Our own Neskowin, Nestucca Sandlake Watersheds Council is recruiting water quality monitoring volunteers. No experience is necessary, training is provided. The assignment requires a commitment of three to five hours, once monthly and a vehicle to transport oneself to and from remote collection sites and to deliver water samples to the Watershed Council office in Pacific City. If you are interested in participating as a volunteer, or if you have additional questions, feel free to contact Caleb Mentzer, Outreach and Project Development Manager, at assistant@nestuccawaters.org or by phone at 541-513-2604.
Remember that whales are migrating this winter, as always, and can be viewed from shore most days if we know what to watch for. This year s winter whale watch week (traditionally the week between Christmas Day and New Year s Day along the Oregon Coast) will not include volunteer staff and the Whale Watching Center in Depoe Bay is closed, all do to Covid-19 precautions. We re encourage
AN EXAMPLE of the new landscape leadership is the Carrifran Wildwood project in the Southern Uplands More than 75,000 acres of land is to be transformed by Scotland’s new ‘landscape leaders’. Following their participation in Soil Association Scotland’s Landscape Leadership programme, a group of private landowners and managers are planting more native trees, opening up discussions between different types of landowners, and restoring peatland across Scotland. The group are united in their desire to restore nature and mitigate climate change for Scotland’s future generations, and have worked together in a mix of residential and then online sessions from January to October, with leadership coaching and input from land managers already running large-scale environmental projects.
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