Speaker: Michelle Osgood, Assistant Horticulturist at the U.S. Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center Featuring funky ferns and quirky Quercus, USFS Horticulturist Michelle Osgood shares techniques about propagating ferns from spores, collecting wild seed, growing resilient native plants, and outplanting them into the wild or even your own backyard.
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 road and established trails. Approximate distance will be 3 miles round trip. There should be an […]
Join State Board Director 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 3 miles round-trip on an easy to moderate trail. Due to the narrowness of the trail and steep drop offs, […]
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 short walk in and around the museum's Glenn Starlin Native Plant Courtyard. With over forty species, the courtyard offers […]
Lincoln Best, Faculty Research Assistant at OSU, will introduce the productive framework for education through the online Master Melittologist program and data production for the Oregon Bee Atlas. These complementary programs have assessed native bee visitors to more than 1,500 plant taxa in the state and have detected several hundred species of bees including new […]
Located on the NW corner of the Laurelwood Golf course, Hugh Prichard, co-owner with the city of Eugene, will lead us on this tour. The Laurelwood Bog is a native plant project in its 14th year and has many mature plants with forty-foot tall Salix and a Ninebark tunnel arching over the pathways. Hugh has […]
Being over fifty years old, the Glide Wildflower Show is the largest showcase of native flora in the Pacific Northwest. Included at the event will be a display of over 600 species of native flora, roving botanists to answer questions, and special displays and presentations. Hours 9-5 each day.
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 look for wildlife along the way. Meet at the Amazon Community Center at 10:00 am. The walk is approx 1.5 mile loop on pavement and barked trail. Sign up […]
