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Long
Tom Watershed Council
751 South Danebo Ave.,
Eugene, OR. 97402
Dana
Erickson,
Watershed Coordinator/
Executive Director,
Ph: 541-683-6578
Cindy
Thieman,
Restoration & Monitoring
Program Director,
Ph: 541-683-2983
Amanda
Wilson,
Fiscal Manager,
Ph: 541-683-6949
Christy
Yost,
Outreach & Admin Specialist,
Ph: 541-683-6949
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Education
and Outreach
MONTHLY
MEETINGS & TOURS
Our goal is to share knowledge and perspectives to build a
common understanding about issues and conditions in the watershed.
At each monthly council
meeting our agenda includes a guest speaker or tour as
well as business.
Outdoor tours have included: farms, forests, wetlands, urban
creeks, a wastewater treatment plant, and restoration projects.
Guest speakers focus on adult education and have covered topics
like: drinking water protection, water quality monitoring,
forest practices, watershed analysis, consensus, fish species
and habitat, groundwater, restoration, hydrology and water
use, riparian and wetland conditions, landscape history, farming,
stormwater and urban creek restoration, nutrients and polluted
runoff. |
FAIR BOOTHS
From the first year when volunteer Paul Reed built the watershed
council booth for the Lane County Fair we’ve been
a strong presence there, even winning the People’s
Choice Award in 2000 in conjunction with other councils!
This effort takes about 50 volunteers who introduce visitors
to watershed concepts and Councils.
We’ve also had a presence at Eugene Celebrations,
Earth Day Celebrations, and the Oregon Country Fair with
a booth the first year, “factoid” signs at drinking
water stations, and a now permanent interpretive station
for the Indian Creek Restoration Project. |
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WORKSHOPS
The Council has conducted workshops on water quality training,
proper functioning condition of riparian areas, farm conservation,
working together in successful groups, stream restoration,
fish and their habitat needs, and many other subjects. In
upcoming years we will cover similar topics and hope to include
new ones. |
NEWS
COLUMNS
Since early 2000, the West Lane News and Tri-County News have
carried a monthly column for which the Long Tom Watershed
Council submits factual articles directly related to the local
area. Volunteer editors recruit guest columnists for each
one, covering a range of topics including: the history of
the Long Tom River, Fern Ridge Reservoir and channelization
of the lower river, macroinvertebrates, water quality monitoring,
western pond turtles, instream flows, E. Coli, fish species,
and even how the Long Tom River was formerly a tributary of
the Siuslaw River and flowed to the Pacific! |
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