Saturday, June 28 Field Trip: Siskiyou Plant Explorers Hike to Kangaroo Lake, Gazelle CA Details to be announced. Indicate your interest by contacting siskiyouplants@gmail.com.
Saturday, June 28th, 8:00 am - late afternoon Field Trip: Iron Mountain and Cone Peak Leaders: Dan Luoma and Joyce Eberhart We will hike the Iron Mountain-Cone Peak loop, identifying wildflowers in this botanical hotspot. Over 200 species of vascular plants have been recorded across this botanically rich trail west of Santiam Pass. Wildflowers of the Western...
Saturday, June 28, 9:00 am - 11:00 am Work Party #304: 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. The garden has matured and will be beautiful this month, making our work very enjoyable! Bring gloves, bucket, and gardening...
Saturday, June 28, Leave Roseburg at 9:00 am- early afternoon Field Trip: Bilger Ridge in the North Myrtle Creek watershed It is time for our yearly trek to BiIger Ridge to see our very own rare and beautiful mariposa lily, Calochortus coxii. We have special permission from the Bureau of Land Management to visit this location. The...
Sunday, June 29, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Field Trip: Fern Hike Leader: Roger Brewer Location: Details to be provided to those registered for the field trip. This will be a field trip to view as many as possible of the ferns of northwestern Oregon. The attendees of the “Introduction to Ferns of Oregon” class (see...
Saturday, July 26, 9:00 am - 11:00 am Work Party #305: 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. The garden has matured and will be beautiful this month, making our work very enjoyable! Bring gloves, bucket, and gardening tools...
Saturday, July 5, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Field Trip: Soapstone Lake Leader: Kira Taylor Location: Clatsop State Forest (carpooling will be from Banks). Venture out to a lesser-visited part of the Clatsop State Forest for a 3 mile loop hike around a small woodland lake. This moderate trail passes through thinned second-growth forest, skirts around...
Monday, July 7, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Field Trip: Parish Lake and Daly Lake Leaders: Matt Palmquist and Elliot Drake-Maurer Matt Palmquist and Elliot Drake-Maurer of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the NPSO will lead short hikes into Parish Lake and Daley Lake in the Willamette National Forest to view the wildflowers of the two...
Tuesday, July 8, 8:30 am Event: Plant Survey Leader: Jeanne at jstandle@charter.net. Location: Floras Lake The Bureau of Land Management has invited the NPSO South Coast Chapter to assist with monitoring silvery phacelia (Phacelia argentea) on July 8 at Floras Lake. Monitoring will consist of laying out tape measures to form a grid, finding all plants within...
Thursday, July 10, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Field Trip: Lookout Mountain, Oregon Leader: Ron Klump Location: The round trip from Portland is 150 miles paved, 12 miles gravel. The trip leader will provide carpool details. A Northwest Forest Pass is required. This is a moderate hike of 2.6 miles with 570 feet of elevation...
Saturday, July 12, 8:30 am - 6:00 pm Field Trip: Groundhog Mountain and Waterdog Lake Leader: Tanya Harvey Spend a leisurely day with Tanya Harvey botanizing along wetlands, a small lake, and rocky roadcuts in the Groundhog Mountain area, southeast of Oakridge. There are no trails, but we’ll probably walk about a mile up a...
Saturday, July 12, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Field Trip: Lookout Mountain Summit Area Leader: Jess Beauchemin Location: Motherlode Mine Trailhead, FS Road 42, Ochoco National Forest Be prepared for a 7.1-mile hike with 1,350’ of elevation gain. The hike crosses forests and meadows with plenty of opportunities to view native wildflowers. We'll walk at a moderate...