The Naive Plan Press Vol 12, No 6, Sepember 2011 The Newsleer of he Cenral Puge Sound Chaper of WNPS W a s h i n g o n N a i v e P l a n S o c i e y Chaper Meeing Thursday, Sepember 1 CUH, Main Hall The Chaper meeing will be held on he Universiy of Washingon campus in he Cener for Urban Horiculure (3501 NE 41s Sree, Seale). We will mee in he Main Hall. To help you find where he meeings are being held you can find fanasic campus maps a he UW websie a www.washingon.edu Click on Abou UW. Then click on Campus Maps. Refreshmens and socializing will begin a 7pm, followed by a shor business meeing, and hen he program a 7:30. Program by Franja Bryan, Program Chair Seleced Sories of Seale s Los and Marginal Plan Species by Sewar Wechsler Over one quarer of he vascular plans on Arhur Lee Jacobson s checklis of Seale area naives, originally compiled in 1999, have no been seen here for decades. Spurred on by his ineres in local naive plans used by buerflies, boanis and ecological consulan, Sewar Wechsler, has made i his goal o learn he ecology and idenificaion of he los and marginally surviving plans in he greaer Seale area - wih a special focus on hose needed by local buerflies. Over he las foureen years Sewar has buil up considerable knowledge abou hese los and declining plans. In his illusraed alk he will share he sories of some species ha are rare or have been exirpaed (los) in Seale. He will also share his houghs on why hey are now scarce or have disappeared and wha i migh ake o enhance or re-esablish heir populaions. Board Meeing The CPS Board mees a 6:45 p.m. a he WNPS office in Warren G. Magnuson Park. The meeing is open o he membership so please feel free o aend. The nex meeing is Sepember 19. Please noe: Some grea book bargains will be available a he Sepember meeing a good way o add o your library, or give as gifs. Newsleer Conens Sepember 1, 2011 Chaper Meeing page 1 Board Repors page 1 Field Trips page 2 Voluneer Page page 3 News & Announcemens page 3 Conacs, Officers, & Commiee Chairs page 5 Naive Plan Sewards page 4 Walk of he Monh: Skyline Divide page 6 Calendar of Evens page 6 Board Repors Message From The Chair by Kim Traverse In spie of he scan summer weaher, I ve been seeing a lo of ineresing plans. I m sill new enough o Washingon o be hrilled every ime I learn a new plan someimes I m hrilled wo or hree imes due o no quie memorizing hem he firs ime. We had a wonderful join field rip wih The Washingon Buerfly Associaion and Scarabs up o Table Mounain. We saw a leas five differen Blues, several ypes of Swallowails, beeles, hover flies, ec. And hey all seemed as fascinaed wih he flora as we were. Also saw some kingbirds, and wesern Tanagers. Field Trip Chair, Louise Kulzer, oudid herself seing ha one up. We had a very good and deailed workshop on GPS use presened by our own Secreary, Ted Couillard, and his friend, Ed Robison. I was scheduled o go four hours and we wen abou five. If you hink your GPS- wheher a dedicaed uni or a phone-based one- ells you where you are and ha s all here is o i you are fooling yourself. And you re missing ou on a lo of he capabiliy of he sysem if you aren uilizing your GPS compuer sofware and he online resources of GIS. This workshop was so good we hope o offer i again his fall. I s no jus abou finding your way back o your car! The Fall Plan Sale will be early his year- Ocober 1 a Building 30 a Sand Poin. We re lucky o have had a new member, Rony Thi, voluneer as Chair. I hope los of you will come ou and give her a hand he day before and day of he sale. Franja Bryan has aken over as Program Chair, and Clara Burne is our new Treasurer. A huge hanks o hem for sepping forward! We sill are in need of someone o ake on Chaper Publiciy. Could ha someone be you? Board repors coninued on nex page 1
