Community Events

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Coast Fork Birders – Walks and 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 Riparian Planting Party Volunteer Event

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, […]

September Volunteer Event – Saturday 9/27

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, […]

Prescribed Fire Field Workshop at Native Oaks Ridge

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 […]

Science On Tap – Returning July 22nd with Tom Titus

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 Volunteer Event at J. Polk Currin Swinging Bridge

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. […]

Bikes to Blooms 2025

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 […]

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