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Roadside Habitat for Monarchs: Monarch Butterflies, Weeds, and Herbicides
Author: Xerces Society Date: 2019 Monarch butterflies are in decline in North America, and restoring monarch habitat, including...
Kathryn Prive
Jan 13, 20201 min read
Organic Pesticides: Minimizing Risks to Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
Author:Â Xerces Society Date: 2018 Organic agriculture generally supports higher biodiversity than conventional management, and organic...
Kathryn Prive
Jan 13, 20201 min read
Organic Site Preparation for Wildflower Establishment
Author: Xerces Society Site preparation is one of the most important and often inadequately addressed components for successfully...
Kathryn Prive
Jan 13, 20201 min read
Native Thistles: A Conservation Practitioner’s Guide
Author: The Xerces Society Date: 2016 Native thistles are a largely misunderstood and wrongly maligned group of wildflowers. These...
Kathryn Prive
Nov 12, 20191 min read
Establishing Pollinator Meadows From Seed
Author: The Xerces Society Date: 2015 To boost healthy populations of both wild resident bees and managed pollinators, the single most...
Kathryn Prive
Nov 7, 20191 min read
Farming For Bees: Guidelines for Providing Native Bee Habitat on Farms
Author: The Xerces Society Date: 2015 The purpose of these guidelines is to provide information about native bees and their habitat...
Kathryn Prive
Nov 7, 20191 min read
Why Grow And Sell Native Milkweed?
Author: Monarch Joint Venture Date: unknown Milkweed plants (family Asclepiadaceae) are the only food source for monarch butterfly...
Kathryn Prive
Nov 7, 20191 min read
A Guide to the Native Milkweeds of Oregon
Author: The Xerces Society Date: 2012 Five species of milkweed are native to Oregon. This guide includes profiles of the four most common...
Kathryn Prive
Nov 7, 20191 min read
Salvaging Plants for Propagation and Revegetation
Author: Buis, S. Salvaging native plants is the act of rescuing plants from a construction or disturbance site before they are destroyed....
Kathryn Prive
Feb 7, 20191 min read
Native Plant Propagation and Restoration Strategies
Author: Haase, D. and Rose, R. (OSU) Date: 2001 Abstract: Propagation and planting of native plants for habitat restoration is a...
Kathryn Prive
Dec 27, 20181 min read
Milkweeds: a Conservation Practitioner’s Guide
Author: The Xerces Society Date: 2014 The information in Milkweeds: A Conservation Practitioner’s Guide is gathered from interviews with...
Kathryn Prive
Dec 27, 20181 min read
Native Seeds in Restoration: Garlic Mustard Part 3 - Monitoring Results & Discussion
This is the third in a series of blog posts describing an RNPP research project that took place 2022-2024. To recap, the goal of this...
Native Seeds in Restoration: Garlic Mustard Treatment Part 2 – Seed Mix & Site Prep
In fall of 2022 RNPP measured out a couple of vegetable-garden sized squares of bare earth along the Rogue River and initiated the trial...
Local Sources for Native Plants – 2023 edition
Author: Rogue Native Plant Partnership Date: April 2023 This document is intended as a guide for landowners, gardeners, and anyone...
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