Public Lands
Our Common Ground: America’s Public Lands as a Political and Conservation Success Story
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesJoin professor and author John Leshy at the Tower Theater in Bend for ONDA's event in the High Desert Speaker Series as he discusses his new book, Our Common Ground:…
Beers, Books, and Belted Kingfishers
Deschutes Brewery Public House 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, United StatesA Benefit for Greater Hells Canyon Council Join Bend's Marina Richie, author of the award-winning book Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher, for a lively photo and story-filled…
COTA Trail Love
Embark 2843 NW Lolo Dr., Bend, OR, United StatesTrail Love is a community event that COTA hosts to gather folks to come out for a day of collective trail work. The riding season has just started and the…
Open Spaces and Open Houses? The Tradeoffs in Oregon’s Land Use System
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 61980 Skyline Ranch Road, Bend, OR, United StatesOregon’s land use system is 50 years old. It is both celebrated for its prevention of urban sprawl and derided for driving up housing costs. Join City Club as they…
33rd Annual Wildflower Show and Pollinator Festival
Sunriver Nature Center & Oregon Observatory 57245 River Rd, Sunriver, OR, United StatesThis amazing festival showcases the diversity of flowering plants found throughout Central Oregon as well as vendors and partners who work with flowers or native pollinators. This is a great…
Weed Warriors at Whychus Canyon Preserve
Whychus Canyon Preserve Sisters, OR, United StatesJoin the Weed Warriors to battle invasive weeds at our protected lands! Weed Warriors is a volunteer group that meets several times a month to remove invasive weeds like mullein,…
BEYOND THE BEYOND: PREPARING BEND FOR A WILD FUTURE
Open Space Event Studios 220 NE Lafayette Ave, Bend, OR, United StatesHow will our city and our lives be changed by population growth, a warming world, hotter summers and less water, new technologies and other emerging trends? And how can we…
A Sense of Place Webinar Series: Indigenous Perspectives of Earth, Water and Sky, featuring Elizabeth Azzuz
ZoomElizabeth Azzuz, Secretary of Cultural Fire Management Council, will discuss her work using Traditional Native Karuk methods of prescribed burning to protect forests, heal degraded ecosystems, and reestablish forest-grown food,…
Science Pub: Fungi in the Forest
OSU Cascades - Edward J. Ray Hall, Atrium 1500 SW Chandler Ave, Bend, OR, United StatesExplore the variety of fungi in Central Oregon and the surprisingly important role they play in forest health. You'll discover the vast fungal communication networks in forests at boot-level and…
The West is Burning Film Screening – La Pine
La Pine Activity Center 16450 Victory Way, La Pine, OR, United StatesDiscover Your Forest, in partnership with the Deschutes National Forest and the Upper Deschutes River Communities, is hosting a public screening of The West is Burning followed by a panel discussion with…