Welcome to Northern California Botanists

Northern California Botanists is an organization with the purpose of increasing knowledge and communication among agency, consulting, academic, and other botanists about botanical issues concerning science, conservation, education, and professional development. Our primary objectives are to establish a communication forum via occasional meetings, a scholarship fund for students working on botanical problems in northern California, a job forum, and symposia that focus on the botany of northern California.

The geographic range for defining the Northern California Botanists (NCB) area of interest for symposia presentations, associated workshops, and student research scholarships includes the area extending northward--from the southern boundary of San Luis Obispo County and western slope of the Tehachapi Mountains, following the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, to the southern boundary of Mono County. Students from any accredited college or university doing research within the NCB geographic range may apply for NCB student research scholarships. NCB welcomes members from all areas.

Attention Students!

2013-2014 Research Scholarship Applications availble now.

  • See Research Scholarship page for more information and application
  • Deadline for submittal - March 31, 2013

Attention students with research relevant to the flora of Shasta, Lassen, Modoc, and Siskiyou counties!

The Shasta Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will fund an additional NCB scholarship in the amount of $1,000. See the Scholarship Page for details!

 

2013 Symposium

“From the Redwoods to the Sagebrush:
Botany Ranging Far and Wide”

14-16 January 2013

Chico, California

 

On January 14-15, 2013, the Northern California Botanists hosted their 5th botanical symposium. The 2013 Symposium was held in the Bell Memorial Union on the campus of the California State University in Chico. Optional botanical workshops were held on Wednesday, January 16. A 2-day schedule of presentations by working botanists included sessions on Biogeography, Restoration & Recovery, Redwood and North Coast Botany and Ecology, Non-seed Plants, Propagule Biology of Northern California Seed Plants, Great Basin/Eastern Sierra Botany, and New Discoveries. The 2013 Symposium Program is available here. Read more about the symposium here.

Thank you to our many sponsors of the 2013 Symposium!

Agencies and Organizations:

  • Bureau of Land Management

  • California Invasive Plant Council

  • California Native Grasslands Association

  • California Native Plant Society - State Office

  • Chestnut Cellars

  • CSUC - College of Natural Sciences

  • CSUC - Department of Biological Sciences

  • California Department of Water Resources

  • ECORP Consulting

  • Friends of the Chico State Herbarium

  • Garcia & Associates

  • Hedgerow Farms

  • Mt. Lassen Chapter - CNPS

  • North State Resources

  • Ray Collett Trust

  • Sierra Pacific Foundation

  • University & Jepson Herbaria

 

Individuals:

  • Bruce Baldwin

  • Carol Witham

 

 

 

 

Contact Us:

Please email Northern California Botanists at ncbotanists@gmail.com

Please note NCB's mailing address has changed to:

Northern California Botanists
P. O. Box 8042
Chico, CA 95927-8042