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Program: The Serpentine Flora of Oregon’s Blue Mountains
April 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Thursday, April 18, 7:00 pm
Program: The Serpentine Flora of Oregon’s Blue Mountains
Speaker: Dick O’Donnell
Location: Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Science Building, Room 101 or via Zoom
Scattered here and there in the Blue Mountains of Northeastern Oregon are areas of soil derived from serpentinite (mantle rock or serpentine). This challenging soil supports peculiar vegetation. After fifteen years of multiple annual visits to explore the serpentine in the Blue Mountains, Dick O’Donnel is memorializing the event with a long paper which is nearly complete and will be ready to publish in a few weeks. Dick spoke to the Siskiyou Chapter several years ago.
Southern Oregon University, Science Building, Room 161. This program will also be provided as a zoom for folks who cannot attend in person. To register for the zoom: https://bit.ly/npsotalks.
Dick’s degree is in economics to which he sacrificed twenty-five good years in the corporate world. Now retired, He studies and photograph plants from southern Arizona to the Wallowa Mountains. When not in the field, he studies 19th century botany and botanists in the old and new worlds.