2009 Symposium Auction

LIVE AUCTION | SILENT AUCTION | RAFFLE

Each year at the Cal-IPC Symposium, we host a lively social hour which includes a silent auction and raffle. Following the social hour, symposium attendees gather for the annual banquet where festivities continue with award presentations and the live auction.

Check out this page for a preview of the auction and raffle items for 2009. We are seeking your donations of books, tools, art/crafts, vacation stays, local products, gift certificates - anything a weed worker could want is fair game. Items may be sent to the Cal-IPC office or brought to the Symposium. Please contact Tanya Meyer if you have something to donate.

Live Auction

• River Ridge Ranch - 2 night stay
  Enjoy a 2 night stay at this unique combination of a working cattle ranch, recreation and education guest ranch in the oak savannah foothills of the western Sierra Nevada. The environmentally-conscious 722-acre ranch borders the Tule River and the 323,000 acre Giant Sequoia National Monument. There are miles of interpretive nature trails across gentle, rolling oak woodlands or you may ascend from 1200' on the Tule River to 3,000' on Lumreau Mountain! The stay will include kitchen privileges, and the cabin has a comfy full-size bed, hot showers and toilet facilities nearby.

• Santa Cruz Island Camping Trip for two - Two nights at the Christy Ranch (pre 1850) which is on the west end of the island overlooking Santa Rosa Island. Accompanied by John Knapp and Steve Junak (who wrote the Santa Cruz Island flora and is the botanist for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden) to search for Mimulus brandegei, the Santa Cruz Island monkeyflower, which is presumed extinct.

• Turkey Hunt at Hedgerow Farms - Win a trip for two to hunt fat turkeys on Hedgerow Farms with John Anderson opening weekend Spring 2010.

 

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Silent Auction

• Anchor Distilling - One bottle of Junipero Gin, and one bottle of Old Potrero Hotlings' Whiskey.
• Artwork by Susan Levitsky - a beautifully double matted and framed a 6"x9" print of a pastel painting of a desert wash in Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County.
• CA Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) - 1 year subscription
• Guided fishing trip in Northern California - Far northern CA that is! This is a June trip complete with local lodging and lunch.
• Tamalpais Walking, woodcut art by Tom Killion and words by Gary Snyder (signed) - "Tamalpais Walking...is a joy to hold and behold." —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
• Coast of California by Tom Killion (signed) - The wood and linoleum cuts are an expanded version of a limited edition published in 1979. Undulant or serrated, dark or bright, the craggy, enveloping textures and colors of Killion's prints evoke the magnificent tangle of the California coastline. Killion's eye for landscape can be powerfully sympathetic.
• The Extractigator - with a new and improved handle!

 

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Raffle

• Amarula Cream liquor - Elegant and creamy with an interesting twist of fruity sweetness. No wonder Amarula is the favorite fruit of the African elephant.

• Artwork by Gary Lindquist - one photograph and one pen & ink drawing

• Books:
  • Alien Invaders: Species that Threaten Our World by Jand Drake, Ann Love and Mark Thurman
  • Alien Invaders: The Continuing Threat of Exotic Species by Sneed B. Collard
  • Animal Investigators: How the world's first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species by Laurel A. Neme, PhD
  • The California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery by Bruce Pavlik
  • California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Richard Minnich
  • Cocktail Boothby's American Bartender - Anchor Distilling is proud to present the first modern edition of this classic
  • The Green Book by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
  • Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before by Alastair Fothergill and David Attenborough
  • The Invasive Species Cookbook: Conservation Through Gastronomy by J.M. Franke
  • Trees of the California Sierra Nevada by George A. Petrides
  • Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species (signed) by Ceiridwen Terrill, PhD

• Eagle Creek Cargo Duffle
• Fresh apples - a quarter bushel of fresh, delicious, tree ripened apples from Smokey Ridge Ranch, Placerville, El Dorado County
• Kelp rattles - hand painted by John Knapp with pictures of Chumash rock paintings.
• Native Seed from Hedgerow Farms

• Trader Joe's bag o'treats

• Weed Bouquets - yes these are plastic bouquets!

• Weed, California - Weed is a rural town located just east of Mt. Shasta. Enjoy a bag of treats that celebrate this appropriately named town!

• Weed dyed yarn - 3 skeins of home-grown, hand-spun wool/llama yarn dyed with horehound

• Wine, wines, and more wine!