WINTER-06

Darlingtonia
N e w s l e t t e r o f t h e No r t h C o a s t C h a p t e r o f t h e C a l i f o r n i a Na t i v e P l a n t S o c i e t y
D e d i c a t e d t o t h e P r e se r v a t i o n o f C a l i f o r n i a Na t i v e F l o r a

Crescent City Marsh and Western hydrologic analysis. The Marsh is a very unique
coastal wetland, and along with the lily population is
Lily Threatened by Two Proposed highly sensitive to changes in the water table and
Developments soil moisture regime. Monitoring to establish base-
line information on changes in the water table levels
By Jen Kalt throughout the seasons must be done to understand
the potential impacts of altering the Marsh’s hydrol-
The Crescent City Marsh is one of the most biologi- ogy with runoff from parking lots and roofs, irriga-
cally diverse wetlands in California and home to the tion, and construction activities. The western lily is
world’s largest population of the federally endan- highly sensitive to changes in timing and quantity of
gered western lily (Lilium occidentale). More than runoff to the Marsh, and not enough is known to en-
230 plant species are found in the Marsh, at least a sure that proposed mitigation measures would pre-
dozen of which are considered rare, threatened, or vent negative impacts to the lily population and the
endangered. The Department of Marsh. Pre- and post-development
Fish and Game purchased the land monitoring are crucial to prevent nega-
in 1979 to protect coastal freshwa- tive impacts to the Marsh from any
ter wetlands. further development within the water-
shed. For details on CNPS’s concerns
The Marsh is currently threatened with this project as currently proposed
by two proposed developments. in the Draft Environmental Impact
The Elk Valley Rancheria’s 15-acre Statement, visit the North Coast Chap-
casino-resort complex is proposed ter’s “Issues” webpage.
on an adjacent property known as
the Martin Ranch. This project Another proposed development in-
originally included a golf course to volves a fish and wood by-products
be built on coastal wetlands; fortu- composting facility and a retail land-
nately it has been dropped from the scaping materials business. This pro-
current proposal. However, the de- ject features a proposed Army Corps
velopment as proposed would be of Engineers permit to retain
built within the watershed of the “unauthorized fill” on 1 acre of coastal
Crescent City Marsh, and would Lilium wetland within the Crescent City
very likely alter the hydrology of Marsh. In other words, the proposal
the Marsh. Because not enough is known to ensure would authorize the illegal filling of coastal wet-
that the Marsh and lily populations would be pro- lands that was already done by the project applicant
tected, CNPS would like to see the project moved to without the required permits.
the southern portion of the Martin Ranch, to an area
that does not drain directly into the Crescent City Hambro Forest Products and its subsidiary Eco-
Marsh. Nutrients currently operate a mill adjacent to the
Marsh. According to the public notice for the permit
Numerous public agencies and an ecohydrologist from the Army Corps of Engineers, Hambro
recruited by CNPS to review the project have sub- (Continued on page 3)
mitted comments regarding the inadequacies of the
 CHAPTER PROGRAMS & EVENTS
MONTHLY
MEETINGS &
PRESENTATIONS
The North Coast Chapter of
CNPS holds free Public Programs on
the second Wednesday of each month
(September through May) at the Ar-
cata Masonic Lodge, 351 Bayside Rd.,
Arcata. Refreshments at 7:45 and pro-
gram at 8:00 p.m. You don’t have to
be a CNPS member to attend!
Please check our website for current
information on speakers. Presenta-
tions are scheduled for:
Wedsnesday, February 8th
Wednesday, March 8th
Wednesday, April 12th
SEE YOU THERE!
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Chapter Field Trips
§
February 25, Saturday. COASTAL TRAIL DAY HIKE. The easy, 4-mile
trail along the bluff between Requa, on the north side of the mouth of the
Klamath River, and Lagoon Creek, where 101 meets the ocean north of
Klamath, has some early spring treats, like huge gooseberries festooned with
red flowers, masses of dainty violets, and mats of unfurling false lily-of-the-
valley. Hope for one of those glorious February days, dress for the weather,
bring lunch and water. We'll return by dark. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Pacific Un-
ion School (3001 Janes Rd., Arcata). We will shuttle a car to the north end of
the hike, so we'll only have to walk one way. Call Carol Ralph (822-2015) to
say you are coming or to arrange another meeting place.
§
March 18, Saturday. MYRTLE CREEK DAY HIKE. This 2-mile roundtrip
trail off highway 199 in the Myrtle Creek Botanical Area of the Six Rivers
National Forest was a traditional spring destination of our chapter for many
years. Vegetation includes coastal redwood, serpentine slopes and seeps, ri-
parian, mixed evergreen forest, and colonizers after mining. We might see
goldthread (Coptis laciniata) and Trillium rivale blooming at this early date.
Let's leave promptly at 8:30 a.m. from Pacific Union School (3001 Janes Rd.,
Arcata), ready for the weather, with lunch and water packed. We'll return by
dark. Call Carol Ralph (822-2015) to say you are coming or to arrange a
more northern meeting place. (Depending on time, some of us might do an-
other trail on the way home.)
APRIL FIELD TRIP to be announced. Please watch for the schedule in the
spring newsletter.
May 20, Saturday. GRASSHOPPER PEAK DAYHIKE and PLANT SUR-
VEY. In return for a lift to the top of Grasshopper Peak in Humboldt Red-
woods State Park (a 7 mile hike), we will create for the park plant lists of all
we find in this area that was burned by the Canoe Creek Fire two years ago.
Lots of surprises have popped up in this chaparral and grassland above the
Douglas fir forest. The more eyes we have, the more we will find; you don't
have to be an expert to be helpful. Walking down the mountain is an option,
if we have time and energy, or we can ride down. Check the spring
"Darlingtonia" or the website for details.
PS. Watch the calendar on the chapter web site (www.northcoastcnps.org) for
possible other outings. We hope to see you in the great outdoors!
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 ODDS AND ENDS

