An all star crew of arborists from Canopy Tree Company volunteered in late September to help SOLC keep our hiking trails safe for educational groups out at the Rogue River Preserve.
Canopy Tree Volunteers Help SOLC Fall Trail Hazards
Photos: Let's Pull Together stewardship day
Thanks for hiking, guiding and pulling
Learning from a stream instead of a screen
Oredson Todd Woods, a conserved park in Ashland, was abuzz recently with the excited and curious energy of lots of 4th and 5th graders. They left their indoor classrooms for the outdoors to attend our Loving the Land annual student camp. For a wonderful write up of the program, check out the Daily Tidings article by John Darling.
If you ever peer into a half-rotted log you might be so lucky to find a slippery pair of eyes staring back at you. If you’re extremely lucky those eyes could belong to a Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Usually seen wriggling through woody debris or eating a mildly toxic banana slug, these marbled beauties are found throughout western Oregon.