnps.org/2015/local-info for a list of local attractions and transportation options.

Job and Resume Board: The Job and Resume Board will be located in the Bayshore Foyer, near Registration Check-In.

Lost and Found: Lost and Found will be managed by the CNPS Registration Desk. After the conference, any inquiries regarding lost and found items in hotel rooms or conference event spaces should be directed to the DoubleTree.

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Conference Sustainability: Good plant conservation practices include reducing consumption of all natural resources. We have taken the following measures to reduce our conference footprint:

• Working with the venue to reduce the use of plastic bottles and disposable dishware

• Providing abstracts digitally rather than in print

• Providing a room and ride sharing forum

• Choosing a venue that would work with us on reducing our footprint

The DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose has extensive sustainability practices, including:

• A comprehensive recycling program

• Participating in the California Green Lodging Program

• Monitoring unoccupied meeting space to reduce electricity and HVAC usage, amongst other water and energy reduction efforts

• Providing water stations instead of bottled water

Thank you for helping make the conference more sustainable!

Pre-Conference Field Trips

All field trips will meet in the lobby of the DoubleTree. Your trip leader will be holding a sign with the field trip name, so your trip can gather and arrange carpools to the offsite location.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

10:00 am – 1:30 pm Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

10:00 am – 3:00 pm Mt. Madonna County Park

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

10:00 am – 3:00 pm Steven’s Creek County Park

10:00 am – 2:00 pm Wood’s Trail in Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium


Pre-Conference Workshops

*Don’t forget to visit the CNPS Registration Check-In before your workshop or field trip to obtain your name badge and event materials!

WorkshopsTime Room Workshop Name

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

8:30 am – 4:30 pm San Carlos Introduction to Soil Morphology and Hydric Soils (part 1 of 2)

8:30 am – 4:30 pm San Jose Manual of California Vegetation, Second Edition and Beyond (part 1 of 2)

8:30 am – 4:30 pm Santa Clara Garden Allies: Conservation Biological Control for Farm and Garden

8:30 am – 4:30 pm Carmel Chapter Track! Rare Plant Treasure Hunt Trip Leader Workshop

8:30 am – 4:30 pm Monterey Botanizing with Calflora: Online and Mobile Capabilities

10:00 am – 5:00 pm San Juan Edible and Medicinal Plants of California: A Bioregional Exploration

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm San Carlos Chapter Track! A Native Garden Tour: How Your Chapter Can Succeed

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

8:30 am – 4:30 pm San Carlos Introduction to Soil Morphology and Hydric Soils (part 2 of 2)

8:30 am – 4:30 pm *Meet in the lobby Manual of California Vegetation, Second Edition and Beyond (part 2 of 2)

9:00 am – 4:00 pm San Simeon California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB), RareFind 5, and the Biogeographic Information & Observation System (BIOS)

8:30 am – 4:30 pm San Martin CEQA 101 – Compliance with and Public Participation in the CEQA Process in 2015

8:30 am – 4:30 pm San Jose Introduction to Rare Plant Surveys

8:30 am – 4:30 pm Santa Clara Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition: Evaluating and Mitigating a Major Threat to California’s Native Flora

8:30 am – 4:30 pm Carmel The California Phenology Project: Tracking the Effects of Climate on the Seasonal Cycle of Wild Plants

8:30 am – 4:30 pm *Meet in the lobby Streamlined Restoration and Habitat Monitoring Methods with a Focus on Citizen Science

8:30 am – 4:30 pm *Meet in the lobby Restoration and Education: West Valley College Creek Restoration Tour

8:30 am – 12:00 pm San Juan Introducing the CNPS Certification Program for Native California Landscape Professionals

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Monterey Native Plants are the Added Value for the “New Normal” in Landscaping

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm San Carlos Grass ID: You Can Totally Do This! An Introduction to Grass Identification

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Santa Clara Living Wild: Habitat-Friendly Food from Native Plants

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Carmel Seed Banking California Native Plants in Support of Conservation

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Monterey Chapter Track! Ocean Friendly Gardening (OFG) and Restoration with Native Plants: From Concept to Fruition

1:00 pm – 4:30 pm *Meet in the lobby Propagation Techniques for Local Restoration

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Conservation Conference Schedule

Thursday, January 15, 2015Registration open from 7:00 am – 4:40 pm | Exhibit Hall open from 9:30 am – 7:00 pm

8:15 am – 9:30 am Opening and Plenary Address: Michael Soulé

9:30 am – 10:00 am Coffee break in the Exhibit Hall

10:00 am – 11:40 am Concurrent Sessions

The Science of Threats: Conservation Not by the Seat of our Pants

Plant Science

Restoration

Pathogens & Pests

Plant & Wildlife Relationships

11:40 am – 1:00 pm Lunch break

1:00 pm – 2:40 pm Concurrent Sessions

The Science of Threats: Conservation Not by the Seat of our Pants

Plant Science

Restoration

Pathogens & Pests

Emerging Tools in Conservation Science

2:40 pm – 3:00 pm Snack break in the Exhibit Hall

3:00 pm – 4:40 pm Lightning Talks!

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Opening Reception and Poster Session

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Reaching High: Poets and Writers

8:30 pm – 12:00 am Songfest and Music Jam

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Friday, January 16, 2015Registration open from 7:30 am – 4:40 pm | Exhibit Hall open from 9:40 am – 5:00 pm


NW Baja California: Intact Landscapes, New Energy

Translocation, Transplantation, and Assisted Migration

Plant Science

Negotiating Conservation of Rare Plants

Current Research (student session)



NW Baja California: Intact Landscapes, New Energy

California’s Changing Climate: Conservation in an Age of Uncertainty

Plant Science

Horticulture: Part of Conservation is Growing




A Quality Environment for All: Native Plants in an Unequal World

California’s Changing Climate: Conservation in an Age of Uncertainty

Restoration





Managing Lands for Native Plant Conservation: Essential Ingredients

Threats and Opportunities for Coastal Conservation in the Face of Rising Seas

Rare Plants



5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Cocktails and Silent Auction

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Banquet and Keynote Speaker: Jared Farmer

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Saturday, January 17, 2015Registration open from 7:30 am – 11:00 am | Exhibit Hall open from 9:40 am – 3:00 pm


Invasive Plants

Fire & Native Plants

Rare Plants

Biogeography and Conservation of Lichens and Bryophytes

Rare Natural Communities



Invasive Plants

Fire & Native Plants

Rare Plants

Biogeography and Conservation of Lichens and Bryophytes

Vegetation Classification, Mapping, & Monitoring



Invasive Plants

Science and Policy: Coming Together or Not

Rare Plants

Renewable Energy: In the California Desert and Beyond

Vegetation Classification, Mapping, & Monitoring


3:00 pm – 5:40 pm Progress and Promise Talks

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DAILY SCHEDULES


Special Events

Exhibit HallBayshore Ballroom Thursday 1/15, 9:30 am – 7:00 pm; Friday 1/16, 9:40 am – 5:00 pm; Saturday 1/17, 9:40 am – 3:00 pm

The Exhibitor and Vendor Trade Show provides a special opportunity to learn about new technology, and visit with conservation organizations, nurseries, environmental consulting firms, agency representatives, and more. On display are tools, books, plants, technology, and conservation resources. See page 13 for a listing of the 2015 Exhibitors.

Photography and Botanical Art Exhibits/ContestsBayshore Ballroom & Gateway Foyer

See the spectacular entries for this year’s Photography and Botanical Art Contests! Botanical art will be located in the Exhibit Hall, and photos will be located in the Gateway Foyer. Entries were judged by a panel of experts to win cash prizes, but conference attendees are encouraged to vote for their favorite photo and artwork for the “Conference Choice” awards. All winners will have their work published in the CNPS journal, Fremontia. Voting for the “Conference Choice” awards will close at 3:00 pm on Friday 1/16.

Botanical Art Talks and DemonstrationsSan Carlos Room

The Botanical Art Committee has engaged a number of botanical artists who will be providing talks and demonstrations throughout the conference!

Thursday 1/15, 10:00 am – 11:40 am, Pria Graves, The History and Tradition of Botanical Art

Friday 1/16, 8:00 am – 9:40 am, Lesley Randall, Pen and Ink Drawings of Plants

Friday 1/16, 10:00 am – 11:40 am, Nina Antze, Drawing Plants with Color Pencils

Saturday 1/17, 10:00 am – 11:40 am, Mary Harden, Getting Started in Botanical Drawing and Painting

Opening and Plenary Address: Michael SouléGateway Ballroom Thursday 1/15, 8:15 am – 9:30 am

Opening remarks will welcome you to San Jose and help you get oriented for the next few days, then we will officially kick-off the Conservation Conference with Michael Soulé! See page 14 for more information on our renowned opening speaker.

Lightning Talks!Gateway Ballroom Thursday 1/15, 3:00 pm – 4:40 pm

Don’t miss the exhilarating Lightning Talks session, new this year! Each 5-minute talk will present an exciting idea intended to spark discussion amongst conference attendees. These may include inspiring results from an innovative project, invitations to collaborate, especially provocative or original ideas, or demonstrations of a new tool or technique. See page 24 for more information on the topics and speakers for these talks.

Opening Reception and Poster SessionBayshore Ballroom, Bayshore and Gateway Foyers Thursday 1/15, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Celebrate the first day of the Conservation Conference with peers and friends! Hors d’oeuvres will be provided, and cash bars will be open so you can relax and sip on a drink while exploring scientific and CNPS Chapter posters, and the art and photography exhibits. Poster authors and contributors will be available to answer questions and discuss collaboration opportunities. Many students will be competing for the Best Student Poster awards and will be giving stellar presentations! Be sure to check out the CNPS chapter posters as well, to see highlights from diverse conservation projects around California.

Reaching High: Poets and WritersSan Simeon/San Martin Rooms Thursday 1/15, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Wallace Stegner once said, “No place, not even a wild place, is a place until it has had that human attention that at its highest reach we call poetry.” Author Malcolm Margolin has drawn together poets and writers to celebrate the wild beauty and diversity of our native plants.

Joining Malcolm will be Robert Pack Browning, Lester Rowntree (reading from his grandmother’s work), Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Poet Laureate, Robert Hass! These writers, selected for the excellence of their work covering a variety of genres, will speak from different perspectives to remind us of what W.S. Merwin called “a forgotten language” – a language that has the power to inform the mind, and inspire the spirit.

An open mic will follow the poetry reading, so come prepared to read or recite! Readings should have some nexus to nature and/or native plants or habitats.

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Songfest and Music JamClub Max Thursday 1/15, 8:30 pm – midnight

Bring acoustic instruments, and/or songs with lyrics and chords (but not sheet music) on a thumb drive to the groovy disco bar! We will project songs on a screen so people can sing and play along. Songs with botanical themes are encouraged (adapt new lyrics to old favorites) but all other good songs are welcome. Be prepared to lead the songs you bring. Familiar songs or tunes work best. This is not a performance venue – just a pure fun sing- and play-along. Everyone is invited to participate regardless of skill-level or ability to sing on key. A variety of instruments make it all the more interesting! A jam session may follow if the night allows. Cash bar will be open.

Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction (to benefit the CNPS Conservation Program)Bayshore Foyer and Sprigs Restaurant Friday 1/16, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Enjoy the cash bar while you bid on the Silent Auction, or buy additional tickets for the special drawing. You could win big! Items include books, art, photographs, wine, vacation getaways, plants, and much more. All proceeds will directly benefit the CNPS Conservation Program. Winners will be announced just before the Banquet in the Bayshore Foyer, and items can be picked up through the end of the Banquet.

Friday Banquet and Speaker, Jared FarmerGateway Ballroom Friday 1/16, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

After a long day attending sessions, sit down to a delicious dinner with old and new friends. Dinner will be followed by a Live Auction with a last chance to bid on unique and exceptional treasures in support of the CNPS Conservation Program. This event will wrap up with a presentation from Banquet Speaker Jared Farmer, made possible by the California Botanical Society.

Student LuncheonSanta Clara and San Jose Rooms Saturday 1/17, 11:40 am – 1:00 pm

Pre-registration is required for those who wish to attend the Student Luncheon. A panel of five botanists and ecologists from various government agencies will talk about what they do, provide advice on finding jobs, and take questions from the audience. Free lunch will be provided!

Progress and Promise TalksGateway Ballroom Saturday 1/17, 3:00 pm – 5:40 pm

All-new to the CNPS Conservation Conference are 30-minute Progress and Promise Talks! These talks are intended to provide key speakers an opportunity to share their big-picture thoughts on conserving California plants and places. Come hear inspiring presentations from Jack Dangermond, Paul Ehrlich, Rebecca Moore, Peter Raven, and Kim Stanley Robinson to wrap up the conference. See pages 14-15 for bios and page 45 in the scientific sessions section for details on these exciting speakers.