(Continued from page 1) INVASIVE PLANTS RESOURCE GUIDE

“temporarily” stockpiled from the Yerba Buena Chapter newsletter
soil on 2.5 acres of wet- Developed by the Center for Invasive Plant Management, the online Invasive
lands. This wetland was Plant Resource Guide is a reference for materials (fact sheets, handbooks,
suitable habitat for the west- booklets, etc.) that support invasive plant management and education. The
ern lily, and in 1994 a small materials cover a wide array of topics ranging from weed management
population of the lily was strategies to natural resources to "working with people" skills. For each
item, a description is provided as well as a link to the source. Most items are
documented on the site.
available for download or in hard copy at no cost. Find it at:
CNPS believes that granting
<www.weedcenter.org/resource-guide/rg_cover.html>
a retroactive permit for ille-
gal fill of wetlands that de-
stroyed western lily habitat THANK YOU to
is inappropriate, and that the these volunteers
landowner should be held who visit people's
responsible for this illegal yards or properties
activity. as our Native Plant
Consultation Ser-
CNPS also believes that a vice. This is a
composting facility does not great way to
meet the definition of a spread the enthusi-
coastal-dependent use that is asm for native
the only legal use for filling plants.
coastal wetlands. Such Kathy Dilley
coastal dependent uses in- Jim Waters
clude boat launches, docks, Virginia Waters
and other facilities that are Carol Ralph
listed in state and federal Judie Hinman
Coastal Zone Management Salix Annie Eicher
regulations. Any further de- Pete Haggard
struction of coastal wetlands Donna Wildearth
in western lily habitat is un- 2006 IS AROUND THE CORNER Suzanne Isaacs
acceptable, especially for Joan Doherty
land use activities that are The Spring Wildflower Show will be Janelle Egger
not coastal dependent uses. May 5-7 at the Manila Community Center. If Wanda Naylor
you are not already on our lists to help collect,
identify, set up, lead classes, clean up, etc., con- Kristen Brown
Comments are due on the tact us, so you can be part of this fun event. Sabra Steinberg
Army Corps of Engineers The CNPS-Redwood Audubon Society Sydney Carothers
permit in early January, and Wildlife and Native Plant Tim McKay
CNPS will be watching this is on track for 2006, with Jennifer Tompkins and Andrea Williams
Frances Madrone at the helm. The date for the
proposal very carefully as it tour is yet to be decided; it will probably be in Liz McGee
moves through the regula- July. If you would like to nominate a garden, Melissa Brooks
tory process. want to help, or have questions, call Jennifer Chris Rall
(443-6959).

