The Environmental Center

History HIke Whychus Canyon Preserve
2014-09-19 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Jane Meissner for a walk back in time to explore the Santiam Wagon Road at Whychus Canyon Preserve. Picture life as a pioneer in Oregon, moving from the crowded Willamette Valley to the wide open spaces and unsettled lands of Central Oregon. Walk the route followed by wagon trains as they travelled east and west on the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Military Road (better known on its western end as the Santiam Wagon Road). We’ll also explore the site of an early homestead at the Preserve. Registration opens 1 month prior to the event.
Registration is required
– See more here

Macroinvertebrate Sampling with TU
2014-09-19 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join us September 19th to spend a day collecting and identifying aquatic insects with a staff member from DEQ. Aquatic insects are vital to the health of river systems. They serve as indicator species for ecosystem health. We will spend the day collecting and identifying these creatures.
Please contact Darek Staab or Paul Burton, if you want to learn more about our stewardship efforts along the Fall River.

27th Desert Conference
2014-09-19 - 2014-09-20 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The Oregon Natural Desert Association, along with our Presenting Sponsor Patagonia, partners and supporters, is thrilled to bring the 2014 Wilderness Weekend to Bend, Oregon from September 19-20. Over the course of three days, we’ll celebrate the wonders of Wilderness, the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act and our incredible wild deserts.
Oregon Natural Desert Association’s 27th Desert Conference in downtown Bend.
$60, tickets and more information at www.ONDA.org/2014desertconference.

And don’t miss the WilderFest Block Party Saturday night!

COTA Movie Night
2014-09-18 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
For the Runners among us. Pine Mountain Sports and FootZone bring you an inspired documentary about a race that eats people.
Ten finishers in 25 years.
“It’s a nearly impossible scavenger hunt of a 100+ mile backwoods running race that was inspired by a famous prison escape.”
Doors open at 8:30P and films begin at 9P
Door prizes from our friends at FootZone!
Run time: 90 minutes.
Link to trailer: http://barkleymovie.com

Central Oregon Trail Alliance
2014-09-18 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Pine Mountain Sports Presents COTA Movie Night @ McMenamins, 9/18/14

Thursday, Sep 18, 2014
COTA MOVIE NIGHT @ McMENAMINS
JANAPAR: Love on a Bike
Old. St Francis School Theater – Bend, OR
9:00 p.m. | $5 per person, cash only | 21 & over
23-year-old Tom Allen sets off on the ultimate adventure: cycling around the world.
Despite his lack of experience, Tom cycles and camps his way across three continents, encountering a vivid cast of friends and foes. But the journey takes an unlikely detour when he falls in love with an Iranian-Armenian girl. Tom is faced with the ultimate dilemma: stay or continue his adventure alone?
Janapar – named after the Armenian word for journey – is an honest and life-affirming tale of finding what you’re looking for when you least expect it.
Movie Night at McMenamins raises funds and awareness for Central Oregon Trail Alliance.
NEWSFLASH! All ages are now permitted (with an adult aged 21+) at our monthly COTA Movie Night @ McMenamins cycling films!
Watch the trailer
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Henry Abel
Pine Mountain Sports – Bend, OR
541-385-8080 shop
541-525-1997 cel
Central Oregon Ambassadors of Mountain & Trail

Pints and Politics
2014-09-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Broken Top Bottle Shop, 1740 NW Pence Ln #1, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Meet the Oregon League of Conservation Voter’s Endorsed Candidates at the Broken Top Bottle Shop and Ale Cafe!
Join OLCV, friends, volunteers, and community members to hear from local candidates who care about protecting Oregon’s natural legacy, from 7pm-9pm.
August 21st: Craig Wilhelm, for State Representative (HD 54-Bend)
September 18th: Jodie Barram, for Deschutes County Commissioner
Visit the OLCV website for more information.

