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). C
ontact Lauren at lbrown805@charter.net or 805-460-6329.
Hope to see you there!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP SET UP AT 5:00 PM OR CLEAN UP (STAY 30 MINUTES LONGER)
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California Native Plant Society – San Luis Obispo Chapter
Annual Potluck Banquet
Saturday, January 21, 2017
5:30-9:30 pm
$10 per person, plus a pot luck item for the dinner
Morro Bay Community Center
1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay
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Social Hour – 5:30 pm
Buffet Style Potluck Dinner – 6:30 pm
Chapter business – 7:30 pm
Program: “Rediscovering and conserving California’s prairie landscapes” – 8:00 pm
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PROGRAM
Our banquet speaker this year will be Dr. Glen Holstein , Sacramento Chapter Botanist
Glen is Chapter Botanist for the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. He’s a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with a degree in biology, and from there to botany graduate school at UC Davis. Glen took a few years off to help found the California Natural Diversity Data Base, participate in creation of the Cosumnes, Cold Canyon, Nipomo Dunes, and Carrizo Plains reserves, and to write a chapter on riparian biogeography for Warner & Hendrix’s California Riparian Systems. Following that he finished his botany Ph.D. at Davis with a dissertation on climatic influences on plant physiognomy in world biomes.
As a botanist consultant he saw much of California and its rare plants. He has been a CNPS member continuously since soon after it was founded. Retirement has enabled him to devote much more time to CNPS as Botanist and Council Delegate for the Sacramento Valley Chapter while also serving on several allied conservation organization boards. One of his projects was guest-editing and writing three articles for the 2011 Fremontia issue on California’s prairies and grasslands.
TICKETS
Tickets are $10 per person – You may reserve your spot with credit card or PayPal by clicking the Tickets button, or 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
Tickets
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
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!
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California Native Plant Society –
San Luis Obispo Chapter
Annual Potluck Banquet
Saturday, January 23, 2016
5:30-9:30 pm
$10 per person, plus a pot luck item for the dinner
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: “Native Plants and Bees, and Beyond” – 8:00 pm
Program: Dr. Gordon Frankie
Our banquet speaker this year will be Dr. Gordon Frankie, Professor and Research Entomologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He’s co-author of California Bees and Blooms (http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=15602). The book will be available for purchase and signing at the banquet.
Tickets are $10 per person – You may reserve your spot with credit card or PayPal by clicking the Tickets button, or if you prefer, you may send payment to D. Krause, 2706 Newton Drive, Cambria, CA, 93428. Questions? Contact David Krause at dkincmbria@aol.com or 805-927-5182 |
Tickets |
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: salad (with dressing) or side dish
I to Q: dessert
R to Z: main meat or veggie 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.
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.
Tickets are $10 per person – You may reserve your spot with credit card or PayPal by clicking the Tickets button, or if you prefer, you may send payment to D. Krause, 2706 Newton Drive, Cambria, CA, 93428. Questions? Contact David Krause at dkincmbria@aol.com or 805-927-5182 |
Tickets |
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.
San Luis Obispo Chapter of the
California Native Plant Society
Annual Potluck Banquet
Saturday, January 25, 2014
5:30-9:30 pm
Morro Bay Community Center
1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay
*5:30 pm Social Hour
6:30 pm Buffet Style Potluck Dinner
7:30 pm Chapter business
8:30 pm Program
*Please note, banquet events begin a half hour earlier than previous years
Program: John Rebman, Ph.D., will provide a presentation on the natural history of the Baja Peninsula. He is a plant taxonomist and conducts extensive floristic research in Baja California and in San Diego and Imperial counties. Dr. Redman has been the Mary and Dallas Clark Endowed Chair/Curator of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum since 1996. He leads various field classes and botanical expeditions each year and is actively naming and describing new plant species from our region. His primary research interests have centered on the systematics of the Cactus family in Baja California, especially the genera Cylindropuntia (chollas) and Opuntia (prickly-pears). However, Dr. Rebman also does a great deal of general floristic research and has co-published the most recent edition of the Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Diego County. Dr. Rebman recently finished a new edition of the Baja California Plant Field Guide with co-author Norman Roberts that was published in June 2012. He is in the process of finishing another book titled Ferns and Lycophytes of San Diego County that is co-authored with Annette Winner.
Tickets are $10 per person – You may reserve your spot with credit card or PayPal by clicking the Tickets button, or if you prefer, you may send payment to D. Krause, 2706 Newton Drive, Cambria, CA, 93428. dkincambria@aol.com or 805-927-5182 |
Tickets |
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: salad (with dressing) or side dish
I to Q: dessert
R to Z: main meat or veggie 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.
Hope to see you there. If you have any questions, please contact Lauren at lbrown805@charter.net, or 805-460-6329.
Thank you, the Banquet Committee
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.
San Luis Obispo Chapter of the California Native Plant Society
Morro Bay Community Center
1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Social Hour 6:00
Pot Luck Dinner 7:00
Chapter Business 8:00
Program begins 8:30
Program


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Native plants shine as the perfect answer to recreating local habitats in home gardens. By selecting the right plants for the right place, according to guidelines from local ecosystems, gardens become oases of beauty with a minimum of care and maintenance. Our featured guest, Glenn Keator, will highlight this concept.

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Dr. Glenn Keator is a freelance botanist, writer, and teacher specializing in native plants and related floras. He received his doctorate in botany at UC Berkeley and currently teaches at San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Regional Parks (Tilden) Botanic Garden, and Merritt College in the Landscape Horticulture department. Glenn has had a life-long interest in growing plants and has many trips to various parts of Mexico over the last 35 years.
He has written several books on California natives as well as others including The Life of an Oak: an intimate portrait, Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region, Complete Garden Guide to Native Perennials of California, and Complete Garden Guide to Native Shrubs of California. His most recent book, co-authored with Alrie Middlebrook, is Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens.
Here are some pictures of our 2012 Annual Banquet
Thank you
to Nancy Shearer and Marti Rutherford
and Mardi Niles and Kristie Haydu
for submitting these photos