Welcome New Members Welcome o hese new members of he Cenral Puge Sound Chaper who joined since June. Roseann Barnhill Tina Bradley Susan Colon Don Esberg Mike Gerhard Kahy Hall and Family Morreen Hansen Barbara B. Harrell FUNDraising Aucion! Douglas Houck Dale and Ruh Hulengren Bridge Kelsh James Kim Cindy Mahisen Libby Torrance Rober, Bria, Ava, Sophia and Maja Woeck There will be a FUNDraising aucion a he November Chaper meeing on November 3. This will be a fun way for you o do some of your holiday shopping! We need your help! Three ways you can help are: Help wih he organizaion and execuion of he aucion Donae iems o be aucioned Shop a he November meeing We need people o help collec aucion iems, creae aucion shees for each iem, se up he aucion before he meeing, clean up afer he meeing, and help wih collecing he funds / disribuing purchased iems afer he meeing. Please conac Ria Moore (rmoore@eds.org, 206-275-3883) or Arlene Bell (arlenecbell@homail.com) if you can help. We need o have all he aucion iems idenified by Ocober 10 if we don ge enough iems o hold an aucion in November we ll ry again a a laer dae. Please conac Arlene or Ria as soon as you can and she will send you a form o fill ou wih informaion abou he iem being donaed. Noe sure wha o donae? Think green / environmenally oriened, such as: Gifs for young children: Books, sensible oys, furry animals, naure puzzles, aciviies Gifs for older children & eens: Books, games, aciviies (see below) Gifs for gardeners, boaniss: Books, plans, boanical ar Gifs for readers: Books! Gifs for family members: You know hem beer han we do. Food gifs: Jams or jellies from naive fruis is jus one idea. Services: Donae hours for weeding, pruning, garden design, uoring, baby siing, ec. Aciviies: Excursions such as a mushroom field rip, shoreline exploraion (good for all ages), birding walk, ec. Join us for he FUN in November! Lis is On-line for Chaper Book Sales Books ha are available for sale a Chaper meeings are now lised on-line a: hp://www.libraryhing.com/caalog/wnpscps. On he page, you will see a line ha says wnpscps has a suggesed syle for viewing his library (use i). Click on he use i link. You may have o click on Auhor o pu hem in alphabeical order by auhor. You can also do a search for wnpscps libraryhing and find he sie. Elecronic Newsleer Opion Many of you have chosen o receive your Naive Plan Press elecronically, and we hank you! This will save prining and posage expenses ha can beer go o our Chaper programs and aciviies. If you did no receive an e-mail abou his opion and would like o ge he elecronic version of he newsleer, please send your reques o Linda Ellis a lindaellis@wnps.org. Fall Field Trips by Louise Kulzer, coordinaor See also www.wnps.org/cps for las minue changes or addiions. Field rip leaders & ideas welcome! Email o aooshako@gmail.org Ge ou & enjoy he flora before he winer rains cach up wih us! Saurday, Sepember 10, 10 AM Redown Meadow, Cougar Mounain Leader: Rachael Mensching Come walk up he Redown Meadow rail o see fun woodland species. Once we ge o he meadow we will see a hisoric baseball field urned meadow. We will discuss he funcion of he meadow and see some species rarely seen in he area such as Garry Oak and Goldenrod. Bring waer and snacks and lunch. The hike is a moderaely difficul, some up hill on a very sable wide road. Mee a he railhead. Driving direcions: From I-90: Take Exi 13 and drive souh on Lakemon Blvd SE for 3.1 miles. Look for he enrance o he Red Town Trailhead on he lef side of he road. From I-405: Take Exi 10 and follow Coal Creek Pkwy SE for 2.4 miles o he shopping cener. Turn lef a he ligh ono SE 72nd Pl and hen lef again a Newcasle Gold Club Road. Follow ha for 1.9 miles. The enrance o Red Town Trailhead is on he righ side of he road jus afer he big bend. Quesions and o sign up: conac Rachael a rachaelmensching@gmail.com or 206-601-0134. (coninued on nex page) 2
Thursday, Sepember 15 7:30 AM M. Rainier NP, Bench & Snow lakes Leader: Sandra Ruffner Join Sandra on his weekday hike for wha may be your las mounain excursion his season. Hike hrough subalpine firs, glorious mounain scenery and he lae flowering genians, asers & fleabane on his splendid shor hike a M. Rainier. If we re lucky, he ladies resses will sill be ou. And because he season was so lae, here may be a fair number of summer mounain meadow species (painbrush, pensemon, lousewor, ec.). Someimes a frog or wo sis on a rock a he lower sream crossing. We ll hike pas he wo lakes and up oward he Unicorn Glacier (well, wha s lef of i) which feeds Snow Lake, nesled a he foo of Unicorn peak. Bring waer & lunch & your pass o ge ino he Park. Wear surdy foowear, sunscreen and bring bug loion jus in case. Plan book & camera recommended. This hike is abou 3 miles round rip wih 300' + elevaion gain. Some seep & rocky secions. Mee for car pooling a he 65h & I-5 Park & Ride in Ravenna, norh side (you ll be compeing wih commuers). Sandra s car will have a red flag on he anenna. Or email o arrange a ime for meeing a he railhead. Quesions and o sign up: conac Sandra a slruffner57@gmail.com or 206-985-1658. Thank You o Summer Field Trip Leaders I wouldn have been as fleur-ific a summer wihou our voluneers! Thanks o summer field rip leaders Julia Ben & Don Knoke; Idie Ulsh, Sharon Collman & Ed Lisowski; Brigie Ranne & Lauri Malmquis; Suzy Sockon; Karen Peerson & Sasha Shaw; and Howard Coleman. Friends of Burke Gilman Trail celebraed compleion of one mile of naive planings in July. WNPS was invied o be presen a he celebraion, and Elby Jones and Tren Elwing represened he Chaper and gave plan idenificaion walks. Fall Plan Sale Ocober 1 Mark your calendars now. The Fall plan sale is scheduled his year for Saurday, Ocober 1s. Our Spring and Fall plan sales are major fund raising aciviies for he Puge Sound Chaper. The sales are also an opporuniy o educae he public abou he beauy and value of naive plans. Here are five ways you can paricipae and suppor your organizaion. 1) We encourage you o join he sale commiee and help organize he sale. In paricular, we need a person who would enjoy leading he eam ha publicizes he sale. Tha is one of he mos criical funcions of he commiee. 2) Members also suppor he sale by working in he nursery helping prepare plans for he sale. 3) A his year s Spring sale we had over 100 members voluneering for he sale even. Grea crew! You are encouraged o join us seing up and saffing he Fall sale. 4) Members have also suppored he sale by donaing NW naive plans for sale. Donaed plans should be in he nursery by mid Sepember. 5) And, of course, members are some of our bes cusomers (bring your friends and family)! For more informaion and o 1) voluneer for he sale commiee, 2 & 3) ge on he lis o work he sale and/or do nursery work, 4) alk abou how o donae plans o he sale conac Sharon Baker (sabaker41@gmail.com or 206 464 1068). 5) To be a cusomer, you jus need o show up Ocober 1. Voluneer Page Calm Days for Voluneers Several Nursery work paries ook place over summer o build a rainwaer collecion sysem and keep plans waered and mainained. Tom Johnson kep his eye on hings all summer, while Rod Adrianse, Robin Adrianse, Sharon Baker, Connor Hanify, Pay Lavelle, Bonnie Miller, Genia Sewar, Rick Thompson, Kim Traverse, and Alessandra Zuin helped a he Nursery. Over summer, he papers ha flew around during a busy spring all sared o fall ino place hanks o our rue blue Office voluneers Melinda Bronsdon, Claudia Tidball and Marha Shaw. Gary Smih and Jean Yee pu in many hours simplifying and sreamlining he Office daabase ha racks Sewards voluneer hours. I is one of hose invisible improvemens ha makes life much more efficien for he Office. Thanks go o Brianne Cohen for organizing he workshop on Weland Plan Idenificaion. The Chaper is also graeful o Ted Couillard and Ed Robison who carried ou a very informaive workshop on GPS in June. News and Announcemens Souh Sound Chaper, WNPS Fall Naive Plan Sale Mark your calendars for Ocober 8, 9am - 3pm for he second annual WNPS Souh Sound Chaper Fall Plan Sale. This year s sale will be a he Capial Museum Coach House, 211 21s Ave SW in Olympia. We expec a very good selecion of naive plans for your fall planing. We are sill looking for voluneers o be involved in he sale. We have a variey of differen asks ha need o be done from publiciy and propagaing plans o working on se up and sales. To voluneer or ge your quesions asked, or o sugges plans you would like us o have available, conac Bonnie Blessing-Earle a bonnie.blessing@gmail.com or Bill Brookreson a b.brookreson@comcas.ne or 253-564-1137. News coninued on nex page 3
