We’re teaming up with the Native Plant Society of Oregon, Siskiyou Chapter for a meadow tour and willow planting work party! All are welcome to tour the creek restoration area, now 6 years in the making! We will plant willows along headwater creeks of the Rogue River using restoration techniques to restore the creek channel.

Spend the afternoon with Artist-in-Partnership Gabriel Barrera at the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve. Participants will be the first to learn more about Gabriel’s upcoming art installation at the meadow, to be created with old cattle fencing and other found materials from onsite. We’ll take a walk through the meadow and participate help jumpstart the art process for this sculpture with some land stewardship.

We’re offering a two-part curriculum workshop for educators! Newly released June 2023, the Fire Ecology and the Human Relationship is an Oregon-centric 4th - 10th grade curriculum that helps teachers and students explore fire and its connections with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, biodiversity, land-use history, climate change, and social impacts. In this two-part workshop teachers will gain foundational understandings of fire ecology in Oregon, Indigenous use of fire, and discuss current social-cultural impacts. Participants will receive a complimentary spiral-bound copy of the curriculum, will hear perspectives from an Indigenous Cultural Fire Practitioner, a Fire Scientist, and get a sneak peak at a few of the lessons.

Join Vesper Meadow and Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument to ‘behave like beavers’ as we tour along the creek to see and tend to the 2022-2023 beaver-based restoration structures. Depending on the weather we will do a combination of creating Postless log strutures, riparian planting, in-stream willow stake planting.

Enjoy a Fall afternoon up in the Meadow with fellow community-land stewards as we tend to Native Plant garden areas. We'll be seeding native plant seeds into areas that were tarped to remove invasive grasses

Join Vesper Meadow and Project Beaver to ‘behave like beavers’ and implement our biggest single push for Latgawa Creek and Spencer Creek restoration yet. Five of much research, monitoring, and preparation - and we believe it will be a huge turning point for restoring the hydrologic system, wildlife habitat, and the native plant ecosystem.

Join Vesper Meadow and Project Beaver to ‘behave like beavers’ and implement our biggest single push for Latgawa Creek and Spencer Creek restoration yet. Five of much research, monitoring, and preparation - and we believe it will be a huge turning point for restoring the hydrologic system, wildlife habitat, and the native plant ecosystem.

Join us for an exclusive guided membership hike through the tranquil beauty of the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve during the golden hour. We will tour of the last 5 years of restoration work and updates on our current community partnerships. Returning and new members are welcome!

Join friends from Vesper Meadow, Rogue Valley Audubon, the Siskiyou Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Oregon and the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy! We’ll start with a tour of the restoration demonstration sites in the meadow and creek, and then folks will have a chance to participate in creek restoration by creating beaver-based restoration structures and planting willow stakes. Afterwards, we’ll treat ourselves to a celebratory potluck - bring a dish to pass and your own bowl and utensils.

Take a field trip out of the studio - learn about forest ecology in our area and connect with other artists. Join us for a group painting and sketching experience in the clear cut restoration area of Vesper meadow. Jeanine Moy will lead a guided hike and talk about current forest management practices and explain the VM restoration plan. The group will paint and sketch independently for a couple of hours and then gather at the barn to eat lunch and share work and experiences. 

Join this collaborative day with the Vesper Meadow team, the Medford Public Lands Store, Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, and Project Beaver for a morning of service to the lands we love. We’ll spend the morning doing volunteer activities like making beaver-based restoration structures in the creek, harvesting willow for planting, and taking down old fencing. Then we’ll celebrate with food, music, and drinks courtesy of the Public Lands Store!

Enjoy a day of restoration at Vesper Meadow where we will both tend to the physical landscape and also tend to the inner landscape of our mind.

Get to know the forest and its floodplain connections, then give back to the land in a big way! We are excited to share more about our Low Tech Process-based Restoration efforts, and to have you participate in the restoration history of this place. Join us for some meadow walking, fun with other land stewards, and connection to a special landscape.

When we heal the land, we heal ourselves. Join Stasie Maxwell for a day of restoration for self and for the land.

Healing Landscapes Program. Join us for some Yoga in the meadow + Restoration in the creek!

Walk, Weed, and Seed events is back for a fourth year! Join us for another plant-stewardship walk, enjoying the intersection of recreation and restoration. Collect seeds that will serve both pollinators and our efforts in partnership with the Indigenous Gardens Network, a Tribally-led partnership. You will help to restore areas that also serve as demonstration plots for educational events with youth and adult land stewards.

Walk with us at the scenic Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve, weed, and collect seeds that will serve efforts with the Indigenous Gardens Network, a Tribally-led partnership. You will help to restore areas that also serve as demonstration plots for educational events with youth and adult land stewards.

Come beat the heat of the valley with us! We’ll be doing a “walk and lop” which will be a slow hike through the meadow at dusk, discussing our riparian creek restoration along the way, and loping branching for future post-assisted log structures in Latgawa Creek and Spencer Creek.

Join us for a beginner’s crash course in Low Tech Process Based Restoration at Latgawa Creek and learn to ‘behave like beavers.’ We will go over fundamentals of LTPBR, survey existing restoration structures, assess locations and design for future restoration structures, and complete one Post-assisted Log structure. Participants will receive information ahead of the workshop including some examples of our planning, mapping, and monitoring.

Join Vesper Meadow and Klamath Bird Observatory board member Stacy Tauber and Vesper Meadow Program Director Jeanine Moy to witness and support research efforts for the imperiled Oregon Vesper Sparrow at the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve. Estimated to be down to 2,000-3,000 individuals, and declining by 5% per year, it is one of North America's most imperiled birds.  

Calling all the habitat-hero’s out there! We’ll be removing Star Thistle from the scenic and seldom-visited Upper Meadow, join us for a day of healing the land.

We’ll be taking a stroll, collecting seeds for pollinator habitat restoration and removing Star Thistle from the Upper Meadow, join us for a day of healing the land.

Join Jeanine Moy to witness the beauty of butterflies, learn about their native nectaring plants and engage in stewardship practices to restore their habitat. We’ll learn to ID local butterflies, collect seed from native plants that serve as nectar hosts for butterflies, and pull star thistle, join us for a day of healing the land.

Join Rogue Native Plant Partnership Co-Coordinator Tuula Rebhahn for a wildflower hike & restoration work day at Vesper Meadow!

We’ll spend the day botanizing in the meadow during the peak of wildflower season, then give back to the land by collecting native seed for revegetation projects and removing weeds in native planting areas.

Join the staff of the Vesper Meadows Education Program and the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy on a  stewardship stroll through the iconic meadow and give back to the land with a work party. Help remove old cattle fencing from the property to help make it a safer place for elk, bobcat, and other wildlife found throughout the area. 

Join the Vesper Meadow crew for the third Wednesday of every month from Spring to Fall, for Work Outside Wednesdays (WOW!).

Celebrate early summer with our first-ever concert! Take a personalized guided tour of restoration areas, enjoy complimentary dinner and drink, soak in the scenery, and listen (or dance!) to some sweet tunes. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and we’ll provide the rest.

Get to know the most imperiled meadow butterfly of the Cascade-Siskiyou…we’re working on a multi-pronged conservation effort for the Klamath Mardon Skipper. You can support monitoring for the Mardon skipper during the few weeks that they fly in the spring, and check on their beautiful meadow habitat remains safe throughout the summer.

Join us for Spring cleaning in the Meadow!

We will be taking a walk out to Latgawa Creek and preparing forest materials to support beaver-based restoration in the creek.

Calling all artists! Come celebrate early spring wildflowers at the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve and become inspired by the sweeping spring views.