Land Use Events
LCDC Meeting

The Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) is meeting on Thursday, May 19 and Friday, May 20. These are hybrid meetings, taking place physically in the Basement Hearing Room of the Department of...
LCDC Meeting--Second Day

The Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) is meeting on Thursday, May 19 and Friday, May 20. These are hybrid meetings, taking place physically in the Basement Hearing Room of the...
Valedictory Geology Lecture

Ron Metzger has not only taught geology to a couple of generations of students at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay, he has also educated the community through a long-running Geology Lecture Series he organizes. The series has featured a...
Webinar on Eelgrass

Oregon Shores is collaborating with conservation allies to offer a monthly webinar series about the Coos Bay estuary. Coos Bay could be the focus of major development proposals soon—both a major container port and facilities...
Webinar on Hybrid Beachgrass Ecology

CoastWatch is cooperating with researchers in Oregon State University’s Department of Integrative Biology to conduct a citizen science survey for a new hybrid beachgrass that may reshape the Oregon shoreline. For more on the project, go here.
A webinar on this important project...
Hybrid Beachgrass Survey Training

The search continues for the new hybrid beachgrass that is spreading on the Oregon and Washington coasts. CoastWatch volunteers are helping researchers at Oregon State University map the range of the new hybrid, the...
Hybrid Beachgrass Survey Training

The search continues for the new hybrid beachgrass that is spreading on the Oregon and Washington coasts. CoastWatch volunteers are helping researchers at Oregon State University map the range of the new hybrid, the offspring of two...
Past Events
Meeting on Elliott State Forest

Conservationists have been working for many years to protect the Elliott State Forest, northeast of Coos Bay. At first the battle was to prevent the state from selling it to private interests (a battle which Oregon Shores joined). More recently, the effort is to find...
Committee on Coastal Road Armoring Meets

The Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) has convened a special advisory committee to consider a peculiar but important problem—the state’s current land use regulations don’t...
Webinar on the Big One

The coastal landscape we treasure has been shaped by the collision of the earth’s tectonic plates. The price of our coast’s rugged beauty is the hazard of earthquakes and tsunamis caused by the Cascadia Subduction...
Talk on Estuary Habitats

The MidCoast Watersheds Council is holding its final community meeting of the year on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 6:30 pm., with a talk on a subject of wide interest: “Natural habitats and fish communities in...
Bastendorff Bog Hike

For those who prefer to “opt outside” on Black Friday rather than hit the stores, the Southcoast Striders offer a Bastendorff Bog trail hike, beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26.
The hike will start from the Sunset Bay State Park day use...
Lecture on Climate and Wildfire

The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology’s fall seminar series is taking place online again this year. The talks take place at 4 p.m. on Fridays. These events are free and open to the public, but it is necessary to request access in...
LCDC Meets on Coastal Issues

The second day of the November meeting of the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) takes place on Friday, Nov. 19, at 8:30 a.m. The two-day meeting takes place...
Seminar on Tidal Wetlands--Cancelled

The following event has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled at a later date.
The Hatfield Marine Science Center’s Research Seminar Series continues online. This week’s event, on Thursday, Nov 18, at 3:30 p.m., features renowned wetland ecologist Laura...
Panel on New Coastal Research

As we near the end of our 50th anniversary year, we are focusing strongly on the theme of our celebration, “the next 50 years of coastal conservation.” In that spirit, we are surveying some of the young researchers who are doing cutting-edge work that will inform...
Marine Debris Survey Training

One of the locations at which CoastWatch conducts our marine debris survey is at Fort Stevens State Park, just south of the Columbia’s South Jetty. More volunteers are needed to fill out the team, headed by Oregon...