Join Jared Tarr, Volunteer Coordinator for Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah, for a 1.5 hour walk around Turtle Flats, with an optional work party extension. We will see the transformation from open gravel pits to restored wetland habitat, with plenty of native plant species. The work party runs until noon, so attendees can […]
Join Ed Alverson on a visit to two adjacent BLM sites located about 6 miles SW of Creswell to view the late spring/early summer flora. The Weiss Road Prairie-Oak-Pine Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) has a prairie/bald community with oaks and associated understory species. The nearby 314 acre Camas Swale Research Natural Area (RNA) […]
Enjoy a slow walk with little elevation gain through the blooming rock gardens with former Forest Botanist, Jenny Lippert. This is a perfect excursion for folks who like to take their time and smell the posies. The trail is gravel, and we will walk about 2 miles there and back, but there is little elevation […]
Come meet the Board of Directors and help us brainstorm presenters and field trips for next season. Meet other members and share where you've been looking for wildflowers and what new plants you've seen. Bring a potluck dish to share. Dessert is provided by the Chapter. Meet at Amazon Park, south of the Community Center […]
Michelle Osgood, our Chapter’s March speaker, will lead a 90-minute tour of the greenhouse complex outside of Cottage Grove, Oregon. This is a Forest Service facility where native plant materials are collected and grown out in containers for restoration projects. We're hoping that many of the seeds that Michelle and her colleagues planted last fall […]
Join botanists Jenny Moore (current District Botanist) and Jenny Lippert (retired FS botanist) for a foray into the botanical wonderland of Gold Lake Bog, which was designated as a Research Natural Area in 1965. This area hosts several rare botanical species such as Scheuchzeria palustris (“Rannoch-rush”), several species of the carnivorous bladderworts (Utricularia intermedia, U. minor and U. vulgaris), and […]
Friendly Area Neighbors annual summer event that includes the celebration of their new mural, called “Earthly Reverence: Every living thing is our relation.” It is located on the Washington Park Community Center and was brought by the FAN’s Equity Action Team. Emerald Chapter will have a table in the Sustainability Fair so come visit […]
Join us for a presentation by Emily Steel, an Ecologist in the Parks & Natural Resources Planning section of the City of Eugene's Parks and Open Space, when she explains how oak habitats in the Willamette Valley Ecoregion have become quite rare and are now among the most imperiled in the Pacific Northwest. Eugene’s 2,500-acre […]