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 FIELD TRIP REPORTS
MAD RIVER BUTTES
by Carol Ralph
Scheduling an outing to 4,000 ft. elevation
on 20 November is definitely gambling with the
weather. This year we won. It was sunny and
warm for the twenty seven people who followed
Dave Reckess of the California Wilderness Coali-
tion to see a bit of proposed wilderness just off
Forest Service Rte 1 about an hour south of Rte
299 from Berry Summit. We parked near Board
Camp and walked a "moderately difficult" trail (all
of it was up or down; some was crumbly and very
steep) along a ridge, down to Bug Creek, and up
across serpentine balds, about 5 miles. The view
from the ridge is indeed vast, encompassing the
Trinity Alps, Lassics, Yolla Bolly's, King Range,
and many closer mountains. We were reminded
of the season when we encountered ice on a wet,
shady part of the path, despite the warmth in the
sun.
The varied vegetation included shady white
fir (Abies concolor) forest; sunny, brown patches
of deciduous, shrubby Brewer's oak (shrubby form
of Quercus garryana), and in exposed, rocky
places, scratchy clumps of huckleberry oak (Q.
vaccinifolia), canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis, but
just short ones), manzanita (Arctostaphylos
patula), and silk tassle (Garrya fremontii, leaves
not fuzzy underneath). In the shady gully of the
stream were some impressively large Douglas fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii), as well as white fir, in-
cense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), and one
small, shrubby yew (Taxus brevifolia). The stream
was clear and mossy, already fed by autumn rains.
Very tantalizing were the goblet-shaped, single,
open pods of a lily family species, possibly a mari-
posa tulip-type Calochortus. Some serpentine
slopes were barren, while others supported sparse,
dry, herbaceous vegetations. Mule ears (Wyethia)
was especially abundant on one, and I noted yam-
pah (Perideridia).
The most interesting wildlife was bright
yellow springtails (collembola), minute, wingless
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insects gathered in masses on the forest floor un-
der the white fir, reminiscent of slime molds.
We saw tracks of a less desirable creature, a
quad recreational vehicle.
The Northern California Coastal Wild
Heritage Wilderness Act, which would add the
Mad River Buttes area to the wilderness system,
has good support in Congress, thanks to the thor-
ough work its proponents did before they intro-
duced it. Dave, whom you can contact at the
Northcoast Environmental Center, still empha-
sizes that we should tell our representatives in
Congress that we appreciate the wilderness and
thank them for protecting it. The bill is not fin-
ished yet! The Mad River Buttes is an attractive
and accessible addition.
SOUTH FORK TRINITY
by Carol Ralph
People on the October 29 hike led by the Califor-
nia Wilderness Coalition to the South Fork Trail,
which accesses the proposed Underwood Wilder-
ness along the South Fork Trinity River, report
that it was a delightful time to see an area we usu-
ally visit to see spring flowers. Fall colors of poi-
son oak, oaks, and maples were rewarding, and
autumn temperatures were considerably lower
than those encountered in summer.
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 FIELD TRIP REPORTS
HEADWATERS FOREST
by Carol Ralph

Despite its fame as an important,

hard-won, and expensive stand of red-
woods, the Headwaters Forest Reserve is
a Bureau of Land Management preserve,
not a visitor-friendly state or national
park. It has only two trails open to the
public, and the one on the south side is
open only with a guide. Being escorted
to the "inner reaches" of the Reserve by
the botanist most knowledgeable about
Typical section of a Headwaters road before restoration. its land management was a real treat for
the 13 people on the chapter field trip
Oct. 22.
About 3,000 of the 7,500 acres of
the Headwaters Forest is old growth; the
rest was logged before the property came
into public ownership in 1999, leaving a
network of logging roads and young,
even-aged stands of trees. BLM is work-
ing to reduce the erosion, and resulting
stream siltation, caused by the roads and
to hurry along the development of old-
growth characteristics in the young, re-
covering forest. Greg Jennings took us
to an area where the logging roads are
During excavation in 2002.
being erased by recontouring the slopes
they crossed and, most important, by re-
moving the dirt and log fill that had been
piled into streams to cross them. With or
without culverts, these stream crossings
are a continual source of loose sediments
that wash into the streams unless the fill
is removed down to the original surface
level. To cross Salmon Creek, a 6 ft.
diameter culvert and enough dirt and
logs had been dumped in to fill up the
20-ft. deep channel. Now it has been
removed by a huge excavator and
trucked to a log landing on a ridge.
Some 2500 truckfuls of dirt were hauled
(Continued on page 8)
After restoration the hill slope is returned to its original contour
and planted with redwood seedlings.

