During each year's Giving Season, we like to highlight some of our staff and volunteers, the amazing people who give all year long to help us do what we do. This year, we enjoyed getting to know Randy, Alisa, Kara, Ethan, and Kenda! If you didn't already read about them in our November and December The Pollinator Times e-newsletters, here's your chance to get to know them, too! PPRV is honored to have many volunteers who help Plant H.O.P.E. - including this amazing fellow...

by Matt Swanson, PPRV Intern, & Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator Pollinator Pals enjoyed an amazing 2025! This year for the first time, we made a StoryMap to highlight some of the amazing ways we were able to work with the community this year! Thanks to Matt Swanson for his good work in putting this together! Click and scroll to enjoy all the stories from the year! Read Pollinator Pals End of Year Report here . We are looking forward to more great things i

Ethan and Pollinator Pals Community Educator Eduardo Tovar by Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator Wow! This past summer has undoubtedly been the best, busiest, and most successful season in Pollinator Pals history! In our efforts to bring native plant and pollinator ecology education to Southern Oregon, we are developing a robust and effective program that somehow keeps up with the demand for fun and engaging lessons. Thanks to our staff, volunteers, communi

By Dianne Keller Lilac-bordered Copper on Oregon Sunshine ( Eriophyllum lanatum ), Rob Santry, July 16, 2020. The many butterflies in...

by Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator In 2024, just before the soil began to freeze, Pollinator Project Rogue Valley...

by Dianne Keller Hydaspe Fritillary (Speyeria hydaspe), Rob Santry, July 3, 2021 Alarming research published this spring in Science...

by Dianne Keller Mark’s rustic residence on the east slope of Mt. Ashland with his pollinator garden in the foreground.  Mark Newberger,...