Calscape Product Manager
About CNPS
The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit conservation organization (www.cnps.org) founded in 1965, with more than 10,000 members in 35 chapters across California and Baja California Mexico. The mission of CNPS is to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants and to conserve them and their natural habitats through scientific study, education, advocacy, horticulture, and land stewardship.
Native Plant Horticulture and the Calscape Database
As a team of professionals and volunteers, we accomplish our mission through scientific research, conservation, legislative advocacy, education, and gardening. Each year, the gardening (or horticulture) program attracts thousands of people, giving visitors personalized and specific ways to engage with native plants and make a difference in their own gardens and shared spaces. Strategically speaking, the horticulture program – alongside conservation adv
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Attention wildlife fans: Bird feeders are killing songbirds, thanks to a vicious salmonellosis outbreak this winter. Wildlife officials in multiple Western states issued warnings earlier this year that so many birds are dying, the safest plan is to take down all our feeders, at least for now, so they’ll stop congregating and spreading the disease.
So it’s time for a new strategy to attract and support our feathered friends: creating habitat in our garden space whether it’s a balcony or backyard by growing native plants and cultivating the food, nesting materials and shelter wild birds need to survive.