Associated Meetings*Please see Program Addendum for specific meeting times.

California Rare Plant Rescue Group

Carmel Room, Wednesday 1/14

Island Botanists

Santa Clara Room, Thursday 1/15

Natural Area Managers

Monterey Room, Thursday 1/15

US Forest Service Luncheon

Carmel Room, Friday 1/16

California Phylogeny Working Group

Santa Clara & San Jose Rooms, Friday 1/16

Consortium of California Herbaria

Carmel Room, Saturday 1/17

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SPECIAL EVENTS


Exhibitors and Vendors

The Exhibitor and Vendor Trade Show is located in the Bayshore Ballroom, and will be open on Thursday 1/15, 9:30 am – 7:00 pm; Friday 1/16, 9:40 am – 5:00 pm; and Saturday 1/17, 9:40 am – 3:00 pm.

AECOM

Bureau of Land Management

California Invasive Plant Council

California Lichen Society

California Native Grasslands Association

California State Parks - OHMVR Division

California-Pacific Section, Society for Range Management

Environmental Science Associates (ESA)

Esri

Flora of North America Association

Geographic Resource Solutions

Hedgerow Farms

Heyday

Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club (Forest Protection Committee)

Moosa Creek Nursery

Northern California Botanists

PlantRight

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Scientists and Environmentalists for Population Stabilization

Shelterbelt Builders Inc.

Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District

Southern California Botanists

The Calflora Database

Thorium Energy of Silicon Valley

Tree of Life Nursery

Ulistac Restoration & Education Project

University of California Natural Reserve System

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Key Speakers

Opening Plenary

Michael E. Soulé

Michael Soulé is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was born, raised, and educated in California. After graduating from San Diego State he received his Ph.D. from Stanford, studying population biology and evolution under Paul Ehrlich. He has taught at four universities and conducted

field work all over the world.

Michael was a founder and the first President of the Society for Conservation Biology and The Wildlands Network. He has written and edited 9 books, and has published about 175 articles on population and evolutionary biology, fluctuating asymmetry, population genetics, island biogeography, environmental studies, biodiversity policy, nature conservation, and ethics. He continues to do research on ecosystem regulation by strongly interactive (keystone) species. He has received a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, and is commonly known as the “father of conservation biology.” Visit michaelsoule.com to find out more.

Banquet Keynote

Jared Farmer

Jared Farmer, a history professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the author of Trees in Paradise: A California History (Norton, 2013). His books have received numerous awards, including the Francis Parkman Prize for the best-written non-fiction book on an American theme, a literary prize

that honors the “union of the historian and the artist.” A graduate of Utah State University, the University of Montana, and Stanford University, Farmer has won research and writing fellowships from many institutions, including the National Humanities Center and American Council of Learned Societies. For more information, visit jaredfarmer.net. This keynote address has been made possible by the California Botanical Society.

Progress and Promise Talks

Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond is a landscape architect by training. As founder and president of Esri, his leadership and vision stimulate the ongoing innovation of GIS technologies that enable people to make insightful decisions and improve the quality of life everywhere.

Paul Ehrlich

Paul R. Ehrlich is co-founder of the field of coevolution and has pursued long-term studies of the dynamics of California butterfly populations, including climate change influences on extinction probability. He has been a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation, and in raising issues of population, resources, and the

environment as matters of public policy. A central focus of his group is investigating ways that human-disturbed landscapes can be made more hospitable to biodiversity, and he is deeply involved in the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (mahb.stanford.edu).

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Rebecca Moore

Rebecca Moore is an Engineering Manager at Google, where she initiated and leads the development of Google Earth Engine, a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery online for the first time and enables scientists to conduct global-scale monitoring and measurement

of changes in the earth’s environment. Rebecca also conceived and leads the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in applying Google’s mapping tools to the world’s pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights, and cultural preservation. Rebecca received a Bachelor’s degree with honors from Brown University in Artificial Intelligence and a Master’s degree from Stanford University. In 2013, Rebecca was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change for Open Science. Her personal work using Google Earth was instrumental in stopping the logging of more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community.

Dr. Peter Raven

Dr. Peter Raven is a leading botanist and advocate of conservation and biodiversity with a notably international outlook. For more than 39 years, Dr. Raven headed the Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution he nurtured to become a world-class center for botanical

research, education, and horticulture display.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the most acclaimed writers of science fiction in the history of the genre. His Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) and Wild Shore Triptych reflect a vision of the future shaped by a childhood in development-crazy Orange County and a life spent exploring California’s Sierra Nevada. Virtually all of Robinson’s

novels have an ecological component; sustainability would have to be counted among his primary themes. Robinson’s work often features scientists as heroes. Robinson’s scientists become critically important because of research discoveries, networking and collaboration with other scientists, political lobbying, or becoming public figures.

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Session 1: The Science of Threats: Conservation Not by the Seat of our Pants

Not since the invasion of European grazing animals in the late 1800s have California’s wildlands been attacked on virtually every hectare. Current threats from climate change and fire, to atmospheric pollution and energy development, affect wildland ecosystems across California. Understanding these impacts to our wildlands will help policy makers address the increasing levels of perturbation. This session presents recent research on large-scale, often overlooked threats to California’s ecosystems, and suggests monitoring and management strategies to address these threats taking a decadal to century time scale perspective.

Part 1 | Thurs 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Cedar Room | Chair: Jim André & Shannon Still

10:00 am 1.01 Recorded threats to rare Californian plants Shannon Still1, Nick Jensen2, James André3

1Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL, USA, 2Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA, 3University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

10:20 am 1.02 How right are our threat ranks?: More accurately assessing the threats to California’s rare plants Nick Jensen1, Aaron E. Sims2, Shannon Still3

1Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA, 2California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA, USA, 3Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL, USA

10:40 am 1.03 Management of the cryptic threats of genetic erosion, inbreeding depression, and maladaptation Deborah Rogers1,2

1Center for Natural Lands Management, Temecula, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

11:00 am 1.04 Phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic endemism in the California flora Brent Mishler, Bruce Baldwin, David Ackerly University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

11:20 am 1.05 Using experiments and demographic models to assess rare plant vulnerability to renewable energy development in the California Deserts Kara Moore1, Karen Tanner3, James André5, Patrick McIntyre4, Bruce Pavlik2

1University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2BMP Ecosciences, Oakland, CA, USA, 3University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 4California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA, 5University of California Natural Reserve System, Riverside, CA, USA

Part 2 | Thurs 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Cedar Room | Chair: Jim André & Shannon Still

1:00 pm 1.06 Mechanisms underlying vegetation changes due to redistribution of surface water on a desert bajada Darren Sandquist1, April Newlander1, Miguel Macias1, Aimee Roach1, David Bedford2, David Miller2

1California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, USA, 2U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA

1:20 pm 1.07 Species composition, stand structure, and the legacy of long fire intervals in mixed jeffrey pine forests of southern California, USA and the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico Ann Bowers, Richard Minnich

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

1:40 pm 1.08 Status of Tamarix (Tamaricaceae) biocontrol in the lower Colorado River Basin Tom Dudley University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

2:00 pm 1.09 California State Wildlife Action 2015 update, as a vision and a collaboration tool for California landscape conservation Junko Hoshi

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA

2:20 pm 1.10 A systems approach to conservation: Western Riverside County as a test case Michael Allen University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

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Session 2: Plant Science

The Advances in Plant Science session is a place for presentation of open submission talks with a focus on genetics/genomics, ecology/population biology, classification/floristics, and other subjects that cannot be accommodated easily into one of the other sessions.

Part 1 | Thurs 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Pine Room | Chair: Ellen Dean & Sylvia Haultain

10:00 am 2.01 Patterns of plant diversity and endemism in the California Floristic Province Dylan Burge1, James Thorne2, Susan Harrison2, Bart O’Brien3, James Shevock1, Edward Alverson4,

Linda Hardison4

1California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 3Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA, USA, 4Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

10:20 am 2.02 Molecular phylogeny and character evolution of Fritillaria subgenus Liliorhiza (Liliaceae) Sean Ryan, Michael Simpson San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

10:40 am 2.03 Patterns of rarity and endemism in California monkeyflowers (Phrymaceae). Naomi Fraga Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

11:00 am 2.04 Names, specimens, characters: Revised taxonomy of Hydrophylloideae (Boraginaceae s.l.) in California Genevieve Walden1,2

1Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2University and Jepson Herbaria, University of Berkeley, California, Berkeley, CA, USA

11:20 am 2.05 Ongoing changes in the taxonomy of the genus Monardella (Lamiaceae): New taxa and old names continue to be recognized in this complex genus Mark Elvin1, Andrew Sanders2

1UCLA Herbarium, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2UCR Herbarium, Riverside, CA, USA

Part 2 | Thurs 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Pine Room | Chair: Ellen Dean & Sylvia Haultain

1:00 pm 2.06 Phylogenetic relatedness predicts ecological similarity: Evidence from a two-year field experiment Brian Anacker, Sharon Strauss

University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

1:20 pm 2.07 Physiological responses of Heteromeles arbutifolia (Rosaceae) to a naturally occurring spring and fall heatwave Michal Shuldman1, Adam Roddy2, Kevin Simonin3, Todd Dawson2

1Las Positas College, Livermore, CA, USA, 2University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 3San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

1:40 pm 2.08 Local adaptation versus genetic rescue in the Threatened Tiburon mariposa lily, Calochortus tiburonensis (Liliaceae) Sarah Swope

Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA

2:00 pm 2.09 Host relationships of the endangered plant palmate salty bird’s-beak, Chloropyron palmatum (Orobanchaceae) Ellen Cypher2,1, Brian Cypher2

1California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fresno, CA, USA, 2California State University-Stanislaus Endangered Species Recovery Program, Turlock, CA, USA

2:20 pm 2.10 Managing for the recovery of a poorly understood endangered wetland grass Amelia Ryan, Lorraine Parsons

Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes Station, CA, USA


Session 2: Plant Science (continued)

Part 3 | Fri 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Fir Room | Chair: Ellen Dean & Sylvia Haultain

8:00 am 2.11 Monitoring restoration success by collecting data on the presence of bees and other pollinators Jessa Cruz1, Mace Vaughn1, Kelly Gill1, Rufus Isaacs2, Emily May2, Dan Cariveau4, Neal Williams3, Rachel Winfree4, Michael Roswell4

1The Xerces Soceity, Portland, OR, USA, 2Michigan State University, E Lansing, CA, USA, 3University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 4Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

8:20 am 2.12 Terrestrial arthropods as indicators of restoration success Wendy Dunbarr, Dr. Paula Schiffman California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA

8:40 am 2.13 Effects of increasing Carpobrotus edulis (Aizoaceae) dominance and native plant re-vegetation on coastal dune arthropods Denise Knapp1,2, Zachary Philips3, Carla D’Antonio1

1University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 3University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

9:00 am 2.14 Native perennial grassland restoration may not confer increased wildlife diversity or habitat utilization Kristina Wolf, Roger Baldwin, Ryan Bourbour


9:20 am 2.15 Vascular plant diversity along salt exposure and water availability gradients in coastal California Eric Wrubel2,1, V. Thomas Parker1

1San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2National Park Service, Sausalito, CA, USA

Part 4 | Fri 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Fir Room | Chair: Ellen Dean & Sylvia Haultain

10:00 am 2.16 Effective use of vegetation classification in the development of natural community conservation plans Todd Keeler-Wolf California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA

10:20 am 2.17 Using an ecological sites framework to prioritize conservation management of grasslands at Tejon Ranch, California Michael White

Tejon Ranch Conservancy, Frazier Park, CA, USA

10:40 am 2.18 Leading edges, disjuncts, and local rarity: Thoughts on conservation of unique flora of the East Bay Lech Naumovich Golden Hour Restoration Institute, Alameda, CA, USA

11:00 am 2.19 Our floristic province’s missing element Glen Holstein California Native Plant Society, Davis, CA, USA

11:20 am 2.20 Procedures for creating systematic, random, spatial sampling schemas Fran Evanisko Bureau of Land Management, CA, USA

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Session 3: Pathogens & Pests

The California flora is increasingly threatened by the invasion of non-native species which include a broad array of organisms including plants, arthropods, fungi and bacteria. The susceptibility and resistance of native species will be evaluated through a combination of ecological techniques, population genetics, genomics, and management. This session will focus on exotic pathogens and pests currently threatening native California flora.

