The Environmental Center

Lunch with LandWatch: Off Road Vehicle Impacts
2014-02-25 | Deschutes Brewery Public House, 1044 NW Bond St, Bend, OR, 97701, United States
Wilderness guide, ecologist, and writer, George Wuerthner, will be discussing the impacts of Off Road Vehicles on public lands. George is the author of Thrillcraft: the Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation.
Please RSVP here.

Telluride MountainFilm on Tour
2014-02-21 - 2014-02-22
Save The Date: Telluride MountainFilm on Tour
February 27 & 28 at The Tower Theatre
MountainFilm on Tour features the best films from the world-renowned film festival in Telluride, Colorado. MountainFilm is dedicated to educating, inspiring and motivating audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, adventures worth pursuing and conversations worth sustaining. All proceeds benefit The Environmental Center. Watch a teaser trailer!
Tickets are $20 in advance, $23 at the door (careful – this event often sells out!) and $35 for both nights. Get your tickets online now at The Tower Theatre.
Different films each night! Check out the film lineup here.

Poop, Money and the Environment: What’s the Connection?
2014-02-20
Come learn more about what’s up with Bend’s Sewer Collection System Master Plan from members of the citizen’s advisory committee (unofficially the “Poop Committee”) charged with developing a recommendation for the City Council.
What might the plan look like, how much might it cost, and why is it important to environmental protection in Bend? Advisory committee members Mike Riley, Wes Price, Nathan Boddie, as well as Assistant City Manager Jon Skidmore will present and answer questions.
Join OLCV staff and volunteers, fellow community members, elected officials, and local candidates who care about Protecting Oregon’s air, water, land and wildlife, for Pints and Politics on the 3rd Thursday of the month.

Birders Night: Northern Goshawk
2014-02-20
Join Master Falconer and High Desert Museum Natural History Curator, John Goodell as he give us a closer look at the Northern Goshawk, it’s habitat, natural history and population status as one of the most secretive diurnal raptors in Central Oregon.
John will be bringing a live goshawk to provide an up close and personal encounter during which you’ll also learn some little-known facts about goshawk behavior, prey, and amazing hunting strategies. John is a wildlife biologist with over 20 years’ experience conducting wildlife research and monitoring efforts throughout the western U.S. He has a particular interest in passerine and raptor conservation and wildlife habitat restoration.
Join ECAS at 6:30pm for social time and treats. A discussion covering local birding and birding events starts at 7:00pm, and the Goshawk program runs from about 7:30pm to 8:30pm.
ECAS members, friends, neighbors and central Oregon visitors are all welcome to Birder’s Night.

Wolves in the Land of Salmon
2014-02-19
February Nature Night with the Deschutes Land Trust
Long considered an icon of the wild, wolves capture our imagination and spark controversy. Their return to the mountains, old-growth forests and wild coastlines of the Pacific Northwest renews age-old questions about the value of wildlands and wildlife.
Join tracker, photographer, and author David Moskowitz for an evening of stunning photography and stories from wild landscapes across the Pacific Northwest about the life history, ecology, and conservation of our region’s apex carnivore.
This presentation is free, but you must get your ticket online: deschuteslandtrust.org/events.

Slow Food High Desert Potluck
2014-02-18
This month’s Slow Food High Desert potluck will showcase episodes of Julie Child’s cooking show “The French Chef” and talking about cooking and food.
Please bring a dish to share and personal place settings (plate and utensils).
You don’t have to be a Slow Food member to participate! Bring your friends and family and make it a social event!
This is a no charge event, but donations are welcome. No RSVP necessary.

Joining the Race for The Sun: A Solar Workshop for Builders, Architects and Designers
2014-02-18
As the word gets out that solar is become more cost effective, it is becoming more and more common that homeowners, designers, and builders, are looking into options for pursuing solar on new construction projects.
This workshop will go over how you can incorporate solar into your professional portfolio so you can offer it to your clients with confidence. Learn about the most popular solar technologies used in Oregon, how to design a good solar roof, how to design for solar on a net-zero home, emergency back-up options, and the current incentives that are available for homeowners to go solar.
RSVP by Sunday, February 16th.
Presented by:
Joe Mazzarella, Sunlight Solar Energy
Matt Douglas, Earth Advantage
Misti Nelmes, Energy Trust of Oregon
CCB Continuing Ed credits available (Series B).

Light Up The Night
2014-02-15
The Deschutes County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee has teamed up with Commute Options for Central Oregon, the City of Bend, and the Road Users Safety Task Force to conduct several evening events to enhance the visibility of people walking and biking to motorists.
Each evening event will highlight the safety issue as well as provide critical gear to the community to eliminate these types of crashes.
Critical gear includes:
• front reflector
• rear reflector
• front head light
• highly visible clothing
• reflective tape
• reflective leg and arm bands
• flashing reflectors.
There are few nighttime related walking and biking crashes in Bend, however, most result in injury or death. In the five year period between 2006 and 2010 there were 19 nighttime bike riding crashes reported to the police. Ninety percent of these crashes involved a person riding on a bike while dressed completely in dark clothing on a bicycle that was completely invisible to the motorist that struck them. Similar statistics exist for nighttime walking crashes.
Through this campaign we wish to highlight the importance of night time safety habits while walking and biking in our community.

Wolves: Social Ecology and Implications for Management
2014-02-11
Presenter: George Wuerthner, Ecologist and Author
Wolves hold a special fascination for humans. Find out more about the history of wolf recovery and the potential for wolf recovery in Oregon. The social interactions of wolves, how humans view wolf behavior and respond to it have important implications for their re-establishment. Ecologist and author George Wuerthner will discuss these issues and how current wolf management contributes to greater human conflicts.
Free and open to the public.

Fledgling Fun – Sage Grouse
2014-02-10
Join Mary Yanalcanlin for an exploration of our local birds geared towards grades K-5 (though all ages are welcome).
This session, focusing on the endangered Sage Grouse, is from 3:45-5:15 PM, doors open at 3:15pm. Fledglings (kids) must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

Will Durst's BOOMERAGING: From LSD to OMG
2014-02-09
Written and Performed by Will Durst, with KPOV’s Celeste Franklin opening.
BoomerAging is a tribute to the joys, achievements and looming terrors that accompany being a member of the Baby Boom Generation.
It assesses their still vibrant role in today’s youth – obsessed society and celebrates them for refusing to grow old in the face of changing times, gravity and the reflection that greets them daily in the mirror. Utilizing technology specifically designed not to spook the target audience (overhead projector) Durst will explore the Boomers’ revolutions, evolutions and explain how best to embrace the encroaching wrinkles. He also promises to shamelessly stroke the egos and pat the hands of the self- described Most Important Generation of All Time through show segments entitled Racing From The Shadow Of A Mushroom Cloud. The Blinking VCR. Hey You Punks, Get Off My Wireless Router. The Brightside of Extreme Maturation. From Summer Of Love To Winter Of Our Disbelief. Everything You Wanted To Know About Decrepitude But Were Afraid To Ask & Hope I Die Before I… Oh, Too Late.
A Benefit for KPOV, 88.9 FM.
Tickets on sale in mid-January.

Green Team Movie Night
2014-02-04
Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” presents the life of the marine biologist and nature author whose book “Silent Spring” sounded the alarm that launched the environmental movement.
Bill Moyers Journal, “Rachel Carson, Nature’s Guardian” intertwines excerpts of Kaiulani Lee’s one-woman play “A Sense of Wonder” about Carson’s life with interviews of the actress and historical footage of Carson’s life.
Free. Questions? Call Nancy Merrick: 541-815-6504.
