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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Kerbyville
Museum
open for
the season
New ‘Oregon Plant Atlas’ available on Web
ILLINOIS VALLEY HISTORY abounds at Kerbyville Museum in Downtown Kerby.
There are reminders of early day living in and around the valley, Josephine County
and elsewhere. The museum is open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Satur-
days from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sundays from noon to 3 p.m. It is closed Thursdays
and Fridays. Admission is $5 for adults, $1 for children ages 6-12, and free for chil-
dren 5 and younger. There is a $1 discount for seasoned citizens. (Clockwise from
top left) Kimberly Rodriguez, 9, views an old telephone switchboard; displays in-
clude a girls pioneer dress and a 1940s raccoon coat; volunteer Joe Landry uses an
antique slot machine that he rebuilt; and Sandy Hare, a museum board member with
a new display of military items. There is a major need for volunteers at the museum.
A new “Oregon Plant
Atlas” is available on the
Web, the result of years of
work and a grass-roots effort
by hundreds of volunteers
and botanical professionals.
It may benefit everyone
from land-use planners to
scientists, home gardeners
or lovers of wildflowers,
said Oregon State Univer-
sity (OSU) at Corvallis.
The atlas is being re-
leased by the Oregon Flora
Project, based in the Dept.
of Botany and Plant Pathol-
ogy at OSU.
The Oregon Flora Pro-
ject is an ambitious initiative
to study, catalog and make
available information on
literally every vascular plant
in the state -- each of the
4,516 species, subspecies
and varieties of flowers,
grasses, ferns, trees and
other plans that grow in the
wild. The challenge is huge,
because the ocean dunes,
forests, valleys, mountains
and high desert of Oregon
make it one of the most bo-
tanically diverse states in the
nation, said OSU.
A flora guide of Oregon
was done more than four
decades ago and is badly out
of date, OSU said.
The new atlas was one
of the key goals of the flora
project, along with produc-
tion of the actual flora -- or
reference manual for identi-
fying plants -- and a plant
checklist and photo gallery.
The atlas is on the Web
at oregonflora.org.
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