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Greetings CNPS members and friends: I am excited to serve again in the San Gabriel Mountains chapter’s leadership and now sharing this responsibility with our other co-president Jennifer LaPlante. The beginning of a new term for chapter leadership is a great time to take stock of our chapter’s past accomplishments and future challenges.
Jesse Chang has designed and helped build over a dozen native plant school gardens that serve to connect urban students with nature. Here Jesse reports on two, his most recent school native garden project consultations.
In February of 2024, our chapter welcomed Fred Roberts, consulting biologist and oak expert for a program meeting on the oaks of Los Angeles, as well as for a field trip at Eaton Canyon. Fred Roberts is known as an authority on these important and storied trees and has studied them throughout North America. William Hallstrom recapitulates some of Fred’s program and shares other interesting facets related to oaks.
The article centers on Samantha Morales-Johnson, a Tongva woman who has proposed reframing the argument for native plant gardens in Southern California as "yard return," a form of ecological restoration and reconciliation with the Native peoples indigenous to the area. In the article, Arjan Walia explores the history of Tongva relationships to the land that is today Los Angeles and what Morales-Johnson imagines the city could look like through the lens of yard return.
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