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  • californianativeplantsociety Photo captions: CNPS vegetation ecologists, Mark Bibbo and Alexis LaFever-Jackson conducting post-fire sampling in the burn scar of the Colorado fire in 2022, which burned 700 acres near the coast around Palo Colorado Canyon on the Big Sur coast. Photo: Don Gruber
    Plant Science

    Regrowth and Resilience 

    July 12, 2022July 19, 2022
    We’re finding an abundance of fire-following plants in previously mature forests and shrublands across the Central Coast.
  • Plant Science

    Post-Fire Mapping and Report Provide Insights for Southern Sierra

    February 8, 2022October 6, 2022
    Before and after fine-scale vegetation maps now complete for BLM wildfire areas in the southern Sierra Nevada.
  • Plant Science

    Recovery & Monitoring of Central Coast Vegetation

    January 11, 2022March 22, 2022
    In 2021, CNPS staff, volunteers, and students spent six weeks conducting vegetation assessments in five state parks post-fire.
  • Plant Science

    Field Update: Santa Susana Mountains

    May 24, 2018August 27, 2018
    CNPS sampled 30+ plant alliances in the Santa Susana Mountains, progress on classifying vegetation with the first fine-scale map of local plant communities.
  • Bigcone Douglas-fir
    Plant Science

    Bigcone Douglas-Fir

    March 26, 2018August 27, 2018
    CNPS worked with USFS to complete field studies to assess the extent & status of the California endemic bigcone Douglas-fir in the Angeles National Forest.
  • Plant Science

    CNPS Grassland Initiative Update

    August 24, 2017March 30, 2018
    The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is actively working to categorize, map, and conserve California’s grassland vegetation.
  • Point Arena. Photo by Jennifer Buck-Diaz.
    Plant Science

    Botanizing the Point Arena-Stornetta Unit of California Coastal National Monument

    August 16, 2017April 6, 2018
    CNPS staff and volunteers sampled coastal vegetation at the California Coastal National Monument.
  • Plant Science

    Out on the Range

    July 31, 2017April 4, 2018
    In the northeastern corner of California between Mt. Shasta in the west and the Warner Mountains in the east, lies a massive volcanic plain known as the Modoc Plateau.
  • Plant Science

    Collaborative BioBlitz in the Milpitas Special Interest Area

    June 26, 2017April 30, 2018
    On April 15, 2017 the Ventana Wilderness Alliance partnered with CNPS Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz chapters for its first-ever BioBlitz in the Milpitas SIA.
  • Carpenter Valley
    Plant Science

    Exploration of Fens in Carpenter Valley

    October 30, 2016March 29, 2018
    Soon, in Carpenter Valley, more than 1,000 acres of lush meadow and forest will be protected by the Truckee Donner Land Trust and an easement held by The Nature Conservancy.
  • Citizen Science

    Carnivorous plants in Meadows and Fens

    June 1, 2016March 26, 2018
    The most striking and intriguing plants we found during our watershed assessment project in the Plumas National Forest were two carnivorous species: roundleaf sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) and California pitcherplant (Darlingtonia californica).
  • Plant Science

    Vegetation Sampling & Mapping in Castle Mountains National Monument

    May 1, 2016March 27, 2018
    In the far northeast corner of the Mojave National Preserve, the Castle Mountains appear more modest than their neighbors. However...
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