Exciting opportunities from our partner in conservation, McKenzie River Trust
**Waite Ranch Ethnobotany Tour: Saturday, April 16, 1000-1200
https://give.mckenzieriver.org/event/ethnobotany-tour-of-waite-ranch-or-april-16th/e396685
Join McKenzie River Trust and Ashely Russell for an ethnobotany tour at Waite Ranch. Ashley Russell is the Water Protection Specialist for the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians. She is a Coos (Miluk) Tribal Member and has been recognized for her knowledge of culturally significant species, including Tribal first foods and weaving materials.
** Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe.
Waite Ranch Bird Tour https://give.mckenzieriver.org/event/bird-tour-of-waite-ranch-or-april-23rd/e398231 Saturday April 16, 0900-1100
Join McKenzie River Trust to discover the birds found at Waite Ranch. Jim Regali and Vjera Thompson will be our ornithology guides for this walking tour.
Waite Ranch is about 3 miles from Florence, just east of the Cushman Bridge between Hwy. 126 and the Siuslaw River.
In 2010,MRT bought the Waite property, intending to restore it to its historic ecological state as a tidal wetland by re-establishing full tidal exchange to the property.
