Land Use Events
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
Clean Water Forum
In many areas of the coast, local water districts have little control over the watershed drainage which supply their cities and towns with drinking water year round. Progressive Action Tillamook (a citizen’s information network) and other groups are...
Oregon Outdoor Summit
The Outdoor Summit is a two-day adventure, convened by Oregon State University Outreach & Engagement, Travel Oregon, and Oregon State Parks. The summit will engage community leaders, outdoor enthusiasts and recreation businesses, public agencies, students,...
Pollinator Conservation Talk
On Sunday October 15 at 2 p.m. in the Yachats Commons, Laren Leland is giving a talk about native bee conservation and how you can help pollinators in your own yard and on a larger scale. In addition to sharing her experience gardening for pollinators in Portland and in the Yachats River...
FERC Intervenor Workshop
The coalition working against the scheme to place an LNG export terminal on Coos Bay’s North Spit (of which Oregon Shores is an active member) is offering a series of workshops on how individuals can intervene with the Federal Energy...
Lecture on Life on the Edge
Katie Voelke, the North Coast Land Conservancy’s executive director, will speak on “The Wild and Rare in Our Own Backyards: Life in the Coastal Edge,” on Thursday, Oct. 12, in Manzanita’s Pine Grove Community House (225 Laneda Ave.). Her talk is...
Conservation Strategy Talk
The Newport 60+ Activity Center is hosting a talk by long-time coastal conservationist Paul Engelmeyer on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 2 p.m. in the center’s Multi-Purpose Room. He will speak on “Land and Sea Conservation Issues...
Lower Nehalem Harvest Festival
The Lower Nehalem Community Trust invites you to join them at their Alder Creek Farm property for an afternoon of live music, farm and garden tours, the last farmers' market of the season, cider pressing, KidZone and more! The event...
Let's Go Birding, Pistol River
Join the Kalmiopsis Audubon Society's trip leader Gary Maschmeyer for a birding field trip in the Pistol River area. The group will look for migrating ducks, geese, and shorebirds in the estuary and then search for sparrows and...
Mapping Symposium
Anyone interested in how information is being mapped in the field, using a wide range of tools such as smartphones and tablets, is invited to “Symposium by the Sea: From Field to Table—Stories in Mapping.” The...
Tahkenitch Dunes & Threemile Lake Hikes
The South Coast Striders are hosting a short and a long hike on October 1st. Experience the amazing diversity of the Oregon coast range on either of these two hikes.
Option 1: You can travel out along the Tahkenitch Dunes Trail as it winds through...