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  • Apr 14 2021 April 14, 2021April 14, 2021
    News Releases

    California Native Plant Week Begins This Saturday

    InNews Releases
    California Native Plant Week starts this Saturday! CNPS is celebrating with daily 360° virtual garden and statewide promotions.
  • Feb 16 2021 February 16, 2021December 3, 2021
    Featured Stories

    Aloha California

    InFeatured Stories
    Three and five million years ago a bird took a California native plant on an epic journey leading to some of Hawai'i's most iconic flora.
  • Feb 16 2021 February 16, 2021December 3, 2021
    Featured Stories

    Turf to Surf

    InFeatured Stories
    Monterey Bay Aquarium's Julie Packard has a connected vision for California conservation.
  • Dec 10 2020 December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
    Conservation

    WCB Votes Down Otay Ranch Village 14 Land Swap

    InConservation
    The Wildlife Conservation Board voted to deny a controversial deal between CDFW and developers to swap land in the Rancho Jamul Ecological Reserve for land of lesser ecological value.
  • Nov 25 2020 November 25, 2020November 25, 2020
    News Releases

    California Native Plant Society Announces Wreath Masters

    InNews Releases
    Wreath Masters, a friendly competition between botanic gardens, nurseries, CNPS and other partners throughout the state challenges participants to create holiday wreaths made with California native plants.
  • Nov 23 2020 November 23, 2020November 25, 2020
    Fremontia Journal

    Recentering Ecological Restoration with Tribal Perspectives

    InFremontia Journal
    Ecological restoration is central to the well-being of Indigenous communities, who have tended, burned, and harvested California's ecosystems for millennia.
  • Nov 19 2020 November 19, 2020November 19, 2020
    News Releases

    California Native Plant Society Announces Leadership Changes

    InNews Releases
    Today, the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) announced Vince Scheidt as its interim executive director as the non-profit prepares its search for a new executive director.
  • Oct 27 2020 October 27, 2020June 20, 2022
    Education

    Kids’ Corner: Pollinator Party

    InEducation
    Some native plants and pollinators depend on each other to survive. Tell their story through a mini-magazine, a "zine".
  • Oct 27 2020 October 27, 2020May 16, 2022
    Flora Magazine

    The Richard Garvey Intermediate School Nature Garden

    InFlora Magazine
    Jesse Chang started a school nature garden in 2015 and transformed it into a beautiful educational garden, with a vernal pool!
  • Oct 07 2020 October 7, 2020April 29, 2022
    Conservation

    CNPS Applauds Executive Order Accelerating Governor’s Commitment to Preserving Biodiversity

    InConservation
    In introducing today’s Executive Order, Gov. Newsom mentioned his grandfather’s decades-long interest in California native plants and species as a source of personal inspiration.
  • Sep 30 2020 September 30, 2020December 3, 2021
    Featured Stories

    Sacred Pollinators: An Interview with Frank K. Lake

    InFeatured Stories
    Restoration ecologist Frank K. Lake discusses sacred relationships with pollinators and plants. He offers ways to support traditional ecological knowledge in restoration efforts.
  • Sep 11 2020 September 11, 2020September 11, 2020
    Conservation

    CNPS Settles Strauss Lawsuit With an Eye Toward Tarplant Protection

    InConservation
    The settlement supports mitigation objectives and project improvements to protect the world’s largest population of the federally- and state-endangered Gaviota tarplant
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