On March 30, 2009, the Oregon Badlands and Spring Basin became forever protected with a stroke of the president's pen. Join us on Friday, April 4, at the Oregon Natural Desert Association's Bend office to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their designation as wilderness! We'll offer up a fun photo contest, serve bites and bevs,…

Presented by the Children’s Forest of Central Oregon Partners August 6th 11:00am– 12:00pm Boyd Park Predators and Prey presented by The Environmental Center. Have fun learning about the diverse animals that call Central Oregon home through exciting games and interactive science activities. Free! August 13th 11:00am– 12:00pm Pine Ridge Park Birds of Prey presented by…

Learn how to start your own seeds for your garden from OSU Master Gardeners™.  Part of class will be in OSU Extension Greenhouse.

Saturday, April 5, at The Environmental Center $5.00 materials donation greatly appreciated! C.O. mask maker, OPB Art Beat Alumni and long time A.I.E. artist Debra Fisher will be volunteering her time to teach mask/costume workshops at The Environmental Centers for our Earth Day Parade held in downtown Bend on Saturday April 19, 2014. Being an animal…

Join Discover Your Forest and the Deschutes National Forest for an evening celebrating Wilderness! US Fish & Wildlife Wolf Coordinator, John Stephenson, will discuss wolves in Oregon and their connection with the wolves in the Frank Church Wilderness in the film. The Film, River of No Return, is set deep in the heart of Idaho’s Frank…

This class will go into detail how to grow the most common vegetables for the area, including tomatoes. A two hour class for the community. For more information call 541-548-6088. Click here to register.

Rowena Meyer-Allen, a local encaustic artist, fabric soft treatments designer, and founder of the C.R.A.F.T. (Creative Reuse: Art From Trash) Materials Exchange will be offering a “Bling Your Bike for Earth Day” workshop at the Environmental Center. Bring your bicycle, tricycle, unicycle, wagon or other human-powered mode of transportation and transform it into the species…

Get ready for the Earth Day Parade by making a beautiful bird costume! We will be cutting, sewing, gluing, buttoning, and glittering old stuff into magnificent costumes that will turn you into a Central Oregon bird! This workshop will be fun for all ages – tiny toddlers to adults.   Choose the bird you’d like…

Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Carol Wall on a bird walk at picturesque Indian Ford Meadow Preserve. Explore pine forest, sage-flats, and creek-side willows in search for songbirds, hummingbirds, and soaring raptors. Listen for the California quail’s distinctive “chi-ca-go” call while you see what species of birds have returned as part of their spring…