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Wetland Wander:
Walk Leader: Sarah Whitney (she/her)
Sarah Whitney is the Urban Waters & Wildlife Program manager for the Long Tom Watershed Council. She has built the Amazon Creek Initiative into a broader Urban Water & Wildlife Partnership, serving the Eugene/Springfield Metro Area. Sarah brings unique skills to the Council including decades of experience creating restorative urban landscapes including green stormwater infrastructure. Previous to this position, Sarah was the primary instructor in the Water Conservation Technician program at Lane Community College for 5 years, and 13 years as the lead landscape designer and cofounder of Habitats, Inc., a design/build firm that accomplished several successful green roofs in Eugene. Sarah has degrees in Landscape Architecture (University of Oregon), and Fine Arts Management (University of Long Island at Southampton). She is a Registered Landscape Architect, a Certified Erosion & Sediment Control Lead, and a certified Sustainable Building Advisor.
About the Walk:
Join WREN and Sarah Whitney of the Long Tom Watershed Council to visit some restored sites through their Urban Waters and Wildlife Program. We’ll start at the Eugene Friends Meeting House before carpooling to the Willamette Christian Center. At both locations, we’ll discuss how Sarah and her team restored these areas with urban stormwater management in mind. We’ll also learn why Long Tom is focused on installing green stormwater infrastructure as the preferred method of stormwater management and about common and emerging urban pollutants.
Directions:
Eugene Friends Meeting House: 2274 Onyx St, Eugene, OR 97403 *look for the WREN Programming sign to meet up with the group in Onyx Alley after parking
Drive East on 24th to Onyx. Then, turn left. The Friends Meeting house will be on the left.
Changemakers Series: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Thursday February 27, 7pm (doors/tabling at 6pm) at the Hult Center
Join WREN at the Hult Center’s second installment of their Changemakers series, highlighting mountaineer Gerline Kaltenbrunner and her incredible experience conquering some of the world’s tallest peaks! Tickets can be purchased online or at the Hult Center. See the event page for more details.
Winter Wildlife Field Days
Date: Saturday, March 9
Time: 11:00am – 1:30 pm
Location: Willamette River Natural Area (South Side of Frohnmayer Bridge)
Come join us for guided nature walks around the Willamette River Natural Area and making seed bombs with native plant seeds! We will have fun exploring and creating together.
This event is part of the Winter Wildlife Field Days, a bilingual and accessible nature adventure series hosted throughout the entire month of March and all across the Willamette Valley. Everything is free with in-person events held at your favorite nearby nature spots! To view a full schedule of events taking place, click here. We will see you out there!
Fecha: sábado 9 de marzo
Hora: 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Ubicación: Área natural del río Willamette (lado sur del puente Frohnmayer)
¡Únase a WREN y a la WRNA de la Universidad de Oregón para caminatas guiadas por la naturaleza por el área natural del río Willamette y hacer bombas de semillas con semillas de plantas nativas! Nos divertiremos explorando y creando juntos.
Este evento es parte de Winter Wildlife Field Days, una serie de aventuras en la naturaleza bilingüe y accesible que se lleva a cabo durante todo el mes de marzo y en todo el valle de Willamette. ¡Todo es gratis con eventos presenciales realizados en tus lugares naturales cercanos favoritos! Para ver un calendario completo de los eventos que se llevarán a cabo, visite el sitio web que se proporciona a continuación. ¡Nos vemos ahí fuera!
Stewardship Workshop 1: Introduction to Restoration Planning
Date: Saturday, March 15
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Location: WREN Office (Red House) at 751 S Danebo Ave
Are you interested in conservation, but don’t know where to find information about the land in your area? Join WREN in our first Stewardship Handbook Workshop: Introduction to Restoration Planning! At this workshop, BLM staff will walk you through publicly available online resources so you can discover your local property’s land status, historic condition, and other ecologically important information. We will introduce you to online tools to support investigations into tax lot/parcel information, wetlands status, Threatened and Endangered species habitat, and the Web Soil Survey. Feel free to bring a notebook to follow along, or a computer to join in the web resources exercise. All resources are publicly available and weblinks will be shared for future use.
This event is free, but we appreciate you registering beforehand so we can get a head count for the day of.
For questions, please contact:
Rachel Schneiderman, Programs Coordinator at the Willamette Resources and Educational Network (WREN) at info@wewetlands.org or call 541-338-7047.