Part 1 | Thurs 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Fir Room | Chair: Matteo Garbelotto & Patricia Maloney

10:00 am 3.01 Introduced plant pathogens in native ecosystems: Concepts and impacts David Rizzo University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

10:20 am 3.02 Single or multiple introductions of exotic pathogens can both be successful Matteo Garbelotto University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

10:40 am 3.03 Microclimate matters: airborne fungal spore density in coastal ecosystems in California Sharifa Crandall, Gregory Gilbert University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

11:00 am 3.04 Host range of Fusarium (Nectriaceae) dieback and its vector polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea sp.) (Coleoptera: Scolytinae, Xyleborini) an ambrosia beetle causing branch dieback and tree mortality on native host plants in California Akif Eskalen1, Shannon Lynch1,4, Paul Rugman-Jones2, Richard Stouthamer2, Kim Corella3

1Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside,CA, USA, 2Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, 3Cal Fire, Los Osos, CA, USA, 4Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

11:20 am 3.05 White pine blister in California: Ecology and conservation Patricia Maloney University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

Part 2 | Thurs 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Fir Room | Chair: Matteo Garbelotto & Patricia Maloney

1:00 pm 3.06 Pitch canker in California: Introduction and establishment of an invasive pathogen Tom Gordon University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

1:20 pm 3.07 Challenges of large-scale restoration projects Ellen Natesan1, Jessica Appel1, Carin Apperson1, Cheryl Blomquist5, Elizabeth Bernhardt6, Scott Chenue1,

Ronnie Eaton4, Susan Frankel2, Matteo Garbelotto3, James Gorham7, Kathy Kosta5, Suzanne Latham5, Greg Lyman1, Joe Ortiz1, Debbie Peterson1, Dina Robertson8, Tedmund Swiecki6

1San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2US Forest Service, CA, USA, 3University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 4Alameda County Department of Agriculture, CA, USA, 5California Department of Food and Agriculture, CA, USA, 6Phytosphere Research, CA, USA, 7CH2M Hill, CA, USA, 8URS, CA, USA

1:40 pm 3.08 Efforts to clean up an infested nursery and establish a clean production system Kathleen Kosta1, Karen Suslow2

1California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA, USA, 2Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, USA

2:00 pm 3.09 Limiting the destruction of Ione manzanita habitat caused by the exotic pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi (Pythiaceae) Tedmund Swiecki1, Elizabeth Bernhardt1, Matteo Garbelotto2

1Phytosphere Research, Vacaville, CA, USA, 2Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

2:20 pm 3.10 Successful public engagement for sustainable California forests Katie Palmieri1, Janice Alexander2

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2University of California Cooperative Extension, Marin County, Novato, CA, USA

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Session 4: Restoration

Restoration is a burgeoning field that is necessarily interdisciplinary in nature, yet firmly rooted in the principles of botany and vegetation ecology. Presentations in this session will focus on how vegetation and plant communities play an integral role in restoration. We would like for every presentation to offer compelling insight to the following question: “How is plant/vegetation knowledge essential for the success of your project?” Topics include implications of climate change for ecological restoration, pros and cons of local genetic stock, how to plan for resiliency and ecological trajectories, restoration targets and philosophy, and fresh ideas on restoration monitoring.

Part 1 | Thurs 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Oak Room | Chair: Lech Naumovich & Bruce Orr

10:00 am 4.01 Drought response strategies in California perennial grass species and ecotypes with applications for restoration Jennifer Balachowski1, Pauline Bristiel3, Jeffrey Clary1, Florence Volaire2

1University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2INRA-CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier, France, 3CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier, France

10:20 am 4.02 Is interannual variation in climate a useful window into the effects of climate change? Truman Young University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

10:40 am 4.03 Is local better? Testing the efficacy of locally-sourced plant material for use in restoration Jessica E Hammond, Karen D Holl, Michael E Loik University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

11:00 am 4.04 Using population genetics to guide restorations of endemic species: Case study in the federally listed Castilleja affinis subspecies neglecta (Orobanchaceae) Laney Widener1,2, Jeremie Fant2,1, David Tank3

1Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 2The Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL, USA, 3University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA

11:20 am 4.05 The Regional Parks Botanic Garden’s role in rare plant restoration Bart O’Brien

Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA, USA

Part 2 | Thurs 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Oak Room | Chair: Lech Naumovich & Bruce Orr

1:00 pm 4.06 Restoring critical coastal dune habitat at Point Reyes for endangered plant species Lorraine Parsons1, Sarah Minnick2, Amelia Ryan1

1Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes Station, CA, USA, 2County of Marin Parks and Open Space, San Rafael, CA, USA

1:20 pm 4.07 Small mammals act as invasion filters in Southern Californian coastal sage scrub restoration Sandra DeSimone, Mickie Tang

Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, Trabuco Canyon, CA, USA

1:40 pm 4.08 Optimizing establishment of native pollinator habitat in a large-scale levee improvement project Kimiora Ward1, Jennifer W. Burt2

1University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2AECOM Design and Planning, Sacramento, CA, USA

2:00 pm 4.09 Interactions among plant phenology, hydrochory and flow regime before floodplain re-connection on the Cosumnes River One to floodplain in California’s Central Valley Rachel Hutchinson1,2, Alex Fremier3, Kaya MacMillen2, Joshua Viers2,4

1South Yuba River Citizens League, Nevada City, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 3Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, 4University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA

2:20 pm 4.10 An ecohydrological approach to guiding riparian restoration on the lower Virgin River Bruce Orr1, Tom Dudley2, Liz Bickmore3, Adam Lambert2, Glen Leverich1

1Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 3Clark County Desert Conservation Program, Las Vegas, NV, USA

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Session 4: Restoration (continued)

Part 3 | Fri 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Fir Room | Chair: Lech Naumovich & Bruce Orr

1:00 pm 4.11 Revealing an unseen enemy: Detecting Phytophthora (Pythiaceae) species in native plant nurseries and restoration sites Tedmund Swiecki1, Elizabeth Bernhardt1, Suzanne Rooney Latham2, Cheryl Blomquist2, Ellen Natesan3, Susan Frankel4

1Phytosphere Research, Vacaville, CA, USA, 2California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, CA, USA, 3San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, USA, 4USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA, USA

1:20 pm 4.12 Management for perennial lupines and Presidio clarkia offers insights into restoration ecology Lech Naumovich

Golden Hour Restoration Institute, Alameda, CA, USA

1:40 pm 4.13 Less is more: Habitat restoration at Edgewood County Park & Natural Preserve through exotics removal utilizing techniques honed by ongoing citizen science Drew Shell

Santa Clara Valley Chapter, CNPS, California, USA

2:00 pm 4.14 Establishment of natives and non-natives in coastal sage scrub communities seeded with different combinations of native functional groups Michael Bell1, Sarah Kimball1, Megan Lulow2, Travis Huxman1

1University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, 2Irvine Ranch Conservancy, Irvine, CA, USA

2:20 pm 4.15 Bridging the gap between science and management: Two decades of experimental restoration for rare annual plant habitat in the Presidio of San Francisco Lewis Stringer

Presidio Trust, San Francisco, CA, USA


Session 5: Plant & Wildlife Relationships

The relationships of plants and wildlife will be explored through a combination of functional assessments, natural resource inventories, and habitat analysis. The effects of resource management techniques, restoration, and environmental impacts on plant/wildlife relationships will be evaluated.

Thurs 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Donner Room | Chair: Amy Merrill & Ivan Parr

10:00 am 5.01 The role of seed predators in the divergence in seed bank dynamics between Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) and Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae) V. Thomas Parker, Bernhard Warzecha

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

10:20 am 5.02 What’s bugging the native grasses? Survey results of arthropod fauna in native and non-native grassland assemblages of California. Kirsten Hill

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

10:40 am 5.03 The effect of giant reed (Arundo donax [Poaceae]) on the southern California riparian bird community. David Kisner1, Barbara Kus2,1, James Diffendorfer1, Douglas Deutschman1, John O’Leary1

1San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, 2USGS Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego, CA, USA

11:00 am 5.04 Dominant shrubs indirectly determine the habitat of the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard, Gambelia sila (Crotaphytidae), by reducing abundance of invasive grasses Alejandro Filazzola1, Amanda Liczner1, Michael Westphal2, Christopher Lortie1

1York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2US Bureau of Land Management, Hollister, CA, USA

11:20 am 5.05 The value of using both native and non-native plants to attract diverse bees in an urban landscape Jaime Pawelek1, Gordon Frankie1, Sara Leon-Guerrero1, Robbin Thorp2

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

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Session 6: Emerging Tools in Conservation Science

As threats to plant diversity and habitats continue to escalate, conservation science and its many applications are becoming more essential to address these challenges. This session will examine new and emerging technologies, tools, and innovative resources that are developing to address plant conservation issues. Real world applications and specific case studies will be emphasized.

Thurs 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Donner Room | Chair: Naomi Fraga & Kristie Haydu

1:00 pm 6.01 Using LIDAR to model vernal pool watershed complexes for the South Sacramento Habitat Conservation Plan Tyler Friesen1, Richard Radmacher2

1Dudek, Encinitas, CA, USA, 2County of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, USA

1:20 pm 6.02 Mapping habitat suitability for restoration and at-risk plant reintroduction Erin Questad1,3, James Kellner2,4, Susan Cordell3, Kealoha Kinney2,4, Gregory Asner4, Samuel Brooks3, Amanda Uowolo3

1California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, Pomona, CA, USA, 2Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 3USDA Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Hilo, HI, USA, 4Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA

1:40 pm 6.03 Seed longevity of the California flora Evan Meyer

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

2:00 pm 6.04 BGCI’s PlantSearch database: Existing and future applications Abby Hird1,2

1Botanic Gardens Conservation International U.S., Claremont, CA, USA, 2Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

2:20 pm 6.05 Such glandular, many nutlet, wow: Botany and social media Ken-ichi Ueda

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA



Session 7: Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are strictly-timed 5 minute presentations intended to spark discussion among conference participants. Presentations should focus on one key point such as results from a successful project, a report on lessons learned, an invitation to collaborate, an especially provocative or original idea, or a demonstration of a new tool or technique.

Thurs 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Gateway Ballroom | Chair: Staci Markos, Dan Gluesenkamp & Helen Potter

7.01 Origins of vascular plant diversity in the California Floristic Province Bruce Baldwin


7.02 Mobilizing community efforts to improve our knowledge of the systematics and evolution of California plants Brent Mishler

University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

7.03 Advances in our knowledge of the California Floristic Province in Baja California Sula Vanderplank1,2, Lucinda McDade3

1Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA, 2San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, USA, 3Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

7.04 California Rare Plant Rescue: An initiative to advance ex-situ conservation of California’s rare plants Naomi Fraga1, Mary Burke7, Holly Forbes5, Dan Gluesenkamp2, Denise Knapp3, Evan Meyer1, Bart O’Brien6, Lesley Randall7

1Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA, 2California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA, USA, 3Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 4San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas, CA, USA, 5University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 6Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA, USA, 7University of California, Davis Arboretum, Davis, CA, USA

7.05 A Field Guide to California Lichens Stephen Sharnoff


7.06 Conserving appropriate fire regimes as well as natural ecosystems V. Thomas Parker


7.07 Effective and efficient restoration by using systematic weed control Arne Johanson

California Native Plant Society, San Diego, CA, USA

7.08 Rare plant conservation in the shadow of renewable energy development in the California deserts Kara Moore


7.09 Snapshots and specimens: A volunteer botanical bioblitz on Mt. Tamalpais Andrea Williams1, Alison Young2, Suzanne Whelan1, Janet Klein1, Terrence Gosliner2

1Marin Municipal Water District, Corte Madera, CA, USA, 2California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

7.10 Publish your data! Eric Peterson

Resident, Weaverville, CA, USA

7.11 A year in the native garden Helen Popper

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA

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7.12 Certification program for native California landscape professionals Hei-ock Kim

California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA, USA

7.13 Native bee outreach in California botanic gardens Gordon Frankie, Jaime Pawelek, Sara Leon Guerrero, Mary Schindler


7.14 Native plants in urban environments Ellen Mackey1,2

1Council for Watershed Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

7.15 Back to the Beginning: The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and the Regional Parks Botanic Garden (RPBG), shared history, purpose, and anniversaries Bart O’Brien

Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Session 8: Current Research (Student Session)

This students-only session provides a venue to highlight research that focuses on the California flora. A number of topics will be explored in this session, including plant taxonomy, rare plant biology, and plant ecology of both native and invasive plant species.

