Contact Jen at jenifer.naas@clark.wa.gov or go to http://clark.wsu.edu/volunteer/ws/training.html to download an application. You can also call 360-397-6060 x 7703
Watershed Stewards are a group of Clark County residents dedicated to improving the natural environment through education and environmental restoration. Stewards attend a free training, learning about a variety of watershed topics including plant life, salmon, stormwater and restoration and then commit to volunteering at least 40 hours back into the community. Join a great group of people to learn about the environment in Clark County and your part in improving it!
Free
Indoors with two Saturday field trips outdoors
you can bring your dinner to the evening classes, but some refreshments will be provided
register online at http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center's Spring 2008 Organic Gardening Classes
Register for all Organic Education Center classes
online at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
See full class descriptions at: http://www.lakeoswegoparks.org/
For more information, or to register, contact info@jcwc.org.
Join us to learn how you can build a beautiful rain garden! Not only are rain gardens a gorgeous addition to your landscaping, but they also help capture rainfall runoff and keeps it out of our overburdened sewers and streams. Co-sponsored by East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, Johnson Creek Watershed Council and Leach Botanical Garden. The workshop will be followed by Leach Botanical Neighborhood Open House from 1pm-4pm.Location: Leach Botanical Garden, 6704 SE 122nd Avenue, Portland.
Alia Johnson
atjohnson@ci.oswego.or.us
(503)534-5742
Volunteers are coming out to enjoy the Hallinan Natural Area while providing a service to nature. On Saturday April 5th from 10am until noon people will be helping haul away already-cut English holly (an invasive) out of the natural area and into conveniently located drop boxes.
Bark lends itself to a variety of techniques. Willow and other small fast growing trees have wonderful bark, often with mottled cloud patterns and adhering lichens and mosses. Join celebrated ethnobotanist and fiber artist, Margaret Mathewson, to learn about harvesting and preparing willow and other barks. Peel your own materials and weave strips of bark into several styles of plaited and coiled baskets.
To celebrate the arrival of the natural beauty of spring at Tryon Creek State Natural Area and bring awareness to watershed conservation, Friends of Tryon Creek State Park hosts the Trillium Festival and Native & Hardy Plant Sale. Activities include guided nature walks, children’s crafts, storytelling, live music, local gift vendors, and our annual photo contest and raffle.
Free
Indoor and outdoor. Event is wheelchair accessible,
Berry Botanic Garden Executive Director Scott Vergara, formerly director of the Rhododendron Species Foundation, will lead a tout of the garden’s Rhododendron Forest. Huge species rhododendrons will be cloaked in heavy trusses of blooms, spent flowers covering the ground.