Wild & Scenic Film Festival
2014-09-18 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Oregon Natural Desert Association presents the Wild & Scenic Film Festival! Join for an evening of short films showcasing our earth’s natural wonders and the amazing stories of activists working to conserve the environment.
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is fully virtual this year. Enjoy ONDA’s lineup of the year’s best conservation films, screened in HD, from the comfort of your home. Closed captioning will be available during the live event. The virtual waiting room will open at 5:30PM, and the livestream will start at 6:00PM.
A captioned recording of the film festival will be available for 5 days following the event for all registrants.

Harvest Seed Saving Class
2014-09-18 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Central Oregon Seed Exchange
Join the High Desert Food and Farm Alliance for a hands school garden tour, presentation, and group discussion with our farmer panel. Bring your seed questions!
Saving seeds is important to our community and to our future. Come learn how you can save seeds from your own backyard. $10 fee includes educational packet, seed catalog and free local organic seed.
Pre registration required by going here

Beyond Coal Campaign Kickoff Meeting
2014-09-17 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
There’s a new gal in town—come meet our newly arrived Beyond Coal campaign field organizer, Victoria Leistman, at her kickoff meeting! Did you know that 67% of Oregon’s electric power comes from coal plants located in other western states? Knowing that coal plants throw tons and tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that will remain there affecting climate for thousands of years, we urgently need to move to clean energy. Join Victoria in working on marshalling public support to move Pacific Power from coal energy generation to clean energy for Oregon.
Meet at the Environmental Center, 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend (refreshments, too), 7pm. Contact Vicotria here.

Meet Your Farmer Dinner
2014-09-17 08:00 - 17:00 | Spork, 937 NW Newport Ave, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Meet Your Farmer Dinner Series

Local restaurants are paired with local farmers to create a delicious farm-to-table meal from their products. This Tuesday’s dinner will be held at Spork in Bend, and will be featuring Juniper Jungle.
For more information and tickets, visit the Central Oregon Locavore’s website.

Wednesday BIrders-Hawk Watch at Green Ridge
2014-09-17 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join local birders every Wednesday for birding trips in Central Oregon. Meet at 7:00 AM at Nancy P’s at 1054 Milwaukee in Bend. The group car pools, sharing expenses for gas, and taking turns driving.
Plans may vary due to weather or rare birds spotted prior to the meeting. To keep up to date on the latest bird sightings and birding opportunities including Wednesday Birders join Central Oregon Birders Online (COBOL). It’s a great resource for Central Oregon birders.
For more information about this and other upcoming events of the East Cascades Audubon Society, visit their website.

Repair Cafe
2014-09-16 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
We’re excited to return to The Gear Fix for our 2019 Spring Repair Cafe! Volunteers will be on hand to fix small appliances/electronics, outdoor gear, clothes, boots/shoes, bikes, jewelry, small furniture/household goods, and more. And it’s FREE!
If you have any questions or would like to be added to the list of volunteer fixers, please email Ani.

Seed Saving, Gardening Clean-up and Cover Crops
2014-09-16 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join in this discussion through OSU Extension Service lunch and learn: Seed Saving, Gardening Clean-up and Cover Crops.
Visit the Central Oregon Master Gardeners Association website.

Lake Creek Trail Hike, Metolius Preserve
2014-09-14 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Mary Crow for a hike on the Lake Creek Trail at the Metolius Preserve. We’ll hike through the Preserve’s ponderosa forests and follow Lake Creek on our way to Suttle Lake. Learn about the fascinating plant life of the Metolius region where the wetter plants of the western Cascades blend with our drier eastside forests. Registration is required and opens 1 month prior to the event. Please register online at www.deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes.
Rating: This is a moderate to challenging, ~5.5 mile hike.
What to bring: Snacks/Lunch, water, sturdy hiking shoes. Dress for the weather.

