Tuesday, October 21, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Presentation: Sensitive Species and Post-fire Restoration Presenter: Ian Grinter, Botanist, Bureau of Land Management Deschutes Field Station Location: East Bend Library Community Room, 62080 Dean Swift Rd, Bend, OR Join us for our first Chapter Meeting of the fall. We will be having a guest speaker: Ian...
Wednesday, October 22, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Presentation: What’s Next for Oregon’s Sagebrush Steppe? Presenter: Dr. Stu Garrett Location: Worthy Brewing, 495 NE Bellevue Dr, Bend, OR Join Worthy Garden Club for an evening pub talk with Stu Garrett, founder of High Desert Chapter, NPSO. The talk will explore the ecology of the sagebrush steppe...
Saturday, October 25, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Work Party #308: Native Plant Garden at McMinnville Public Library Location: McMinnville Public Library Help the garden crew with maintaining the Native Plant Garden at McMinnville Public Library. Bring gloves, bucket, and gardening tools if you have them. For more information, contact Catie Anderson at catie.fishback@gmail.com or 971-241-7634. The library...
Saturday, November 1, 8:45 am – 1:00 pm Event: Removal of invasive weed species work party and lunch Contact: Gail Perrotti, gperrotti@earthlink.net or 541-414-9777 Location: Hundred Acre Wood, 1000 S 1st Ave, Coquille, OR 97423 Help the South Coast Chapter of NPSO and the Wild Coast Trails Association remove invasive English ivy, holly, and cotoneaster on the Coquille Hundred...
Saturday, November 1, 9:00 am - late afternoon Event: Mushroom Foray Trip Leader: Dan Luoma Location: Meet at the north side of the Philomath Mary’s Peak True Value Hardware parking lot. Come prepared for the weather and mushroom hunting. Contact Dan Luoma for more information at: daniel.luoma@oregonstate.edu.
Thursday, November 6, 6:30 pm -8:30 pm Event: Pollinator Trivia Location: Broken Top Bottle Shop, 1740 NW Pence Lane # 1, Bend, OR 97703 Do you enjoy trivia? Do you enjoy native pollinators and plants? Come join us for Pollinator Trivia! The maximum group size is five.
Saturday, November 8, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Event: Quarterly membership meeting Leader and Contact: Gail Perrotti, gperrotti@earthlink.net or 541-414-9777 Location: LDS Church in Port Orford 2000 Jackson St., Port Orford, OR 97465 Gather with members and friends. The speaker is to be determined. An optional hike to Port Orford Heads State Park will follow.
Monday, November 10, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Presentation: Bringing Native Plants into Your Home Garden Presenter: Cierra Dawson of Benton Soil and Water Conservation District Location: Cordley Hall Room #2602, Oregon State University. You may have heard the phrase “the right plant for the right place,” but how do native plants fit into this? Cierra Dawson...
Thursday, November 13, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Zoom Presentation: Beyond Waterfalls: Exploring the Flora of Silver Falls State Park Presenter: Matt Palmquist, Park Ranger, Silver Falls State Park Explore beyond the waterfalls in this presentation to discover the history of the park and some notable plants found there. In addition, there will be a...
Sunday, November 16 Field Trip: North Fork Silver Falls Loop Trip Leaders: Lecia, PDX chapter and Alex, Corvallis Chapter To follow up after our November program, join Lecia and Alex on a hike to North Fork Silver Creek Falls Loop to check out the new trail extension. Check your chapter calendar for time and registration details. Link to sign...
Monday, November 17, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Presentation: Climate and Vegetation of Oregon Over the Past 50 Million Years Presenter: Dr. Greg Retallack, Geology Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon Location: Amazon Community Center, 2700 Hilyard St, Eugene Oregon has a long fossil record of fossil plants and soils revealing dramatic paleoclimatic...
Presentation: What We Sow - The Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds Presenter: Jennifer Jewell Location: In-person presentation at the Siskiyou chapter meeting at Southern Oregon University Science Building, Room 161. Join us in-person or Zoom in from home. To register for Zoom, go to https://bit.ly/npsotalks. In her presentation, Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy...