RoadTrip: PCT: EC: You still here? (loose keys & Fremontia's)

10AM 3/7/2012
Hi Gary.
Not sure if you have left on an adventure yet. Will you be at the board meeting? If so Kathi and I would like to come around 6 to go through the file drawer and I don't have a key. No big deal if you won't be there, I can rummage around after the meeting or maybe have Liz come early.
-Pat S

Pat,
I am leaving tomorrow morning.  I'll probably be at the Water
Coalition meeting this evening.

There is a key to the CNPS file cabinet at the EC ...
I'll also put the key to the CNPSMB POBox ...

I visited Kathryn Williams yesterday on her birthday and returned with a box full of Boz's Fremontia's.   Thanks, Kathryn!

You may recall I had been trying to compile a "complete set" of
Fremontias for the library at the EC.  Sandra Cleisz most recently
donated her collection, but there were still significant gaps.  I took
the time today to fill in the gaps using Boz's copies, so now there is
a nearly complete set from 1978 on (except for a gap in 1989, and only
a scattering before 1978, and some missing recent ones.

I placed the "complete set" in the bottom shelf of the small bookcase
below the "NW Coast Rainforests" poster in the EC library.  I stacked
the "duplicates" (mostly Boz's and a few other people's) in an
inconspicuous pile on the bottom shelf of the larger bookcase that has
the mixture of CNPS books & trail guides etc.

Attached is an inventory list of all the copies showing which are
duplicated.   (At this point I suspect there may be some errors... So if the
"duplicate pile" is used for "give-aways", maybe pick issues for which
we have more than one duplicate, just in case.)

I should still occasionally be checking my email during my trip.  The
following three to 5 weeks I'll be "with my car" - the 1st 2 or three
weeks with Sandy who wants to explore the lower desert and we may do
some day trips along the PCT at the west rim of the Anza Borrego valley, north of Mt Laguna, and then I'll be by myself hopefully doing some longer
backpacks along the trail with my car stashed "somewhere" for a few
days at a time.   I hope to be taking lots of picts, with a GPS tracklog
going that I can match up with picts later.  Hope to have the presence
of mind to notice unique plants and photograph representative
"vegetation types".

I'll probably be back in Santa Rosa the early part of April (in
particular I have an appointment on the 12th) but then hope to be
traveling for a longer time. beginning mid-April.  I may be back again
shortly May-June, then gone for the rest of the year, maybe.
-Gary

I have a lot of extra Fremontias and will see if I have any of the missing ones.   Good work on getting an almost complete set.  We will miss you Gary.  Who is going to  do the membership and labels for mailing the newsletter?
-Liz P

Hi Liz,
Jim will be doing the membership.  But I hope to still be able to keep an eye on it as well...
"More Fremontias... Need more Fremontia's!"   Great! We'll soon have everyone's name represented in the mix! ...and then have enough for a 2nd complete set for the LBAGC!
-Gary