Fairy Houses Metolius Preserve
2014-09-13 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Help your little one explore outside with a little bit of whimsy! Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Kelly Madden at the Metolius Preserve to build your own fairy house. Use materials found in the forest, create your own small fairy abode and imagine the fairies the might come visit. Build confidence exploring and enjoying nature. Perfect for kids ages 3-5 with a grown-up in tow. Registration opens 1 month prior to the event.
Registration is required
– See more at: here.

Second Saturday Weed Warriors
2014-09-13 09:00 - 14:00 | Unnamed Venue, OR, United States
Join this regular group of outdoor lovers and Land Trust friends to fight invasive species at a Land Trust protected lands. Work begins around 9am and includes an hour break for a brown bag lunch and socializing. Come for the whole day or just part. Locations vary but depend on where the Warrior force is needed most!
Weed Warriors meet on the 2nd Saturday and the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month for regular weed pulls at Land Trust protected lands. Join them today!
See more here.

Project Connect
2014-09-13 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The 8th annual Project Connect is a one-day event that offers free services to those who are struggling to make ends meet or experiencing homelessness in Central Oregon.
For more information contact Volunteer Connect:
(541) 385-8977
info@projectconnectco.org

Thomas Preserve Paddle
2014-09-11 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Sarah Mowry for a guided paddle to the Thomas Preserve. We’ll float a section of the upper Deschutes to visit this unique island Preserve for a picnic lunch. You bring your boat and we’ll provide the shuttle. Registration opens 1 month prior to the event.
Registration is required.
See more here

Living with Wildfire Presentation
2014-09-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Living with Wildfire: a Presentation by George Wuerthner
In light of this year’s dramatic fire season, ecologist, writer, and photographer, George Wuerthner will speak about wildfire ecology, and how communities can be prepared for large, uncontrolled wildfire like Washington’s Carlton Complex blaze. George is the author of 35 books about national parks, wilderness areas, mountain ranges, and conservation and wildlife issues, including wildfire.
In light of this year’s dramatic fire season, George Wuerthner will speak about wildfire ecology, and how communities can be prepared for large, uncontrolled wildfire like Washington’s Carlton Complex blaze.
Join Central Oregon LandWatch and the Bitterbrush Broads on Wednesday, September 10th for an evening with ecologist, writer, and photographer, George Wuerthner.
Please go here to RSVP.

Wednesday Birders in Prineville
2014-09-10 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States

The Wonderlands of Oregon's Wildernesses
2014-09-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
We’ll be treated to views of Oregon’s Very Special Places through George Wuerthner’s photographs and stories of personal adventures, in honor of the 50thAnniversary of the Wilderness Act.
6:30 gathering and snacks, 7:00 program.

Steens Mountain Backcountry Fence Pull
2014-09-09 - 2014-09-14 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The Oregon Natural Desert Association has openings for a few more volunteers to join for the Steens Mountain Backcountry Fence Pull Trip September 9-14. This giant fault block Mountain, nearly 10,000 feet high, carved by glaciers, and covered by wildflowers elicits terms such as “gem”, “jewel”, and “iconic”. ONDA has been helping pull obsolete fence out of the Wilderness here for over a decade. Each year we pull out fence that is further and further back into the Wilderness. Our backpack trips to do the work are now annual events.
Barbed wire fences are a significant source of mortality for wildlife, and an eyesore. Helping remove obsolete fences from cow-free areas has been an ONDA priority since it was founded in 1987.
To register for this trip and to see more information, visit the Oregon Natural Desert Association’s website.

Making Compost-3 on KPOV 88.9FM
2014-09-09 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Listen in to KPOV 88.9FM for the third discussion in the “Making Compost” series of Gardening: Get Good At It.
For more information, visit the Central Oregon Master Gardeners Association website.

Spring Creek Bird Walk
2014-09-07 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Bill Mitchell for a bird walk along Spring Creek near the Metolius River. This beautiful, privately-owned property includes wetland habitat, quaking aspens, mixed conifer forests, and outstanding habitat for wildlife including sensitive bird species. Registration opens 1 month prior to the event.

