Monday, January 15, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Presenter: Bart Johnson, Professor Emeritus from the University of Oregon Location: In person, Amazon Community Center, Main Hall, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene, 97405 Oak-pine savanna and prairie have persisted in the Willamette Valley and other parts of the lowland Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. These ecosystems...
Monday, February 19, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Speakers: Dr. Alison Colwell, Curator, Center for Plant Diversity, University of California, Davis and Dr. Adam Schneider, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse Location: via Zoom: Click here to enter Alison Colwell and Adam Schneider have been studying the non-photosynthetic members of the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae (primarily Aphyllon,...
Monday, March 18, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Speaker: Michelle Osgood, Assistant Horticulturist at the U.S. Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center Location: Amazon Community Center, Main Building, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene, Oregon Featuring funky ferns and quirky Quercus, U.S. Forest Service horticulturist Michelle Osgood shares techniques about propagating ferns from spores, collecting wild seed,...
Saturday, March 30, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Field Trip: Ramble Location: Buford Park, East Entrance Rambles are casual walks where participants identify and share knowledge of plants they encounter as a group. All levels of experience are welcome. All we ask is that you are interested in plants! We’ll walk along a gravel access...
Saturday, April 13, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Field Trip: Brice Creek Trail Leader: Bruce Waugh Join State Board member Bruce Waugh hiking in an old growth forest on a streamside trail through a scenic, rocky canyon. We will primarily see forest flora with the occasional rocky bald. It is a three-mile round-trip on an...
Sunday, April 14, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Field Trip: Museum of Natural and Cultural History Native Plant Garden Leader: Margaret Conover The property surrounding this museum, on the University of Oregon campus, bears an excellent native plant garden that is little known to the community. In partnership with the museum, Emerald Chapter members will...
Friday, April 19, 7:00 pm *Note this is Friday, not a Monday meeting. Presentation: The Master Melittologist Program's Oregon Bee Atlas: A Statewide Initiative to Document the Floral Relations of Oregon's Native Bee Fauna Using Community Scientists. Speaker: Lincoln Best, Faculty Research Assistant, Oregon State University Location: In Person, 221 Allen Hall, University of Oregon...
Sunday April 21, 10:00 am - 11:30 am Field Trip: Laurelwood Bog Leader: Hugh Pritchard Location: The entrance to the Bog is at the end of Agate Street, Eugene, Oregon. Just head south until you can’t go any further, and you have arrived. Parking is on-street. Hugh Prichard, co-owner with the city of Eugene, will...
Friday to Monday, April 26 – 29 Activity: 2024 City Nature Challenge The City Nature Challenge is a community science bioblitz with the goal of observing and identifying as many species as possible in urban communities and surrounding areas. Participants from more than 450 cities worldwide will contribute! Our project geography covers the entirety of...
Saturday, April 27, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Field Trip: Amazon Park Annual Family Plant Walk Leaders: NPSO Volunteers Location: Amazon Community Center, Main Hall, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene Join NPSO volunteers on a tour of the wildflowers that are growing along the trail in Amazon Park. We’ll learn about streamside and wetland plants and...
Sunday, May 5, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Field Trip: Museum of Natural and Cultural History Native Plant Garden The property surrounding this museum, on the University of Oregon campus, bears an excellent native plant garden that is little known to the community. In partnership with the museum, Emerald Chapter members will be leading this...
Thursday, May 16, 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm Leaders: Jeff Diez, Katelin Kutella, and Sarah Erskine, UO Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and Gail Baker, Lane Community College Professor of Biology Location: Riverfront property of UO Campus, just southwest of the Frohnmayer Bridge along the Ruth Bascom Bike Path Join UO ecologists Sarah Erskine, Katelin...