EARLY CLOSUREThe zoo will close early at 1:00 p.m. on July 17, 2025, and will be closed on July 18, 2025 for a private event.
and MICROSOFT POLLINATOR PATIO
We look forward to reopening again in the future to welcome you to this beautiful garden where native North American butterflies fly around you!
Want to attract beautiful butterflies and other pollinators to your own backyard? This garden is full of ideas and actions you can take on behalf of native pollinators such as hummingbirds, beetles, bees and flies. Before you leave, take a sneak peek at the zoo's Silverspot Butterfly Lab where zookeepers and teen volunteers hatch and raise endangered Oregon silverspot butterflies for release into protected wild habitat.
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A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners in the ecological region of the Pacific Lowland Mixed Forest Province.
This regional guide is just one in a series of plant selection tools designed to provide information on how individuals can influence pollinator populations through choices they make when they farm a plot of ground, manage large tracts of public land, or plant a garden.
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Giving endangered butterflies a headstart before releasing into protected Northwest coastal grasslands.