There is a stretch of the Siuslaw National Forest around Mount Hebo, more than 13,000 acres of it, that is protected by exactly one thing. Not a wilderness designation, not a park boundary. A single federal rule, written in 2001, that says you do not build new roads there. The Sierra Club’s Oregon chapter has
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For our September gathering, Moss Webster showed us how to make paper lanterns out of the coast itself. The idea is simple and a little bit magic. You press leaves, fern fronds, flower petals, and seed heads into the paper while it is still wet, let it dry, and put a light behind it. What
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On the evening of August 9, a field in Yachats turned into an opera house. String and Shadow Puppet Theater, a company out of Olympia, Washington, rolled into town with their touring show, Night at the Grand Opera, and built a whole opera house right there in the grass. We spread out a blanket, found
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The Ground Truth Listening Tour spent three months asking Oregonians whether the state needs a constitutional right to a healthy environment. The preliminary findings report is out, the Newport session we helped host is in it, and so is the story of this coast.
The Ground Truth Report Is Out, and Our Coast Is In It Read More »
On Wednesday, July 22, the Oregon Board of Forestry voted to approve a new management plan for our western state forests. The vote was five to two. If you wrote to the board this spring, or signed on to one of the actions we shared, this one is yours too. Here is what the vote
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There is a lot coming at our forests, waters, and coast right now. Here are the actions that matter most this month, sorted by how much time each one takes, from a one-minute signature to an afternoon project.
If You Have Ten Minutes: Ways to Help Our Coast Right Now Read More »
Hundreds of wildlife and habitat advocates from across the state gathered in Salem on February in support of HB 4134, the “1.25% for Wildlife” legislation. HB 4134 garnered broad, bipartisan support from a diverse coalition of hunters, anglers, farmers, ranchers, conservationists, rural and urban communities, and over 100 businesses from across the state. It passed
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“We must cultivate our garden” —Voltaire, Candide, 1759 What Voltaire wrote over 250 years ago couldn’t be more true today. Amidst the distractions of networking and all the messages shouted at us by the media, our earth is needing our full attention more than ever. Besides being involved in the environmental activism that ECC
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This week, the Emerald Curtain Collective hosted our monthly gathering at the South Beach Community Center, and what an evening it was. Laura Buchanan led us through the wonderfully meditative art of needle felting, and our community showed up in a bigger way than ever before. This was our most attended monthly gathering to date,
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Last week, at our monthly gathering at the South Beach Community Center, Liz Fox and Beth Kattleman guided us through the art of sgraffito, an Italian word meaning “to scratch,” a centuries-old pottery decorating technique that produces stunning results through a surprisingly meditative process. Sgraffito works by applying a layer of colored slip to leather-hard
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