The River Mile Network
An Education Program of the National Park Service
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The River Mile Community Gathering |
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Incorporating Crayfish Into Siuslaw Watershed Council's Elementary Education Programs
Wednesday May 25, 2022
3:30 to 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Presenter:
Tim Moffett, Education and Outreach Manager
Siuslaw Watershed Council
Tim Moffett, Education and Outreach Project Manager for Siuslaw Watershed Council, will detail how their organization incorporated crayfish studies into elementary education. Six classes, grades one through four, engaged in "riparian ecology" field trips at the BLM's Whittaker Creek Recreation Site in Oregon's Coast Range.
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Investigating Crayfish + Freshwater Ecosystems
Virtual Science Educators Training
May 26 and June 2, 2022
3:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time
FREE
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Learn to engage grade 2-12 students in fascinating crayfish studies in this hands-on STEAM workshop. Rick Reynolds, veteran educator and author of Investigating Crayfish + Freshwater Ecosystems, will team up with other partners from The River Mile Network to step you through student activities including scientific investigations in your local watershed. Gain confidence to participate with The River Mile's Crayfish Study to support important research by scientists and wildlife managers.
$100 stipend and other incentives available!!!
Join The River Mile's Crayfish Study! Financial assistance for crayfish project implementation is available.
Free Washington STEM Clock Hours are available.
Idaho Professional Development credit available at the going rate.
Course completion certificates for everyone!
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Thursday May 26th, 2022
7:30 – 9:30 am
Water Resource Leaders are Coming,
How ‘bout You?
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Please join these leaders:
- BiJay Adams, General Manager Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District
- Brooke Beeler, WA Department of Ecology Regional Director
- Jason Beesley, Modern Electric Water Company Water Superintendent
- Craig Borrenpohl, Post Falls Utilities Manager
- Jamie Brunner, ID Department of Environmental Quality
- Bob Cunningham, Irvin Water District #6 District Manager
- Marlene Feist, City Spokane Utilities Director
- Todd Henry, Vera Water and Power Director of Operations
- Rob Higgins, Deputy Mayor City of Spokane Valley
- Jeremy Jenkins, Spokane Aquifer Joint Board President
- Kristy Reed Johnson, Aquifer Protection District
- Rob Lindsay, Spokane County Environmental Services Administrator
- Brent Nichols, Spokane Tribe of Indians
- Terry Pickel, Coeur d’Alene Water Department Director
- Shane Sheppard, Consolidated Irrigation District General Manager
- Rebecca Stevens, Coeur d’Alene Tribe
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2022 Get Up, Get Out
River Cleanup
Spokane River
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Spring is here! Volunteer your time for 2022 Get Up, Get Out River Cleanup.
You can:
- Sign-up for a public cleanup date that is open to all:
- June 25 - University District/Downtown
- June 25 - Mission Park
- Sept 17 - Spokane River Valley Clean Up
- Work with Spokane River Forum to schedule a private cleanup date for your group, e.g.—school, church, or business.
- Organize a Do It Yourself (DIY) clean up.
They lead public and private cleanups, and provide supplies and disposal for any option.
Under the joint leadership of the Spokane River Forum and Spokane Riverkeeper, over 1,000 volunteers removed over 25,000 lbs. of trash and litter in 2021.
As the snows have melted, we can see that your help for 2022 is greater than ever. So please sign-up and let’s get after it.
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OSPI Informal/Non-Formal Science Educators Regional Workshops for 2022
- June 28 Central & Eastern Washington Meeting 3
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Global Council for
Science and the Environment
Saving Nature with Nature
Nature’s Endless Gifts and a Call for Unprecedented Actions
Ecosystem services are the gifts from nature that keep on giving. Coupled with the mobilization of global actions at scale, the combination can disrupt the current destabilization of the Earth’s climate system. This level of unprecedented actions is imperative to curb the staggering loss of biodiversity and to determine pathways to recover and restore what’s already been lost. In the last 50 years, more than 60 percent of the monitored wildlife population has declined. (Figure 1). At this rate, the irreversible and permanent losses to biological diversity across all systems will have far-reaching and grave impacts. Read on...
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CBEEN Spring Workshop Series Now Open!
Are you ready for Spring?
This free series of 60 minute virtual workshops is on Thursdays at 4pm Pacific / 5pm Mountail. It brings together some of the top names and organizations in outdoor learning from across North America. In addition to ideas and inspiration, participants will also receive a certificate of attendance, a discount code to access outdoor learning resources, and an entry for some great draw prizes!
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The River Mile Network Opportunities |
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Join the Crayfish Study and Contribute Valuable Data!
The River Mile Network under the supervision of Dr. Eric Larson, University of Illinois, is pleased announce that our new online data collection forms are ready for use!
Data from this project will help inform researchers about the species distribution throughout the Columbia River Watershed and beyond.
The project leaders are especially interested in locating and identifying species below Dry Falls in Eastern Washington AND in the Okanogan River region. They believe there is an undescribed species of crayfish in those places which have not been documented (geolocated and photographed for identification). You and your students may be the first to record new species of crayfish!
Join the study by completing the on-demand virtual crayfish training. For those in Washington, Oregon or Idaho, once you have completed the virtual on demand training you can be added your state permit. The permit allows for year-round data collection.
Without the research permit data may be collected May 1 to October 31 in Washington with a valid state fishing license and in waters open to crayfish fishing.
Anything you can do to help researchers will be of benefit!
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Volunteer Opportunities with The River Mile Network
There are a number of volunteer opportunities to help The River Mile Network. As the network continues to grow it is getting harder for a few people to make everything happen.
- November 2022 Crayfish Conference Chair
- Washington State Coordinator
- Watershed Facilitators
- Development Assistant--Finance
- Development Assistant--Online Library
- Development Assistant--Website
- Newsletter Editor
IIf you are interested in helping The River Mile in any of the above opportunities, please E-mail us!
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Connect with Others
There are several ways to connect with people, agencies and information on The River Mile Website.
Check out the "Connect with Others" page or join The River Mile Community.
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Have an upcoming event
you'd like us to promote?
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Our network partners are always on the move. If you would like to see your next event in our quarterly newsletter, please email us at Newsletter Submissions
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