Camp out to connect with each other in a rare ecosystem, to celebrate solstice, and to help our partner Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation gather data about bumblebee populations in remote parts of our mission area.

Channelization has had major effects on the riparian systems of the West, which evolved to rely on frequent flood disturbance to create channel complexity and redistribute nutrients.

At the end of May, a GHCC volunteer and I travelled down the lower Imnaha River canyon to help a threatened plant species, Macfarlane’s four-o-clock.

At recent event to restore native plants in the Grande Ronde Valley, students from Oak Haven School created “seed balls” of native plants and then threw them out to sprout in the spring rains.