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California is a biodiversity hotspot.
The San Luis Obispo Chapter teems with it.
We save the plants that make it so.<\/h1>\n
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We\u2019re on a mission to save California\u2019s, and especially San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara County\u2019s, native plants and places using both head and heart. CNPS-SLO brings together science, education, conservation, and gardening to power the native plant movement.<\/p>\n

Contributions to the California Native Plant Society \u2013 San Luis Obispo are tax-deductible as allowed by law. CNPS Tax ID: 94-6116403.<\/p>\n

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Email\u00a0sanluisobispo@cnps.org<\/a>\u00a0with any questions regarding your donation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Give today to support California’s native plants. Your gift helps us provide the science, advocacy, and education to protect California’s extraordinary plant biodiversity and restore ecosystems to our urban landscapes.<\/p>\n

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Please make the check payable to
\u201cCNPS-SLO\u201d and mail it to:<\/p>\n

CNPS San Luis Obispo
P.O. Box 784
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406<\/p>\n

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The Hoover Award<\/h1>

The Hoover Award was established by the San Luis Obispo chapter in 1974 to recognize a person that has made significant contribution to the success and well being to the SLO chapter of CNPS.<\/p>

The selection is made at a meeting of the past recipients, and the award is generally presented at the annual banquet.<\/p>

In Recognition of Distinguished Service<\/h1>

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\"Judi

Susi Bernstein and Judi Young<\/p><\/div>

2014<\/span>We are pleased to announce that the Hoover Committee, composed of past recipients of the award, has selected Judi Young as the 2014 honoree.A California native, Judi grew up in a family that for generations has valued our unique environment and ecosystems. \u00a0Add to that a love of flowers and plants that was nurtured and encouraged during her growing up years; home gardens have always been an important part of her life. Judi moved to the Central Coast to be closer to her family, and we met Judi when she started to occasionally \u2018hang out\u2019 with her parents Heather and Jim Johnson at CNPS events.Judi\u2019s talents are many and varied, with experience as a floral business owner, electronic communications, and a web design consultant.\u00a0 In 2010, the local chapter board sought to improve our small and dated website.\u00a0 With her internet experience, artistic eye and interest in native plants, Judi saw the possibilities of revamping the website and stepped up to the task at hand.\u00a0 Today, our chapter has a beautiful, informative website that she designed and continuously updates.<\/p>

In 2012, Judi also took on Publicity duties for our chapter, keeping the public updated on events and news through Community Calendar posts and the occasional Facebook ad. She also maintains our email newsletter list and sends Obispoensis directly to our inboxes.<\/p>

Judi is very important to our chapter\u2019s appeal to younger people who use social media to connect with causes and attend events. She constantly reminds us what is possible in the modern world of communication, and how it can benefit our outreach to existing and new members. To further increase our outreach presence, Judi has set up and maintains a Facebook page (along with Mardi Niles and Kristie Haydu and others) , a very effective venue for connecting with people who want to know more about native plants. In fact, just recently a group of home-schooling mothers contacted us via Facebook, requesting some assistance with tree identification on the Bob Jones trail in Avila Beach. We were able to provide the needed information, and we also attended a somewhat spontaneously organized fieldtrip with these mothers and their children out on the trail! This sort of connection with interested people, previously unaware of CNPS, was made possible by Judi\u2019s successful efforts to move us into the modern age.<\/p>

In addition to Judi\u2019s importance to our digital\u00a0communications, she is also a big help in many other aspects of the local chapter, including as a regular Plant Sale cashier.<\/p>

Congratulations to Judi Young!<\/p>

\u2013 Susi Bernstein & Linda Chipping<\/p>

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Matt Ritter and Dirk Walters<\/p><\/div>Matt Ritter and Dirk Walters2012<\/span>

Matt Ritter joined the chapter shortly after arriving at\u00a0Cal Poly to teach botany. He was assigned to\u00a0teach a course on California native plants and\u00a0their communities to prospective elementary\u00a0school teachers. Finding the subject\u00a0fascinating, and needing a teaching aid, he\u00a0wrote and photo illustrated the picture book\u00a0Plants of San Luis Obispo: Their Lives and\u00a0Stories.<\/p>

He encourages his students to attend\u00a0our Chapter meetings in the many botanic\u00a0courses he teaches, and instills in many an\u00a0appreciation of both native flora and field\u00a0work.<\/p>

Early on Matt accepted the Chapter vice presidency,\u00a0which is a difficult and time\u00a0consuming job as it encompasses the role of program\u00a0chairman. It is Matt we have to thank for the high quality\u00a0of our speakers, and the large number who have come to\u00a0us from outside our county. These speakers, including\u00a0himself, have made several fine presentations.<\/p>

Our wealth of speakers comes in part because Matt is\u00a0highly regarded in the academic community. He is a\u00a0contributing author to the second edition of The Jepson\u00a0Manual, and to the Flora of North America project. He is\u00a0also editor-in-chief of Madro\u00f1o (the journal of the\u00a0California Botanical Society). Matt was a Kenan\u00a0Fellowship awardee at the National Tropical Botanical\u00a0Gardens, and teaches for the Organization of Tropical\u00a0Studies in Costa Rica.<\/p>

As well as authoring numerous\u00a0academic papers, his book A Californian\u2019s Guide to the\u00a0Trees<\/strong> among Us has national distribution.<\/p>

Matt has lead several field trips into our native habitats,\u00a0grasslands and urban treescape. Following the tradition\u00a0that a CNPSer is only truly happy when their face is\u00a0buried in a plant key, he and Dr. Keil have run premeeting\u00a0keying exercises that have been enormously\u00a0popular. He chairs the City of San Luis Obispo TreeCommittee.<\/p>

