by Deanna Rivera | Aug 25, 2017 | Environmental Concerns, International Rotary Programs
Rotary Youth Exchange is an awesome Rotary project that Southtowne participates in. Every year, our club hosts one student from another country and coordinates their year long stay here, and we also recruit, vett, and arrange the sending for several other students...
by Deanna Rivera | May 25, 2017 | Community Awareness, Environmental Concerns, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
The McKenzie River Trust was founded in 1989 and has grown in to a regional land trust, conserving and protecting more than 3400 acres of land in western Oregon. The vision is to sustain clean water, abundant fish and wildlife, and diverse natural resources forever....
by Deanna Rivera | Feb 9, 2017 | Environmental Concerns
Information on the US Army Corps of Engineers – USACE Willamette Valley Project – was presented by Wendy Jones, a natural resource manager. Her office does sensitive plant and animal monitoring, as well as cultural resource protection, general land...
by Southtowne Rotary | May 5, 2016 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns
The Salmon Watch Program was represented as our program at Rotary today. Here are a few notes from the presentation: Salmon Watch takes students on a field trip to where (and when) salmon are spawning, which is part of a larger curriculum. Often this is their first...
by Southtowne Rotary | Apr 14, 2016 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
As a board member and volunteer of WREN (Willamette Resources & Education Network), Ron Leonard shared with us what is happening with the ecosystems of the West Eugene wetlands. WREN is a private nonprofit on a mission to practice and promote land stewardship...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jan 7, 2016 | Environmental Concerns, Non-Profit
Today’s presentation is by John Mellgren from Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) and is about the decreasing wolverine population and protecting endangered species. Here are a few points from John’s presentation: WELC was founded in 1993 and has...
