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Managing Milkweed Crop Pests: A Native Seed Industry Guide
Author: Project Milkweed Date: 2017 Project Milkweed is a collaboration with the Xerces Society, the native seed industry, and the USDA...

Kathryn Prive
Nov 13, 20191 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


Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
Author: The Xerces Society Date: unknown This bulletin will help you use cover crops to encourage populations of pollinators and...

Kathryn Prive
Nov 12, 20191 min read


Collecting and Using Your Own Wildflower Seed to Expand Pollinator Habitat on Farms
Author: The Xerces Society Date: 2016 Native wildflowers are the backbone of pollinator habitat on the farm. Field borders, filter...

Kathryn Prive
Nov 12, 20191 min read


November Native Plant of the Month: Rubber Rabbitbrush
RNPP has started writing a new Native Plant of the Month column for the Rogue Basin Partnership newsletter! You can find the full RBP...

Kathryn Prive
Nov 12, 20191 min read


RNPP Partner Meeting Notes 10-8-19
Rogue Native Plant Partnership Partner Meeting notes. Download (Word): RNPP Partner Meeting Notes 10-8-2019 (23KB) #meetingnotes...

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


October Native Plant of the Month: Vinegarweed
RNPP has started writing a new Native Plant of the Month column for the Rogue Basin Partnership newsletter! You can find the full RBP...

Kathryn Prive
Oct 11, 20191 min read


Upper Table Rock Seed Blitz and Yellow Starthistle Pulls
June 2017 – June 2019 For the third year in a row, volunteers with The Nature Conservancy and the Rogue Native Plant Partnership gathered...

Kathryn Prive
Oct 4, 20192 min read


Reducing Phytophthora
Authors: Parke, Jennifer (OSU) Date: 2010 Phytophthora species are some of the most problematic plant pathogens in nursery production...

Kathryn Prive
Oct 1, 20191 min read


Restoring huckleberry habitat as a cultural resource
On September 26th a large group of volunteers including Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians members, Forest Service and BLM...

Kathryn Prive
Sep 26, 20191 min read


Collecting milkweed seedpods for local pollinators and landowners
Ten Rogue Valley community members come together at the Forest Service’s J. Herbert Stone Nursery in Central Point to volunteer for a...

Kathryn Prive
Sep 9, 20191 min read


Restoring disturbed ground on Mt Ashland with native forbs
June 2nd, 2019 We had a fantastic day on Mt Ashland on June 1st, working with a group of volunteers to plant out 4,500 native plant plugs...

Kathryn Prive
Jun 2, 20191 min read


Growing plants for seed production at Long Shadow Fields
April 25, 2019 Long Shadow Fields in Talent is one of a handful of local farms working with the Rogue Native Plant Partnership to develop...

Kathryn Prive
Apr 25, 20192 min read


RNPP Partner Meeting Notes 3-26-2019
Rogue Native Plant Partnership Partner Meeting notes. Download (Word): RNPP Partner Meeting Notes 3-26-2019 (21KB) #meetingnotes...

Kathryn Prive
Apr 10, 20191 min read


RNPP Partner Meeting Presentations 03-26-19
Presentation slides from RNPP Partner Meeting, and slides from Scott Kolpak’s presentation on native plant genetics and seed zones....

Kathryn Prive
Apr 10, 20191 min read


Yellow Starthistle Management Guide
Details historical information, ecological impacts, biology and ecology, mechanical, cultural, chemical and biological control, and how...

Kathryn Prive
Mar 5, 20191 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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