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 […]
Join Vice-President Karl Anderson on a ramble through Wild Iris Ridge Park. Rambles are casual walks where participants identify and share their 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 be walking 1-2 miles along a trail. Bring appropriate […]
Join Sarah Erskine, Emerald Chapter Board member and PhD Candidate in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon, as she shares results of her research along with some beautiful plant photos! You may have seen some of her lab's research plots along the river path near the UO bridge to Autzen […]
Set your alarms to get tickets to the Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Show- the biggest mushroom display on the west coast. Come to the Arboretum for a day of music, food, guided walks, a kids craft area, and, of course, mushroom displays, mushroom soup, and mushroom-themed gifts! Emerald Chapter will have our booth set up […]
The Fern Ridge Library in Veneta is planting 4 trees as a visual screen (Cascara and vine maple), as well as native shrubs in a bioswale. We spent the last two seasons knocking back reed canarygrass in the swale with plastic mulch, and it's ready to plant with shrubs to suppress future reed canarygrass growth. […]
