Annual Banquet January 11, 2020

California Native Plant Society – San Luis Obispo Chapter

Annual Potluck Banquet

Saturday, January 11, 2020

5:30-9:30 pm

$10 per person, plus a pot luck item for the dinner

Morro Bay Veterans Memorial Building

209 Surf St, Morro Bay

Social Hour – 5:30 pm

Buffet Style Potluck Dinner – 6:30 pm

Chapter business – 7:30 pm

Program – 8:00 pm

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PROGRAM

The CNPS Vegetation Program

Julie Evens

Julie Evens will provide a talk regarding the California Native Plant Society’s Vegetation Program plus photo excerpts from a signature book published a few years ago about our state’s incredible diversity of vegetation, including a spectrum of common and rare vegetation assemblages. Julie is the Vegetation Program Director of CNPS, in which she maintains standard methods for surveying, classifying, and mapping vegetation in California. She provides public workshops on vegetation surveying and mapping. She works collaboratively with agencies and CNPS chapters on vegetation assessment
projects, including current projects in the Bay Area, Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, Sierra Nevada foothills, North Coast, among other regions. She is a coauthor with John Sawyer and Todd Keeler-Wolf of the second edition of A Manual of California Vegetation, and she is a co-author with Michael Barbour et al. of California’s Botanical Landscapes: A Pictorial View of the State’s Vegetation. She also helped compile the first edition of the CNPS Fire Recovery Guide. Julie has a M.A. degree from Humboldt State University, and she holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California–Santa Cruz. Before CNPS, She has worked as an ecologist and botanist for federal and state agencies including the National Park Service, US Geological Survey, University of California, and Department of Fish & Game. She has worked for CNPS since April 2001.

TICKETS

Tickets are $10 per person – You may reserve your spot with credit card or PayPal by clicking the Tickets button

Tickets

If you prefer, you may send payment to D. Krause, 2706 Newton Drive, Cambria, CA, 93428. You may print this form to include with your check.

Questions? Contact David Krause  at dkincmbria@aol.com or 805-927-5182

POTLUCK DETAILS

CNPS will be providing the beer, wine, coffee, tea, and assorted beverages included with the cost of the banquet. Plates, glasses, cups, and napkins will be available; we ask that you bring your own eating utensils, although plastic utensils will be available.

For the dinner potluck, we are asking those with last names beginning with the following letters to bring the suggested item (and serving utensils). However, if you have a dish you especially want to share with the group, please feel free to bring it or contact Lauren (805-460-6329, lbrown805@charter.net) for alternative suggestions.

A to H: main meat or veggie dish
I to Q: salad (with dressing) or side dish
R to Z: dessert

Please put your name on a label or piece of tape on your serving items so they can be returned to you.

DIRECTIONS

From the south (SLO/Los Osos): Exit Hwy 1 at Main Street. Turn right, go under freeway, and stay on Main Street through traffic signal. Go up the hill a couple hundred yards and turn right on Surf Street (sign is obscure). Continue over cross street and veer to the right. The Veterans Building is the large building on the left.
From the north (Highway 41 and the north coast): Turn left on Main Street immediately east of the freeway. Stay on Main Street through the signal and then see above.

QUESTIONS?

contact Lauren at lbrown805@charter.net or 805-460-6329.

Volunteers Needed

The room is open at 5 and we need volunteers to arrive at 5 and help get set up by 5:30, and volunteers to clean up (plan to stay about 30 minutes after). Contact Lauren at lbrown805@charter.net or 805-460-6329.

Hope to see you there!

CNPSSLO Banquet 2015

California Native Plant Society —

San Luis Obispo Chapter

Annual Potluck Banquet

Saturday, January 24, 2015

5:30-9:30 pm

Morro Bay Community Center

1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay

Social Hour – 5:30 pm

Buffet Style Potluck Dinner – 6:30 pm

Chapter business – 7:30 pm

Program: “Preserving California’s Pristine Lands” – 8:00 pm

Program:  David Myers, Executive Director of  The Wildlands Conservancy (Windwolves Preserve)

David will speak about the role of the Conservancy in preserving some of California’s most pristine land. He will tell the story of the Conservancy’s crucial conservation , majestic preserves, and award-winning programs through beautiful photography.

