Local author and Hoyt Arboretum neighbor Phyllis Reynolds will be interviewing Hoyt Arboretum’s staff over the coming weeks to introduce you to the people who make up Hoyt Arboretum’s team. This week, we’d like to introduce you to Kyoko Donaldson Palacio, Visitor Services Coordinator at Hoyt Arboretum Friends since 2017. Kyoko has a long name: … Read more
In a previous blog post we discussed the use of common names for plants at the Arboretum and how they are totally fine and appropriate to use, as long as they are not xenophobic or derogatory. However, for staff at Hoyt Arboretum and others who work with hundreds of different plant species from around the … Read more
Local author and Hoyt Arboretum neighbor Phyllis Reynolds will be interviewing Hoyt Arboretum’s staff over the coming weeks to introduce you to the people who make up Hoyt Arboretum’s team. This week, we’d like to introduce you to Anna Goldrich, Executive Director at Hoyt Arboretum Friends since 2017. A native of Eugene, Oregon, Anna spent … Read more
The Nature Equity Educator position was created to help Hoyt Arboretum provide more programmatic opportunities to communities throughout the Portland metro area. In the past few years, our youth education programs have reached students across the region and the most recent Nature Equity Educator role has expanded that work. With the help of people like … Read more
Inequities run deep in the natural sciences, and it’s apparent in the racist and xenophobic nomenclature of some trees and plants. Even within the last 30 years, anti-Black slurs were commonly used to describe plants. There are many examples, including Echinocactus polycephalus and Bertholletia excelsa (Brazil nuts), that carry ugly colloquial names that only recently … Read more