Coos County

Northwest Regional ESD – Rural STEAM Leadership Network

Rural STEAM Leadership Network: An Educator’s Perspective The Pacific Ocean shoreline is within five miles of North Bay Elementary in Southern Oregon’s Coos County, surrounded by the ancestral homelands of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI). Sitka Spruce and sand dunes line the coastline, and freshwater rivers spill into estuaries,… Read more »

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Coos Watershed Association

When the Coos Watershed Association formed in the 1990s, there was plenty of opportunity for dissent. Oregonians were polarized on how to manage the state’s forests, at odds about how to strike a balance between watershed health with timber harvests and tribal needs. Emerging from this divide, the Coos Watershed Association brought neighbors together to… Read more »

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