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 BOOK REVIEW
Book Review: Tending the Wild,
by M. Kat Anderson.
University of California Press, 2005.
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Man-
agement of California’s Natural Resources is an insightful re-
source on indigenous peoples’ influence on the California land-
scape, particularly coastal prairies, valley grasslands, and oak
woodlands. Using a blend of traditional and scientific ecologi-
cal knowledge, the author describes the ecological basis for
indigenous land management practices that shaped the natural
world.
“Traditional ecological knowledge
is…the rich knowledge of how nature
works and how to judiciously harvest
and steward its plants and animals
without destroying them…[It is] the
product of keen observation, patience,
experimentation, and long-term rela-
tionships with plants and animals…
built on a history, gained through
many generations of learning passed
down by elders about practical as well
as spiritual practices.” (p. 4)
Upon their arrival in California, Europeans
observed lush hills and valleys teeming
with wildlife, acorns, seeds, and berries.
Although they often compared the scenery
to parks, gardens, and orchards, these early
immigrants failed to recognize the role of
tribal management on this thriving biodi-
versity. Today’s society has inherited this Thalictrum
view of a formerly pristine world un-
touched by human influence, yet ecologists are beginning to
understand that burning, pruning, weeding, sowing, transplant-
ing, irrigating, and harvesting by indigenous peoples played an
integral role in shaping many ecosystems.
“The cultures of the indigenous people of California
are rooted in a belief that nature has an inherent ability
to renew itself, to cause the return of the geese, the
regrowth of the plants with edible bulbs, the germina-
tion of next year’s crop of wildflowers…But native
peoples also believe that renewal cannot happen in the
absence of appropriate human behavior toward na-
ture.” (p. 9)
The traditional use of the renewal power of fire is a central
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topic. Fire has been used in California since time immemo-
rial to promote high-quality basketweaving materials, forage
for wildlife, healthy pest-free acorns, and other important
resources. Through numerous quotes gleaned from inter-
views with elders and basketweavers, Anderson describes
Native methods of caring for the land. She describes in detail
traditional methods for producing high-quality basketweav-
ing materials and food sources such as bulbs, grains, and
acorns, and maintaining open grasslands and oak woodlands.
Examples from biological research illustrate the scientific
basis for many of these cultural traditions, and historical ob-
servations abound. Several passages from the late 19th cen-
tury describe the loss of meadow to encroaching trees and
shrubs in Yosemite Valley due to the lack
of Indian burning. In 1910, botanist Willis
Linn Jepson observed that a colony of Cali-
fornia walnut near an old village site “is
gradually being exterminated by the ad-
vance of the primitive forest which is no
longer held in check by the one-time occu-
pants of the tribal settlement.” (p. 151)
A chapter on contemporary gathering and
management practices addresses barriers
that face today’s traditional Native gather-
ers, and how they continue their traditions
despite these barriers. California’s indige-
nous people had one of the highest popula-
tion densities in North America at the time
of European contact, yet their descendants
control a tiny fraction of their ancestral ter-
ritories. As a result, most tribes depend on
government agencies to manage public
lands in ways that are compatible with tra-
ditional gathering practices. The ever-
increasing pace of development, agricul-
ture, and industrial timber production results in more lost
habitat for native plants and animals each year. Some of the
most important native habitats for culturally important spe-
cies are also some of the most threatened. Riparian wood-
lands, freshwater wetlands, and native grasslands have been
reduced to a small fraction of their former extent. This infor-
mative blending of indigenous and scientific knowledge will
give land managers more tools to help preserve California’s
biological diversity by documenting the cultural traditions
that can help restore these landscapes.
[originally published in Roots & Shoots, the newsletter of the
California Indian Basketweavers Association, Summer/Fall
2005.]
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 CONSERVATION NOTES
Stop off road vehicle impacts at
California’s Tolowa Dunes State Park
California Parks OHV Division seeks to establish new
off road vehicle riding areas in ecologically sensitive
State Parks and Park beaches
The California State Parks OHV Division is actively
championing a new and unprecedented proposal to for-
mally sanction ORV use within Tolowa Dunes State
Park on California’s northern coast. The adoption of
such a policy would cause continued damage to sensi-
tive dune habitat, and endangered fish and wildlife spe-
cies habitat, including critical habitat
for the birds such as the snowy plover.
Please contact California State Park
Director Ruth Coleman and ask her to
halt this totally inappropriate attempt
by California State Park’s OHV Divi-
sion to establish ORV riding areas
(most specifically on park beaches or
the illegal “worm trail”). Unregulated
ATV riding here, continually spills
over to other environmentally sensitive
areas of Tolowa Dunes State Park and
the adjoining Lake Earl Wildlife Area,
and has greatly increased damage to
the park particularly since the park
