Northern California Botanists 2022 Symposium January 10-12, 2022 -- Virtual www.norcalbotanists.org/ "Tools for a New Decade of Managing Northern California Plants" Northern California Botanists will host its 11th botanical symposium on January 10-11, 2022, with optional workshops on the 12th. Our 2022 Symposium will be an online symposium. A 2-day schedule of presentations by working botanists will include sessions on: The Power of Pollination: Habitat, Conservation, and Plant Interactions; Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnobotany; Great Basin Restoration Approaches; Riparian Vegetation Restoration from Theory to Practice; eDNA; New Discoveries; Now the Good News; Lightning Talks and a Poster Session. Our Keynote Address by Dr. Frank Kanawha Lake is titled "Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnobotany: Tribal Understandings and Connection of Plants and the Environment." (fb)

DEAN W. TAYLOR BOTANICAL EXPLORATION MEMORIAL AWARD (Due Oct. 1) Is there a special spot in California that's just a blank space on every map of botanical diversity? Would you like to record the flora in an area in the first years after a wildfire? Have you hit a point in identifying species in a genus where you're convinced every key is wrong? The Dean W. Taylor Botanical Exploration Memorial Award provides $500 to fund herbarium collecting trips or other small-scale botanical exploration in Northern California. Awards can cover things like mileage, camping fees, and collection supplies. Northern California Botanists hopes that material support for the work Dean worked so hard to encourage will lead to new understanding of the botanical diversity of California. For more information, please go to www.norcalbotanists.org/ (fb)