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| In Oregon, the beaches belong to the people. As part of Oregon's tradition of environmental stewardship, the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition serves as the guardian of the public interest for our coastal region. Oregon Shores is dedicated to preserving the natural communities, ecosystems and landscapes of the Oregon coast while conserving the public's access. Oregon Shores pursues these ends through education, advocacy, and engaging citizens to keep watch over and defend the Oregon coast. |
| | EVENTS | | | Wed Jan 11 Climate Project Reschedules Wetlands Talk for January 26 |   Mary Kentula
The meeting will feature speaker Mary Kentula, a wetland ecologist from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Western Ecology Division. She has studied and worked in Corvallis for over 30 years, earning both an MS in biology and a PhD in botany and aquatic ecology from Oregon State. Her research focus with the EPA includes monitoring and assessing wetlands at the regional and watershed scales, and restoration ecology of wetlands.
Kentula’s talk, entitled “Wetlands in the Landscape: Profiles as a Template for Decision Making," will address the ecological functions of wetlands and how decision- making can affect the services provided. She will also discuss how information, like the types collected for the Yaquina Estuary Conservation Plan Atlas, could be used in different ways to learn about the local landscape and provide insights that can guide decision-making.
A representative of the Wetlands Conservancy, authors of the atlas, will speak at our February meeting. View the atlas here.
 Contact: Paris Edwards, Climate Action Volunteer Coordinator, EMAIL
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| | | NEWS | | | Jan 23 Join Us for a Discussion of Climate Change and Water Supplies | Water supply and demand is already a crucial question in some coastal communities. Among the predicted effects of climate change are increased flooding during winter periods and prolonged droughts in summer and fall, and if these predictions play out, water availability could prove a major challenge to coastal communities.
Oregon Shores is hosting a panel discussion that will explore this topic on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m. in the Yachats Commons (located on Highway 101 in the center of town). Yachats is one of those coastal communities that is already concerned about sufficient water supply.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of our Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project.
Three Oregon State University professors will help coastal citizens understand the potential impact of climate change on water availability--both what we can predict now and what kinds of information will be needed in the future.
Ken Williamson, head of OSU’s School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, will lead off the panel and discuss the possible impacts of climate change on the coast’s infrastructure, and particularly on water supply facilities. Dr. Williamson, a part-time Yachats resident who is also a member of Oregon’s Environmental Quality Commission, specializes in environmental impact assessment, as well as in the treatment of biological, chemical and other hazardous waste.
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 Chris Surfleet
engineering, has also studied the effects of forest management on water quality and quantity in several coastal watersheds.
Support our climate program not only by attending, but by helping us reach out to others. Please invite anyone who might be concerned about their community’s water quality and quantity, not to mention the larger questions raised by climate change.
Those interested in climate change questions are welcome to volunteer to participate as the project moves into its second year in Lincoln County. Oregon Shores plans eventually to extend the project to the entire coastal region.
Contact: Paris Edwards, Climate Action Volunteer Coordinator, EMAIL
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MORE NEWS... | Jan 23 Catch Oregon Shores’ Act on Video
We have just completed our 40th anniversary year. Oregon Shores has a long history, and in all those decades we have deployed the full range of traditional techniques in seeking to preserve the landscapes and resources of the Oregon coast, from land use advocacy and court cases, to lobbying for public policies, to organizing volunteers through CoastWatch to actually walk the shoreline and report ... MORE | | Dec 28 2011 First Marine Reserves Become a Reality with New Year
Creation of a network of ecologically sound marine reserves has been an Oregon Shores priority for more than a decade. The Ocean Program has devoted much of its effort to the campaign to create such reserves. So we rang in the new year with a special sense of satisfaction. As 2012 began, fishing prohibitions went into effect on Oregon’s first two marine reserves, meaning that they became a ... MORE | |
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