Welcome to Santa Cruz CNPS
The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit organization of amateurs
and professionals with a common interest in California's native plants. CNPS seek to increase
understanding and appreciation of California's native plants and to preserve them in their natural
habitat through scientific activities, education, and conservation.
The chapter meets every other month on the second Monday of the month at the
University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum Horticulture Building, located at 1156 High Street. Directions can be found
here
Telephone: 831 427-2998
California Native Plant Society - Santa Cruz County Chapter
P. O. Box 1622
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
The chapter welcomes all—from the botanists and defenders of the environment to the casual nature lover.
Contact any Board Member to find out about the organization. Attend a meeting—you will learn something new!
Update on CNPS' Efforts to Protect the
Arana Gulch Greenbelt Santa Cruz Tarplant Population
CNPS Proposes Arana Gulch Bike Route
Around Tarplant Habitat Instead of Through It
Arana Gulch Update - May 20, 2010
This is an update on CNPS' efforts to protect the Arana Gulch Greenbelt population of the Santa Cruz tarplant (a state and federally listed plant) from the City of Santa Cruz's project to construct a paved east-west bike connection as part of a transportation network directly through the tarplant's environmentally sensitive coastal prairie habitat. The resulting fragmentation of this population and the destruction of the species' sensitive prairie habitat, including negative changes to hydrology, are unacceptable threats to the restoration and long term viability of this genetically unique population.
CNPS Letter to Coastal Commission
Supporting Alternative Bike Route
Map Showing CNPS Alternative Bike Route
Critical Habitat for Threatened Santa Cruz Tarplant
Statewide CNPS Chapter Newsletters
At the link below you will find a clickable chapter map which lets you
access the latest newsletter from each CNPS chapter. Check it out:
Chapter Map
An Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants
of Santa Cruz
County, California
We have published "An Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Santa Cruz
County, California" and are selling copies at $10.00 each.
Click here for order form.
-- Janell Hillman, Santa Cruz Flora Committee
Native Plant Propagation -- VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY!
Looking for an opportunity to make a difference, and to learn about growing native plants? The Plant Propagation group needs you now! Enjoy the company of a small group of friendly, native plant lovers learning and helping to propagate a wide variety of native plants, many of which will be sold at at the twice-yearly CNPS plant sales, or auctioned off to benefit the SC Native Plant Society. This is a wonderful opportunity to have fun, meet a few great new people, and learn a lot about native plants, or contributing gardening skills you already have. No experience required. Meet usually on the third Sunday of each month at 9am at Suncrest Nursery, east of Watsonville. For info and directions, contact Mike Luther at 831-688-3897; or Denise Polk at 831-685-3235.
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