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...
Saturday, July 12, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Field Trip: Cedar Butte Leader: Kira Taylor Location: Meet for Carpool in Banks Come along for a hike up Cedar Butte in the Tillamook State Forest. This is a steep and moderately difficult, though short, hike; gaining over 700 feet in three quarters of a mile. Moving at...
Monday July 14, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Special Event: Emerald Chapter’s Annual Picnic at Amazon Park Location: Grassy area in front of Amazon Community Center Join your botanical friends for a picnic! We will brainstorm presentations and field trips for next season and share information about great places to see wildflowers. Bring a potluck item...
Friday, July 18, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Field Trip: Mount Hood Meadows Chairlift Leader: Ron Klump Location: Mt Hood Meadows Ski Area This hike uses the Mount Hood Meadows chair lift to quickly gain the high mountain meadows for stunning displays of a wide variety of alpine flowers. From the chairlift, hike west and loop...
Saturday, July 19, 9:00 am - 11:30 am Field Trip: Ecosystem Challenges in Smith Rock State Park Leader: Sam Vanderbeek, Ranger, Oregon State Parks Location: Smith Rock State Park Welcome Center Sam manages the restoration efforts in Smith Rock State Park. He has ambitions to restore many areas of the park with their newest grant...
Saturday, July 19, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm Field Trip: Multorpor Fen, Government Camp Leader: Lecia Schall Location: Mt. Hood SkiBowl Join us to explore an amazing subalpine (elevation 4000 feet) wetland habitat near Government Camp. Expect an easy, mostly flat, mostly dry, two-mile walk in part sun and shade. We'll look for great sundew (Drosera...
Saturday, July 26, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm Field Trip: Siskiyou Plant Explorers Hike to Big Red Mountain Leader: Al Collinet Meeting Location: Rite Aid Pharmacy parking lot at 9:00 am, 2341 Ashland St., Ashland, OR The most spectacular displays of explorer’s gentian (Gentiana calycosa) will be found on this trail at this time. In addition, the...
Wednesday, July 30, 8:00 am - 2:00 pm Field Trip: haich ikt'at'uu, a tidal estuary restoration Leader: Nathan LeClear, McKenzie River Trust Join Emerald Chapter member Nathan LeClear of McKenzie River Trust on a tour of haich ikt'at'uu, a project that is returning a diked and drained pasture to a network of tidal channels, marsh,...