Welcome to the Rogue Native Plant Partnership Member Directory
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Non-profit Organizations • Private Businesses • Growers • Federal Government Agencies • State and Tribal Government Agencies • Educational Institutions
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Garlic “seed”is the main product of Afternoon Zephyr Farm here in the Rogue River Valley of Southern Oregon. We raise the garlic for “seed”or planting purposes in small quantities, mainly for gardeners. Raising garlic in quantity is very labor intensive requiring careful handwork at several stages to produce a good product.
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Role: To promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity.
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Althouse Nursery prides itself on growing quality one and two year old native tree and shrub seedlings that are ideal for out-planting, lining-out stock, watershed restoration projects or for upgrading into larger containers for the wholesale or retail nursery market.
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Role: To promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity., Provide native trees and shrubs to landowners
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The Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council is a community-based non-profit organization whose mission is “to promote ecosystem health across the Applegate watershed through stewardship, education and restoration carried out in partnership with landowners, agencies and other interested parties while contributing to local economic and community well-being.”
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Cooperate with the RNPP to produce and distribute plant materials.
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Thinking globally and acting locally, Bee City USA provides a framework for communities to come together to conserve native pollinators by providing them with healthy habitat that is rich in a variety of native plants, provides nest sites, and is protected from pesticides. The City of Medford earned Bee City USA designation on April 4, 2019 when the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2019-23 consenting to the requirements of being a Bee City.
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Tribal organization, education about the importance of native plant biodiversity, maintain our connection to the land and our responsibility to care for the land, food security.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
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Located in southwestern Oregon and extending into California, the Forest ranges from the crest of the Cascades Mountains, west into the Siskiyou Mountains, and nearly to the Pacific Ocean. The Forest covers almost 1.8 million acres; portions of the Applegate and Illinois River drainage’s extend into northern California. The Rogue River drains over 75 percent of the Forest’s land area.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity.
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Friends of the CSNM supports protection, restoration and conservation of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument through service, advocacy and education.
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Friends of Wagner Creek is a volunteer organization dedicated to promoting clean water and a healthy riparian zone for Wagner Creek in Talent, Oregon. We hold regular volunteer events to plant native plants and remove invasives, clean up the creek and educate the public about the value of functioning ecosystems in our urban areas.
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Hobby nursery transition to small commercial nursery.
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Local leader in efforts to conserve, restore, and enhance natural resources for the environmental and social benefit of the Illinois Valley.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Plant sale partnership and supporting other events in the Illinois Valley
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Producer of Native Plant Materials for governmental agencies in the Pacific Northwest.
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Role: To allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity.
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Provide landowners with technical assistance, project planning, education, and financial assistance to conserve natural resources in Jackson County.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District.
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Creating habitat for pollinators, especially monarch butterflies
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Lomakatsi provides expertise and capacity in project development, planning, management, fine-scale ecological treatment design, monitoring, and implementation for ecosystem restoration projects. We integrate restoration practice with science delivery, education and workforce training. Lomakatsi coordinates closely with multiple funding partners and manages a diverse workforce in complex social settings supported by critical community outreach.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands we manage. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands we manage.
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Long Shadow Fields is a 4-acre seed and flower farm in Talent with horse pasture and gardens.
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Role: To promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity., Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands you manage.
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The Medford Water Commission operates and maintains the water system that delivers high-quality drinking water to around 136,000 Rogue Valley residents. The Commission is an autonomous agency of the City of Medford, Oregon, established through a change in the city charter on Nov. 7, 1922. The utility is governed by the Board of Water Commissioners. The board appoints the General Manager, who is authorized to direct the operations of the utility.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Medford Water Commission. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Medford Water Commission.
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The Native American Student Union (NASU) at Southern Oregon University is a student organization that strives to serve the student body in many ways. NASU works to provide social and educational support to Native American students, to raise awareness of contemporary Native American cultures and issues, and to sponsor educational and cultural programs for the campus and wider community. NASU is open to all SOU students.
As member organization, NASU promotes and utilizes RNPP resources and is regularly involved with RNPP volunteer events.
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The Siskiyou Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Oregon, based in Southwest Oregon, promotes native plant education and advocates for native plant communities and rare and endemic plants.
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The mission of the Parks and Recreation Department is to provide and protect outstanding natural, scenic, cultural, historic and recreational sites for the enjoyment and education of present and future generations.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department.
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This award winning, eleven week training helps rural landowners learn how to better utilize and take care of their land through weekly field visits, presentations from natural resource professionals, and the creation of a personalized management plan. The multi-disciplinary course provides training on topics such as wildfire risk reduction, woodland and forest management, encouraging (and controlling) wildlife, stream ecology, pasture management, soils and organic waste, small acreage systems and infrastructure, economics and enterprise on your land, stewardship planning and much more.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Oregon State University SOREC Land Stewards. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Oregon State University SOREC Land Stewards.
