Meetings:
Unless otherwise announced, General Chapter Meetings will be at the White Mountain Research Station (3000 E. Line St. Bishop). Board Meeting locations will be announced on this site and via email before each meeting, and have been held at the USFS/BLM Conference Room (351 Pacu Lane, Bishop) or the ESICE office (2nd and Pine, Bishop) or board member's homes in the past. Check the Creosote Ring page for southern sub-chapter meetings and locations (usually at the Maturango Museum).
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General Meetings and Presentations:
November General Meeting:
Outdoor Education at Valentine Reserve
January 25, Wednesday, 7pm: CNPS Program: "A Summer of Rare Plant Treasure Hunts (or How the LaShures Spent the Summer of 2011)," Kathy LaShure. White Mountain Research Station-
Kathy LaShure, coordinator for the Creosote Ring subchapter, will present "A Summer of Rare Plant Treasure Hunts (or How the LaShures Spent the Summer of 2011). She will share information on how CNPS determines the rarity of a plant and what the several categories of rarity mean. Then she will introduce you to the 15 rare plant species that she & her husband Rich found and submitted 2011 occurrence records for, 35 in all. Some were casual discoveries, while others were located on planned Rare Plant Treasure Hunts. The spring finds were desert species, while all the summer finds were located on the Kern Plateau in the Southern Sierras. Finally you'll learn how their team, the Red Jeepsters, did in the state-wide Rare Plant Treasure Hunt competition.
Future speakers/presentations - details to come:
- March: Program TBA (location White Mountain Research Station)
Membership meetings include brief discussion of chapter business, followed by a presentation by a guest speaker. Presentations are geared to appeal to persons of a wide range of knowledge of native plants, from beginners to professional botanists. The November meeting each year is a pot luck with a members’ slide show in lieu of a speaker. In an effort to accommodate members spread throughout our large geographic area, meetings are held in a variety of locations.
Board Meetings:
- January Board Meeting: January 18, at the home of board members Sally and Daniel, 401 E. Yaney (upstairs). Members are welcome.
For information on our southern sub-chapter meetings, see the Creosote Ring page.
