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Plant Propagation Session. Let’s get going for the 2012 plant sales! Two-hour work session starting at 10 AM at the Shasta College greenhouses. The greenhouses are located toward the back of Shasta College, near the livestock barns. We will be potting up about 300 starts from Cornflower Farms, as well as any other new materials you might bring! Bring native plant rooted divisions, seedlings, cuttings, clippers and any other tools you might need. Please call Jay & Terri Thesken at 221-0906 for further information.

Chapter Meeting. Welcome back to the first meeting of the New Year! Join us for a program by well-known botanist Dr. Dean William Taylor, researcher at the Jepson Herbarium at UC Berkeley. Dean holds a PhD in botany from UC Davis, is an author, and has completed popular field guides of flowering plants of Yosemite and the Sierras, as well as many surveys and publications on rare and endangered taxa and new discoveries in California. Dean is known in northern California for his work with Shasta snow wreath near Lake Shasta, and with the conservation of other rare and endangered species in this area. Dean will speak to us about Rare Plants of Northern California (or, You, too, can discover a new species!). Meet at 7 PM at the Shasta College Health Science & University Programs building in downtown Redding, 1400 Market Street, Community Room 8220 (clock tower building at the north end of the Market Street Promenade; enter on south side of building). A Board meeting will be held before the regular meeting, at 5:30 PM at Angelo’s Pizza Parlour in the Foundry Square, 1774 California Street, Redding.

Fieldtrip. Join David Ledger for a hike on Chamise Peak Trail. This is a moderate 41⁄2-mile hike with a gradual climb through mixed oak woodland and chaparral with a 500 ft. elevation gain. The trail starts off Flannigan Road and overlooks the Sacramento River and Lake Shasta. While called Chamise Peak, there is no chamise along the trail; the dominant chaparral shrub is whiteleaf manzanita, most likely due to years of fire suppression. Meet at Redding City Hall’s south parking lot on Parkview Ave. at 9 AM to carpool. No dogs, please. For more information, call David at 355-8542.

Second January Plant Propagation Session. We have loads of plants and cuttings that need to be propagated, so we will have another January two-hour work session starting at 10 AM at the Shasta College greenhouses. Bring native plant rooted divisions, seedlings, cuttings, clippers and any other tools you might need. Please call Jay & Terri Thesken at 221-0906 or Susan Libonati at 347-4654 for further information.

Fieldtrip. Crystal Creek Ditch Trail is an easy, level, two-mile walk along an old water ditch that was built in the 1860s to provide water to irrigate the farmland at the Camden House at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Walk leader David Ledger will identify all of the trees and shrubs along the trail and provide a plant list of the trees and shrubs to participants. This is a beautiful walk in a riparian area overlooking Crystal Creek. Meet at Redding City Hall’s south parking lot on Parkview Ave. at 9 AM to carpool. No dogs, please. For more information call David at 355-8542.

Chapter Meeting. Join us for a presentation by Dr. Don Owen, Program Leader for Forest Health with California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in Redding. Don holds a PhD in entomology and will give us a talk on Invasive Forest Pests in the western forests and in our area. Meet at 7 PM at the Shasta College Health Science & University Programs building in downtown Redding, 1400 Market Street, Community Room 8220 (clock tower building at the north end of the Market Street Promenade; enter on south side of building). A Board meeting will be held before the regular meeting, at 5:30 PM at Angelo’s Pizza Parlour in the Foundry Square, 1774 California Street, Redding.

Fieldtrip. Join Jay & Terri Thesken for a 3- to 4-mile hike on the Cloverdale Loop trails of the BLM Clear Creek Greenway area, in the foothills southwest of Redding. We will be walking through blue oak-gray pine woodland, at about 850-foot elevation, on mostly level trails. We may even see some very early bloomers such as buttercup, mission bells fritillary, manzanita, pipevine, Indian warrior, shooting stars or western hound’s tongue. Bring lunch, water and adequate hiking footwear. Meet in Redding at 9 AM at the south side of City Hall (Parkview Avenue side), 777 Cypress Avenue. Heavy rain or snow cancels. No dogs, please. Call Jay or Terri at 221-0906 for details.

Plant Propagation Session. Two-hour work session starting at 10 AM at the Shasta College greenhouses. The greenhouses are located toward the back of Shasta College, near the livestock barns. We will be potting up new materials. Bring native plant rooted divisions, seedlings, cuttings, clippers and any other tools you might need. Please call Jay & Terri Thesken at 221-0906 for further information.