stopped actively enforcement, and the
issuing of citations to violators
(particularly between 2001 to 2004).
Stellaria
Ruth Coleman, Director
Calif. Dept. of Parks & Recreation
1416 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 653-8380; (916) 657-3903 fax;
rcole@parks.ca.gov
When the Tolowa Dunes State Park was formally des-
ignated in 2001, ORV use was expressly excluded in
the documentation accompanying the park’s formal
designation. Previously, it had been allowed on the
beach, which led to increased illegal off road vehicle
use in the 10,500 acre park and adjacent State Wildlife
Area. Most recently, California’s (gasoline tax funded)
OHV Division is now actively lobbying the State
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Park’s Sacramento staff to adopt a new policy for OHV
use at Tolowa Dunes, in total contradiction of the OHV
Division’s codes, State Park policy, and the previously
expressed intent of local State Park officials to try to
rein in area OHV lawlessness.
Areas now proposed for continued OHV and ATV use
include varying portions of the State Park beach and
adjacent dunes (north and/or south of Kellogg Road).
This would enable the continued destruction of sensi-
tive and rare plant species in the dunes, and would con-
tinue to further impact the adjacent Tolowa/Lake Earl
estuary, including disturbance to wildlife and USFWS
designated snowy plover critical
habitat in the Tolowa estuary area
(south of Kellogg Road) and the
Smith River mouth (north of Kel-
logg Road).
In the adjoining Lake Earl Wildlife
Area, ORVs also have never been
legally allowed, but increased illegal
use on park lands regularly spills
over into these state lands where
California Fish and Game has been
able to provide little or no law en-
forcement. The area’s general lack
of law enforcement has on various
occasions also resulted in the illegal
breaching (and draining) of the Park
and Wildlife Area’s Lake Tolowa
and Lake Earl—which together
comprise California’s and the Pa-
cific Coast’s largest coastal lagoon.
Failure now to uphold local State Park staff’s recent
2005 attempts to stop illegal ORV riding sets an unfor-
tunate and dangerous precedent for all other California
State Parks. Please write California State Park Director
Ruth Coleman specifically requesting ATV’s not be
allowed on State Park beaches--as 1) most off road ve-
hicle riders do not respect rules requiring on the beach
“wave slope”; 2) vehicles on the wave slope still im-
pact wildlife on the beach and in area estuaries; 3)
ATV’s at Tolowa Dunes State Park continue to ille-
gally destroy native and rare plants, and harm and dis-
rupt the very resources the Park was designated to pro-
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NATIVE PLANT CONSULTATION
SERVICE
Are you wondering which plants in your yard
are native? Are you unsure if that vine in the corner is
an invasive exotic? Would you like to know some na-
tive species that would grow well in your yard? The
North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant So-
ciety now offers the Nativ Plant Consultation Service to
answer these questions and to give advice on gardening
with natives. If you are a member of CNPS, this ser-
vice is free, if not, you can join or make a donation to
our chapter.A phone call or e-mail to our coordinator,
Kathy Dilley (825-7665 or vandk@quik.com), will put
you in touch with a team of volunteer consultants who
will arrange a visit to your property to look at what you
have and help choose suitable plants for your garden.
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(Headwaters Forest—Continued from page 5)
from this single stream crossing. Ironically,
some of the stream crossings being re-
moved now were originally installed by the
same heavy-equipment operator, who is a
former Pacific Lumber Company em-
ployee.
Foresters long ago figured out how
to thin stands of young trees to maximize
growth and hence timber production. BLM
now is experimenting with thinning to de-
velop old growth forest structure and spe-
cies composition. Whereas a natural old
growth stand has a mix of redwood and
Douglas fir, clear cuts in this forest contain
mostly Douglas fir, which germinates read-
ily on disturbed ground. In one 80-acre
stand that was clear-cut in 1991and cur-
rently has about 1200 trees/acre, 95%
Douglas fir, BLM has reduced the density
down to 250 trees/acre by cutting Douglas
fir saplings. When the canopy fills in, the
stand will be thinned again to bring it
closer to the old growth target conditions
and then left alone to continue developing
on its own.
At the top of a ridge behind a solid
slope of bushy, pointy-topped, young trees,
we came to a wall of tall, narrow-canopied,
scraggly-topped trees at the edge of an old
growth forest, a forest with no stumps.
When we stepped into this forest, on a his-
toric trail trod by human feet for many
thousands of years, we could feel the calm
of the ancient trees there, their patience and
tolerance, the slower pace of their
neighborhood than that of the sunny, bus-
tling second growth. This redwood forest
had all the usual suspects, the same species
list you'd expect in Humboldt Redwoods or
Prairie Creek, but being on a ridge rather
than in a river bottom, the trees were not as
massive as in these other places.
The expense and energy go-
ing into managing this special forest is con-
siderable. It will be interesting to watch the
outcome.
WI NTER- 06
 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!
Enrich your life by taking on a responsibility with our chapter. We guarantee you will meet
new people and learn new a lot. Contact the president +/or the appropriate person on the contact list
(see the back page).