Registration is required.
Learn more about our Walk + Hike Leaders
See more at: http://www.deschuteslandtrust.org/events/hikes/bird-walk-spring-creek-1#sthash.Zs1cZw1O.dpuf

Central Oregon Master Gardeners
2014-09-06 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Hollinshead Community Garden Open House Schedule
1237 NE Jones Road, Bend
September 6th, 10am-2pm
Tours
10am-2pm Tour the vegetable gardens with an OSU Certified Master Gardener™
10am -2pm Tour the Hollinshead Homestead House and Bunk House and visit with Sharron Rosengarth who lived there as a child

Classes
10am Key Practices of Growing Perennial, Herb, Ornamental Grass, Annual & Butterfly Attracting Plants
11am Garden of Eatin’ – See and learn how to grow an incredible vegetable garden
Noon You Too Can Grow Tomatoes
1pm Preserving Your Harvest – OSU Master Food Preservers™

Tasting
10:30 – Noon Tomato tasting and homemade mozzarella cheese sampling. Choose your favorites
10am-2pm Sample Herb Infused Waters

See and Ask
Got a gardening question? Ask an OSU Extension Service Master Gardener as you roam the demonstration and vegetable gardens
Wonder what that insect or weed is in your yard? Check the displays of common weeds and insects
Visit with watercolor artists as they paint in the garden
Meet Ms. Tomato and the Busy Bee
Learn and share with fellow gardeners – they all love to talk
Row cover and soil thermometers available for purchase

Backyard Farm Tour
2014-09-06 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The 6th rendition of the BackyardFarmTour will take place the weekend following Labor day, Sept. 12-13. Still to be determined is if it will be 1 or 2 days. As always we will seek out some new places and revisit some of our old favorites. The BYFT is largely self selecting, so let me know if you are interested in participating this year. I also appreciate any other other ideas or input you may have. Of course the key part of putting the BYFT together is finding the farms and gardens to be on it. I appreciate any and all leads. Even if it is just a place you drove by that looks good.
Volunteers on the organizational side are sought, too.
We are having another fabulous year for gardening in Central Oregon, so how could we not have another fabulous BackyardFarmTour?
Follow BYFT developments on at http://backyardfarmtour.com where you can get our RSS feed, subscribe to our email list or at our Facebook page, http://facebook.com/Backyardfarmtour.

Hollinshead Community Garden Open House
2014-09-06 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Join in for the final Hollinshead Community Garden classes and Open House.
For more information on this event, visit the Central Oregon Master Gardeners Association website.

Sutton Mountain Wilderness Monitoring Trip
2014-09-04 - 2014-09-07 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The Oregon Natural Desert Association has openings for a few more volunteers to join for the Sutton Mountain Wilderness Monitoring Trip September 4-7. In 2013 ONDA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Prineville District of the BLM to help with the monitoring and restoration of Wilderness and Wilderness Study Areas. As part of this partnership, we will monitor Sutton Mountain and Pat’s Cabin, two Wilderness Study Areas that surround the Painted Hills National Monument. These WSAs are part of a proposal to designate 58,000 acres as wilderness and this trip, which will focus on monitoring and some light restoration, will further our campaign efforts.
To register for this trip and to see more information, visit the Oregon Natural Desert Association’s website.

UGB Van Tour
2014-09-03 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
The City of Bend is in the process of revising its UGB. The new plan will shape how Bend grows for years to come. Public input – your input – into this process is essential for creating a sustainable, beautiful and accessible community. We are providing this opportunity to our supporters to learn more about the current UGB, discuss how Bend can grow sustainably, and take a look at possible infill and expansion lands.
Space is very limited so please RSVP to moey@centraloregonlandwatch.org to reserve your seat.
Meet at the Central Oregon LandWatch office. From there, we will depart for the driving tour of Bend’s UGB.
RSVP to moey@centraloregonlandwatch.org

Wednesday Birders at Hatfield, Tumalo Reservoir, and Twin Bridges
2014-09-03 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
