Join renowned botanist Jon Keeley to learn about the fire regimes in herbaceous, shrubland and forest types throughout California and how different regimes have selected for different fire-adaptations.

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Presented by Tawny Bolinas, 2023 Jim Jokerst Field Botany Grant Award Winner.

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The Friends of the Ahart Herbarium (FOAH) is celebrating its 30th year of sustaining the Ahart Herbarium at Chico State! Your dedication is helping to build an endowment to secure the Herbarium's future. Our collection of almost 130,000 specimens, continues to serve scientists, students, and plant enthusiasts worldwide. In celebration our accomplishments, we invite you to the no-cost FOAH 30th Anniversary Phytoblitz and Picnic at the Vina Plains Preserve.

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Join Aaron Sims, Director of the Rare Plant Program for the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) to celebrate five decades of rare plant conservation and the people that make it possible.

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Join retired Forest Service Botanist Julie Kierstead to learn what makes the Trinity Ultramafic Sheet such a special place for those of us who love plants. Then join us for the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium annual meeting, including a presentation from the 2021 Jim Jokerst Field Botany Award winner, Claire Monahan.

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View a recording of the 2020 annual meeting and special presentations here.

Specialty native & climate adapted perennials.
Seeds of colorful, easy to grow specialty CA native annuals.
Signing of books by two local authors.
Sharing plant talk with plant folks.
Social distancing outdoors, sanitation stations.

Join USDA Forest Service Ecologist Michelle Coppoletta to learn how the alteration of fire regimes is impacting important natural areas in California. Then join us for the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium annual meeting, including short presentations describing the research of the two 2019 Jokerst Award winners.

Join us for the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium’s Annual Meeting, including a special presentation by Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of the national award‐winning public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden.

Join us for this special field event jointly hosted by the Friends of the Herbarium and the Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society.