In Oregon’s most urbanized, diverse area, the watershed has become a classroom Drive north on 47th Avenue towards a Boeing hangar, and you’ll pass Whitaker Ponds Nature Park. The site was formerly a Chinook village called Neercherkikoo. Fifty years ago it had become an informal dump, acquiring enough bald tires to overflow every corner of… Read more »
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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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One of Emma Garner’s favorite memories as Education Program Manager at Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council (MFWWC) was when a group of middle schoolers were getting off the bus for a field trip in the forest. There were 100 kids and none of them had been in the woods before. “It was a sunny day,… Read more »
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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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When youth at Miraflores, a North Portland housing community, attend after-school activities with Portland Audubon, they might not realize they’re tapping potential career paths—they are just having fun outside. Miraflores is a community of Hacienda CDC, Portland’s largest Latinx-led, Latinx-serving affordable housing provider, which has been partnering with Audubon for more than a decade to… Read more »
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Workshops empower teachers with Indigenous perspectives
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Worms, bats and fly-fishing: Rural students connect to their watershed
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Migratory birds connect students in “Twinning” River Basins in Oregon and Mexico
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Youth of color get outside and see themselves as scientists
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Getting young Latinas outside—and on a college track
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