Part 1 Fri 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Cedar Room | Chair: Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Staci Markos, Will Freyman

8:00 am 8.01 Vascular flora of the upper Rock Creek watershed, eastern Sierra Nevada, California Joy England

Claremont Graduate University, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

8:20 am 8.02 A vascular flora of the Kiavah Wilderness in the Scodie Mountains, southern Sierra Nevada, Kern County, California Erika Gardner


8:40 am 8.03 What can the flora of Tejon Ranch tell us about the flora of California? Nick Jensen, J. Mark Porter


9:00 am 8.04 A floristic study of the South Fork Tule River Watershed, southern Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, California Jessica Orozco


9:20 am 8.05 How are rare species maintained near common and widespread relatives? Natalie Rossington, Jenn Yost, Matt Ritter

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

Part 2 | Fri 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Cedar Room | Chair: Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Staci Markos & Will Freyman

10:00 am 8.06 Cryptic species in North American Cercis (Fabaceae)? Camille Nowell1,2, Peter Fritsch2, Boni Cruz2, Lila Leatherman3

1San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA

10:20 am 8.07 Geneious! Simplified genome skimming methods for phylogenetic systematic studies: a case study in subtribe Amsinckiinae and Oreocarya (Boraginaceae) Lee Ripma1,2, C. Matt Guilliams3,4, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman5, Makenzie Mabry2, Michael G. Simpson2

1Rocks Biological Consulting, San Diego, CA, USA, 2San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, 3Baldwin Lab and UC/JEPS Herbaria, Berkeley, CA, USA, 4Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 5Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

10:40 am 8.08 Investigating multiple subspeciation events in Navarretia intertexta (Polemoniaceae): A molecular approach Haley Smith Henderson1, Robert Patterson1, Leigh Johnson2

1San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

11:00 am 8.09 The distinct lineages of red flowered Silene (Caryophyllaceae) in California, convergence and confusion. Scott Simono1,2

1San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

11:20 am 8.10 Conservation genetics of Calystegia stebbinsii (Convolvulaceae), a rare edaphic endemic of the northern Sierra Nevada foothills Sandra Namoff


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Session 8: Current Research (Student Session) (continued)

Part 3 | Fri 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Cedar Room | Chair: Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Staci Markos & Will Freyman

1:00 pm 8.11 How do restoration site characteristics, plant caging, and parental source affect native Pacific cordgrass, Spartina foliosa (Poaceae), establishment? Whitney Thornton1,2, Katharyn Boyer1

1San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Coastal Conservancy Invasive Spartina Project, Oakland, CA, USA

1:20 pm 8.12 Impacts of precipitation change on Bromus tectorum (Poaceae) and native vegetation in a sagebrush steppe ecosystem Catherine Wade, Michael Loik

University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

1:40 pm 8.13 Modeling environmental drivers of distribution for a river ecosystem engineer, Carex nudata (Cyperaceae) Matthew Goslin

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

2:00 pm 8.14 The distribution and post-fire recovery of biological soil crusts in the Great Basin: Promoters of site resistance Lea Condon1, David Pyke2

1Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2U.S. Geological Survey, Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR, USA

2:20 pm 8.15 Demographic patterns across the range of a xeric-adapted alpine plant Meagan Oldfather

University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Part 4 | Fri 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Cedar Room | Chair: Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Staci Markos & Will Freyman

3:00 pm 8.16 High N, dry: Effects of nitrogen deposition on drought response of Artemisia californica (Asteraceae) seedlings Justin Valliere, Edith Allen


3:20 pm 8.17 Importance of vegetation on soil inorganic carbon dynamics in California desert ecosystems Amanda C. Swanson, Mark E. DeGuzman, G. Darrel Jenerette, Louis S. Santiago, Edith B. Allen, Michael F. Allen


3:40 pm 8.18 Leaf function under extreme nutrient deficiency: Possible implications for pygmy forest community structure Katharine Cary, Jarmila Pittermann


4:00 pm 8.19 Effects of water availability, nitrogen deposition, and invasive grasses on Acmispon glaber (Fabaceae) in southern California coastal sage scrub Scot Parker1, Rachel Danielson2, Michael Goulden1

1University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, 2Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA



Session 9: Translocation, Transplantation and Assisted Migration

Plant translocations or reintroductions are sometimes used as tools to help recover endangered species or as last-resort efforts to save individuals or populations from destruction. Assisted migration is being considered as a method for preventing extinctions due to climate change. The purpose of this session is to explore the potential of translocation as a tool to recover and conserve rare plants, identify gaps in our knowledge, and outline future research needs.

Fri 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Pine Room | Chair: Cherilyn Burton & Ellen Cypher

8:00 am 9.01 Dam the luck! How the Anderson Dam seismic retrofit has led to new insights into the ecology, evolution, and conservation of the coyote ceanothus, Ceanothus ferrisiae (Rhamnaceae) Janell Hillman1, Rodney Honeycutt2, Michael Vasey3, Alison Berry4, Daniel Potter4, Kai Battenberg4, Florence Gardipee5, Tedmund Swiecki6, Elizabeth Bernhardt6

1Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Jose, CA, USA, 2Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA, 3San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 4University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 5U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, CA, USA, 6Phytosphere Research, Vacaville, CA, USA

8:20 am 9.02 Can they live without each other? The strength of the association between Ceanothus ferrisiae (Rhamnaceae), an endangered California native plant, and Frankia, the nitrogen-fixing microbial symbiont Kai Battenberg1, Jinna Wren1, Liujing Huang1, Janell Hillman2, Alison Berry1

1Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2Santa Clara Valley Water District, San Jose, CA, USA

8:40 am 9.03 Seeding and transplanting trials of a federally endangered perennial Cirsium fontinale var. fontinale (Asteraceae) Christal Niederer, Stuart Weiss

Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, USA

9:00 am 9.04 The population biology of mitigation: impacts of habitat creation on the endangered vernal pool plant species Sebastopol meadowfoam, Limnanthes vinculans (Limnanthaceae) Michelle Halbur1,4, Christina Sloop2, Michael Zanis3, Nancy Emery4

1Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA, USA, 2Blue Earth Consultants, Oakland, CA, USA, 3Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA, 4Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

9:20 am 9.05 Habitat restoration and enhancement for two rare clay endemic plants Mark Dodero, Anna Bennett

RECON Environmental Inc., San Diego, CA, USA


Session 10: NW Baja California: Intact Landscapes, New Energy

With over 2,000 native plant taxa, of which 1,092 are endangered, endemic or rare, northwest Baja California, Mexico is one of the most important, and least protected, parts of the California Floristic Province. In 2013, CNPS founded its first chapter in over a decade to encourage the understanding and protection of this region. This session will focus on the diversity and conservation issues in this region. Presentations on priority conservation areas, special status taxa, legal mechanisms, private protection efforts, outreach, education, and public participation are all welcome. Preference will be given to presentations directed to a wide audience that catalyze a transnational conversation.

Part 1 | Fri 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Oak Room | Chair: Alan Harper & Sula Vanderplank

8:00 am 10.01 Environmental empowerment in northwestern Mexico, the creation of the Baja California chapter of the California Native Plant Society Cesar Garcia Valderrama2,1

1Nativ@s de las Californias A.C., Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, 2Sociedad de Plantas Nativas de Baja California, Baja California, Mexico

8:20 am 10.02 Evaluations of extinction risk (MERs) for the inclusion of new species in the Mexican list of federally endangered species NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010 Gabriela Corona1, Sula Vanderplank2, C. Matt Guilliams3

1Universidad Autónoma de baja California, Baja California, Mexico, 2Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Texas, USA, 3University of California Berkeley, California, USA

8:40 am 10.03 A US-México partnership in Mediterranean-zone resource and fire management Hugh Safford1,2, Hiram Rivera Huerta3, Gonzalo de Leon-Giron4, Mila Dunbar-Irwin2, Carlos Ramirez1

1USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 3Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Ensenada, BC, Mexico, 4Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, Ensenada, BC, Mexico

9:00 am 10.04 Images from Huamalgua: A wild island at California’s floristic edge Michael Uhler

East Bay Regional Park District, Berkeley, CA, USA

9:20 am 10.05 Native plant awareness efforts in northern Baja California Paula Pijoan

Sociedad de Plantas Nativas de Baja California / California Native Plant Society Baja California Chapter, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

Part 2 | Fri 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Oak Room | Chair: Alan Harper & Sula Vanderplank

10:00 am 10.06 Assessment of historical loss of vernal pool landscapes in Baja California, México C. Matt Guilliams1,4, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman2, José Delgadillo3, Bruce G. Baldwin1

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA, 3Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, 4Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

10:20 am 10.07 An intact landscape is essential to our ability to understand important biological problems: Investigating reproductive character displacement in Dudleya brittonii (Crassulaceae) in northwestern Baja California, Mexico over the last 40 years Thomas W Mulroy

Leidos, Inc., Carpinteria, CA, USA

10:40 am 10.08 Las Californias Binational Conservation Initiative 2004-2014: Patterns of environmental change along the U.S.-Mexico border and strategies for conservation in a global biodiversity hotspot Jerre Ann Stallcup1, John Randall2, Trish Smith2, Brian Cohen2, Scott Morrison2

1Conservation Biology Institute, Encinitas, CA, USA, 2The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, CA, USA



Session 11: Negotiating Conservation of Rare Plants

Conservation of our rarest plant species requires many skills and strategies. Botanists tend to focus on botanical skills and technical arguments. CNPS advocates education and collaboration. How can technical skills negotiation be combined for maximum protection of plants and habitats? This session will explore ways to effectively negotiate for protection in ways that build collaborative relationships. Concepts and case studies will provide tools to use in your conservation efforts.

Fri 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Donner Room | Chair: Jim Nelson

8:00 am 11.01 Negotiating conservation of native plants James Nelson

Nelson Facilitation LLC, Redding, CA, USA

8:20 am 11.02 The San Bruno Mountain HCP: A 32-year retrospective David Nelson1, Douglas Allshouse2

1Resident, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Technical Advisory Committee, San Bruno Mountain Habitat Conservation Plan, San Mateo County, CA, USA

8:40 am 11.03 How to protect native plant communities from misconceptions, politics, and indifference. Richard Halsey

California Chaparral Institute, Escondido, CA, USA

9:00 am 11.04 The luxury of a rare abundance: A conservation plan for Monotropa uniflora (Ericaceae), alternatively known as ghost pipe, Indian-pipe, or corpse plant, on private commercial timberlands in northwest California Cheri Sanville1, Bianca Hayashi2

1California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Eureka, CA, USA, 2Green Diamond Resource Company, Korbel, CA, USA

9:20 am 11.05 Lemon lily: How an entire town is bringing back a species Kathryn Kramer1, Dave Stith2

1SoCal Biology, Temecula, CA, USA, 2Resident, Idyllwild, CA, USA

11:00 am 10.09 The California Floristic Province (CFP) in Baja California, Mexico: Two key projects Bart O’Brien1,9, José Delgadillo-Rodríguez2, Steven Junak3, Thomas Oberbauer4, Jon Rebman5, Hugo Riemann6, Sula Vanderplank7,8

1Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, 3Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 4AECOM, San Diego, CA, USA, 5San Diego Museum of Natural History, San Diego, CA, USA, 6El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, 7Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA, 8Terra Peninsular, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, 9Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

11:20 am 10.10 Priority areas for conservation in the California Floristic Province of Baja California Sula Vanderplank1,2, Jon Rebman2

1Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA, 2San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, USA

Session 10: NW Baja California: Intact Landscapes, New Energy (continued)


Session 12: California’s Changing Climate: Conservation in an Age of Uncertainty

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing California’s native flora. But not all plant species, natural communities, or ecosystems will respond to climate change in the same way. This session will explore ecological contingency in the effects of climate change on California’s native plants, with an emphasis on effective strategies for identifying and conserving the most vulnerable plants and habitats.

