Studies from the Herbarium
California State
University, Chico
Chico, California 95929-0545
(530) 898-5381
www.csuchico.edu/biol/Herb/studies.html
Studies from the Herbarium, California State University, Chico is a non-profit endeavor through which professional and amateur botanists study and document the rich flora of Butte County and northern California. Studies from the Herbarium emphasizes floras and ecological studies involving the plants and plant communities of northern California.
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by Samantha Mackey and Albin Bills, illustrated by Larry Jansen December 2004 112 pgs, 5½ x 8½ in., paperback ISBN 978-0-9761774-0-1 price $9.32 |
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| ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Samantha Mackey Hillaire, Albin Bills, Larry Jansen
Samantha Mackey Hillaire Botanist and Chico resident Samantha (Sam) Mackey Hillaire came to California in 1994. Between her graduation from Duke University in North Carolina with a Bachelor's degree in 1991 and settling in California in 1994, Sam explored different parts of the United States. Attending California State University, Chico, she received her Master's degree in botany in 1999, graduating with honors and receiving an award for Outstanding Master's Thesis for her study of the life history and population dynamics of the rare plant Cryptantha crinita (silky cryptantha). Currently working as lab manager in biology at Butte College, Sam has also worked a number of years as a botanist on northern California National Forests. Sam explains that she did this book because Table Mountain "is a stupendously beautiful and botanically interesting place that was just screaming for a book since there was no local source of information about the natural history of the place for all the folks that like to visit it." She is presently working on a flora of the Ishi Wilderness Area in Tehama County.
Sam has a Table Mountain web site with photographs of wildflowers and other information at www.butte.cc.ca.us/instruction/biol/Table%20Mountain%20Flowers/main.html.
Sam would like to thank several other people important
to this book and to understanding the wildflowers of Table Mountain.
"One of the people who helped finance the book was Randy Rickert.
He was married to Joyce Lacey Rickert who was a local botanist who died
of cancer within the past couple of years – she spent a lot of time
on Table Mountain and from what I understand wanted to do a little book
on it too – so the book is partly dedicated to her. (Her daughter is
currently enrolled in biology classes at Butte College.) The book is
also dedicated to deceased botanist Jim
Jokerst who wrote the original flora of Table Mountain."
Albin Bills After earning his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1969, Albin Bills joined the faculty at Butte College, where he continues to teach field biology. A prominent landmark in the view from Butte College, Table Mountain is perched on the horizon, just a few miles away. "It didn't take me long," says Albin, "to realize how special this mesa is. You might say it was love at first sight. I have spent over three decades exploring its natural history. It is a place that can be enjoyed on many levels - strolling through fields of wildflowers, puzzling over their abundance and patterns, hiking to remote waterfalls, encountering salamanders and horned lizards, piecing together the mesa's geologic history, or simply enjoying a beautiful spring day as a bald eagle soars by. The more you look, the more there is to see. Like all wild places, Table Mountain has much to teach. I hope our new book will open the doors of discovery for those who read it."
Larry Jansen Larry Jansen is a self-taught artist. While a young person, being home-schooled in a cabin in rural Vermont, he had the opportunity to explore his natural environment, especially the plants and animals. After a move to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, he continued studying the natural environment and began illustrating the flora of that region. In 1998, while taking the field biology course at Butte College, Larry met Albin Bills and Samantha Mackey Hillaire, and their shared interests in botany and Table Mountain evolved into the book Wildflowers of Table Mountain. Larry is currently planning a book about the Cohasset Ridge Flora. Today he owns and operates Hearth and Stone Bakery in Cohasset.
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