CPS Naive Bulb, Seed and Plan Sale I is early his year! CPS will hold is annual fall Naive Bulb, Seed and Plan Sale on Saurday, Ocober 1, 10 AM 4 PM. The sale will be held in Building 30 a Magnuson Park, 6310 NE 74 h Sree, Seale. The fall sale feaures camas and oher lily bulbs, a big selecion of naive seeds, and poed rees, shrubs, perennials, and bare roo maerial if i is available. The lis of species will be posed a www.wnps.org in Sepember. Because no all plan orders can be filled by our suppliers, he lis is updaed close o he ime of he sale. Books abou Pacific norhwes naive plans and ecology as well greeing cards wih a boanical heme will also be sold. Come early for he bes selecion, and please bring your own boxes or rays if you can. Remember, fall is he bes ime o plan! Naive Plan Sewards Naive Plan Sewards Achieve New Voluneer Hour Levels Naive Plan Sewards dedicae many voluneer hours o projecs in heir communiies. They have repored over 108,000 hours of voluneer service since he beginning of he program in 1996. During he firs half of 2011 he following Sewards reached new benchmarks in erms of heir voluneer hours. We congraulae hese Sewards for he coninuous service o heir communiies and o WNPS. Over 3000 Hours William Brookreson Al Smih Over 1000 Hours Ria Moore (2001) Over 500 Hours Sharon Baker Over 400 Hours Jane Carroll (2003) Over 300 Hours Janka Hobbs Lisa Kreeger Over 200 Hours Pauline Canor Janice Johnson Reba Olsen Over 100 Hours Tad Anderson David Avolio Faye Haas Nisa Karimi Kim Kuykendall Howard Langeveld Laura Lippman Larry Miller Cecily Tillinghas Dan Walker Charles Rober Darwin (February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882) He was he revoluionary Briish geologis and nauralis who laid he foundaion for boh he modern heory of evoluion and he principle of common descen wih his proposal of naural selecion as a mechanism. He published his proposal in 1859 in he book Origin of Species, which remains his mos famous work. A worldwide sea voyage aboard he H.M.S. Beagle and observaions on he Galapagos Islands in paricular provided inspiraion and much of he daa on which he based his heory. (from Wikipedia - hp:// en.wikipedia.org) 4
WNPS and CPS Conac Informaion Membership, Dues and Quesions Noe: New Membership Raes in 2011 Individual Membership $35 Family Membership $45 Club or Organizaion Membership $65 Budge Membership $20 This is he address members should use for all correspondence regarding membership, dues paymens, ec. Washingon Naive Plan Sociey 6310 NE 74h ST, Suie 215E Seale, WA 98115 206-527-3210 1-888-288-8022 (from ouside Seale) wnps@wnps.org Email Liss The Cenral Puge Sound (CPS) Chaper Lis is for announcemens of chaper aciviies and local voluneer opporuniies (no discussion). To subscribe: email majordomo@ardigrade.ne, leaving he subjec blank. In he message body wrie subscribe wnps-cenralchaper-news You will receive insrucions for posing and unsubscribing. The Sae WNPS Lis is a sae-wide lis for announcemens, news and discussion relevan o naive plans and he WNPS. You mus be a curren WNPS member. To subscribe: email wnps@wnps.org and ask o be added o he WNPS lisserve. You will receive insrucions for posing and unsubscribing. Newsleer The deadline for he newsleer is he firs Thursday of he preceding monh, exacly one monh before he meeing. Send submissions o he edior: Rick Bergman Email: rickbergman@comcas.ne Phone 206-723-8115 Word or RTF documens are preferred. The fon should be Times New Roman, size 10. Please pu lain names of plans in ialics. Use block paragraphing (no paragraph indens). Please avoid using syle shees, special formaing and underlining. Digial phoos mus be high-resoluion or will no be acceped. Cenral Puge Sound Chaper WNPS 2011-2012 Officers & Commiee Chairs Chair Kim Traverse 206-380-3222 raverse.kim@gmail.com Immediae Pas Chair Brianne Cohen 206-465-5055 brianne.e.cohen@gmail.com Vice-Chair Rob Smih 425-222-7582 nw.wildflower@earhlink.ne Secreary Ted Couillard 206-384-5277 jheo25@gmail.com Treasurer Clara Burne 425-402-8047 claraburne@yahoo.com Board Members a Large Marcia Rivers-Smih 425-222-7582 nw.wildflower@earhlink.ne Ria Moore 206-275-3883 rmoore@eds.org Boanis Nelson Salisbury 206-372-4255 Nelson@earhcorps.org Assisan Boanis Sewar Wechsler 206-932-7225 ecosewar@quidnunc.ne Educaion Jim Branson 206-265-2804 pseudosuga@gmail.com Conservaion Margare Thouless 206-527-5091 