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General Meeting - Thursday, June 14, 2012

Wildflower Highlights of Cook and Green Pass & Siskiyou Mts.
General Meeting Speaker: Ted Kipping

The Siskiyou Mountains are unusual in North Western America for several reasons:

They trend mostly East-West allowing marine influ-ence to travel far inland.
They are geologically quite complex yielding a great variety of soil chemistries allowing for more soil specific plants.
It is the southern limit for many more northerly species and the northern limit for more southerly species.

We will explore a high pass near the middle of the range between 4500-6500 feet in elevation—the equivalent to 8000-9000 feet in the central Sierra Nevada. Endemism is very high and the variety of taxa impressive. The range as a whole is even richer than what we will have time for—but that is another talk.

Ted Kipping studied Natural History at Columbia University, New York and has been involved in horti-culture for thirty-five years. After completing his studies, Ted wanted to apply his knowledge, and went to work at Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. There, he worked with a broad range of trees and other plants. His interest grew toward trees and shrubs, and in 1976 he started his own tree-trimming enterprise. He called himself “Tree Shaper.” He has been gazing with rapt interest upon wild things for nearly sixty years—the last forty plus with a camera.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA
7:00pm - Visiting & Book Purchases
7:30pm - Meeting & Program Begin

Outing at Clear Creek, by Bruce Delgado