CNPS Document Archive
The CNPS document archive contains copies of Policies, the
Administrative Handbook, Annual Progress Reports, and other
documents which may be useful to CNPS chapters, members, and
interested parties. In some cases, the documents are offered in
both html and PDF format. Generally, you
should choose the HTML format if you just
want to read the policy on-line and the PDF
format if you want to read the policy off-line or want a printed
copy. You must have AdobeŽ Acrobat Reader to view the PDF
files -- see the navigation bar at left for a link to download
this free software.
CNPS General Contacts
2003 Board of Directors and Others
CNPS Progress Report
California Native Plant
Society Progress Report 1998-99 (PDF, 610k)
Strategic Planning & Governance Restructuring
Strategic
Direction 2006-2008 (PDF, 14k, 12/5/05)
CNPS
Strategic Direction - Final (PDF,
99k, 9/28/00)
CNPS 2000 Strategic
Plan (PDF, 47k, 9/28/00)
CNPS
Governance Plan (PDF, 42k, 3/3/01)
CNPS
Governance Policies (PDF, 29K, 6/2/01)
Bylaws as of 12/6/03 (PDF,
214k, 12/6/03)
Bylaw
amendment approved 3/5/05 (PDF, 27k, 3/5/05)
Operating
Resolution (PDF, 70k, 6/2/01)
Policies and Guidelines
| Conservation
Policies |
HTML |
PDF |
| Policy Adoption
Process |
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121k |
| Policy Template |
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86k |
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Off-Road Vehicle Sign Policy |
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66k |
| Fire
Management Policy |
11k |
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Policy for Hot Desert Grazing |
9k |
49k |
Guidelines For Landscaping To Protect Native Vegetation
From Genetic Degradation |
24k |
126K |
| Mitigation
Guidelines (and Policy) Regarding Impacts to Rare, Threatened
and Endangered Plants |
49k |
74k |
| Policy
on Introduction of Ryegrass |
8k |
31k |
| Policy
on Feral Pigs |
8k |
31k |
| Policy
on Sowing of Wildflowers |
8k |
23k |
| Policy
Transplanting |
9k |
31k |
Statement
Opposing
Transplanting as Mitigation |
16k |
40k |
| Policy
Oak Hardwoods |
12k |
32k |
| Statement
of Policy - Wetlands |
11k |
36k |
| Policy
That CNPS Focuses on Plants |
8k |
30k |
| Statement
of Policy - Nonvascular Plants |
12k |
26k |
| Policy
on Appropriate Application of Ex Situ Conservation
Techniques |
15k |
39k |
| Policy
with Regard to Plant Collecting for Educational Purposes |
11k |
36k |
| Policy
and Guidelines on Environmental Impact Documents |
15k |
40k |
| Guidelines
for Chapters to Reduce Impacts to Native Plants |
16k |
39k |
| Policy
on Shrubland Management |
10k |
32k |
| Policy
Statement on Tree Planting |
16k |
40k |
| Policy
and Guidelines on Vernal Pool Mitigation |
17k |
40k |
| Monterey
Pine Forest Policy |
15k |
38k |
| Collecting
Guidelines and Documentation Techniques |
16k |
40k |
| Policy
on Invasive Exotic Plants |
24k |
48k |
| Statement
of Policy - Seeding After Wildfire |
22k |
44k |
| Intentional
Introduction of Non-Native Species |
14k |
70k |
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| Administrative
Policies |
HTML |
PDF |
| Policy
on communication of confidential matters |
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78k |
| Policy
on conflict of interest |
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83k |
| Guidelines
on Lobbying, Legislation, Elections, Etc. |
9k |
32k |
| Policy
on Business Endorsements |
7k |
31k |
| Fiscal
Policy |
7k |
30k |
| Litigation
Procedures |
30k |
40k |
| Statement
of Policy - Distribution of Information |
9k |
31k |
Final Contract Policy  |
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76k |
| Policy
for the CNPS Web Page |
8k |
31k |
Survey Guidelines
CNPS
Botanical Survey Guidelines -- On June 2,
2001 the CNPS Board of Directors adopted this revision of the
CNPS Botanical Survey Guidelines.