The Chapter has long supported a student scholarship\u00a0program. Matt volunteered to look after the program,<\/p>

\u2014 Dr. Dirk Walters: Chair, Hoover Awards Committee<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

[caption id=\"attachment_214\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]\"Bill<\/a> Bill Shearer, 2011 Hoover Award recipient[\/caption]2011<\/span>

In the world of gardening with California native plants, one never knows when they will be captivated by its magic. It\u00a0was in the late 1990\u2019s, as Bill was walking his dog through Pismo State Beach, Oceano Campground\u2019s Native Plant\u00a0Garden, and meeting Jack and Grace Beigle, that he became aware of the possibilities of gardening with native plants. It\u00a0started by Bill asking lots of questions. One thing let to\u00a0another and Bill eventually joined the \u201cGarden Gang\u201d\u00a0on Tuesday mornings and in Grace\u2019s words, \u201cHe was\u00a0enthusiastic!\u201d<\/p>

Bill has now contributed countless hours\u00a0to the development of the garden. He has also worked\u00a0on the removal of non-native invasive species and on
restoration projects in the Oceano Campground and at\u00a0the North Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove. Today his\u00a0special project is the reforestation of the peninsula area\u00a0in the Oceano lagoon and serving as Co-chair of the
Garden Committee. By the way, Bill has just been\u00a0awarded his 1,000 hour pin by the Central Coast State\u00a0Parks Association for the work he has done in the state\u00a0parks.<\/p>

Bill\u2019s enthusiasm for gardening with native plants was\u00a0brought to a new level around 2002, when Bill signed
up for a California native plant gardening class at the\u00a0Dunes Center in Guadalupe. It was taught by Al Naydol,
who was an active CNPS member, an expert \u201cCal\u00a0Native\u201d gardener and at that time was Chief\u00a0Environmental Officer of Vandenberg Air Force Base.\u00a0The spin off from those classes was a group of south\u00a0county CNPS members called the \u201cNative Rooters.\u201d<\/p>

Bill\u2019s garden at his home in Arroyo Grande is a beautiful oak woodland in the middle of the city, where Bill\u2019s knowledge\u00a0of California native plants is evident everywhere and he has generously shared his garden on many CNPS Garden Tours.<\/p>

Bill has also made additional contributions to our chapter by propagating, cultivating, and delivering native plants to our\u00a0November Plant Sale and helping out at our monthly meetings, our annual pot\u00a0luck banquet and at work parties through\u00a0the county. Thank you for your contributions to the SLO chapter of CNPS.<\/p>

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\"mardi_pp\"2005<\/span>This Hoover award recipient has enriched our chapter in many ways. Her enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, and love of native plants, especially those of San Luis Obispo, are shared and appreciated by everyone that has met with her, be it a first-time field trip attendee or one of our botanical experts.
This year\u2019s recipient, Mardi Niles, became our Field Trip chair in 2003. We have had excellent field trips planned and very rewarding turnouts in the years that she has been organizing this very important part of our chapter. Mardi takes great care to plan her walks and line up the leaders well in advance. That she really cares about the people who attend the walks is obvious. Hike leaders have told us how much they appreciate her organization and the assistance she provides when needed.<\/td><\/tr>
2004<\/span>Larry Vierheilig was given the Hoover Award. The list of Larry\u2019s accomplishments is impressive, including work with\u00a0 Nipomo Native Garden,\u00a0 Dunes Forum, Dunes Collaborative and People for Nipomo Dunes. He worked with the Land Conservancy of SLO County to identify and preserve special places in the Nipomo area. For over two years Larry wrote monthly native plant gardening articles for the Adobe Press; subsequently he donated them to the SLO Chapter for publication in the Obispoensis. He rescued hundreds of native plants from the corner of Pomeroy and Willow (Ceanothus Corner) for use by the community and established a permanent preserve at Knollwood Estates development for the endemic population of Pismo clarkia, Clarkia speciosa ssp. immaculata at Knollwood. For his contributions to CNPS Larry is very deserving of this award.<\/td><\/tr>
2003<\/span>Susie Bernstein was honored with the Hoover Award at this year\u2019s Annual Banquet. As Education Chair for our chapter, she has shared her infectious enthusiasm for plants and people. For several years, she has been helping with Creek Day, Bob Jones Trail Day and the Farmers Market booth. Her major focus has been assisting the seventh grade science teacher at Los Osos Middle School to develop a plant curriculum. She has taught the students about plant communities and native plants, and how to grow them.<\/td><\/tr>
2002<\/span>Charlie Blair received the Hoover Award this year at the Annual Banquet. Thanks to Charlie\u2019s enthusiasm and leadership the Lompoc area has a CNPS subchapter. Charlie is the one who organizes field trips, finds monthly speakers and attends chapter and state board meetings. We are fortunate to have such an energetic and knowledgeable person in our chapter.<\/td><\/tr>
2001<\/span>The Hoover Award was presented to Eleanor Williams at the Annual Banquet.\u00a0 Eleanor was honored for her long time service to the San Luis Obispo Chapter of CNPS. She has served as committee chair for field trips and membership committees and as CNPS representative to the Pine Pitch Canker Task Force. In the field she has lead Wild Flower Weekend hikes, worked with the C.C.C. on creek side vegetation restoration, volunteered at the Plant Sale every year, and staffed the information and sales booth. She is currently working with the docents maintaining the demonstration garden at Montano de Oro. 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