Part 1 | Fri 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Pine Room | Chair: Gordon Leppig & Brian Anacker

10:00 am 12.01 Recent and future climate change in California: Implications for plants and vegetation Mark Schwartz


10:20 am 12.02 Climate change impacts to natural communities of the Bay Area: Questions and challenges for the future of conservation David Ackerly


10:40 am 12.03 Plant species persistence under climate change in the context of multiple threats Alexandra D. Syphard1, Janet Franklin2, Helen Regan3

1Conservation Biology Institute, La Mesa, CA, USA, 2Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, 3University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

11:00 am 12.04 Past, present and future in the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada: Variability in forest response to environmental change, and the role of management in promoting ecosystem resilience Hugh Safford1,2

1USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

11:20 am 12.05 Phenological responses to climatic variation among California native plants: inter-annual and spatial patterns detected by the California Phenology Project Susan Mazer1, Katharine Gerst2, Elizabeth Matthews3

1University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2USA National Phenology Network, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, 3National Capital Region Network, National Park Service, Washington, DC, USA

Part 2 | Fri 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Pine Room | Chair: Gordon Leppig & Brian Anacker

1:00 pm 12.06 Elevation, substrate, and climate effects on alpine and sub-alpine plant distribution in California and Nevada’s high mountains: Preliminary data from the California and Nevada GLORIA project Adelia Barber1, Connie Millar2, Jim Bishop1, Catie Ann Bishop1, Jan Nachlinger1, Chris Kopp3, Colin Maher4, Ann Dennis1, Angela Evenden5

1GLORIA California, Los Gatos, CA, USA, 2Pacific SW Research Station USDA Forest Service, Albany, CA, USA, 3Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, 4College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA, 5NPS Californian Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit, Berkeley, CA, USA

1:20 pm 12.07 Climate change effects on treeline community dynamics in Basin and Range mountains Brian Smithers1, Malcolm North1,2, Constance Millar3

1University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA, USA, 3USDA Forest Service, Albany, CA, USA

1:40 pm 12.08 Climate change, climatic water deficit, and the future of California vegetation Stuart Weiss

Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, USA

2:00 pm 12.09 Effectiveness of a reserve network in protecting California’s rare endemic plants under climate change Erin Riordan


2:20 pm 12.10 Guidelines for managing & monitoring rare plants for resilience under climate change: A first draft John Randall, Trish Smith, Sophie Parker

The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, CA, USA



Session 13: Horticulture: Part of Conservation is Growing

This session will focus on three aspects: why we use native plants in public and private landscapes, how we can most effectively implement best practice and techniques, and how to engage the public through outreach and education. We will weave together presentations on values and benefits, nursery operations and propagation, habitat gardening for wildlife (e.g., native bees and other pollinators, bird and small mammal habitat) conservation gardens, lawn conversation, designing and growing meadows, regional native plant horticulture, and presentations on specific plant groups (geophytes, succulents, ferns, etc.).

Part 1 | Fri 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Donner Room | Chair: Brett Hall, Steve Windhager & Susan Krzywicki

10:00 am 13.01 From concept to fruition: Native plant landscape design in urbanized and residential settings Lia Webb

GHD Inc., Eureka, CA, USA

10:20 am 13.02 A landscape maintenance company’s view of native plants in HOAs and large commercial complexes Steve Economou

Rainscape Environmental Management, San Diego, CA, USA

10:40 am 13.03 Adult education: Look, Ma, no lawn! Lili Singer

Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants, Sun Valley, CA, USA

11:00 am 13.04 The growing case for California native plants in public and private landscapes: Articulating the essential role of native plant species in supporting ecosystem health and how exurban and urban landscapes play a critical role in preserving biodiversity. Frederique Lavoipierre

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

11:20 am 13.05 Local Source Initiative: How locally sourced garden plants contribute to native plant conservation Madena Asbell, Genevieve Arnold

Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley, CA, USA

Part 2 | Fri 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Donner Room | Chair: Brett Hall, Steve Windhager & Susan Krzywicki

1:00 pm 13.06 Planting success: Timing, training, and a little finesse Mike Evans

Tree of Life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA

1:20 pm 13.07 Native plant landscape protocols: How emulating natural ecology differs from ornamental horticulture and dramatically improves mortality in landscape situations Greg Rubin

California’s Own Native Landscape Design, Inc., Escondido, CA, USA

1:40 pm 13.08 Site-specific maintenance manuals for public and private native plant landscapes Ellen Mackey1,2, Nancy Steele1


2:00 pm 13.09 Managing root rots in nursery grown California natives Tim Becker


2:20 pm 13.10 Native plant landscape of Apricot Lane Farms David Magney

David Magney Environmental Consulting, Ojai, CA, USA


Session 13: Horticulture: Part of Conservation is Growing (continued)Part 3 | Fri 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Donner Room | Chair: Brett Hall, Steve Windhager & Susan Krzywicki

3:00 pm 13.11 From parking lot to pollinator garden: A wild garden in the heart of the city Carol Bornstein

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, USA

3:20 pm 13.12 The found landscape Suzanne Schettler

Greening Associates, Ben Lomond, CA, USA

3:40 pm 13.13 Putting California on your plate: Is a low-water diet in our future, and will any of these foods be California natives? Antonio Sanchez, Naomi Fraga


4:00 pm 13.14 Native plant public projects: One spectacular failure and two subsequent successes Lisa Novick

Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants, Sun Valley, CA, USA

4:20 pm 13.15 Increasing native milkweed seed availability for monarch butterfly conservation Brianna Borders1, Eric Lee-Mäder1, John Anderson2, Mace Vaughan1, Scott Hoffman Black1

1The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR, USA, 2Hedgerow Farms, Inc., Winters, CA, USA

Session 14: A Quality Environment for All: Native Plants in an Unequal World

Economic inequality in our society is well documented and it is growing. Environmental inequality exists as well? Both have significant lasting effects on people’s quality of life. How do we recognize environmental inequality? How do we support communities facing this inequality? This session will examine the ideas of “Environmental Justice” and “Social Justice” and what they have to do with the CA Native Plant Society and the native plants we work to protect and conserve.

Fri 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Oak Room | Chair: Vern Goehring & Petra Unger

1:00 pm 14.01 Bridging the gap with communities of color Caroline Farrell

Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, Delano, CA, USA

1:20 pm 14.02 Environmental justice and environmental restoration Rey Leon

Valley Latino Environmental Advancement Project, Fresno, CA, USA

1:40 pm 14.03 Social and environmental justice in california gardens Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2:00 pm 14.04 Faith partners for environmental justice Lindi Ramsden

Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA, USA

2:20 pm 14.05 What does human rights have to do with the environment? Allison Davenport

International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA


Session 15: Threats and Opportunities for Coastal Conservation in the Face of Rising Seas

In the coming decades, sea level rise has the potential to dramatically alter California’s coastal ecosystems. Dune systems, estuaries, saltwater and freshwater coastal wetlands, and riparian habitats will all be impacted. This session will combine the latest sea level rise projections with conservation science, and public policy to identify effective strategies to conserve California’s valuable coastal habitats.

Fri 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Pine Room | Chair: Gordon Leppig & Sam Veloz

3:00 pm 15.01 Tidal wetlands and sea-level rise: How much is too much? John Callaway

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

3:20 pm 15.02 Tidal wetland ecotones in the San Francisco Estuary: Threats and opportunities for native plant diversity in the face of sea level rise Michael C. Vasey1, Peter R. Baye2

1San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Independent Consultant, Annapolis, CA, USA

3:40 pm 15.03 Baylands adaptation to sea level rise: Horizontal levees, green infrastructure and soft bird’s-beak Jeremy Lowe1, Donna Ball2

1ESA, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Save The Bay, San Francisco, CA, USA

4:00 pm 15.04 Tidal marshes: Rising sea levels, rising expectations Joy Zedler

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

4:20 pm 15.05 Developing sea level rise and adaptation scenarios based on ecological monitoring at a northern California dune system Andrea Pickart1, Patrick Hesp2, Conor Shea1, Laurel Goldsmith1

1U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arcata, CA, USA, 2Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia


Session 16: Rare Plants

California is home to roughly 6,500 native plants; over 35% of which are currently considered rare or endangered. This diversity and high degree of rarity comes from a unique combination of geological, topographical, and soil diversity, along with a Mediterranean climate. However, a great quantity of this rarity also results from anthropogenic causes. This session showcases some of California’s most imperiled plants. The research presented here aims to provide the information necessary to conserve California’s rare flora for future generations to study and enjoy.

Part 1 | Fri 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Fir Room | Chair: Aaron Sims & Nick Jensen

3:00 pm 16.01 Obligate outcrossing supersedes island-like habitat in determining the distribution of genetic diversity in a sandhill endemic (Erysimum teretifolium, Brassicaceae) Julie Herman1,2, Miranda Melen3, Justen Whittall1

1Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 3San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA

3:20 pm 16.02 Population viability of Menzies’ wallflower on the coastal dunes of Humboldt Bay Sebastian Schreiber1, Andrea Pickart2, Jennifer Wheeler3

1University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 2United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, CA, USA, 3Bureau for Land Management, Arcata, CA, USA

3:40 pm 16.03 Preventing the extinction of Dudleya verityi (Crassulaceae) Mark Elvin1,2

1US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ventura, CA, USA, 2University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

4:00 pm 16.04 Helianthus winteri (Asteraceae): A new California sunflower “hiding in plain sight” John Stebbins1, Chris Winchell2, John Constable1

1California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA, 2HT Harvey Assoc., Fresno, CA, USA

4:20 pm 16.05 Conservation assessment for Astragalus tricarinatus (Fabaceae) and Erigeron parishii (Asteraceae) for Joshua Tree National Park Naomi Fraga1, Tasha La Doux2,3, Linda Prince1, Mitzi Harding2, Joshua Hoines2

1Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA, 2Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA, USA, 3Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, Kelso, CA, USA

Part 2 | Sat 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Pine Room | Chair: Aaron Sims & Nick Jensen

8:00 am 16.06 Why care about native plants? Russell Huddleston

E2 Consulting Engineers, Emeryville, CA, USA

8:20 am 16.07 California’s most endangered plants: The top 10 without endangered species protection Heath Bartosh1,2,3

1University and Jepson Herbaria. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2CNPS Rare Plant Program Committee, Sacramento, CA, USA, 3Nomad Ecology, Martinez, CA, USA

8:40 am 16.08 The rare plant status review process: A science driven approach to rare plant conservation in California Aaron E. Sims


9:00 am 16.09 Using development to protect rare serpentine-associated plants: A case study from the San Francisco Bay Area Tanner Harris

WRA, Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA

9:20 am 16.10 The rare plants of the San Bruno Mountains David Nelson

Resident, San Francisco, CA, USA



Session 16: Rare Plants (continued)

Part 3 | Sat 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Pine Room | Chair: Aaron Sims & Nick Jensen

10:00 am 16.11 California’s Sedum subgenus Gormania (Crassulaceae) Jane Van Susteren, Robert Patterson

San Francisco State, San Francisco, CA, USA

10:20 am 16.12 Sedum section Gormania (Crassulaceae): Habitat islands, isolated populations, and overlooked rare species Barbara L. Wilson1, Richard E. Brainerd1, Nick Otting1, Peter F. Zika2, Julie K. Nelson3, Steven Darington4

1Carex Working Group, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2Herbarium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 3Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Redding, CA, USA, 4Eureka, CA, USA

10:40 am 16.13 Genetic differentiation in outplanted populations of the rare composite Hazardia orcuttii (Asteraceae) Loraine Washburn


11:00 am 16.14 Conservation of Orcutt’s yellow pincushion, Chaenactis glabriuscula var. orcuttiana (Asteraceae) at Ballona Lagoon, habitat restoration by the city of Los Angeles William Jones

City of Los Angeles/ Department of Public Works, Los Angeles, CA, USA

11:20 am 16.15 The current status of Orcuttieae (Poaceae) and Chamaesyce hooveri (Euphorbiaceae) in the Great Valley Carol W. Witham

Witham Consulting, Sacramento, CA, USA

Part 4 | Sat 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Pine Room | Chair: Aaron Sims & Nick Jensen

1:00 pm 16.16 To collect or not to collect: The importance of herbarium collections in the context of rarity Mare Nazaire


1:20 pm 16.17 Recovering listed species on an active military installation: Unique challenges and opportunities in species management Bryan Munson

Naval Base Coronado, San Diego, CA, USA

1:40 pm 16.18 Nine years of monitoring the rare annual clay lens obligate San Diego thornmint, Acanthomintha ilicifolia (Lamiaceae): General relationships and possible drivers of abundance Patrick McConnell, Markus Spiegelberg

Center for Natural Lands Management, Temecula, CA, USA

2:00 pm 16.19 Molecular systematics of the tuberous perennial Claytonia (Montiaceae) of California: Will the real C. lanceolata please stand up? Thomas Stoughton1,2

1Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA, 2Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA

2:20 pm 16.20 The roles of flower color, pollinator behavior, soil preferences, and neutral genetic markers in differentiating the Metcalf Canyon jewelflower, Streptanthus albidus ssp. albidus (Brassicaceae) from its closest relatives Justen Whittall1, Aaron Thom1, Justin Fulkerson2, Sharon Strauss2

1Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA


Session 17: Managing Lands for Native Plant Conservation: Essential Ingredients

Whether mandated by law, required by regulatory oversight, or simply done at the request of a private landowner, effective native plant conservation emerges from a common set of well-designed land management practices. This session presents diverse stories of California plant conservation on federal, state, and local public lands; and on private lands. These examples both clarify the differences among laws and regulations pertaining to different land ownership categories, and highlight underlying themes common to successful land management in all.