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The Oregon State University Master Gardener™ Program is an Oregon State University (OSU) Extension Service program that educates Oregonians about the art and science of growing and caring for plants. This program also facilitates the training of a highly educated corps of volunteers. These volunteers extend sustainable gardening information to their communities through education and outreach programs.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Oregon State University Master Gardener Program, Jackson County. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Oregon State University Master Gardener Program.
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Role: To allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands you manage., Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity., Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands you manage.
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We inspire, connect, and educate people and communities to create and support pesticide-free pollinator habitats full of native plants, providing pollinator corridors between private properties, public spaces, wetlands, and wildlands throughout the Rogue Valley and beyond.
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Cultivating bio-regionally adapted seed and perennial stock of native and rare food plants. Whole system restoration from ridgeline to riparian.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands
managed by Ridgeline Meadows Farm. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by Ridgeline Meadows Farm.
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Rogue Basin Partnership (RBP) aims to empower integrated landscape-scale restoration across the ecologically unique 3.3 million acre Rogue River Basin.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Serve as a fiscal Agent.
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To allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands you manage.
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The Selberg Institute was founded in January 2015 in honor of Charles A. Selberg, a great teacher, mentor, artist, fencing master, and environmentalist.
Our mission is to help conserve the unique ecosystems of the greater Cascade-Siskiyou landscape for the benefit of all, through land stewardship, advocacy, education, and scientific research. To fulfill those objectives, we will independently initiate, as well as support ongoing efforts in, scientific research, public awareness, community engagement, land acquisition and stewardship. We do this in order to promote and restore the extraordinarily diverse, yet sensitive, and increasingly threatened, ecosystems within the greater Klamath-Siskiyou and Southern Cascade Region.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Selberg Institute. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Selberg Institute at the Sampson Creek Preserve Facility.
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A wholesale propagation nursery producing plugs of native species, we specialize in liner production of Mahonia as well as Arctostaphylos and Gaultheria species. Full line of container-grown native species for restoration projects including riparian and pollinator habitat enhancement.
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Role: To promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity.
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Our farm models sustainable agriculture by integrating small livestock, alpacas, into production of food, fiber and medicine.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity.
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Siskiyou BioSurvey’s mission is to provide sound ecological and botanical expertise to support the conservation and restoration of natural resources, important habitats, and rare species.
Since 1988, Siskiyou BioSurvey staff has provided a variety of ecological consulting services to government agencies, municipalities, industry, and landowners. We bring a deep understanding of ecological systems and a wealth of experience to every job we do.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Partner in native seed collecting activities, landscape restoration design and implementation.
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Our work is complex, but our mission is simple: to protect and enhance precious land in the Rogue River region to benefit our human and natural communities.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands we manage. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands we manage.
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SOSGA is a nonprofit association of Southern Oregon seed growers, and interested farmers and home gardeners.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Southern Oregon Seed Growers Association.
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The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is situated at the crossroads of the Cascade, Klamath, and Siskiyou mountain ranges, and represents an outstanding ecological wonderland. This convergence of three geologically distinct mountain ranges has resulted in an area with unparalleled biological diversity and a tremendously varied landscape. The Monument was established in 2000 in recognition of its remarkable ecology and to protect its diverse range of biological, geological, aquatic, archeological, and historic resources.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
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The mission of The Freshwater Trust is to preserve and restore freshwater ecosystems.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Cooperate with RNPP to produce and distribute plant materials.
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The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends, and for nearly 60 years, we’ve been working in Oregon to do just that. We’re bringing people together to solve the biggest conservation challenges of our time by transforming policy, inspiring communities to take action, protecting vital habitats and natural resources and improving livelihoods.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by The Nature Conservancy in Oregon. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by The Nature Conservancy in Oregon.
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The Understory Initiative aims to build a collaborative native seed farm while facilitating partnerships for the planning and implementation of restoration actions in herbaceous plant communities.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Provide capacity building and grant-writing services.
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Tikkun Olam Farm Sanctuary exists to create a healing community based on compassion toward humans, animals, and the earth itself. Our mission is nothing short of repairing the world.
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Role: To allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands you manage., Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity., Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands you manage., Propigate and research pollinator and riparian restoration species
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Working with you to conserve the natural resources of Oregon.
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Role: Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Serve on steering committee. Provide funding case-by-case and permitted as necessary through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program.
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Inspiring a culture of land stewardship and nature connection. We are strengthening local networks through community engagement in science, restoration, wild food cultivation, and nature-inspired art.
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Role: Allow for seed/plant collection case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by Vesper Meadow Restoration and Education. Promote and utilize RNPP resources and serve in an advisory capacity. Host RNPP events case-by-case and permitted as necessary on lands managed by Vesper Meadow Restoration and Education.