What's Happening
Calendar of Events
June 3-4: Bumblebee survey - campout or day trip - details below
June 17-19: Morgan Nesbitt Proposed Logging Project Campout
July TBD: Naturalist hike with Pip Redding in the Twin Lakes area
July 15/16: Trail work party with WMHCTA
Early August TBD: Bumblebee survey
August 14: Community dinner in Enterprise
Fall TBD: Beaver Coexistence talk @ Wallowology
October 28: Annual Fall Gala in La Grande
Contact nash@hellscanyon.org for information or to RSVP
Bumblebee Surveys
Contact christina@hellscanyon.org for information or to RSVP
Trip 1: June 3-4, 2023 - Full moon campout and day trip options
Trip 2: Early August TBD - let us know if you are interested!
Get excited! Once again this summer, GHCC will partner with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation on the Bumblebee Atlas project — a community science initiative supporting pollinator conservation across the Pacific Northwest. Many of you have joined us for bumblebee surveys in prior summers; it’s always a good time!
This year, we’ve been asked to return to the sites where we first surveyed, and to do so around the same time of year — which means we’re headed back to Buckhorn Lookout and Cemetery Ridge in early June, to snag bumblebees off wild rosebushes, etc.
We're thrilled that Janet Hohman, who literally just wrote the book on the Wildflowers of Hells Canyon, will be joining us for this event to help with plant IDs. Anyone who's spent any time with Janet knows that you couldn't ask for a better companion for a June outing.
You’re invited! Join us for a casual full moon campout and potluck the night of Saturday, June 3, and/or for a day of surveying on Sunday, June 4.
This family-friendly outing will give you an opportunity to get up close and personal with our cuddliest pollinator, contribute significantly to an important regional conservation effort, and hang out with nerdy and curious friends in a spectacularly beautiful place.
Blue mountains Trail Events
User and Stakeholder Survey - coming soon!
June 3-13 - series of two-day work parties in Twin Lakes area (Section 1 of BMT)
July 15/16 - WMHCTA led work party
July TBD - Naturalist hike led by Pip Redding, BMT Coordinator
Contact pip@hellscanyon.org for information or to RSVP
iNaturalist Beaver Surveys
A fun activity for kids of all ages. The added bonus is that your participation helps our regional ecologists and land managers better protect and restore important riparian habitat. Check out more information here.
iNaturalist is a great citizen science app that can inspire and connect you to science projects in the region you live and around the world. It's just one way you can help connect, protect and restore our environment. Join, grab a friend, and help our regional environment!
2023 Fall Gala and Auction
Saturday, October 28 at 5pm
Join us in La Grande to celebrate the Greater Hells Canyon Council at our annual in-person Fall Gala. We'd love to see you at a fun-filled event, featuring a local foods dinner, music, silent auction, and a presentation about our work.
More details to come!
Earth Day Oregon 2023
April 22, 2023