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Event Series Event Series: First Fridays

First Friday: Lichens of the Willamette Valley

February 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

a graphic for the February 2025 First Friday with a tree trunk covered in lichens In this talk,  BLM botanist Charity Glade will introduce us to the often overlooked world of lichens living right here in the Willamette Valley.

Charity  is a District Botanist for NW Oregon district working out of the Salem office, where she is the Invasive Species coordinator, ACEC coordinator, Title II coordinator, and co-lead for the Special Status Plants program. She graduated from OSU in 2010 with a degree in botany and has been working in that field ever since. Charity was a botanical survey subcontractor for seven years, during which she also became a certified Northwest Lichenologist and served two terms as a NW Lichenologist board member. During her last two years as a contractor she also worked as a seasonal at the NW Oregon District. Charity was hired as a permanent federal employee first by the Willamette National Forest followed by the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie NF before finding her way back to NW Oregon District as program lead.

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February 7
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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