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Last Updated: February 25, 2010
Monthly Meetings & Public presentations
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Chapter's Next Monthly Meeting & Presentation: Thursday, March 11, 2010 Our monthly meetings usually include a topical presentation
or photo slide show, often put on by a working field botanist or
knowledgeable local native plant expert. Check our Online
Events
Calendar for full details on upcoming monthly meeting
presentations and other planned events and field trips. |
Chapter's Annual Native Plant Sale will be in May 2010
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Celebrate Native Plant Appreciation Week with us as we hold our annual native plant sale. Every year we try to expand our list of easy to grow native plants. Our event is the same day as the Master Gardener plant sale usually the first Saturday in May. Be sure to stop by to see us and talk natives. Free landscaping advice and informational handouts will be available. Whether you are just looking to add a few things to your landscape or planning a larger project for restoration, we can help. Bring a friend and let us introduce them to the fun of growing native plants.
Proceeds from the sale help support the Douglas County Museum of Natural and Cultural History as well as the Oregon Flora Project.
The Public is warmly invited and encouraged to attend our Annual Plant Sale. Members of the Umpqua Valley Chapter will be looking forward to seeing all of you again as well as talk native plants and answer your "how to" questions". Thank you for making our previous sales so successful.
Directions: To get to the plant sale location take I-5 Exit 123 and follow the signs to the Douglas County Museum of Natural and Cultural History . You can't miss us! A Google active map to the the location will also be published along with other relevant information in next April's Events Calender preceeding the Native Plant Sale date.
For more information call Donna Rawson 541-459-2821
Online Photo Gallery
The chapter has begun working on an online Photo Gallery project with goals of creating photo and data based plants lists of the Umpqua Valley region and Douglas county, event and field trip and chapter event coverage, notable annual plant shows, such as the 2008 Glide Wild Flower Show, and showcasing our chapter member's best work.
Currently, we have one Flash based Photo Gallery online demonstrating one direction we are taking. This Flash based photo gallery requires the latest version of Adobe's Free Flash Player be installed on a user's computer in order to access and use all it's Search, Commenting, eCard, RSS and MP3 player advanced features. The Search Tool is especially useful. Be sure to click on the Search Tool icon that looks like a "magnify glass" in the Photo Gallery's ToolBar to try out it's several unique features. Used properly, it will round up and display all keyword related photos found anywhere within the multi-folder Photo Gallery, that have been "keyworded" or "tagged" with latin and common names of plants, field trip locations, person's names and events in the multi-folder gallery. You can even search for the actual digital photo file names if you know one that you are looking for. Very useful!
An alternate, simpler, faster loading, HTML based, photo gallery is planned for the future to make the best of our photo archives more accessible to plant lovers with slower dial-up or wireless mobile device internet connections.
Umpqua Valley Chapter Reaches Out
The Umpqua Valley
Chapter of NPSO recently connected with several other local groups.
These new connections will help us share the wonders of Oregon's native
plants. Read
article
Letter to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission) with comments on the PCGP (Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline)
DEIS (draft Environmental Impact Statement).
Our current struggle to
save the population of Calochortus coxii (CACO) on Bilger Ridge in the
Myrtle Creek area that the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline (PCGP)
proposes to build their LNG pipeline through involves sending comments
on the incomplete DEIS to FERC addressing concerns about the impact to
the C. coxii.Read
DEIS Letter
Demonstration garden at Veteran's Hospital in Roseburg
Planting began fall 2006. We hope it will help the public see native plants growing beautifully. This garden demonstrates the low care requirements of native plants due to their easy adaptation to this location.
Slide scanning and classification
35mm slides donated to the public domain need scanning into digital format for preservation. Once in digital form they can be identified and entered into a database. The database will then be made available for educational presentations and research.
Chapter Contacts
| President | Donna Rawson |
Phone: 541-459-2821 email: uv_president@NPSOregon.org |
| Vice President | (vacant) |
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| Secretary | Neal Hadley |
Phone: 541-679-8889 email: enhadley@mcsi.net |
| Treasurer | M.A. Hansen | Phone: 541-863-7999
email: mah444@aol.com |
| Webmaster | Eric Neyerlin |
Phone: 541-679-0791 email: burney2624@charter.net |