Our native plants and the land they depend on need caretakers. That's what you can become when you to join the California Native Plant Society.
What Do You Get When You Join CNPS?
- The pleasure of contributing to the preservation of California's incredible native flora
- An exceptional education on California's native plants through field trips, publications, and plant sales
- The opportunity to learn how to grow native plants
- Fremontia, a botanic journal, published three times a year
- Bulletin, a quarterly statewide newsletter
- Chapter newsletter
CNPS is dedicated to increasing the understanding and appreciation of California's native plants, and to preserving them and their natural habitats for future generations. CNPS carries out its mission through science, conservation advocacy, education, and horticulture at the local, state, and federal levels.
Some of the activities your membership will support include:
- Monitoring rare and endangered plants and habitats
- Acting to save endangered areas through publicity, persuasion, and as an absolute last resort, legal action
- Serving as a science-based resource in public planning processes
- Supporting the establishment of native plant preserves
- Sponsoring workdays to remove invasive plants
- Educational activities including speaker programs, field trips, native plant sales, horticultural workshops, and demonstration gardens.
Organizational Memberships are also available. Pease see http://www.cnps.org/cnps/join/organizations.php for more information.
