Let's Talk Manzanitas! ~ with Tom Parker & Michael Vasey
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Let's Talk Manzanitas!
with Tom Parker & Michael Vasey, co-authors of Field Guide to Manzanitas
SALEM | SCOTTISH RITE CENTER
Saturday, November 21, 2026
Doors open at 12:30 pm, talk start at 1 pm,
Location: 4090 Commercial St. SE, Salem, the site of the regular Salem Hardy Plant Society meetings
Fee: $5 entry fee (cash only) to help with the speakers’ travel expenses.
Manzanitas and their Animals: One Key to their Diversity
with Tom Parker
Tom Parker, Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at San Francisco State University, is an evolutionary plant ecologist and co-author of Field Guide to Manzanitas. His talk will explore the role of animals in manzanita diversity, focusing on how rodents create and manage soil seed banks through caching fruit, and how fire releases seed dormancy. These relationships have evolutionary implications and offer insights for those managing chaparral or forests with Arctostaphylos species.
Through the Lens of Manzanitas: A View of the Natural History of the Northern Sierra
with Michael Vasey
Michael Vasey, PhD, has been fascinated with the rarity of native California plants for almost fifty years and co-author of Field Guide to Manzanitas. As experts in Arctostaphylos taxonomy, ecology, and evolution, Mike has delved into the deep history of California’s geological past, its paleobotany, endemism, fire ecology, animal mutualisms, and indigenous tribal uses of manzanitas. Join Mike as he shares a natural history view of the Northern Sierra as it has emerged from this lifetime of investigating this fascinating genus.
with Tom Parker & Michael Vasey, co-authors of Field Guide to Manzanitas
SALEM | SCOTTISH RITE CENTER
Saturday, November 21, 2026
Doors open at 12:30 pm, talk start at 1 pm,
Location: 4090 Commercial St. SE, Salem, the site of the regular Salem Hardy Plant Society meetings
Fee: $5 entry fee (cash only) to help with the speakers’ travel expenses.
Manzanitas and their Animals: One Key to their Diversity
with Tom Parker
Tom Parker, Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at San Francisco State University, is an evolutionary plant ecologist and co-author of Field Guide to Manzanitas. His talk will explore the role of animals in manzanita diversity, focusing on how rodents create and manage soil seed banks through caching fruit, and how fire releases seed dormancy. These relationships have evolutionary implications and offer insights for those managing chaparral or forests with Arctostaphylos species.
Through the Lens of Manzanitas: A View of the Natural History of the Northern Sierra
with Michael Vasey
Michael Vasey, PhD, has been fascinated with the rarity of native California plants for almost fifty years and co-author of Field Guide to Manzanitas. As experts in Arctostaphylos taxonomy, ecology, and evolution, Mike has delved into the deep history of California’s geological past, its paleobotany, endemism, fire ecology, animal mutualisms, and indigenous tribal uses of manzanitas. Join Mike as he shares a natural history view of the Northern Sierra as it has emerged from this lifetime of investigating this fascinating genus.
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