It's National Pollinator Week!
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Want to make your yard a haven for pollinators? Get inspired by this blog by GHCC Board President Marina Richie on turning her yard into a pollinator garden, and then check out some of the publications and resources available at the Xerxes Society to help you get started!
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CdV's Field Notes, 6/10/2019: Charismatic Microfauna
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I’m trained as a poet, and one of the things that gets hammered into poets is to notice what you notice. Get intimate with your subject; find the detail, detail, detail; show don’t tell; be precise!
During these first few weeks of summer at GHCC, we’re giving this intimate attention to bugs.
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What's the deal with Travel Management Planning?
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Travel Management Planning on the Wallowa-Whitman and Malheur National Forests (or lack thereof) has been getting some recent press, thanks to six eastern Oregon County Commissioners petitioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture to exempt these forests from the process. (Spoiler alert: This would be terrible for wildlife, water quality, and quiet recreation.)
Catch up on the issue in our recent blog post, which includes in full the letter we sent on the issue to U.S.D.A. Secretary Perdue late last month.
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Thank you so much to everyone who attended our Hellraiser event, or participated from afar through the Golden Raffle. We had an amazing night of merrymaking and fundraising, and are so grateful for the support and care you demonstrated for our work. We're already looking forward to the next time we get to raise some hell together!
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Public hearing for Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line
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Public hearings on the Boardman to Hemingway Transmission line (B2H) are starting this week. Our friends and co-objectors at Stop B2H desperately need folks to attend and testify as to why these transmission lines are terrible news for wildlife, historic sites, and public safety.
The Boardman to Hemingway (B2H) Transmission Line is planned to cross five eastern Oregon counties, with 1,228 transmission towers averaging 150’ high occupying a 305 mile clear cut. An estimated 11,000 acres of farm, forest and wildlands will be impacted, and 670 miles of new or reconstructed roads will be built for the installation and maintenance of the towers. Only residents within a half mile of the transmission line are being notified. We can't let this terrible project fly under the radar!
View the schedule and learn more about testifying here.
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GHCC works to connect, protect, and restore the diverse and beautiful Greater Hells Canyon Region its native species. Your support makes our work possible. Thank you!
Darilyn Parry Brown, Executive Director
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Interesting Bits
This month, we're rounding up some great resources to help you identify and protect your native pollinators!
- Native Plant Finder: Learn which plants really are meant to be in your backyard, and which are good for pollinators! Also includes butterfly ID tools.
- Million Pollinator Gardens project. Be one of the (now over a) million homes that provides food, water, and shelter for pollinators!
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Help us with our Lostine film project!
If you have film footage of you or loved ones in the Lostine River canyon, historic or current, and would be willing to share it with us for our advocacy work to save the Lostine from misguided logging, please reach out to Veronica. iPhone videos welcome!
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Reporting Damages on Public Lands
GHCC continues to advocate for Travel Management Planning on National Forests to protect the wild "resources" of our mission area. You can help our important advocacy work by reporting damages to public lands. If you see a meadow destroyed by "mudding," recent activity on a road or trail that is marked as closed, a user-created trail that crosses a stream, etc., please take a photo and use our reporting form to help us provide evidence for the immediate need for travel planning.
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Thank you to the Jubitz Foundation for funding our conservation work!
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