The Southern Oregon Land Conservancy (SOLC) is excited to announce a community science initiative where volunteers can band together to observe and record the immense diversity of winged creatures in our region while building community.
Consider lending a hand for our beautiful wildlife at the Harry & Marilyn Fisher Preserve at Pompadour Bluff! Our wonderful team of volunteers will be pulling starthistle.
Join us for a stewardship stroll through the iconic meadow and help remove cattle fencing to make it a safer place for wildlife.
Join us for a morning of pulling invasive yellow starthistle at Pompadour Bluff to make room for native flowers and bunchgrasses.
Help us care for this special 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our work party.
Help us care for this special 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our spring work party.
Join us for our 44th Annual All Member Picnic. We’re thrilled to celebrate our many years of success with you.
Help us care for this special 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our spring work party.
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day serving our community and stewarding the land at Oredson-Todd Woods!
Help us care for this special 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our fall work party.
Help us care for this special 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our spring work party.
Help us care for this stunning 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our spring work party.
Help us care for this stunning 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our winter work party.
Join us in Central Point November 14 for a day of planting, stewardship, and community.
Help us care for this stunning 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our Halloween work party.
Please consider joining us on our next scheduled stewardship day on June 13.
Volunteers enjoying a break along the Rogue River after generously helping remove invasive Scotch broom.
Help us care for this extraordinary property along the Rogue River. We need volunteers to pull invasive Scotch broom with weed wrenches to make room for native oaks, grasses, and wildflowers.
We’ll provide tools and gloves. Please feel free to bring your favorite gloves if you have some. We’ll also bring some snacks and drinks for sharing.
Sign-up to receive directions, any updates and an email reminder.
Contact Teresa Fernandez if you have any questions or need help registering at 541.482.3069 ext 107 or teresa@landconserve.org.
Help us care for this stunning 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our winter work party.
Join Rogue Native Plant Partnership and Southern Oregon Land Conservancy for a seed collection volunteer work party at Rogue River Preserve outside of Eagle Point.
Help us care for this stunning 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our winter work party.
Help us care for this stunning 352-acre Rogue River Preserve by joining us for our fall work party.
Come spend a morning in the beautiful hills of Jacksonville and help with a "de-vine intervention" in the conserved Jacksonville Woodlands where we will remove invasive English ivy from the forest.
CANCELED: Support healthy wildlife habitat, join us for a stewardship day along Williams Creek!
Help protect the biodiversity of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on a privately protected property by removing invasive yellow starthistle along Pilot Rock Road during this volunteer work party.
Come spend a morning in the beautiful hills of Jacksonville and help with a "de-vine intervention" in the Jacksonville Woodlands where we will remove invasive English ivy from the forest.
Help protect the biodiversity of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on a privately protected property by removing yellow starthistle along Pilot Rock Road.
Kick off the new year with a blissful visit to the incredible Rogue River Preserve! The Rogue River Preserve includes two miles of riverfront along the Rogue River, a large floodplain forest, and oak woodlands with meadows. It is only open to the public during special events, work parties, and youth education programs. So, come and take advantage of this special opportunity and explore the trails at your own pace, attend a guided hike, bring a picnic lunch or thermos of tea to enjoy by the river, or all three.
To limit crowding on the trails, registration is free and required for hikes or self-guided exploration for the day. Guided hike participants are welcome to explore the property before or after their hike slot. Check out what we’ve got going on!
Nature Talks on YouTube
Enjoy recordings of our past Nature Talks. Each event has multiple presenters. From our local national trails, to new SOLC conserved lands, to special species, to tracking animals in the snow - you’ll gain knowledge to impress all your friends.
Sticky tofieldia or western false-asphodel, Triantha occidentalis
You are not in this for recognition or stardom, you just need to supplement your diet of eating sunlight and gathering nutrients because the soils on Eight Dollar Mountain are a bit like human junk food, low in plant nutrients and high in toxic metals. Everyone needs to eat, yet you are sessile and embedded in soggy wetland soils. For eons, you have been digesting bugs, but only in 2021, did human scientists discover your clever ways. Sticky flower stems do the trick, very sticky bug-trapping stems. Tiny hairs on your stem release phosphatase, an enzyme, allowing you to digest very small protein and phosphorus-rich snacks like fruit flies while avoiding eating your larger pollinator buddies who are stronger and can avoid getting stuck.
Finally, after a century of fire suppression, finally, a healing 32-acre managed grassland burn returned to the Rogue River Preserve on October 18, 2025. But it took some perseverance to make it happen. We are tremendously grateful for the professional crew from Grayback Forestry Inc. who conducted the burn and for all the preserve’s neighbors who provided input.
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84 Fourth Street (office)
PO Box 954
Ashland, OR 97520
info@landconserve.org
541.482.3069
