At the end of May, a GHCC volunteer and I travelled down the lower Imnaha River canyon to help a threatened plant species. The mission was to dig up invasive weeds near the unique plant known as Macfarlane’s four-o-clock. Macfarlane’s four-o-clock is an unusual plant. It only grows in Hells Canyon country, in the lower canyons of the Salmon, Snake and Imnaha Rivers. You will only find Macfarlane’s four-o-clock at an elevation near one to two thousand feet above sea level, an

How do you restore native plants and have fun at the same time? By playing in the mud, of course! At recent event to restore native plants in the Grande Ronde Valley, students from Oak Haven School created “seed balls” of native plants and then threw them out to sprout in the spring rains. The students were helping with an ongoing project to restore the native plant community at the edge of La Grande in Gangloff Park. The William Cusick Chapter of the Native Plant Society of