Community Events

November 9, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am – Fall is a great time to get out and do some bird watching. September – November is a migration period, especially for raptors and waterfowl.  The Coast Fork Birder’s next bird walk is scheduled for Sunday, November 9th, with the location and exact times TBD. Plus, here’s a sneak peak of all the other great […]

October 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Volunteer Events are Back – Join Us for a Riparian Planting Party! Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 18th, from 10 AM to 1 PM, at Riverside Park along the Coast Fork Willamette River. We invite you to join us in continuing our riparian restoration project along the river – replanting areas of native vegetation, […]

November 25, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Join CFWWC and special guests Yuta Nakamura and Ronan Hall in November for a screening of Mr. Nakamura’s short film, Forest Trail: A Story of Gentle Forestry in Hokkaido. Here’s what Yuta has to say about about his film: As a Hokkaido-based photographer and film maker, I spend most of my time outside capturing the […]

September 27, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Volunteer Events are Back – Join Us for a Planting Party! Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 27th, from 10 AM to 1 PM, at Row River Nature Park’s Pollinator Garden. We warmly invite you to join us in enhancing the garden by planting native species, including red flowering currant, tall Oregon grape, Columbian larkspur, […]

September 23, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Science on Tap is taking the month of August off, but we will be back with more great presentations from September – November!   Science on Tap is gonna take another quick summer break in August, but don’t worry, we have the marvelous Martyne Reesman, a fisheries biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and […]

August 23, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm – Join local fire practitioners in the field to grow your understanding of cultural burning, fire effects monitoring and oak-prairie ecology, fire lighting techniques, engine operations, and radio communications.  Saturday, August 23, 2025 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Near Cottage Grove This field workshop intends to help build connections among neighbors and interested community members in […]

July 22, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Science on Tap is taking the month of June off, but we will be back with lots more great presentations from July – October! In July we’re excited to be welcoming biologist and author Tom Titus  for “Breathless: Celebrating Salamanders and Their Small Wild Spaces”. Tom is an amphibian biologist, forager, father, grandfather, and free-range philosopher […]

May 24, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – The good work continues Saturday, May 24th!   Join us from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, May 24th for our next volunteer work party. This month we’ll be continuing our work at the J. Polk Currin Swinging Bridge, between Madison Ave and South River Road, working to remove more invasive English ivy and Himalayan blackberries. […]

May 27, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Join us on Tuesday, May 27th at the Axe and Fiddle Public House from 5 to 7 PM for a presentation on Optimal Tree Planting for Climate Change featuring Erik Burke, Eugene Director of Friends of Trees. As Director of Eugene Friends of Trees, Erik says he does a little bit of everything; fundraising, planting, pruning, planning, […]

May 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm – Discover spring wildflowers in bloom at Bikes to Blooms on Saturday, May 10th from 8 am-1 pm at Bake Stewart Park! With a local expert as your guide, you’re invited to explore a rare, remnant prairie and oak habitat along Dorena Lake and the Row River bike trail. Bikes to Blooms is a free event […]