Thursday, December 14, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Speaker: Maggie Graham from The Understory Initiative Location: Phoenix Grange located at 209 N. Main Street, Phoenix, OR. Join ecologist, Maggie Graham, as she takes us behind the scenes of three conservation and restoration projects in southwest Oregon. We’ll talk about everything from lupine hybridization to bumblebee...
Thursday, January 18, 7pm Speaker: Shannon Brown Location: Southern Oregon University, Ashland Brewer’s spruce is a rare and unique conifer that grows in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion. Shannon Browne investigated the recruitment and population dynamics of Brewer’s Spruce to better understand the impacts of climate change on this charismatic conifer. Throughout her study, she came to...
Thursday, February 15, 7pm Speaker: Matt Dybala Location: Southern Oregon University, Ashland In anticipation of the upcoming spring-summer bloom, Matt will review morphological characters and the taxonomy of our native flowers. Southern Oregon University, Science Building, Room 161. This program will also be provided as a zoom for folks who cannot attend in person. To...
Thursday, March 21, 7pm Speaker: Lynn Kuntsman Location: Southern Oregon University, Ashland Planting native plants is crucial to ecosystem health and to preserving and protecting life on earth. Plant choice matters, and choosing native plants helps to restore and ensure vital ecosystem services in our landscapes. Based on the work of Dr. Doug Tallamy, this...
Saturday, March 23rd, 9:45am-1pm Siskiyou Chapter Native Plant Society is partnering with the Williams Community Forest Project to enjoy the early spring wildflowers along the Enchanted Forest and Felton Memorial Trails in the Applegate! The hike will begin on the Enchanted Forest trail where the group will walk through a ponderosa pine and white oak...
Date: Saturday, April 6th, 10am – 2pm Siskiyou Chapter is partnering with Vesper Meadow for a meadow tour and willow-planting work party outside of Ashland. Vesper Meadow has been working for six years to restore a creek channel which was previously eroded due to overgrazing and down-cutting associated with a lack of vegetation. The group...
Bald Mount Plant Hike Sunday, April 7, 9:30 am Leader: Wayne Rolle The Siskiyou Chapter of the NPSO is hosting a botanical field trip along the ridge of Bald Mountain. Bald Mountain is located above 5,000 feet in elevation between Talent and the Little Applegate watershed. This will be an opportunity to see the locally...
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...
Saturday, April 20, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Field Trip: Rough and Ready Botanical Wayside Trip Leaders: Siskiyou Chapter NPSO and Cultural and Ecological Enhancement Network Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/868767776807?aff=oddtdtcreator
Monday, April 29, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm (8:00 am carpool from Oregon State University Extension, Central Point) Hike: Limpy Botanical Trail Hike Leader: Rachel Werling Join us for an easy one-mile loop trail through the botanically rich serpentine area of the Limpy Botanical Interpretive Trail outside of Grants Pass. This is a lovely and...