DFG
Guidelines for Assessing the Effects of Proposed Projects on
Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Plants and Plant Communities
Conservation Handbooks
Handbook on Timber Harvest
Plans (PDF, 138k)
Handbook on Habitat
Conservation Plans (PDF, 0.98 MB)
Wetlands Source Book 2000 (PDF,
137k)
Campaigns and Handouts
Why does
the California Native Plant Society oppose the Native Plant
Protection Act (PDF, 103k)
Plant
Conservation Fact Sheet (PDF, 109k)
Equal Protection for
Plants Campaign (PDF, 67k)
California
Listed Threatened and Endangered Plants are Protected Under
the California Endangered Species Act -- Reprinted from
the California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter, September
1999 (PDF, 219k)
Plant Science Data Forms
Native Species Field Survey Form (PDF with fields)
Natural Community Field Survey
Form (PDF with fields)
Vegetation Sampling Relevé
Protocol (PDF)
Vegetation Sampling Relevé
Data Form (PDF)
(Vegetation)
Rapid
Assessment Protocol (PDF)
(Vegetation)
Rapid
Assessment Field Form (PDF)
State Listing Petitions
State Listing Petition -
Format and Instructions (Word 97 Format,
46k)
Administrative Documents
CNPS Administrative Handbook 
CNPS Reimbursement Form (PDF,
7k)
CNPS Grants and
Application Instructions (PDF, 38k)
Chapter Annual Report Outline
(RTF, 8k)
2005 CNPS
Special Event Insurance Form (PDF, 300k)
2005 CNPS
Certificate/Additional Insured Form (PDF, 18k)
Subvention
Memo (PDF, 9k)
Tips
and Hints for Completing Financial Statements (PDF,
12k)
CNPS
Quarterly Sales Tax Report of Chapter Sales (XLS, 18k)
CNPS
Chapter Statement of Receipts and Expenditures (PDF, 7k)
Sales
Tax Memo (PDF, 10k)
Memorandums of Understanding
MOU
For Cooperative Vegetation and Habitat Mapping and
Classification 5/24/00 -- Provides for a standardized
approach to vegetation mapping for all agencies and
organizations (PDF, 73k)
Briefing
Notes on Vegetation MOU 7/13/00 -- Explains the purpose
and implementation of the 5/24/00 MOU (PDF,
51k)
CNPS Comment Letters
CNPS comment letter on Critical
Habitat designation for the carbonate species (PDF,
4/12/02)
CNPS letter in response
to the appeals of the Sierra Framework (PDF,
6/11/01)
CNPS
letter supporting
CDFG and CDF for their
denial of approval of
timber
harvest plan (THP) 1-00-463 HUM (PDF,
21k, 4/2/01)
CNPS letter
supporting revision of Timber Harvest Plans (THPs)
requirements to include analysis of and protection for rare
but not listed plants (PDF, 8/22/00, 83k)
CNPS
comment letter on the Sierra Nevada Framework Forest
Plan Amendment (Framework) draft environmental impact
statement (DEIS) (PDF, 8/11/00, 229k)
CNPS comment letter on the
USDA Forest Service proposed Roadless Area Conservation
Rule and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (PDF,
7/12/00, 67k)
CNPS letter to
UC and Merced County regarding inadequacies of the 1999
special-status plant survey conducted on the proposed UC
Merced campus location (PDF, 6/17/00,
277k)
Resolution of CNPS
concerning the siting of a University of California campus at
Lake Yosemite, Merced County -- the proposed
UC Merced
campus (PDF, 6/10/00. 238k)
CNPS letter to UC
regarding changes in scope and impacts since the original 1994
site selection EIR for the UC Merced campus location (PDF, 5/25/00, 329k)
Legislators Letter
on Prescribed Burning (PDF, 3/20/00,
6k)
CNPS Comments on Air
Board Burn Rules (PDF, 3/21/00, 22k)
CNPS Comment Letter on the
proposed revision of the regulations implementing the National
Forest Management Act (NFMA) (Proposed Rule)
(PDF, 02/03/00, 17k)
CNPS Comment Letter on
DEIS analyzing range standards and guidelines for the
Eldorado and Tahoe National Forests (PDF,
10/14/99, 125k)
CNPS Comment Letter on Grazing
Allotments in the Big Sur Coast (PDF,
08/25/99, 76k)
CNPS comment letter on proposal
to revise procedures for designating critical habitat
under the Federal Endangered Species Act (pdf,
08/12/99, 40k)
CNPS Comment Letter on the Quincy
Library Group Plan (PDF, 07/26/99, 92k)
CNPS comment letter
on the "Draft Addendum to the Final Handbook for Habitat
Conservation Planning and Incidental Take Permitting
Process" (PDF, 5/7/99, 81k)
CNPS comment
letter on the preliminary proposal by the California Air
Resources Board to revise Title 17 regulations affecting agricultural
and forest burning in the state (PDF,
5/4/99, 70k)
CNPS Appeal of herbicide
use in Hot Springs Ranger District, Sequoia National
Forest (PDF, 04/07/99, 84k)
CNPS Livestock
Management Proposal for USFS Sierra Nevada Framework
Project (PDF, 01/13/99, 80k)
CNPS letter regarding
regulations to implement SB 231 (take of
listed species incidental to routine and ongoing agricultural
activities) (PDF, 11/4/98, 84k)
CNPS letter regarding
regulations to implement SB 879
(incidental take permits) (PDF, 10/15/98,
87k)
Species Protection:
Economic Issues, Myths and Facts (PDF,
10/13/97, 28k)
(Literature Review on the ) Impacts
of Livestock Grazing on Soils and Recommendations for
Management (PDF, 11/20/96, 69k)
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