Our Partners

Rogue Native Plant Partnership

Works to facilitate diverse resilient ecosystems in tandem with a more robust native plant materials economy in the Rogue Basin by taking on many of the challenges in the native plant procurement process. We are glad to partner for community-empowering restoration programs.
 

Northwest Nature Shop

In the nearby town of Ashland, the owners of the Northwest Nature Shop have created a hub for community engagement. We are thankful for their support and partnership.

They “strive to inspire a love and curiosity for the natural world, foster a community that appreciates nature and thus works to protect our natural surroundings for future generations. The Northwest Nature Shop is an active contributor to our community by hosting educational events and supporting educational and environmental organizations.”

We thank the Nature Shop for co-hosting events and providing support for keeping our bird feeders stocked!

Rogue River Watershed Council

Works to restore instream and streamside habitat, improve water quality and encourage community members to become stewards of the Rogue River and its tributaries.  We are fortunate to have their support for restoration efforts, volunteer work, and their strong sense of community team-work.
 

Hawthorne INstitute

Much more than a herbalism group, they are leading the way to inspire and nurture a generation of Earth stewards and community leaders. Their bioregional focus frames their work of interlocking human and environmental well-being and strive to live this philosophy as a daily practice. 

Hawthorne Institute has adopted a plot at Vesper Meadow to tend for native medicinal plants, using traditional methods and monitor it with modern technology. We are excited to partner for 2019 education programs and look forward to deepening our work together in the years to come.

Trout Unlimited

At the forefront of fisheries restoration work at the local, state and national levels, they remain committed to applying "the very best information and thinking available" in its conservation work. We are thankful to have them as partners in water management planning efforts. 

White Oak Farm and Education Center

We are thankful for the support that White Oak brings to our meadow and pollinator habitat restoration efforts. They have created ecologically sound and economically viable center dedicated to teaching, cultivating an ecological agriculture and distributing its bounty, and preserving and propagating a wide diversity of edible, medicinal, and wildlife plants.

Southwest Oregon Pollinator Collaborative

Vesper Meadow is glad to participate as a member of this diverse alliance of government agencies, NGO’s, scientists, and other local groups that work together to increase regional technical assistance, education, and implementation funding for pollinator habitat improvement.

Pollinator ProjecT Rogue Valley

We are glad to partner with this local program for volunteer, education, and pollinator stewardship efforts.

Rogue Valley Mentoring

We are excited to support their fantastic programs connecting youth with mentors - one-to-one mentors and youth circle mentors with RVM work with Vesper Meadow to provide inspiration, hope, and skills for students looking to find their passion.

Native American Studies Department, Southern Oregon University

Beginning in the summer of 2020, we are working together with the NAS Department to launch the Indigenous Gardens Network. This Indigenous-led coalition in Southwest Oregon, is centering Tribes of record to initiate restoration and education collaborations with southwest Oregon land managers and Conservation non-profits.

Klamath Bird Observatory

Achieving bird conservation in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the ranges of migratory birds, KBO emphasizes high-caliber science and the role of birds as indicators. We are thankful for their partnership in monitoring programs, and informing restoration management planning. 
  

Healthy Traditions Program, Confederated Tribes of Siletz

Seeks to improve the health of Siletz Tribal Members through educational activities which promote the use of traditional foods through hunting, gathering, gardening, cooking, food preservation and protecting our natural resources. We are honored to partner with the Healthy Traditions program in 2019 for enriched, hands-on programs with Siletz youth.
 

Project Beaver

A coalition of optimistic, pragmatic professionals working to support a paradigm shift in how humans and beavers can live and work together. Through utilizing beaver-based solutions for restoration, they promote collaboration, understanding, and landscape resilience. We are excited to work with PB to plan and implement Low Tech Process-based Restoration strategies for creek restoration.

Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

The Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument promote the protection, restoration, and conservation of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management. As an educational organization that works on adjacent public lands, we are excited to partner for programming: community science and bioblitzes, educational talks, and hikes.

Southern Oregon University, Siskiyou Environmental Education Center (SEEC)

SEEC is dedicated to creating outstanding educators, offering outstanding Environmental Education (EE) youth programs for the region, and producing leaders in the EE field. We are glad to work together with these graduate students and provide research and other internship opportunities for them.

Southern Oregon Land Conservancy

Protecting and enhancing precious land in the Rogue River region to benefit our human and natural communities. SOLC also holds the conservation easement over the Vesper Meadow Restoration Preserve, to protect the conservation and community values of the land in perpetuity.

Signal Fire Arts

This Portland-based art and environmental group builds cultural value of the natural world by connecting artists to the remaining wild places. Their diverse projects foster resilience, creative energy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. They are strong advocates for land justice and the protection of threatened land and water. We are thrilled to continue collaboration, and for the all-indigenous “Pelican Pod” group visits to Vesper Meadow.

The Understory Initiative

We feel fortunate to operate as a program housed within TUI. Since our beginnings, we have been fortunate to work with the folks at TUI as they are increasing regional capacity for ecological restoration and in Southern Oregon and Northern California. We are excited to share work for some pollinator habitat enhancement projects throughout the Cascade-Siskiyou region.

EasyBees Company

Owner Travis Owen brings a wealth of pollinator knowledge and enthusiasm. We are happy to collaborate with him for pollinator habitat restoration, monitoring, and educational workshops.

Talent Outdoor Discovery Program

This alternative magnet program focuses on outdoor learning for K-8th grade students. We are looking forward to developing ongoing programming and curriculum with Talent ODP teachers.

Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District

We are fortunate to have the support and expertise of the JSWCD. They are a local leader in providing scientifically based technical assistance to landowners. JSWCD provides financial resources to both rural and urban landowners to assist in resource conservation, and also shares our values of serving the greater community through youth and adult education programs. They are supporting our riparian restoration work for enhanced wildlife habitat, water conservation, and native food plant cultivation on both Upper and Lower Vesper Meadows.

Local experts, artists, and scientists:

We would like to thank local individuals who have worked with us to inform research or education programs, and dedicated their time and local biocultural knowledge: Tom Doty (cultural storyteller), Joey Howard (Cascade Stream Solutions), Cam Patterson (cartographer), Jonathan Frank (mycologist), Jace Ives (cartographer), Linda Kappen (lepidopterist), Diane Keller (biologist), Mary Kwart (land and fire managment), Jeff LaLande (archeologist), Kristi Mergenthaler (botanist), Justin Rhode (archeologist), Wayne Rolle (botanist), Robert Strahan (ecologist), Charisse Sydoriak (land management planning), John Villella (biologist), Greg Walter (historian, map collector), Nils Nelson (biologist), Lance Wyss (restoration ecologist), Norman Barrett (biologist), Jim Livaudais (biologist), Charles Schelz (Ecologist), Chris Jordan (Research Biologist)