As the soil warms and daylight extends a bit longer each day, Oregonians start planning their gardens. But did you know the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its plant hardiness zones a few ...

The latest edition of the USDA’s Plant Zone Hardiness Map, used by big growers ... Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University’s PRISM Climate Group, is the first produced since ...

a senior professor at the university and the founding director of Oregon State University’s Climate Group, which developed the map with the USDA. “This translated into about half of the country ...

The USDA describes the latest map, jointly developed by Oregon State University ... Plant Hardiness Zone Map but also produced localized changes that are not climate related,” said Christopher ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map uses weather data to map average annual ... It was jointly developed by Oregon State University’s PRISM Climate Group and the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.

“Overall, the 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees warmer than the 2012 map across the conterminous United States,” Christopher Daly, director of the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State ...

“You can think of the Plant Hardiness Zone Map as a plant selection and risk management guide,” says Chris Daly, a geospatial climatologist at Oregon ... as a “climate normal.” That consistency is ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “plant hardiness zone map” was ... a researcher at Oregon State University’s PRISM Climate Group, which collaborates with the USDA's Agricultural ...

For the first time since January 2012 and with the help of Oregon State University ... be able to attribute to climate change.” The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map consists of 13 individual ...

founder of the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University, which produced the hardiness zone map along with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. “I would not go out and buy a bunch of ...