Hells Bells, March 2018

Tickets are selling fast for our first ever Hellraiser! It's going to be a rocking fun time and we fully expect to sell out. Register today to secure your spot!

May 4, 2018, 5:30 p.m. @ The Evergreen, Portland, OR

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GHCC Gets Out in the Woods With Go-ASAP Kids

Students enjoying the fragrance of grand fir needles.

GHCC staffers Brian Kelly and Hatham Al-Shabibi ventured into the Mount Emily Recreation Area earlier this month with Union County students as part of GHCC's partnership with EOU's Go-ASAP program.

Go-ASAP introduces outdoor recreation and healthy habits to local middle school students, facilitating easy access to wild spaces and equipment. Program leader Professor Kelly Rice and her assistants take the kids hiking, skiing, mountain biking, and snowshoeing, and the program culminates in an overnight backpacking trip.

This year, GHCC is getting to tag along and talk local ecology during some of the activities. The first topic? Trees!

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Wildlife Watchers 2017 Recap

GHCC's Wildlife Watchers program uses motion-triggered trail cameras to track wildlife on National Forests. The program is conducted in partnership with the Forest Service; GHCC volunteers help provide important wildlife data to the agency that in turn informs management decisions on our public lands. You can read the recap of our 2017 season here.

If you're interested in volunteering for the 2018 season, please contact Brian.

Action Alert: Stop the Boardman to Hemmingway Transmission Line

Our friends at the Stop B2H Coalition have been working tirelessly to halt the production of this unnecessary power transmission line, which threatens to fragment sage grouse habitat and mar the beloved viewsheds of Eastern Oregon.

The Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) is meeting on April 10th. Stop B2H needs the public to contact OPUC and ask that the project be sent back to the drawing board. Check out Stop B2H's helpful instructions on how to comment here.

Senator Wyden's Town Hall Meetings

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will be touring Eastern Oregon in the first week of April. (View the full schedule here.) He will be in La Grande on April 3rd at 3:00 p.m., meeting at EOU in Zabel Hall’s Lewis Auditorium (room 101). Don't miss this chance to speak to your elected representative about your values, environmental and otherwise!

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GHCC works to connect, protect, and restore an extraordinarily diverse and beautiful wild area and its native inhabitants in the Northwest. Your support makes our work possible. Thank you!

~ Darilyn Parry Brown, Executive Director

Upcoming Events

May 4: HELLRAISER
May 10: Heather Swan Reading

Interesting Bits

Do you ever feel like you're living in a science fiction novel? No? Let's fix that:

Japanese researchers are creating robotic "bees" as a solution for pollination in the face of massive bee die-off. "Eijiro Miyako... has designed what he believes could one day be a partial solution: an insect-sized drone capable of artificial pollination." The drones are not autonomous... yet.
SoFi (a Soft Robotic Fish) might soon be patrolling the oceans to help scientists study the effects of climate change and human activity on marine life--without startling her biological counterparts."This foot-and-a-half long robot mimics a real fish. She can swim in the ocean at speeds up to half-its-body-length a second and at depths up to 60 feet below the surface."

Sponsor of the Month:

Thank you to the Burning Foundation for supporting our conservation work!

GHCC Wishlist

We're always looking for a few things. Your donation is tax deductible, and helps us save time and money. Thank you!

Refrigerator--our office fridge is dying and smells like it already has!
Air purifier
1st class stamps
Postcard stamps

Thank you EarthShare Oregon for supporting us through your workplace giving campaigns! Learn how to donate a portion of your wages to Oregon causes here.

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