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My Local Patch By Michele Dupraw

September 4, 2014 Category: Collaboration, Stories Tag: Collaboration, urban wetland, volunteer

Over the last few years I have become an avid birdwatcher. A friend of mine who is also a birdwatcher would talk at length about his “local patch.” I decided I needed to get a local patch too. A patch is a term for a spot that a birdwatcher can frequent regularly and get to

The Volunteer Effect

June 9, 2014 Category: Stories Tag: coast preserves, Collaboration, volunteer

12 Oregon State University students spent a day working at The Wetlands Conservancy Starr Creek Oxbow in Alsea Bay Preserve. It was sobering to see the amount of trash littered throughout the forest and Alsea Bay shores. After finding a lone flip flop about every 100 feet as well as Styrofoam bits even more