Program
13-14 January 2025
California State University, Chico
Bell Memorial Union Auditorium (In Person) and Online
Monday, 13 January
7:30 Check-in for registered participants, late registration, and poster set-up
8:45 Opening Remarks
Linnea Hanson, President of Northern California Botanists
8:50 Welcome
David Hassenzahl, Dean, College of Natural Sciences, California State University, Chico
9:00 Session 1: Collaboration and Partnership
Session Chair: Kerry Byrne, Cal Poly Humboldt
Building collaborations and partnerships along the North Coast
Crystal Kunz, Bureau of Land Management, Arcata Field Office
The evolution of public/private sector partnerships for building a locally sourced seed industry in California
Ed Kleiner Comstock, Comstock Seeds
Collaborative conservation: Community action to transform Sausal Creek
Kate Berlin, Friends of Sausal Creek
Ecological restoration, workforce development, and community stewardship at Heron's Head, San Francisco Bay
Patrick Marley Rump, Literacy for Environmental Justice
10:20 Break
10:40 Session 2: Coastal Botany: Plant Life, Restoration, and Management
Session Chair: Karen Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz
Using fire and fuel breaks to promote recovery of Santa Cruz (Ben Lomond) Wallflower (Erysimum teretifolium), an endangered plant endemic to the Santa Cruz Sandhills
Jodi McGraw, Jodi McGraw Consulting
Restoring coastal grassland on deeply scraped soils in Monterey County, California
Andrea Woofolk, Elkhorn Slough National Research Reserve
Asilomar State Beach and Fort Ord Dunes State Park restoration: Compare and contrast the past and future
Amanda Preece and Nicole Leatherman, Monterey District, California Department of Parks and Recreation
Restoration of native coastal salt marsh and dune mat communities at the Ocean Ranch Unit of the Eel River Wildlife Area, Humboldt County, California
Kelsey McDonald, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
12:00 Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 An informal discussion on collaboration, diversity, and partnership, will be held in Colusa Hall
1:20 Session 3: Oak Restoration and Conservation
Session Chair: Nicole Jurjavcic, Stillwater Sciences
Conifer encroachment and removal in oak woodlands: Influences on ecosystem physiology and biodiversity
Lucy Kerhoulas, Cal Poly Humboldt
Novel climate change adaptation strategies for conserving drought-adaptive blue oak genotypes in California
Alissa Fogg, Point Blue Conservation Science
Mediterranean oak borer and/or pests and diseases of oaks
Michael Jones, University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Recent work on Quercus garryana and Q. kelloggii
Yana Valachovic, University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
2:40 Break
3:00 Session 4: New Discoveries
Session Chair: Len Lindstrand III, Sierra Pacific Industries
Rediscoveries, range extensions, and otherwise notable collections while creating the upcoming Flora of Nevada County
Shane Hanofee
A new subspecies of Oenothera deltoides from the eastern Antioch Dunes sand sheet in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region
Karen Thorne, United States Geological Survey
Newly described Atriplex gypsophila (Chenopodiaceae) and a summary of the annual Atriplex species of California's Great Valley
Rob Preston
Carex holmgreniorum, a new Carex species for California from Mono County
Steve Matson
4:20 Session 5: Lightning Talks
Session Chair: Kristen Kaczynski, California State University, Chico
Evening Activities
5:15 - 6:15 Reception: A No-Host Bar with complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be held in Colusa Hall
6:30 Banquet (tickets required): Buffet dinner menu still to be determined
7:30 Keynote Speaker: Patrick Reynolds, Heritage Growers and River Partners
Title of Talk: Production of Native Seed Ecotypes to Support Diverse Large-scale Conservation Efforts in California
Tuesday, 9 January
8:00 Check-in for one-day registrations
8:30 Session 6: Poster Session (BMU, Room TBD)
Session Chair: Cherilyn Burton, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
10:00 Second Day Opening Remarks
Linnea Hanson, President of Northern California Botanists
10:10 Session 7: Landscape Level Fire
Session Chair: Jane Van Susteren, California Board of Forestry
Evaluation of effects of the Dixie Forest Fire on the ephemeral geophytes, Dicentra uniflora and Dicentra pauciflora (Papaveraceae)
Halkard Mackey
Manzanita shrubs and specialist gall aphids on sites recovering from wildfire at Big Chico Creek Preserve
Don Miller, California State University, Chico
Fire and vegetation trends and cycles in the southern Mayacamas
Arthur Dawson
Fire and plants in the Karuk Aboriginal Territory
Heather Rickard
11:30 Lunch
1:00 Session 8: Pollinators and their Mutualism with Northern California Wildflowers
Session Chair: Rebecca Nelson, University of California, Davis
Floral Associations documented in the California Bumble Bee Atlas
Dylan Winkler, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Acquisition and environmental filtering of introduced floral microbes in the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria
ALexia Martin, University of California, Davis
Cross-ecosystem effect of plant invasions on serpentine plant-pollinator networks
Rebecca Nelson, University of California, Davis
Pesticide contamination of butterfly host plants in the modified landscapes of California's Central Valley
Angie Lenard, University of Nevada, Reno
2:20 Raffle, Auction, and Awards
2:40 Break
3:00 Session 9: Now for the Good News
Session Chair: Joe Silveira, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Retired
Why the Calflora Database is such good news
Cynthia Powell, CalFlora
Coastal prairie restoration and the recovery of endangered Western Lily (Lilium occidentale) at Table Bluff Ecological Reserve in Humboldt County, California
Kelsey McDonald, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Conservation seed collection for rare species impacted by the Caldor Fire: Retractile roots and community science among the lava caps of Eldorado National Forest
Kristen Nelson, California Native Plant Society
Mapping individual vernal pools within the California Central Valley
Reagan Murray, San Francisco Estuary Institute
4:20 Closing Remarks
Linnea Hanson, President of Northern California Botanists and U.S. Forest Service, Retired
5:30 Optional Herbarium Field Trip