Thursday, December 14, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Location: Zoom Portland board members will share some 2023 highlights, and all NPSO members are welcome to share photos and stories of their favorite trips and trails. Gather your best shots, whether camera or phone, amateur or professional, plants or people, and be prepared to speak (five...
Thursday, January 11, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Speaker: David Lewis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies, Oregon State University Location: Zoom Dr. Lewis has done extensive research on tribal histories. As a specialist in the history of Kalapuyans and other western Oregon tribes, he has studied the momentous changes to the Willamette...
Sunday, January 21, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm Carpool Location: Albertsons, 5415 SW Beaverton Hwy, Portland, OR Become an NPSO PDX Field Trip Leader or Co-Leader! Help us plan our 2024 season of field trips. Join us for our annual potluck followed by brainstorming our favorite hikes and explorations for the 2024 season. We'll meet...
Thursday, February 8, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Presenter: Michael Kauffmann, Educator, Author, and Ecologist Location: Zoom The Klamath Mountains contain some of the most exceptional temperate plant communities in the world. Within their geographic boundaries, over 3,500 taxa (species, subspecies, and varieties) of vascular plants, thirty-five conifer species, and twenty species of oak occur....
Thursday, March 14, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Presenter: Dean Miller, Data Analytics Trainer and Quaternary Paleobotanist Location: Zoom In 2010, during the construction of a reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado, bones of mammoth and other extinct species and a rich assemblage of vertebrate, plant, and other fossils were unearthed. Miller takes us on an...
Tuesday, March 26, 10:00 am Hike: March BioBlitz: Marching into Spring Hike Leaders: Lecia Schall and Cheryl Brock Location: Whipple Creek Regional Park Please join Lecia Schall and Cheryl Brock as we March forth into Spring at Whipple Creek Regional Park near Ridgefield, WA. This hidden gem is a 300-acre park with lots of crisscrossing...
Monday, April 1, 5:00 pm Hike: April BioBlitz Hike: April Fools Appreciate Native Plants, Even When They Can’t See Them. Hike Leader: Lecia Schall Location: Canemah Bluff Nature Park Join Lecia Schall. and one of our new Hike Leaders on Monday, April 1, 2024, at 5:00 pm for one of the kick-off events for Native...
Saturday, April 6, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Volunteer Work Party: Friends of Nob Hill Nature Park Location: Nob Hill Nature Park, St. Helens, OR Scappoose Bay Watershed Council and Friends of Nob Hill Nature Park invite you to join the semi-annual volunteer workday. We’ll pull ivy and put in native plants donated by Scappoose...
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Zoom Presentation: Native Plants of Oregon’s Northern Coastal Range Presenter: Kira Taylor, Naturalist Location: Zoom Kira shares her knowledge and enjoyment of hiking in the northern Oregon Coast Range. She will highlight the region’s native flora and fauna, as well as give us an insider’s view of...
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Zoom Presentation: Native Plants of Oregon’s Northern Coastal Range Presenter: Kira Taylor, Naturalist Location: Zoom Tucked away in the northern reaches of Oregon's Coast Range, the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests are an underappreciated wonder. In this presentation, Kira Taylor, a longtime Coast Range resident and naturalist,...