Supporting the Launch of a Southwest Oregon-wide Rare Plant Monitoring Network

Our parent organization, The Understory Initiative, is launching a southwest Oregon-wide Rare Plant Monitoring Network. This program will be people-powered (aka community science) and help address the need to track rare and imperiled plant species across Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Lands.

The Rare Plant Monitoring Network of Southwest Oregon is a community science effort to find, monitor, and conserve rare plants throughout southwest Oregon. We collaborate with the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to identify plants of concern, then partner with community volunteers to visit and monitor historic plant populations.

Volunteer

To become a volunteer to help find and conserve these important, yet understudied plants, sign up on The Understory Initiative’s website.

Listen to more about the Rare Plant Monitoring Network

Check out this interview with TUI Ecologist Sean Prive on the Jefferson Exchange to hear more about it!