Fri 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Oak Room | Chair: Julie Nelson & Alison Colwell

3:00 pm 17.01 Restoring irrigation: Fire, creation stories, and the North Fork Mono Tribe’s land and water rights Ron Goode, Jared Aldern

North Fork Mono Tribe, Clovis, CA, USA

3:20 pm 17.02 20 years of non-native tree removal and restoration on the Presidio Coastal Bluffs: A case study supporting tree removal for locally significant plant conservation Michael Chasse1, Catey Ritchie2

1National Park Service, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, San Francisco, CA, USA

3:40 pm 17.03 Ulistac Natural Area: The restoration to native California habitats of 40 acres of land in the middle of Silicon Valley Dennis Dowling, Gabriella Trudeau

Ulistac Natural Area Restoration & Education Project Inc. 501c3, Santa Clara, CA, USA

4:00 pm 17.04 Retaining and rebuilding ecosystem functions in the roadside landscape Jim Hanson

Landscape Architect, Richmond, CA, USA

4:20 pm 17.05 Essential ingredients for effective use of grazing in the context of conserving listed plant species Catherine A. Little, Deborah L. Rogers

Center for Natural Lands Management, Northern California, USA



Session 18: Rare Natural Communities

The session examines specific rare natural plant communities in California, how they are defined and why they are rare, changes in their distribution in the face of common threats, and how they can be best monitored and restored. Our examples – pygmy forest, maritime chaparral, vernal pool, coastal dune, and endemic island communities – have long been the focus of research and conservation, and provide lessons to those working with newly recognized or recently defined rare vegetation types.

Sat 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Cedar Room | Chair: Diana Hickson, Deborah Hillyard & Tony LaBanca

8:00 am 18.01 Water relations in the pygmy forest of the Mendocino coast Teresa Sholars, Robert Sholars (posthumous)

College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, CA, USA

8:20 am 18.02 How maritime is ‘maritime’ and what are the legal implications for conserving stands of coastal chaparral hosting numerous locally endemic species? Michael C. Vasey


8:40 am 18.03 Changes in the distribution of Great Valley vernal pool habitats from 2005 to 2012 Robert F. Holland1, Carol W. Witham2, John Vollmar3

1Geobotanical Phenomenology, Auburn, CA, USA, 2Witham Consulting, Sacramento, CA, USA, 3Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting, Berkeley, CA, USA

9:00 am 18.04 Letting a coastal ecosystem go wild: Restoring natural processes in the Ten Mile Dunes Renee Pasquinelli

California Department of Parks and Recreation, Mendocino, CA, USA

9:20 am 18.05 Developing a long-term vegetation monitoring framework across the Channel Islands of California Anne E. Kelly, John J. Mack

Catalina Island Conservancy, Avalon, CA, USA


Session 19: Fire & Native Plants

For many native plant communities fire is an essential ecological disturbance process and the use of fire, in management, is essential for the health and longevity of forests and plant communities. Just as fire is an essential process for plants, so too is the smoke. The ability for fire and smoke to play its traditional role in ecosystems has been stifled by urban sprawl into the wildlands, altered fire regimes, air quality regulations, and lack of support to increase the use of fire in California. These sessions will explore native flora and forest structure relationships to fire through frequency, severity, and vegetation response to climate shifts.

Part 1 | Sat 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Fir Room | Chair: Karina Silvas-Bellanca

8:00 am 19.01 Resource protection and fire hazard reduction in California shrublands Jon Keeley1,2

1U.S. Geological Survey, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Field Station, Three Rivers, CA, USA, 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

8:20 am 19.02 Effects of a short-interval reburn on chaparral recovery in southern California Jan L Beyers, Marcia G Narog

USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA, USA

8:40 am 19.03 Disturbance regimes predict diversity and composition of forest understory native plant communities Jens Stevens1, Hugh Safford1,2, Susan Harrison1, Andrew Latimer1

1University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2US Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, USA

9:00 am 19.04 Optimal fire frequency for the restoration of the rare native annual Amsinckia grandiflora (Boraginaceae) Tina Carlsen, Lisa Paterson, Teneile Alfaro

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

9:20 am 19.05 Maintaining the fuel zone for T&E species Kim Klementowski1, Deborah Rogers1,2

1Center for Natural Lands Management, Temecula, CA, USA, 2University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

Part 2 | Sat 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Fir Room | Chair: Karina Silvas-Bellanca

10:00 am 19.06 Effects of altered fire regimes on tanoak acorn cultural resources of the Karuk and Yurok Peoples of California Arielle Halpern1, Frank Lake2, Thomas Carlson1, Wayne Sousa1

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2United States Forest Service, PSW, Redding, CA, USA

10:20 am 19.07 Characteristics of downed woody debris in mixed jeffrey pine forests of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico and southern California, USA Ann Bowers, Richard Minnich


10:40 am 19.08 Changes in chaparral vegetation along a gradient of increasing aridity in southern California Robert Steers, Edith Allen, Christopher True


11:00 am 19.09 Stimulation of rooting of corms of Triteleia laxa (Themidaceae) in response to glycosyl nitrile (a homolog of glyceryl nitrile, a germination-active compound in smoke) Winslow Briggs, Rajnish Khanna Khanna, Tong-Seung Tseng Tseng

Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA

11:20 am 19.10 Panel Questions & Answers Karina Silvas-Bellanca

Sierra Forest Legacy, Garden Valley, CA, USA



Session 20: Biogeography and Conservation of Lichens and Bryophytes

California’s floristic diversity is not restricted to vascular plants - our floristic province has a wealth of lichen and bryophyte diversity as well! From hypercoastal salt-spray habitats to boreal disjuncts in the high mountains, this session will explore the biogeography of our lesser explored photosynthetic biota and the resulting implications for conservation.

Part 1: Lichens | Sat 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Cedar Room | Chair: Eric Peterson & Ken Kellman

8:00 am 20.01 Biogeography of California lichens Stephen Sharnoff


8:20 am 20.02 Notes on the distribution, habitat and geography of rare lichens in California Tom Carlberg

California Lichen Society, Fairfax, CA, USA

8:40 am 20.03 The advantages of using lichens in restoration and conservation Tara Schoenwetter

Leidos, Carpinteria, CA, USA

9:00 am 20.04 Distribution and abundance of Lobaria oregana (Lobariaceae) within the forest canopy and a comparison of detection from ground-based versus canopy-based survey methods in the Six Rivers National Forest of northwest California John Villella1, Greg Carey1, Tom Carlberg2, Richard Brock1, Jesse Miller3, Lisa Hoover2

1Siskiyou BioSurvey, Ashland, OR, USA, 2Six Rivers National Forest, Eureka, CA, USA, 3University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

9:20 am 20.05 Lichens of Ventura County David Magney

David Magney Environmental Consulting, Ojai, CA, USA

Part 2: Bryophytes | Sat 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Oak Room | Chair: Eric Peterson & Ken Kellman

10:00 am 20.06 California Moss eFlora Paul Wilson1, Nickte Mendez1, Brent D. Mishler2, Aaron E. Sims3

1California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA, 2University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 3California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, CA, USA

10:20 am 20.07 Bryophyte species richness along a 3000 m elevation gradient Lena Coleman, Paul Wilson

California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA

10:40 am 20.08 New (and old) species everywhere we look: Understanding the California bryophyte flora through molecular data Benjamin Carter

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

11:00 am 20.09 Conservation and management of rare bryophytes Judith A. Harpel

University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada

11:20 am 20.10 Bryological exploration in California and the West; the role of the amateur in bryology Ken Kellman

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Session 21: Invasive Plants

Invasive plants are a major threat to native plant biodiversity in California. This session will highlight cutting-edge research and new techniques to prevent introduction of and scientifically manage existing infestations of the most damaging invasive plants in California.

Part 1 | Sat 8:00 am - 9:40 am | Donner Room | Chair: Mona Robison, Rachel Brownsey & Elizabeth Brusati

8:00 am 21.01 Setting and implementing regional strategies for landscape-scale invasive plant management Elizabeth Brusati, Doug Johnson, Dana Morawitz

California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley, CA, USA

8:20 am 21.02 Are they still selling that? How we can help nurseries choose noninvasive plants: A presentation by PlantRight Greg Richardson

Sustainable Conservation, San Francisco, CA, USA

8:40 am 21.03 Calflora’s Weed Manager system Cynthia Powell, John Malpas

Calflora, Berkeley, CA, USA

9:00 am 21.04 An early detection rapid response pilot program in California State Parks Ramona Robison

California State Parks, Sacramento, CA, USA

9:20 am 21.05 Lessons learned and the future direction of invasive plant management on the California Islands Archipelago

John Knapp1, John Randall1, Christie Boser1, Morgan Ball3, John Mack2, Grant Powell2, Peter Dixon2, Valerie Vartanian4, Denise Knapp6, Luciana Luna-Mendoza7, Julio Hernandez-Montoya7, Paula Power5, Sarah Chaney5, David Mazurkiewicz5, Eamon O’Byrne1, Steve Junak6, Bryan Munson4

1The Nature Conservancy, Ventura, CA, USA, 2Catalina Island Conservancy, Avalon, CA, USA, 3Wildlands Conservation Science, Lompoc, CA, USA, 4U.S. Navy, San Diego and Point Mugu, CA, USA, 5Channel Islands National Park, Ventura, CA, USA, 6Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 7Conservacion de Islas, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

Part 2 | Sat 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Donner Room | Chair: Mona Robison, Rachel Brownsey & Elizabeth Brusati

10:00 am 21.06 Competitive interactions between native and invasive grassland plants are mediated by precipitation, nitrogen deposition, clipping, and the identity of plant competitors Valerie Eviner1, Kevin Rice1, Carolyn Malmstrom2, Joanne Heraty1

1University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

10:20 am 21.07 Restoration of a California grassland through intensive yellow starthistle control and native perennial bunchgrass reintroduction Brent Johnson

Pinnacles National Park, Paicines, CA, USA

10:40 am 21.08 Tidal seed dispersal potential of Spartina densiflora (Poaceae) Kelsey McDonald1,2, Alison O’Dowd1, Andrea Pickart2

1Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA, 2U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arcata, CA, USA

11:00 am 21.09 Mammoth Lakes invasive “aster” threatens to swamp a local native ecotype: An example of a wildland weed problem that needs more attention. Ann Howald, Sherry Taylor

California Native Plant Society, Bristlecone Chapter, USA

11:20 am 21.10 Tamarisk removal in Palm Canyon, Riverside County: It’s possible! Kathryn Kramer1, Debra Nelson2

1SoCal Biology, Temecula, CA, USA, 2San Bernardino National Forest, Idyllwild, CA, USA



Session 21: Invasive Plants (continued)

Part 3 | Sat 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Donner Room | Chair: Mona Robison, Rachel Brownsey & Elizabeth Brusati

1:00 pm 21.11 Local distribution pattern interacts with rainfall manipulation to influence seed production in the annual grassland invader, Aegilops triuncialis (Poaceae) Meghan Skaer Thomason, Kevin Rice

University Of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

1:20 pm 21.12 Brachypodium distachyon (Poaceae): An adaptive approach to controlling an invasive species and conserving endemic species and sensitive habitats in San Diego, California Patricia Gordon-Reedy

Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, USA

1:40 pm 21.13 Evaluating the effects of mechanical and manual removal of Ammophila arenaria (Poaceae) within coastal dunes of Humboldt County Ayla Mills1, Kristina Schierenbeck2

1California State University, Chico, Chico, CA, USA, 2Redwood National and State Parks, Orick, CA, USA

2:00 pm 21.14 Invasive annual grasses at the Lanphere and Ma-le’l Dunes Units, Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge Laurel Goldsmith, Andrea Pickart

Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Arcata, CA, USA

2:20 pm 21.15 Using soil analysis and vegetation modelling to help identify areas likely to support invasion of the noxious weeds Alyssum murale and A. corsicum (Brassicaceae) in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California Kelly Amsberry1, Kathryn Strawn2, Robert Meinke1

1Oregon Department of Agriculture/Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2U.S. Forest Service, Portland, OR, USA

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Session 22: Vegetation Classification, Mapping, & Monitoring

Government agencies and NGOs have been improving standards and products in vegetation mapping and classification since Geographic Information System and remote sensing technology have expanded in the late 20th century. Vegetation mapping and classification are important tools for species, habitat, and landscape assessment, analysis, monitoring, and conservation, driving many of today’s decisions for land-use planning. This session showcases promising recent uses of vegetation mapping and monitoring for decision-making in conservation and management efforts throughout California.

