Monday, December 18, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Location: In person at: Amazon Community Center, NEW ROOM: Main Hall, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene, 97405 Bring fifteen to twenty of your favorite photos from this year on a thumb drive to show to the group. We’ll celebrate the season with hot cider and Christmas goodies while...
Monday, January 15, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Presenter: Bart Johnson, Professor Emeritus from the University of Oregon Location: In person, Amazon Community Center, Main Hall, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene, 97405 Oak-pine savanna and prairie have persisted in the Willamette Valley and other parts of the lowland Pacific Northwest for thousands of years. These ecosystems...
Monday, February 19, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Speakers: Dr. Alison Colwell, Curator, Center for Plant Diversity, University of California, Davis and Dr. Adam Schneider, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse Location: via Zoom: Click here to enter Alison Colwell and Adam Schneider have been studying the non-photosynthetic members of the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae (primarily Aphyllon,...
Monday, March 18, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Speaker: Michelle Osgood, Assistant Horticulturist at the U.S. Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center Location: Amazon Community Center, Main Building, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene, Oregon Featuring funky ferns and quirky Quercus, U.S. Forest Service horticulturist Michelle Osgood shares techniques about propagating ferns from spores, collecting wild seed,...
Saturday, March 30, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Field Trip: Ramble Location: Buford Park, East Entrance 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...
Saturday, April 13, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Field Trip: Brice Creek Trail Leader: Bruce Waugh Join State Board member 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 three-mile round-trip on an...
Sunday, April 14, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Field Trip: Museum of Natural and Cultural History Native Plant Garden Leader: Margaret Conover 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...