Chapter Meetings
Chapter meetings are generally held the first Thursday of the month at the San Luis Obispo Vets Hall on Grande Ave near the corner of Monterey Street.
Our meetings kick off with a social time that begins at 7:00 p.m. This is a time to sample the treats that members have brought along to share, and browse the book table. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. with some brief announcements before the program begins.
Speakers and notes from Chapter Meetings are documented in each Obispoensis newsletter. Please see the Obispoensis archive for PDF file of each newsletter.
Chapter Meeting, February 2, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012–Groundhog Day Program: Dirk and David’s Best Spring Plant Walks Illustrated Veterans Hall, 801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo 7:00 pm: Social time, refreshments and browse our book table The meeting begins at 7:30 with a little time for chapter business and announcements, followed by the presentation.
read moreChapter Meeting, December 7, 2011
Thursday, 7 p.m., December 1, 2011. Veterans Building, 801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo Program – Calflora’s Integrated Mapping Platform Using Calflora’s integrated mapping platform to understand and conserve California flora: recent results and prospects for further future improvement. Daniel Gluesenkamp is Executive Director of the Calflora Database, where he helps the leading source of California wild plant information to develop innovative new mapping, data analysis, and management planning tools. Prior to joining...
read moreChapter Meeting, November 3, 2011
Thursday, November 3. 7 pm at the Vets Hall, SLO, Grand Ave. & Monterey St. Horticulture Program Randy Baldwin and His Favorite California Native for the Garden Randy Baldwin is a partner and General Manager of San Marcos Growers, a wholesale nursery in Santa Barbara, California known in the nursery industry for the diversity of plants that it grows and for the introduction of new plants suitable for cultivation in California. Randy has worked for San Marcos Growers for over 30 years and prior to this worked for a Santa...
read moreOctober Chapter Meeting
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 7pm At this first chapter meeting after the break, we welcome everyone back from summer and share photos of travels and plants. Please come prepared to share your sumemr adventures! Once more we are meeting at the Veterans Hall, GrandAvenue at Monterey, City of SLO, for a social and sharing of desserts. I am going to ask a special favor of participating photographers. I will move all slide packages to the computer that is tied to the projector, so have pictures as jpeg format in a folder under your name. Label...
read moreMay Chapter Meeting
Chapter Meeting Our program for this chapter meeting includes a talk by Lisa Stratton, the Director of Ecosystem Management for UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER). She will tell us how native plants have become a priority for UCSB open space areas, and cover current and ongoing open space projects. John Chestnut will give us a run down on the recent CNPS is proposal to add a new species, to list 1B. This species is restricted to the Central Ca sand dunes– Los Osos, Oceano, Guadalupe...
read moreApril Chapter Meeting
The April Chapter Meeting is held at the Annual Malcolm McLeod Memorial Field Trip Meeting to Shell Creek. See Field Trips/Shell Creek for information. There is no meeting at the Vets Hall this month.
read moreMarch Chapter Meeting
The Carrizo Plains: A Wildflower Wonderland Speakers are Dr. Dirk Walters and Dr. David Chipping, Emeritus Professors from Cal Poly Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7 p.m. The San Luis Obispo Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will present a slide show and lecture entitled “The Carrizo Plains: A Wildflower Wonderland” on March 3, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Atascadero Association of Retired People building, 7484 Pismo Avenue,#adjacent to the Lake Pavilion, Atascadero, off Morro Road (Hwy 41). A large selection of natural history...
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Carrizo Plain Ecological Reserve – Biodiversity, Monitoring, and Research by Bob Stafford The Carrizo Plain Ecological Reserve contains a wide variety of vegetative communities. This botanical variety supports an equally diverse faunal assemblage which will be explored during this presentation. We will also look at past, present, and future wildlife research projects and how all of this information will be used to direct the future management direction of the ecological reserve. Bob Stafford has worked as an associate wildlife biologist...
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