Celebrating native plants in the Sacramento Valley

The Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society promotes protecting native plants and their habitats and increasing the use of native plants in gardens and public spaces in Sacramento, Sutter, Yuba, lower Placer, and northern San Joaquin Counties.

We accomplish these goals through conservation, education, science, advocacy, horticulture, and land stewardship.

The Sacramento Valley Chapter’s monthly e-newsletter contains chapter announcements and upcoming events, and each issue is posted on the Newsletter page and emailed to all newsletter subscribers. You do not need to be a member to receive our eNewsletter. Sign up here.

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Previous chapter meetings can be viewed on: https://www.youtube.com/channel

Greenprint Call for Volunteers: It’s time to step up for conservation and open space preservation. Our region has only protected 9% of our land to 30X30 standards and paved 237,000 acres of agricultural lands in just 30 years (1988-2018).  Our lands are critical for biodiversity and the future health of our communities depends on these natural and working landscapes. We keep losing our special places to urban sprawl, solar farms, and aggregate mining projects that are consuming these lands at a frightening pace. 

Our collaborative Sacramento Valley Power in Nature group is rallying local leaders and planners to value our natural resources and create a Greenprint Plan to go along with the SACOG Blueprint. We are issuing a Greenprint Call to Action to initiate the process. As an all volunteer effort, we’re recruiting leaders and support volunteers throughout the region that can help with mapping, presentations, outreach, and raising funding to come up with a plan that values and protects our natural and working lands.  

To sign up to help or stay informed of our progress please use this form to select which tasks you would like to help with and how we should communicate with you. Sacramento Valley CNPS supports this project and encourages you to get behind this Greenprint effort. Please contact Steve Schweigerdt at sschweigerdt@gmail.com or 916-877-5288 with any questions or ideas you would like to share!