Events
Presentations, Field Trips, Annual Chapter Events, and other events are posted here. Also see the Creosote Ring Sub-Chapter page for their events and meetings. Click Here for Board Meetings.
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General Meetings and Presentations:
Unless otherwise announced, General Chapter Meetings will be at the White Mountain Research Station (3000 E. Line St. Bishop). Board Meetings will be at the USFS/BLM Conference Room (351 Pacu Lane, Bishop).
January General Meeting: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The next chapter meeting will be on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Speaker and Topic TBA. The public is welcome.
Future speakers/presentations - details to come:
- May General Meeting: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
- September General Meeting: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 [Green Church?]
- November Potluck/General Meeting: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 [Thanksgiving is November 25]
For information on our southern sub-chapter meetings, see the Creosote Ring Sub-Chapter page.
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, often 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.
For board meetings, click here
Bristlecone Chapter Field Trips:
Preliminary 2010 Field Trip Schedule - check back for more details to come!
- Creosote Ring Sub-Chapter Field Trip: March 6, 2010, Saturday - Comanche Point, Tejon Ranch. Leader: Ellen Cypher.
Joint trip with Kern County CNPS. Eastsiders will carpool from the Inyokern Post Office. Read More...
- March 20-21, Saturday-Sunday: Death Valley. Leader: Mark Bagley.
- March 27, Saturday: DeDecker Garden Clean-up. Leader: Jerry Zatorski.
- April 11, Sunday: Highway Clean-Up. Leader: Scott Hetzler.
Meet at the intersection of Highway 395 and Pine Creek Rd., west of 395, at 9.00 AM. We will try to be done by 1:00 PM. For more information contact Scott at (760) 873-8392.
- Creosote Ring Sub-Chapter Field Trip: April 17, Saturday: El Paso Wash, Indian Wells Valley. Leaders: Kathy LaShure & Jane McEwen.
This is the site of the proposed Solar Millennium Ridgecrest project. Read More...
- April 24-25, Saturday-Sunday: Eureka Valley. Leader: Michèle Slaton.
Overnight.
- May 1, Saturday: Owens Valley East Side Solar. Leader: Sally Manning.
- Creosote Ring Sub-Chapter Field Trip: May 1, 2010, Saturday - Caliente Creek, Tejon Ranch. Leader: Ellen Cypher.
Joint trip with Kern County CNPS. Eastsiders will carpool from the Inyokern Post Office. Read More...
- May 9, Sunday: Black Canyon (Independence burn area). Leader: Richard Potashin.
- May 22, Saturday: Black Canyon (Whites). Leader: Jerry Zatorski.
Joint trip with Audubon Society.
May 29, Saturday: Deep Springs Valley. Leader: Steve Ingram. CANCELLED- June 5, Saturday: Blackrock meadows: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Leader: Daniel Pritchett.
- June 6, Sunday: Highway Clean-Up. Leader: Scott Hetzler.
Meet at the intersection of Highway 395 and Pine Creek Rd., west of 395, at 9.00 AM. We will try to be done by 1:00 PM. For more information contact Scott at (760) 873-8392.
- June 19, Saturday: Badger Flat. Leader: Kathleen Nelson.
- June 26, Saturday: Wheeler Crest. Leader: Sue Weis.
We’ll be searching for Raven’s milk-vetch and Father Crowley’s lupine reported in 1988 by Dean Taylor. There may also be some grey-leaved violet and the views are amazing. High clearance 4WD vehicles needed for Sand Canyon Road, then we’ll hike on an old rocky jeep road for about four miles to the reported locations. Meet at Swall gravel pit at 8:00, bring lunch. For more information, contact Sue Weis at sueweis@aol.com or 760-873-3485.
- August 14, Saturday: Aspens. Leaders: Richard Potashin and Nancy Hadlock.
Joint trip with Audubon Society.
- October 17, Sunday: Highway Clean-Up. Leader: Scott Hetzler.
Meet at the intersection of Highway 395 and Pine Creek Rd., west of 395, at 9.00 AM. We will try to be done by 1:00 PM. For more information contact Scott at (760) 873-8392.
Every year the Bristlecone Chapter plans a variety of excursions to interesting and floriferous places. Our trips usually begin in late March to points in the low desert of our region, such as Death Valley or the Mojave Desert, where the flower display begins in early spring. We generally follow the flowers up in elevation as spring and summer progress, ending our quest for blooms in the highest regions of our awesome surrounding mountains in mid-summer. Our explorations usually finish with an appreciation of fall colors displayed in the extensive aspen groves found in the Eastern Sierra. We also schedule seed collecting or cleaning trips and work parties at the Mary DeDecker Native Plant Garden in Independence.