Part 1 | Sat 10:00 am - 11:40 am | Cedar Room | Chair: Julie Evens & Todd Keeler-Wolf

10:00 am 22.01 The heuristic and economic values associated with vegetation mapping in California using the national vegetation classification Madison Most, Danielle Bram

California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA

10:20 am 22.02 The importance of vegetation maps for California’s Regional Advance Mitigation Planning (RAMP) program Dennis Grossman

California Strategic Growth Council, Sacramento, CA, USA

10:40 am 22.03 Describing and understanding the ecological sites of the grasslands at Tejon Ranch, California Sheri Spiegal, James Bartolome


11:00 am 22.04 The influence of surficial geologic processes on vegetation patterns in southern Johnson Valley Jeremy Lancaster1, Rachelle Boul2, Todd Keeler-Wolf2

1California Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, USA, 2California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA

11:20 am 22.05 Riparian vegetation mapping and landscape-scale mitigation planning on the San Joaquin River Zooey Diggory1, Rosemary Stefani2

1Stillwater Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 2U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento, CA, USA

Part 2 | Sat 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Cedar Room | Chair: Julie Evens & Todd Keeler-Wolf

1:00 pm 22.06 Mapping and assessing conditions along 250 miles of riparian corridor in the north Sacramento River watershed Amy Merrill1, John Menke2, Tricia Parker Hamelberg3, Emmalien Craydon1

1Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Aerial Information Systems, Redlands, CA, USA, 3US Fish and Wildlife Service, Red Bluff, CA, USA

1:20 pm 22.07 Vegetation and land cover mapping on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Client: NAVFAC Southwest and MCAS Miramar David Murray2, Amy Noddings1

1Tetra Tech, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, CA, USA

1:40 pm 22.08 Using the CNPS vegetation map to predict the presence and abundance of a rare bird species in the Carrizo Plain National Monument Dennis Jongsomjit1, Jim Tietz1, Leo Salas1, Kathleen Sharum2, Geoff Geupel1

1Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, USA, 2U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Bakersfield, CA, USA

2:00 pm 22.09 Temporal and spatial relationships between vegetation productivity and type and the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard Joseph Stewart1, Barry Sinervo1, Michael Westphal2, H. Scott Butterfield3

1University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 2Bureau of Land Management, Hollister, CA, USA, 3The Nature Conservancy, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

2:20 pm 22.10 Using vegetation maps for resource management planning: A case study from the Mt. Tamalpais watershed Andrea Williams, Janet Klein

Marin Municipal Water District, Corte Madera, CA, USA



Session 23: Renewable Energy: In the California Desert and Beyond

While holding the key to a carbon-free energy future, renewable energy generation can have and already has resulted in widespread and immediate impacts to California desert and Central valley ecosystems. How have native plant species and plant communities fared under the rush to build desert energy projects? To prevent the ad-hoc siting of projects, how has best available science been used to develop the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan? What is the status of utility-scale energy development in California beyond the desert? And how can we set reasonable targets for distributed energy generation in and around our urban areas? Speakers in this session will address each of these topics, with a panel-format question and answer discussion following the presentations.

Sat 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Fir Room | Chair: Greg Suba & Stephanie Dashiell

1:00 pm 23.01 Native plant conservation and California desert renewable energy development: 2009-2014 Greg Suba


1:20 pm 23.02 The current status of renewable energy projects across the Central Valley, California Kate Kelly

Kelly Group, Winters, CA, USA

1:40 pm 23.03 Incorporating conservation science into desert renewable energy planning at federal, state, and local levels Terry Watt

Watt Planning Consultants, San Francisco, CA, USA

2:00 pm 23.04 California’s rooftop solar market: What lies ahead and how to keep it growing Bernadette Del Chiaro

California Solar Energy Industries Association, Sacramento, CA, USA

2:20 pm 23.05 Panel Questions & Answers Greg Suba


SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS


Session 24: Science and Policy: Coming Together or Not

Scientists are frustrated because policy makers just don’t get it. Policy makers wing it too often because scientists aren’t helpful in the real world. How many times have you felt or heard these sentiments? This session will examine why science and policy need to come together; the hurdles to doing so; and how CNPS can help ensure that policy considers science and science anticipates policy.

Sat 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm | Oak Room | Chair: Vern Goehring & Petra Unger

1:00 pm 24.01 Policy needs science Elizabeth (Izzy) Martin The Sierra Fund, Nevada City, CA, USA

1:20 pm 24.02 The give and take of integrating science and policy Loren Clark

Community Development/Resource Agency, Placer County, Auburn, CA, USA

1:40 pm 24.03 Scientists, prepare for the World of policy Katharine Moore

California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water, Sacramento, CA, USA

2:00 pm 24.04 The California Legislature has a high regard for science Bill Quirk

Member of the California State Assembly, Sacramento, CA, USA

2:20 pm 24.05 Can science and public policies protect State Parks? Jay Chamberlin

Natural Resources Division, California State Parks, Sacramento, CA, USA

Session 25: Progress & Promise Talks

This session provides extended 30-minute time slots, intended for key speakers to share their long-term thoughts and goals on conservation in California.

Sat 3:00 pm - 5:40 pm | Gateway Ballroom | Chair: Dan Gluesenkamp

3:00 pm 25.01 From the ground to the cloud: New tools for conservation Rebecca Moore Google, USA

3:30 pm 25.02 Population’s still the elephant in the room

Paul R. Ehrlich Center for Conservation Biology Department of Biology, Stanford University, USA

4:00 pm 25.03 Terraforming Earth: Some considerations

Kim Stanley Robinson Resident, USA

4:30 pm 25.04 How to save our plants (and ourselves) Peter Raven Missouri Botanical Garden, USA

5:00 pm 25.05 Innovation in conservation using geography and GIS Jack Dangermond Esri, USA


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Contributed Poster Session

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Thursday | Foyers | Chair: Mark Bibbo 26.01 Natural desert terraria: Characterization of a Mojave Desert hypolithic moss community

Jenna Baughman, Katelyn Millette, Kirsten Fisher California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

26.02 Effects of high CO2 efflux on moss establishment and the germination of seeds on a moss layer Stephanie Macias California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

26.03 Lichens of the New Idria serpentine mass, San Benito County, California: A preliminary study of the lichen-substrate relationship Kerry Knudsen1, Alan Fryday2, Nishanta Rajakaruna3, Fred Olday3, Ryan O’Dell4, Nathaniel Pope5, Suzie Woolhouse6

1University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA, 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, 3College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, USA, 4United States Bureau of Land Management, Hollister, CA, USA, 5University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, 6San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA

26.04 Wavelength-Selective Photovoltaic Windows: New solar electricity technology that is compatible with sensitive desert ecosystems Michael Loik, Sue Carter, Glenn Alers, Catherine Wade, Carley Corrado, David Shugar, Devin Jokerst


26.05 Desert annual plants and communities exhibit variable response to shade and water regime changes associated with solar development Karen Tanner1, Kara Moore1, Bruce Pavlik2

1Evolution and Ecology, Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 2Restoration Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, UK

26.06 A comparison of two monophyletic lineages: Australian Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae) and North American Atriplex evolved to cope with environmental stresses Charles Knight1,2, Jessica Adinolfi1

1California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, 2Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, Australia

26.07 The age of amphitropic plant disjuncts coincides with the Great American Biotic Interchange Peter Biro, Justen Whittall Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA

26.08 Temporal and spatial patterns of plant phenology in a coastal climate zone Juliet Oshiro, Laurel Fox University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

26.09 A diversity of spines and prickles of California plants Zoya Akulova-Barlow, Clint Kellner LSA Associates, Inc., Richmond, CA, USA

26.10 Interactions of host reproduction, herbivorous insects, and landscape with sudden oak death (Phytophthora ramorum, Pythiaceae) on California bay laurel (Umbellularia californica, Lauraceae) Kerry Wininger, Nathan Rank

Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA

26.11 Cylindropuntia chuckwallensis (Cactaceae), a new species from Riverside and Imperial Counties, California Marc Baker1, Michelle Cloud-Hughes2

1Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, 2Desert Solitaire Botany and Ecological Restoration, San Diego, CA, USA

26.12 Tips and hints for the identification of Eriastrum (Polemonaceae) Sarah De Groot Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, USA

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26.13 Floristics of Ventura County David Magney David Magney Environmental Consulting, Ojai, CA, USA

26.14 A growth experiment to explore morphological and phenological variation among populations of San Diego Thornmint, Acanthomintha ilicifolia (Lamiaceae) Stacy Anderson, Laurie Lippitt, Kelly Andersen, Burak Pekin, Erin Conlisk, Bryan Endress

Applied Plant Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, CA, USA

26.15 San Clemente Island rare plant surveys: 1894-2013 Emily Howe San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

26.16 Restoring tecate cypress stands in Southern California Jutta Burger1, Quinn Sorenson1, Jonathan Snapp-Cook2

1Irvine Ranch Conservancy, Irvine, CA, USA, 2U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Carlsbad, CA, USA

26.17 Recovering the endangered western lily (Lilium occidentale [Liliaceae]) of the northern California and southern Oregon coast: Effects of bulb size and herbivores on transplant flower production Jordan A. Brown, Robert J. Meinke

Oregon Department of Agriculture/Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

26.18 The Pine Hill Preserve gabbro soil rare plants Graciela Hinshaw, Julie Wynia Bureau of Land Management, El Dorado County, CA, USA

26.19 Is hybridization between an endemic and a widespread native plant cause for conservation concern? Kathryn McEachern1, Diane Thomson2, Bryan Thines2, Elizabeth Medford2

1U.S. Geological Survey, Ventura, CA, USA, 2Keck Science Department, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, USA

26.20 Assessing biases associated with using large datasets when modeling the distribution of rare plant taxa: Exploration of patterns of spatial bias associated with rare plant observations within the California Natural Diversity Database Patrick McIntyre, Kristi Lazar

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, CA, USA

26.21 Conservation of rare/endangered species in a private community using citizen scientists and GIS Barbara Rice1,2, Diane Hichwa1,2

1The Sea Ranch Association, The Sea Ranch, CA, USA, 2Dorothy King Young Chapter, CNPS, Gualala, CA, USA

26.22 The ecological and environmental factors that promote survival, growth and reproduction in the Metcalf Canyon jewelflower, Streptanthus albidus ssp. albidus (Brassicaceae) Aaron Thom1, Christal Niederer2, Stuart Weiss2, Justen Whittall1

1Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2Creekside Center for Earth Observation, Menlo Park, CA, USA

26.23 Mapping fens and wet meadows in southern Sierra Nevada National Parks Jonathan Nesmith1, Natalie Pyrooz1, Corie Cann1, Adam Dickenson2, Erik Frenzel1, Sylvia Haultain1, Laura Jones2

1National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA, USA, 2National Park Service, El Portal, CA, USA

26.24 Maritime chaparral in the East Bay Nicole Jurjavcic2,1, Megan Keever2,1, Laura Baker1, Todd Keeler-Wolf3

1East Bay Chapter of CNPS, East Bay, California, USA, 2Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, California, USA, 3Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sacramento, California, USA

26.25 San Diego Zoo’s Native Seed Bank: A tool for conservation of native plant species and regional habitat management Stacy Anderson, Laurie Lippitt, Bryan Endress

Applied Plant Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, CA, USA

26.26 Conservation management of rare flora and plant communities within the Otay Ranch Preserve Anna Bennett, Mark Dodero RECON Environmental, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

Contributed Poster Session (continued)

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26.27 California Fire Science Consortium: Connecting users and producers of fire science Stacey Sargent Frederick University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

26.28 Invasive aquatic weeds: Implications for mosquito and vector management activities Charles Blair

California Polytechnical University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

26.29 The effects of invasive forbs and abundance on fine fuel loads in a degraded coastal sage scrub habitat Joshua Paolini, Lauren Quon, Erin Questad

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA, USA

26.30 The effect of the removal of thatch on changing the species composition of grassland at Olompali State Historic Park Clinton Kellner1,2

1LSA Associates, Inc., Richmond, CA, USA, 2The Olompali People, Novato, CA, USA

26.31 “Benign neglect” is not a sustainable management strategy! Alan Bennett

Florida Canyon Stakeholders, San Diego, CA, USA

26.32 Finding efficiencies in the establishment of Quercus agrifolia (coast live oak, Fagaceae) on the Irvine Ranch Open Space Preserve, Orange County, California Lars Higdon

