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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, […]
Science On Tap – September 23rd with Martyne Reesman
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 […]
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. […]
May Science on Tap – Erik Burke, Eugene Director of Friends of Trees
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, […]
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 […]
April Volunteer Event at J. Polk Currin Swinging Bridge
April 19, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – We’re doing some good work in the great outdoors this Saturday! Join us from 10am to 2pm on Saturday, April 19th for our next volunteer work party. This month we’ll be at the J. Polk Currin Swinging Bridge, between Madison Ave and South River Road, working to remove invasive English […]
Creswell Arbor Day Celebration April 26
April 26, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Get ready for the City of Creswell’s Annual Arbor Day Celebration! There is so much to be excited for, including: Local Organizations and Vendors Free Hot Dogs and Veggie Dogs Tree and Swag Giveaways Free Facepainting Join us at Garden Lake Park on April 26th, 2025, from 10am-1pm for all the excitement! For more information, […]
April Science on Tap – Wolves in Oregon with Bethany Cotton
April 22, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Join CFWWC for our next Science on Tap event on Tuesday, April 22! We’re looking forward to welcoming Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands Conservation Director, for a presentation about Oregon’s Wolves – Facts, Myth-Busting, and Conservation Opportunities. Though Bethany grew up in a cabin in rural southern Oregon in wolf habitat, she did not see a […]
