CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
2707 K Street 1, Sacramento, CA 95816 www.cnps.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To conserve California native plants and their natural habitats, and increase understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants.

We're on a mission to save Californias native plants and places using both head and heart. CNPS brings together science, education, conservation, and gardening to power the native plant movement.

PLANT SCIENCECalifornia is one of the world's 36 biodiversity hot spots, but climate change, the state's wildfire crisis, and development pose threats to its native plant biodiversity. The more we know and understand our flora, the better we are able to steward it. This year, the CNPS Vegetation, Rare Plant, and Horticulture programs advanced that understanding through CNPS data science, field work, and monitoring. The Rare Plant Program seed banked 50 rare plant taxa, thanks to the help of 450 volunteers trained across 100 Rare Plant Treasure Hunts. CNPS also completed 34 US Forest Species of Conservation Concern profiles. The CNPS Vegetation team focused on the state's Warm Desert regions, the Modoc Plateau, the Pacific Northwest, the greater Bay Area, the Sierra Nevada, and the southern Sierra Nevada, mapping 1.19 M acres, completing 960 vegetation surveys, and documenting 29 changes to the listing of California's sensitive natural communities, based on new threats. The team also helped document and monitor the impacts of the Erskine and Chimney Fires on oak and pinyon-juniper woodlands, and continued mapping and monitoring the Carrizo Plain National Monument, one of Californias iconic grassland habitats. This year, CNPS moved its Horticulture Program under the organization's Director of Plant Science to better support the California Biodiversity Roadmap's goal of using native plant landscaping to support biodiversity and resource conservation. With that, the Horticulture team launched the CNPS Habitat Revolution, completing important industry and consumer focused partnerships with Metropolitan of Southern California, Long Beach Water Department, and Moulton Niguel Water District.

CONSERVATIONCNPS is the voice for plants in California, protecting California's imperiled species and habitat. With attacks from the Trump administration and COVID-related cutbacks to natural resource funding, groups like CNPS played an important role in defending California's biodiversity amid unprecedented challenges. Impacts from wildfire, climate change, and development posed increasingly dire threats to California native habitat. By compiling data statewide and for adjacent regions, the Important Plant Areas (IPA) Program modeled priority areas for botanical conservation over millions of acres. With an IPA map of the entire state to be finished by 2022 the program rolled out its first completed region, northern Baja California, Mexico. This year, the CNPS Conservation Program worked to protect Walker Ridge (home to 27 rare plant species) from development, save wild lands just south of Joshua Tree National Park, and defend Conglomerate Mesa from mining prospectors. CNPS filed suit to stop the massive Centennial development on one of California's greatest intact grasslands (Tejon Ranch). The CNPS Conservation Program maintained an active voice in government advocacy, helping to secure record funding in the California State Budget for rare plant seed banking and advancing the cause of biodiversity.

ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACHToday, more Californians than ever are aware of the important nexus between native plants and the major environmental issues of our time -- climate change, wildfire, and extinction. This year, CNPS experienced record traffic to its websites, online events and social media channels, even as a global pandemic introduced unimagined challenges. With activities moving online, CNPS reached thousands of people through educational webinars. On International Day for Biological Diversity, CNPS hosted an expert panel webinars that included California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot and international biocultural rights expert Sanjay Bavikatte. More than 600 people attended. Throughout the year, CNPS also led a number of important campaigns, including Protect Walker Ridge (which secured nearly 5,000 online signatures to protect rare serpentine habitat); Wildfire Recovery and policy advocacy; and the Calscape Nursery Program Campaign in partnership with Metropolitan Water of Southern California (praised by water authorities statewide). During times of isolation, CNPS stayed close to supporters and the public through its quarterly magazine Flora, its scientific journal, social media channels, and news coverage. Bringing together many of California's leading experts in fire ecology, land stewardship, and conservation, CNPS published a free statewide version of its popular Wildfire Recovery Guide, featured in the NY Times California Today, and later produced a special Wildfire issue of Fremontia journal. Meanwhile, CNPS put California native plants in the news with prominent coverage and op-ed placements in the LA Times, SF Chronicle, and NPR affiliates. As part of its educational mission, CNPS established its first college student advisory group, comprised of diverse students across the state. The organization's publishing arm, CNPS Press, co-published the award-winning Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change with lauded conservation photographers Nita Winter and Rob Badger, along with the much-anticipated Vascular Plants of Northwestern California by James P. Smith, Jr. and the late John O. Sawyer, Jr.

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