Everyone is welcome on our field trips whether or not you are a member of CNPS and whether or not you know a turnip from a scarlet monkeyflower.
Field Trip Policies
Annual Bristlecone Chapter Events:
The Bristlecone Chapter hosts two events on alternate years – a Sierra Spring or Summer Sojourn and the Bristlecone Chapter Banquet. The Sojourn is a weekend of field trips, evening programs and visiting. In 2009 it was held in July at the Crooked Creek Facility in the White Mountains. In 2011 the chapter will hold a Sojourn in either the Spring or Summer. Plans for the 2011 Sojourn will be announced this winter. The date of our 2010 Banquet will be announced soon at this site. Our chapter members are encouraged to attend both events. The public is also welcome.
Other Events:
- February 18, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Continuing Rock Art Research in Northern Australia David Lee, Researcher, Author, Lecturer
- February 25, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Escaping the Extinction Vortex: Identifying factors affecting population performance and recovery in endangered Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Heather Johnson, Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, California Department of Fish and Game
- February 27, 2010, Saturday - Eastern Sierra Land Trust
Full Moon Ski Tour, Big Hot Springs Ranch Join ESLT for an evening skiing under the light of the moon through spectacular meadows permanently preserved in Bridgeport Valley. We will quietly swish through this pristine meadow and end the evening gathered around the fire with warm drinks and dessert. This is an exclusive opportunity to experience first hand the beauty of these 75 acres preserved by the Big Hot Springs Ranch conservation easement. See Flier for this event.
Fees: $20 ESLT members/ $30 non-members. To sign up and for more information, please contact Mary McGurke at mary@eslt.org or call 760-873-4554.
- March 4, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Research Update on Causes of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) Frank Powell, Director, UC White Mountain Research Station
- March 6, Saturday - Eastern Sierra Land Trust
Wildlife Migration Corridor Field Trip, Wheeler Ridge Spend the afternoon exploring an important section of our local wildlife migration corridor that has been permanently preserved to provide safe passage and critical habitat for our Sierra Wildlife. Local Wildlife Biologist, Timothy Taylor from the California Department of Fish & Game will share his knowledge and research on the Round Valley Mule Deer Herd and other wildlife that rely on this important area for successful migration and winter range habitat. Bring a lunch and ESLT will provide drinks and snacks. See Flier for this event.
Fees: $20 ESLT members/ $30 non-members. To sign up and for more information, please contact Serena Dennis at serena@eslt.org or call 760-873-4554.
- March 18, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Mass effects, thresholds, and alternative states: New ways of thinking about post-fire vegetation dynamics in the Mojave Rob Klinger, USGS Yosemite Field Station
- April 1, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Using Osteopathic Manipulations to Decrease the Incidence of Acute Mountain Sickness David Hakopian, Touro University
- April 8, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Geological gems of the Eastern Sierra W.H. ‘Terry’ Wright, Professor Emeritus Sonoma State University
April 9-11, 2010 - Maturango Museum
MATURANGO MUSEUM WILDFLOWER SHOW, RidgecrestOur Creosote Ring Sub-Chapter meets at the Maturango Museum on the first Wednesday of the month, and they also help put on this annual wildflower show. Come on down!
- Friday, April 9, 2010, 7pm, through Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3pm:
BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION OF NATIVE DESERT FLORA
at the Desert Studies Center, Mojave National Preserve, Zzyzx, California As much a course in "art for botanists" as "botany for artists"! At the height of the desert blooming period, participants can look forward some very exciting plein air drawing and watercolor painting. Look forward to basics of line control, proportion, color, focusing/perception skills as they relate to plant identification. Also detailed dissection work in a well equipped lab!
Note: This field study is based at the Desert Studies Center (of California State University) located within the Preserve at Soda Springs (Zzyzx), about a three-hour drive from Riverside. The course fee includes two nights' lodging at the Center (dormitory rooms & some couples rooms), and meals starting with breakfast Saturday through lunch on Sunday. Upon enrollment, participants will be sent information about the Center and what to bring with them.
Art X454.5 (1 unit), Fee: $325 / $305 each for couples and family members / $295 each with PINE discount, REG # 094-SCF-F60, (credit & non-credit).
To Register, visit www.extension.ucr.edu or call 951-827-4105.Instructor: Donald Davidson, http://www.nps.gov/plants/cw/watercolor/index.htm
- April 15, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
Is climate change affecting Sierran insects and plants? Can we measure it? John Smiley, Associate Director, UC White Mountain Research Station
- April 22, Thursday - WMRS Winter Public Lecture Series
TBA Dave Rhode, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
Look for future events here, including future Spring or Summer Sojourns (weekends of field trips), Banquets, Native Plant Sales, Conferences and other events of interest to botanically minded folks.
Don't miss our Spring and Fall Native Plant Sales