houless1@comcas.ne Field Trips VACANT Fall Plan Sale Chair Rony Thi 206-708-4011 rhiony@gmail.com Fundraising VACANT Sewardship Program Gary Smih 425-672-1370 yeesmih@comcas.ne Nursery Chair Tom Johnson 206-525-3176 fjohns@u.washingon.edu WNPS Book Sales by Richard Tinsley Oher CPS Conacs Newsleer Edior Rick Bergman 206-723-8115 rickbergman@comcas.ne Program Chair Franja Bryan 425-562-0353 franjabryan@homail.com Book Sales Richard Tinsley 206-367-7060 richins@homail.com Refreshmens Dan Paquee 425-486-4927 Jdanj.paquee@gmail.com Salvage Coordinaor Janka Hobbs 425-869-2370 urica@fronier.com CPS Saff Linda Ellis 206-527-3210 lindaellis@wnps.org Books are offered o WNPS members a a discoun, hus saving you money and making a small profi for our Chaper. As a 501(c)3 organizaion, we are exemp from sales ax, an addiional savings on your purchases. Books are available for purchase a our monhly meeings and oher evens, such as our annual plan sale and sudy weekend. We also have T- shirs, blank greeing cards, pins, mugs and paches. Please sop by a our nex even and browse. You ll save yourself money, plus help our Chaper. We accep cash or checks or credi cards. Feel free o conac me a (206) 367-7060 or richins@homail.com if you would like o place an order or recommend a book. 5
Washingon Naive Plan Sociey Cenral Puge Sound Chaper 6310 NE 74h ST, Suie 215E Seale, WA 98115 www.wnps.org/cps/ Nonprofi Org U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO 3558 SEATTLE, WA 98118 The Washingon Naive Plan Sociey is an affiliae of Earh Share. This is he Sepember 2011 Newsleer The Skyline Divide Trail, M. Baker by Erin Meier [from Sepember 2009] Wear bug spray. Wear bug spray and bring a flame hrower perhaps. If you hope o make any observaion of he naive plan life along he Skyline Divide Trail in lae July, hese iems are imperaive. Despie he unruly hordes of biing black flies, you ll see a wealh of naive plan life. A mere wo miles from he railhead, you will emerge ono a ridgeline lusrous wih wildflowers and even beer, a siff breeze deerring he aforemenioned bloodhirsy insecs. When you arrive you can visi he rusic faciliies in he parking lo, which you will mos likely need o do afer 13 wising, hough scenic miles on Fores Service Road 37. We sighed a lovely sand of Alnus rubra as we drove o he railhead. From he sar of he rail he grade rises seeply, he oal gain in elevaion is abou 2,000 fee. Luckily, you are walking hrough fores for he firs mile or so. Shaded by rees like he Tsuga heerophylla, he rail winds hrough paches of glossy-leaved Ribes lacusre and Rubus specabalis. Of course several ypes of wildflowers bloom along he rail such as Aquilegia formosa and Tiarella rifoliaa. My husband was paricularly aken by he Clinonia uniflora, commonly known as Queen s Cup. The real show begins once you emerge ino he meadows ha do he rail near he ridgeline. Arnica laifolia, Lupinus laifolius and Valeriana sichensis all wave lazily in a dazzling apesry of gold, sapphire and snowy whie blooms. This ime of year he Verarum viride is jus preparing o flower. Noneheless, I am quie fond of heir ribbed charreuse leaves which are showy enough in heir own righ. Prepare yourself when you climb over he las hill and walk ou ono he ridgeline. Afer baling winged predaors for wo or so miles you will no be prepared for he glorious alpine splendor ha awais you. M. Baker sood ou in sharp relief agains he blue sky and fields of Lupinus lyalli coaed he mounainside like a purple beard. We walked souh and enjoyed he views. Phlox diffusa grows profusely on he rocks here. We also found some Phyllodoce emperiformis in bloom. The Skyline Divide Trail ruly feels like a differen world from Seale, a real geaway, and i is cerainly reasonable for a day hike. Jus don forge he bug repellen. Driving Direcions: From Seale ake I-5 N up o Bellingham. You will ge off on Exi 255 and ake Highway 542/M. Baker Highway o he own of Glacier. One mile pas Glacier ake a righ ono Glacier Creek Road/ Fores Service Road 39. Take an immediae lef ono Dead Horse Rd/ Fores Service Road 37. Drive abou 13 miles o he railhead. Calendar of Evens Sepember 1: Chaper Meeing & Program Ocober 1: Fall Seed, Bulb and Plan Sale 6