Resources
Below are some of my go-to resources on a variety of topics—I hope they are helpful to you too!
Native Landscape Design & Plant Care
DATABASE | Calscape.org | California Native Plant Society
BOOK | California Native Plants for the Garden | Carol Bornstein, David Fross, Bart O’Brien
BOOK | The California Native Landscape | Greg Rubin & Lucy Warren
BOOK | California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide | Helen Popper
BOOK | Under Western Skies | Jennifer Jewell & Caitlin Atkinson
BLOG | Mother Nature’s Backyard | Friends of Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve
CARD DECK | Native Plants for Southern California Gardens Flashcards (English & Spanish)
ARTICLES | Las Pilitas Nursery | Bert Wilson
Native Plant & Ecological Advocacy
ORGANIZATION | California Native Plant Society
ORGANIZATION | Theodore Payne Foundation
PROGRAM | California Naturalist Certification | UC Environmental Stewards
Indigenous Culture & Traditional Ecological Knowledge
TRIBE | Nevada City Rancheria & California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
TRIBE | United Auburn Indian Community
TRIBE | Wilton Rancheria
TRIBE | Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
BOOK | Tending the Wild | M. Kat Anderson
BOOK | Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians | Thomas C. Blackburn & Kat Anderson
DATABASE | Digital Atlas of California Native Americans
DATABASE | USDA Plant Guide PDFs
Firewise Practices
DATABASE | Wildfire Risk to Communities | USDA & US Forest Service
BOOK | Firescaping Your Home: A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country | Adrienne Edwards & Rachel Schleiger
BOOK | Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with a Fire-Resistant Landscape | Douglas Kent
Sacramento Region Ecology
PROJECT | Bushy Lake Restoration Project | Dr. Michelle Stevens & the Awanata Dream Team
PROJECT | Grassland Garden at Niño's Parkway | Natomas Garden and Arts Collective
ORGANIZATION | Sac Valley CNPS Chapter
ORGANIZATION | Effie Yeaw Nature Center
ORGANIZATION | Putah Creek Council
FIELD GUIDE | The Outdoor World of the Sacramento Region | The American River Natural History Association
California Ecology
PODCAST | Golden State Naturalist | Michelle Fullner
PUBLICATION | Bay Nature Magazine
PUBLICATION | Flora Magazine | CNPS
PUBLICATION | Artemisia Journal | CNPS
Native Plant Nurseries
Native Plant ID
DATABASE | Seek by iNaturalist
DATABASE | Calflora
BOOK | California Plant Families | Glenn Keator
FIELD GUIDE | The Jepson Manual | Bruce G. Baldwin, Douglas Goldman, David J. Keil, Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti, Dieter Wilken
Bees
ORGANIZATION | The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
FIELD GUIDE | California Natural History Guides: Field Guide to the Common Bees of California | Gretchen LeBuhn
BOOK | The Solitary Bees: Biology, Evolution, Conservation | Brian N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff
ARTICLE | Nesting habitat of ground-nesting bees: A review | C. M. Antoine & J. R. K. Forrest
CARD DECK | Native Bees of the Western United States Vol. 1.1 | Krystle Hickman
Butterflies & Moths
DATABASE | The Butterfly Net: Lepidoptera Conservation Tool | Conservation Biology Institute
ORGANIZATION | The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
ARTICLE | Butterfly Gardening in the Sacramento Valley | Arthur M. Shapiro
ARTICLE | California Plants as Resources for Lepidoptera: a guide for gardeners, restorationists and naturalists | Jeffrey Allen Caldwell
Native Grasslands
ORGANIZATION | California Native Grasslands Association
PUBLICATION | Grasslands Journal | California Native Grasslands Association
FIELD GUIDE | California Natural History Guides: Field Guide to Grasses of California | James P. Smith, Jr.
Art & Native Plants
BOOK | The Leaf Book | Ida Geary
ARTIST | Margaret Gallagher
ARTIST | Coyote Brush Studios | Tina Curiel
ARTIST | Ink Dwell | Jane Kim
ARTIST | Studio Tutto | Sofia Laçin & Hennessy Cristophel