UPDATE: Organizers report this event has been canceled due to fire weather and adverse conditions.
The California Native Plant Society announces it is hosting a lecture with local conservation expert Terri Rust, focusing on how native plant communities in montane meadow habitats adapt to change. The presentation is set for 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 26, at the Calpine Community Hall.
A corresponding field tour of Thompson Meadow is set for the following morning. Specific location and driving instructions to the field site will be given during the talk. Thompson Valley is located one hour north of Calpine, northeast of Lake Davis. Participants will meet in Beckwourth at 8:30 a.m. at the Beckwourth/Genesee Road turnoff.
During the past five years, the montane meadows of the Sierra Nevada have experienced several years of drought, the driest year on record, the wettest year on record and large wildfires. During her presentation, Rust will share observations of the response of montane meadow plant communities throughout the Sierra Nevada range from the perspective of meadow vulnerability and resilience at a landscape level. Rust will discuss the impacts of erratic climate behavior and restoration efforts to Thompson Meadow in the upper Feather River watershed during the field tour.
Terri Rust came to Plumas County in 2007 and has worked in the natural resources field as an instructor at Feather River College, as a private contractor for the Feather River Resource Conservation District and Feather River Land Trust, and as a conservation planner for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Since 2017, she has been a monitoring coordinator and project manager for Plumas Corp, a local nonprofit organization that specializes in meadow restoration.
Information provided by California Native Plant Society
