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The meeting was held at Shepard Garden & Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento. It was a “hybrid” meeting and the recorded Zoom can be viewed on our YouTube Channel here.
Homa’kani! This means hello in Nisenan. Our guest speaker, Sadie Hampshire will share with us the significance of preserving native plants through cultural fire through her relationship to her communities and her work as a F.L.I.C.K.E.R (Fire Leadership for. Intertribal Conservation Knowledge-keeping. Eco-cultural. Revitalization). “Fire has been around for all of time,” Sadie writes, “our Indigenous peoples saw fire as what it truly is, medicine. We knew fire didn’t also just provide warmth but as well as food cultivation, shelter, medicine & gathering materials & ensured flowing water, all while making the soil very nutrient rich meaning native species thrive off fire. My ancestors used fire in a cultural prescribed way, preparing a certain plot of land for certain needs such as, bringing back native grass, maintaining gathering materials or increase water flow/habitation, fire has been around since creation but was unjustly outlawed in 1850, recently we’ve gained back our rights to culture fire and continue to heal our mother.” Join us as Sadie shares with us timeless gifts of native preservation tools and practices in California.
Sadie Hampshire is a Cultural Fire Practitioner and traditionalist, I’ve been raised in my culture all her life and been practicing cultural fire for almost 2 years, which has lead her to understand the complex native ecosystems and how native species thrive together. Fire has been used as medicine to treat the land for thousands of years and is vital to our future. As a member of Tanku Nisenan and Telmeti Washoe Nations, she carries this medicine alongside her elders and other cultural fire practitioners on Indigenous forested lands throughout northern California
Title of Talk: California’s Biodiversity from a Tribal Perspective- The Importance of Reciprocity and Stewardship September 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM The September Chapter Meeting will be in-person ONLY on Wednesday, September 9th beginning at 7 pm at the Shepard Garden and Arts Center at 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento. Additional info about chapter meetings can
Wildflower Wonders 2026 Saturday, Sept 19th, 9:00-12:00. Wildlife Wonders, a celebration of biodiversity in our region. SacValley CNPS Nursery & Gardens 2140 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova, 95670 on the American River Parkway at Soil Born Farms. Wildlife Wonders is a free, family-friendly event celebrating the biodiversity of our region. This event offers the community an opportunity
There will be a Sacramento Valley Chapter CNPS field trip to Grass Lake (north of Luther Pass on Highway 89, near the California/Nevada border, and south of Lake Tahoe) on Sunday, August 2, 2026. Trip leaders will be Carol Witham and Greg Kareofelas. We may be joined by members of the Bryophyte Chapter and CalFlora.