Potluck suggestions: CNPS will be providing the beer, wine, coffee, tea, and assorted beverages included with the cost of the banquet. Plates, glasses, cups, and napkins will be available; we ask that you bring your own eating utensils, although plastic utensils will be available.

For the dinner potluck, we are asking those with last names beginning with the following letters to bring the suggested item (and serving utensils). However, if you have a dish you especially want to share with the group, please feel free to bring it or contact Lauren (805-460-6329, lbrown805@charter.net) for alternative suggestions.

A to H: dessert
I to Q: main meat or veggie dish
R to Z: salad (with dressing) or side dish

Please put your name on a label or piece of tape on your serving items so they can be returned to you.

Driving Directions: Exit Hwy 1 at Morro Bay Boulevard. At the “roundabout” turn right onto Quintana Road, and left onto Kennedy Way (after Albertson’s). Go ½ block. Community Center is on the right.

If you have any questions, please contact Lauren at lbrown805@charter.net, or 805-460-6329.

Hope to see you there!

Annual Banquet 2013

San Luis Obispo Chapter of the California Native Plant Society Potluck Banquet

Saturday, January 26, 2013, 6-10 p.m.

Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay

6 p.m. – Social Hour 7 p.m. – Buffet Style Potluck Dinner 8 p.m. – Chapter business
Program 8:30 p.m.

Kat Anderson will speak on “Salinan Ethnobotany and Associated Land Stewardship.” Ms.
Anderson is author of Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of
California’s Natural Resources. This publication will be available for purchase and signing
during the social hour.

Potluck suggestions: CNPS will be providing the beer, wine, coffee, tea, and assorted
beverages included with the cost of the banquet. Plates, glasses, cups, and napkins will be
available; we ask that you bring your own eating utensils, although plastic utensils will be
available.

For the dinner potluck, we are asking those with last names beginning with the following letters to bring the suggested item (and serving utensils). However, if you have a dish you especially want to share with the group, please feel free to bring it or contact Lauren (805-460-6329) or lbrown805@charter.net to get alternative suggestions.

A to H: dessert

I to Q: main meat or veggie

R to Z: salad (with dressing) or side dish.

Please put your name on a label or piece of tape on your serving items so they can be returned to you.

Directions: Exit Hwy 1 at Morro Bay Boulevard. At the “roundabout” turn right onto Quintana Road, and left onto Kennedy Way (after Albertson’s). Go ½ block. Community Center is on the right.

Thank you, the Banquet Committee

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Dr. Anderson’s talk, “Salinan Ethnobotany and Associated Land Stewardship,” will highlight some of the rich Salinan uses of our native plants for basketry, cordage, foods and other purposes, gathered from John P. Harrington’s field notes and her own ethnobotanical research conducted among the Salinan in the oak savannahs, chaparral, marshes and other vegetation types of west-central California in what is now Los Padre National Forest, Salinas Valley, and Fort Hunter- Liggett.

She will explore the rich stewardship practices that the Salinan applied to wilderness areas to influence plants and ecosystems for cultural purposes, and the potential associated ecological effects that might have resulted from these techniques. Kat Anderson is an ethnoecologist of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and a lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis. She is also associate ecologist with the Agriculture Experiment Station.

She reconstructs the plant uses, harvesting strategies, and land management practices of indigenous peoples in the United States with an emphasis in California. This work involves the use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

A unique feature of her research is the use of the western scientific experimental approach to simulate indigenous horticultural practices and assess their potential ecological effects on the productivity and yield of wild plant populations. This information in turn can be used to assess the potential application of traditional ecological knowledge for restoring traditional gathering sites, and the biodiversity of degraded ecosystems.

Kat received a Masters and Doctorate in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California at Berkeley and Bachelors in Environmental Planning and Management from the University of California at Davis.