Join us for a virtual annual potluck. Cook your favorite food and re member when we could meet in person. Starting at 4:00pm, our Chapter’s Gene ral Meeting will include our annual election and recognition of volunteers, Fellows and others. Learn more, including the proposed slate of officers, on page 2.

After the meeting, at about 5:00pm, we of fer a program on how each one of us can help reverse declining biodiversity .

Nature’s B est Hope, A talk by Doug Tallamy

Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer b irds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our c urrent land management practices have been at sustaining the plants and ani mals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Doug Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can - and must - take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 103 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 40 years. C hief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways in sects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversit y of animal communities. His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plan ts Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in 20 07 and was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association . The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014.

Doug’s new book, Nature’ s Best Hope, released by Timber Press in February 2020, is a New York Times Best Seller.

How to attend: The Annual Meeting will be live-streamed over Zoom only. After the meeting we’ ll continue live-streaming the program over Zoom. We’ll email the Zoom link ahead of time to CNPS Santa Clara Valley Chapter members.

At 5:00pm, like other talks in our new Native Plant Lecture Seri es, Doug’s talk will be live-streamed to YouTube. The general public is inv ited to view Doug’s talk via YouTube. Watch it live or later on our YouTube channel: www.yout ube.com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley.

CNPS General Meetings are f ree and open to the public. For more information, contact Chapter President Vivian Neou at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to v iew it. or the Chapter phone at (650) 260-3450.

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