Brett Lyon
brett@solv.org
503-844-9571 x 332
http://www.solv.org/programs/down_by_the_riverside.asp
Join SOLV and roughly 12,000 volunteers across Oregon to fight back against invasive species. On Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm SOLV is hosting Down By The Riverside, an event with over 300 projects throughout Oregon and Clark County, WA. At this fun volunteer event community members learn about their personal impact on local watersheds, important work is accomplished, and people build stronger bonds with one another. This year, SOLV is partnering with The Nature Conservancy, Oregon Public Broadcasting, The Oregon Invasive Species Council, and other organizations to focus on the problem of invasive species. Invasive plants cost Oregon over $100 million each year due to habitat and crop loss and contribute to the decline of many threatened and endangered native species.
For more information or to register contact the Siskiyou Field Institute at (541) 597-8530 or visit www.thesfi.org
Refresh and hone your skills in keying and field recognition
of grasses found in southwestern Oregon.
Learn to recognize introduced and native local
grasses by sight or by checking a few distinctive
Join us Monday May 19 for one of Portland's favorite topics - humanure - from a fresh perspective! Laura Dvorak will share her presentation entitled R.E.S.O.U.R.C.E., (Reclaiming Everyone's Soil: Opportunity to Understand Relational Cycles of Ecology). It represents an ethnographic inquiry of composting toilets in Portland (as related to watershed restoration/education and cultural perceptions), and a brief overview of appropriate technologies and innovations in other countries. It is an exploration of the current human condition- the environmental crisis and spiritual catharsis- framed around the misunderstood and wasted resource of human excreta.