Irvine Ranch Conservancy, Irvine, CA, USA

26.33 Effective conservation-oriented grazing management plans and grazing leases for California rangelands Lawrence Ford1,2, Pete Van Hoorn1, Sheila Barry3

1LD Ford Rangeland Conservation Science, Felton, CA, USA, 2University of California, Department of Environmental Studies, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 3University of California Cooperative Extension, San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, CA, USA

26.34 Oak recruitment and restoration on SFPUC lands Letty Brown1, Dina Robertson1, Ellen Natesan2, Greg Lyman2

1URS Corporation, Oakland, CA, USA, 2San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, USA

26.35 Goats as a tool to reduce encroachment of coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis ssp. consanguinea [Asteraceae]) into perennial grasslands on Fort Ord National Monument Suzanne Worcester2, Bruce Delgado1, Amanda Smith1, John Inman2, Wendy Cooper1, Philomene Smith1

1Bureau of Land Management, Hollister, CA, USA, 2California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, USA

26.36 Managing coyote brush to protect sensitive plant habitats Donald Thomas

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, USA

26.37 Los Cerritos Wetlands plant protection project Cristina Robinson

Tidal Influence, Long Beach, CA, USA

26.38 Limitations on transition communities Megan Roy University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

26.39 From idea to practice: The role of native plant nurseries in conservation, restoration and outreach Madena Asbell


26.40 Plant-soil interactions and implications for restoration of coastal sand dunes in Point Reyes National Seashore Sara Winsemius1, Claudia Stein1, Lorraine Parsons2, Sarah Minnick2, Amelia Ryan2, Katharine Suding1

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes Station, CA, USA


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26.41 From concept to fruition: Use of native plants in landscape design Lia Webb

GHD Inc., Eureka, CA, USA

26.42 Sterilized soil: Preparation and use in the propagation of California native plant species Michaeljames Calacsan1,2

1California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, San Pedro, CA, USA

26.43 The Galaxy Garden: A living work of scientific art featuring California native plants Jon Lomberg, Mary Ann Hawke

University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

26.44 Sourcing site-specific native container plants: What project managers should consider Kathryn Kramer

SoCal Biology, Temecula, CA, USA

26.45 Local seed, local landscapes: Nurturing a reliable supply of locally native plants in Southern California Ellen Mackey1,2


26.46 Broadening basic botany: Planning universally accessible design in botanical publications for all Genevieve Walden1,2

1University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, 2University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

CNPS Chapter Posters

Gateway Foyer | Chair: Kristie Haydu

Chapter Poster Title Author(s)

MarinCollaboration is Key: Native Plant Conservation Projects

Charlotte Torgovitsky

Napa Publishing a County Flora Gerald Tomboc

North CoastPartnership, Persistence, Plants, and Patience Create an Urban Place for Wildlife

Pete Haggard, Marisa St. John, and Carol Ralph

Orange County Building Native Plant Conservation in Orange County Celia Kutcher

San Luis ObispoGeo-referencing Landscape Photographs for Long-term Monitoring at Montana de Oro State Park

David Chipping

SanhedrinLoving Our Parks to Death: Recreation and Native Plant Conservation at the Urban/Wildland Interface

Kerry Heise

Santa Clara Valley

Conservation Through Rare Plant Documentation Judy Fenerty

South Coast Native Plant Garden Projects David Berman

Tahoe Zonation in the Tahoe Region Brett Hall

El Dorado The Pine Hill Preserve Debra Ayers



Presenting Author Index

Ackerly, David 12.02

Adinolfi, Jessica 26.06

Akulova-Barlow, Zoya 26.09

Aldern, Jared 17.01

Alexander, Janice 3.10

Allen, Michael 1.10

Amsberry, Kelly 21.15

Anacker, Brian 2.06

Anderson, Stacy 26.14, 26.25

Arnold, Genevieve 13.05

Asbell, Madena 26.39

Balachowski, Jennifer 4.01

Baldwin, Bruce 7.01

Barber, Adelia 12.06

Bartosh, Heath 16.07

Battenberg, Kai 9.02

Baughman, Jenna 26.01

Becker, Tim 13.09

Bell, Michael 4.14

Bennett, Alan 26.31

Bennett, Anna 26.26

Beyers, Jan L 19.02

Biro, Peter 26.07

Blair, Charles 26.28

Borders, Brianna 13.15

Bornstein, Carol 13.11

Bowers, Ann 1.07, 19.07

Briggs, Winslow 19.09

Brown, Jordan A. 26.17

Brown, Letty 26.34

Burge, Dylan 2.01

Calacsan, Michaeljames 26.42

Callaway, John 15.01

Carlberg, Tom 20.02

Carlsen, Tina 19.04

Carter, Benjamin 20.08

Cary, Katharine 8.18

Chamberlin, Jay 24.05

Chasse, Michael 17.02

Clark, Loren 24.02

PRESENTING AUTHOR INDEX

Cloud-Hughes, Michelle 26.11

Coleman, Lena 20.07

Condon, Lea 8.14

Corona, Gabriela 10.02

Crandall, Sharifa 3.03

Cruz, Jessa 2.11

Cypher, Ellen 2.09

Davenport, Allison 14.05

De Groot, Sarah 26.12

Del Chiaro, Bernadette 23.04

DeSimone, Sandra 4.07

Diggory, Zooey 22.05

Dodero, Mark 9.05

Dowling, Dennis 17.03

Dudley, Tom 1.08

Dunbarr, Wendy 2.12

Economou, Steve 13.02

Elvin, Mark 16.03, 2.05

England, Joy 8.01

Eskalen, Akif 3.04

Evanisko, Fran 2.20

Evans, Mike 13.06

Eviner, Valerie 21.06

Farrell, Caroline 14.01

Ford, Lawrence 26.33

Fraga, Naomi 2.03, 7.04

Frankie, Gordon 7.13

Frederick, Stacey Sargent 26.27

Friesen, Tyler 6.01

Garbelotto, Matteo 3.02

Garcia Valderrama, Cesar 10.01

Gardner, Erika 8.02

Goldsmith, Laurel 21.14

Gordon-Reedy, Patricia 21.12

Gordon, Tom 3.06

Goslin, Matthew 8.13

Grossman, Dennis 22.02

Guilliams, C. Matt 10.06

Halbur, Michelle 9.04

Halpern, Arielle 19.06

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Halsey, Richard 11.03

Hammond, Jessica E 4.03

Hanson, Jim 17.04

Harpel, Judith A. 20.09

Harris, Tanner 16.09

Haultain, Sylvia 26.23

Hawke, Mary Ann 26.43

Herman, Julie 16.01

Higdon, Lars 26.32

Hill, Kirsten 5.02

Hillman, Janell 9.01

Hinshaw, Graciela 26.18

Hird, Abby 6.04

Holland, Robert F. 18.03

Holstein, Glen 2.19

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette 14.03

Hoshi, Junko 1.09

Howald, Ann 21.09

Howe, Emily 26.15

Huddleston, Russell 16.06

Hutchinson, Rachel 4.09

Jensen, Nick 1.02, 8.03

Johanson, Arne 7.07

Johnson, Brent 21.07

Jones, William 16.14

Jurjavcic, Nicole 26.24

Keeler-Wolf, Todd 2.16

Keeley, Jon 19.01

Kellman, Ken 20.10

Kellner, Clinton 26.30

Kelly, Anne E. 18.05

Kelly, Kate 23.02

Kim, Hei-ock 7.12

Kisner, David 5.03

Klementowski, Kim 19.05

Knapp, Denise 2.13

Knapp, John 21.05

Kosta, Kathleen 3.08

Kramer, Kathryn 11.05, 21.10, 26.44

La Doux, Tasha 16.05

Lancaster, Jeremy 22.04

Lavoipierre, Frederique 13.04

Leon, Rey 14.02

Little, Catherine A. 17.05

Loik, Michael 26.04

Lowe, Jeremy 15.03

Macias, Stephanie 26.02

Mackey, Ellen 13.08, 26.45, 7.14

Magney, David 13.10, 20.05, 26.13

Maloney, Patricia 3.05

Martin, Elizabeth (Izzy) 24.01

Mazer, Susan 12.05

McConnell, Patrick 16.18

McDonald, Kelsey 21.08

McEachern, Kathryn 26.19

McIntyre, Patrick 26.20

Merrill, Amy 22.06

Meyer, Evan 6.03

Mills, Ayla 21.13

Mishler, Brent 1.04, 7.02

Moore, Kara 1.05, 7.08

Moore, Katharine 24.03

Morawitz, Dana 21.01

Most, Madison 22.01

Mulroy, Thomas W 10.07

Munson, Bryan 16.17

Namoff, Sandra 8.10

Natesan, Ellen 3.07

Naumovich, Lech 2.18, 4.12

Nazaire, Mare 16.16

Nelson, David 11.02, 16.10

Nelson, James 11.01

Niederer, Christal 9.03

Noddings, Amy 22.07

Novick, Lisa 13.14

Nowell, Camille 8.06

O’Brien, Bart 10.09, 4.05, 7.15

Oldfather, Meagan 8.15

Orozco, Jessica 8.04

Orr, Bruce 4.10

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Oshiro, Juliet 26.08

Paolini, Joshua 26.29

Parker, Scot 8.19

Parker, V. Thomas 5.01, 7.06

Parsons, Lorraine 4.06

Pasquinelli, Renee 18.04

Pawelek, Jaime 5.05

Peterson, Eric 7.10

Pickart, Andrea 15.05

Pijoan, Paula 10.05

Popper, Helen 7.11

Powell, Cynthia 21.03

Questad, Erin 6.02

Quirk, Bill 24.04

Rajakaruna, Nishanta 26.03

Ramsden, Lindi 14.04

Randall, John 12.10

Rice, Barbara 26.21

Richardson, Greg 21.02

Riordan, Erin 12.09

Ripma, Lee 8.07

Rizzo, David 3.01

Robinson, Cristina 26.37

Robison, Ramona 21.04

Rogers, Deborah 1.03

Rossington, Natalie 8.05

Roy, Megan 26.38

Rubin, Greg 13.07

Ryan, Amelia 2.10

Ryan, Sean 2.02

Safford, Hugh 10.03, 12.04

Salas, Leo 22.08

Sanchez, Antonio 13.13

Sandquist, Darren 1.06

Sanville, Cheri 11.04

Schettler, Suzanne 13.12

Schoenwetter, Tara 20.03

Schreiber, Sebastian 16.02

Schwartz, Mark 12.01

Sharnoff, Stephen 20.01, 7.05

Shell, Drew 4.13

Sholars, Teresa 18.01

Shuldman, Michal 2.07

Silvas-Bellanca, Karina 19.10

Simono, Scott 8.09

Sims, Aaron E. 16.08

Singer, Lili 13.03

Skaer Thomason, Meghan 21.11

Smithers, Brian 12.07

Smith Henderson, Haley 8.08

Snapp-Cook, Jonathan 26.16

Spiegal, Sheri 22.03

Stallcup, Jerre Ann 10.08

Stebbins, John 16.04

Steers, Robert 19.08

Stevens, Jens 19.03

Stewart, Joseph 22.09

Still, Shannon 1.01

Stoughton, Thomas 16.19

Stringer, Lewis 4.15

Suba, Greg 23.01, 23.05

Swanson, Amanda C. 8.17

Swiecki, Tedmund 3.09, 4.11

Swope, Sarah 2.08

Syphard, Alexandra D. 12.03

Tanner, Karen 26.05

Thom, Aaron 26.22

Thomas, Donald 26.36

Thornton, Whitney 8.11

Ueda, Ken-ichi 6.05

Uhler, Michael 10.04

Valliere, Justin 8.16

Vanderplank, Sula 10.10, 7.03

Van Susteren, Jane 16.11

Vasey, Michael C. 15.02, 18.02

Villella, John 20.04

Wade, Catherine 8.12

Walden, Genevieve 2.04, 26.46

Ward, Kimiora 4.08

Washburn, Loraine 16.13

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Watt, Terry 23.03

Webb, Lia 13.01, 26.41

Weiss, Stuart 12.08

Westphal, Michael 5.04

White, Michael 2.17

Whittall, Justen 16.20

Widener, Laney 4.04

Williams, Andrea 22.10, 7.09

Wilson, Barbara L. 16.12

Wilson, Paul 20.06

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Wininger, Kerry 26.10

Winsemius, Sara 26.40

Witham, Carol W. 16.15

Wolf, Kristina 2.14

Worcester, Suzanne 26.35

Wrubel, Eric 2.15

Young, Truman 4.02

Zedler, Joy 15.04

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