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
Welcome the Salmon Home

A natural spectacle that occurs at Westwind each year is happening soon: the return of Chinook and Coho salmon to the streams of the Oregon coast, including Westwind’s Salmon River. To celebrate this amazing feat of nature,...
Environmental Justice Task Force Meeting

The state’s body investigating the impacts of environmental harm to various communities in meeting on the Oregon coast for the first time. The Environmental Justice Task Force (EJTF) gives citizens a means...
Environmental Justice Task Force Forum

The state’s body investigating the impacts of environmental harm to various communities in meeting on the Oregon coast for the first time. The Environmental Justice Task Force is a means of delivering a...
Hike Siltcoos Lake Trail
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Pipeline Public Hearing

Coos County will hold a public hearing on an application by Pacific Connector for a pipeline crossing the county on Aug. 25, 1:30 p.m. in the Owen Building Large Conference Room (201 N. Adams) in Coquille.
Pacific Connector is the pipeline arm of the Jordan...
Geologic Mapping Meeting

The Oregon Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, August 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Portland State Office Building (800 N.E. Oregon St. in Portland).
The meeting agenda is available at ...
Movie Night - Leave It To Beavers

Join Lower Nehalem Watershed Council and Lower Nehalem Community Trust for Movie Night in the barn at Alder Creek Farm (35955 Underhill Lane in Nehalem). Settle in for a fun and educational evening. (No dogs allowed.)
“Leave it to...
Birdwalk at Crissey Field

Join the Kalmiopsis Audubon Society (KAS), and their birding representative Gary Maschmeyer, on a bird-watching outing to Crissey Field, site of the State Parks welcome center just north of the California border, and...
Webinar on Coastal Invasives
![]() Restoration of Bandon Marsh.\ Photo by Dave Ledig. |
Land Use Workshop

Oregon Shores is sponsoring a workshop designed to assist citizens who want to participate effectively in land use planning and other regulatory processes. It takes place on Thursday, Aug. 10, at 5 p.m. at the Lincoln City...