Here are three rewarding positions needing people:

• Legislation Watch Dog. Learn the nitty gritty of the legislative process with CNPS Legislative
Consultant Vern Goehring. Super important for advancing CNPS's conservation goals. Work with
Vern and others to analyze bills, decide on which to focus, develop CNPS's position on them,
keep the chapter informed, be eyes and ears in our community for our local legislators' activities,
identify issues CNPS may want to sponsor, etc. Vern says even a little of your time would be valu-
able.
• Conservation issue specialist. Track some local conservation issue or agency (e.g. the California
Coastal Commission) and keep us informed.
• Content Editor for this newsletter. Work with a
Layout Editor. Here is a position of power!

Here are some useful things you can do

on a smaller scale:
• Help tend our Arcata Plaza gardens, an hour now
and then
• Grow plants for our plant sales
• Suggest a speaker for our evening program
(yourself included!)
• Suggest a field trip
• Lead a plant walk
• Staff our information booth for an hour at an occa-
sional event
• Suggest a workshop
• Nominate a native plant garden for our garden tour
• Post a few flyers about our events
• Collect flowers for our spring wildflower show

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FAWN LILIES GALORE

Early spring, usually the first weekend of April, is the time to revel in blooming fawn lilies
(Erythronium). Our scheduled field trips won't necessarily see this spectacle this year, so here is a re-
minder that you can find it on your own at Burnt Ranch Campground (on Rte. 299 just east of Burnt
Ranch), along the road to South Fork Trail along the South Fork Trinity River, and on the Stony Creek
Trail (turn north off Rte 199 in Gasquet, go about 1 mile to end of road).

REDWOOD MEDICINALS
by Natalie Schaefer, M.S.
Illustrations by Rosemary Bauman

Trillium ovatum
Also known as birthroot, trillium has a long-standing history
of use during and after childbirth. The Karuk used the bulb
for labor pains (as well as a love charm), while other tribes
used the plant to stop hemorrhaging after birthing, for uterine
disorders, and for sore nipples. A poultice from the leaves is
useful for insect bites and skin irritation. The powdered root
can be used in milk, and is a diarrhea remedy. The juice of
the plant may be applied to boils, bringing them to a head.
Trillium has astringent, tonic, alterative, expectorant, and
antiseptic qualities.

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 FALL CALENDAR

Join us on our frequent, local plant walks. check the newspapers, visit the chapter web-
site at www.northcoastcnps.org, or join the e-mail notification list (contact levinel@northcoast.com).

FEBRUARY
8th Wednesday – Monthly Program: –8:00 pm To Be Announced (Details on page 2)
25th Saturday – Field Trip – Coastal Prairie Dayhike. (see pg 2 for details)

MARCH
8th Wednesday – Monthly Program: –8:00 pm To Be Announced (Details on page 2)
18th Saturday – Field Trip – Myrtle Creek Dayhike (see pg 2 for details)

APRIL
12th Wednesday - Monthly Program: –8:00 pm To Be Announced (Details on page 2)
April Field Trip To Be Announced!

MAY
10th Wednesday – Monthly Program: –8:00 pm To Be
Announced (Details on page 2)
20th Saturday – Field Trip – Grasshopper Peak Day-
hike (see pg 2 for details)

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(to this newsletter…)

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ter of the North Coast Chapter of
CNPS. Items for submittal to Darling-
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gregj@humboldt1.com by each quar-
terly deadline: December 1, March 1,
June 1, and September 1. Botanical
articles, poetry, stories, photographs,
illustrations, sightings, news items,
action alerts, events, factoids, tidbits,
etc. are welcome and appreciated!

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