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Last Updated: August 15, 2008
Chapter's Annual Picnic + Field Trip is August 16
Check the Online Events Calendar for complete details
Monthly Meetings & Public presentations
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 planned. The public is always welcome at our monthly meetings. |
Umpqua Valley Chapter Projects
Native Plant sale
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Our Annual Native Plant Sale is usually held in May of each year, so as to have as many plants in beginning bloom for buyers as possible. These plants are nursery grown; not taken from native locations. We also have bumper stickers ,T- shirts and lovely , limited edition, greeting cards illustrated by our talented and plant savvy member, Dorothy Schattenkerk, for sale, so that you may help the Native Plant Society's good work as well as take home something of value in return.
The Public is warmly invited and encouraged to attend our Annual Plant Sale. We will be hoping to see all of you again next year and as well as talk native plants and answer your "how to" questions".
New 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, locations, persons and events in the muli folder gallery.
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.
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 | Ron Hatt | Phone: 541-863-7024 email: hattr@citlink.net |
| Secretary | Neal Hadley | Phone: 541-679-8889 email: enhadley@mcsi.net |
| Webmaster | Eric Neyerlin | Phone: 541-679-0791 email: burney2624@charter.net |