JANUARY 2023

NEWS - Conservation: CNPS OC provides written comment for Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) meeting in general support of the Regional Advance Mitigation Program including the GreenPrint.

11 Wednesday

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom. "Out of the Ice Age and into the Pyrocene: A natural history of Southern California's chaparral as told from fossils". Presented by Regan Dunn of the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Click here for info and registration. 

17 Wednesday

NEWS - Plant Science: We sold book #850 of WILDFLOWERS of Orange County and the Santa Ana Mountains by Robert Allen and Fred Roberts.  

21 Saturday

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ the Dana Point Headlands Nature Interpretive Center 10:00 AM - Noon. 96 plants. 

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Orange Home Grown Education Farm, 356 N. Lemon St, Orange. 10 AM - Noon. 96 plants.

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Concordia University Heritage Garden, 1530 Concordia, Irvine. At the gate say you are picking up a free white sage. 10 AM. 96 plants.

Field Trip: Mosses, Lichens, Liverworts and More in Modjeska Canyon with Chris Wagner, UC Riverside

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NEWS - Conservation: CNPS OC provides followup support letter for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Regional Advance Mitigation Program (RAMP).

FEBRUARY 2023

CNPS OC - Board of Directors Meeting

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Environmental Nature Center, 1601 E 16th St., Newport Beach. 10 AM. 120 plants.

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Orange Home Grown Farmers Market. 9 AM. 48 plants.

Field Trip: Tour of Tree of Life Nursery, Ortega Hwy 

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: Michael Simpson presents Plant Dispersal between the American Continents and the Special Case of the Popcorn Flowers

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway returns to the Dana Point Headlands Nature Interpretive Center, 10AM, 96 plants. Sponsored by the City of Dana Point!

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church, 2845 Mesa Verde Dr. E., Costa Mesa. 10 AM. 50 plants.

Field Trip: Oak Canyon Nature Center, Anaheim Hills

A Sage In Every Garden giveaway @ Shipley Nature Center, 17851 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach. 10 AM. 80 plants.

MARCH 2023

CNPS OC - Board of Directors Meeting

CNPS Board of Director Meeting and Chapter Council Meeting in Orange County

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom: The Flora of Camp Pendleton and Using iNaturalist to Improve Regional Floristics, with Jon Rebman

Field Trip: Laguna Coast Wilderness with the Laguna Canyon Foundation

FYI: March-Spring-Vernal Equinox

Garden Tour:

Field Trip: Irvine Ranch Conservancy

CNPS OC - Board of Directors Meeting

Field Trip: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Murrieta 

FYI: Theodore Payne Foundation Native Plant Garden Tour 

Botany / BioBlitz @ Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park 

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: California Dudleyas – In the Wild, In your Garden, and In Danger. Steve McCabe, Ron Vanderhoff, and Documentary Film 

CNPS OC Plant Sale! @ South Coast Plaza Spring Garden Show, Costa Mesa 

Field Trip: Crystal Cove State Park

Field Trip: Cleveland National Forest with a USFS Botanist

Field Trip: Arroyo Trabuco 

Field Trip: Hot Springs Canyon

Field Trip: Seaview Park, Laguna Niguel 

Chapter Public Meeting via Zoom: Understanding, Appreciating, and Protecting our Native Bee Populations in California – A Community Science Perspective, with Krystle Hickman  

CNPS OC Plant Giveaway @ Santa Ana Public Works Day   

Field Trip: Black Star Canyon

Field Trip: Family and Friends Picnic @ Irvine Regional Park (location tentative)

Field Trip: Trestles @ San Onofre

FYI: Summer Solstice

Chapter Public Meeting @ the Murray Center, Mission Viejo: Students and Researchers share their Knowledge and Passion in lightning talks or similar presentation format   

FYI: September-Autumn Equinox

FYI: Indigenous Peoples' Day

Field Trip: Falls Canyon

FYI: Thanksgiving