by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 22, 2025 | Field Notes, Land Stewards
By Brianna Hungerford, Land Stewards Intern serving with Mt. Hood National Forest. Over the past three months serving as a Land Steward with Mt. Adams Institute, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service in the Mt. Hood National Forest, I’ve grown tremendously—both...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 6, 2025 | Field Notes, VetsWork
By Carl Cruz, VetsWork Intern serving with Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership in OR. As a Vetworks Intern with the Mt. Adams Institute, I am completing my term with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership (LCEP) in Portland, Oregon. This role has allowed me to develop...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 12, 2025 | Field Notes, Land Stewards
By Jeffery Martinez, Land Stewards Intern serving with Olympic National Forest in Washington. Hello, folks! My name is Jeff and I am 28 years old. I served in the US Army for six years as a cable technician. I was born and raised in Centralia, Washington. Although, I...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 12, 2025 | Field Notes, Land Stewards
By Delaney Skiles, Land Stewards Intern serving with King Conservation District in Washington. My time at KCD has reinforced that I truly enjoy connecting people with the natural world through education. From engaging youth at KCD’s native plant nursery volunteer...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 10, 2025 | Field Notes, VetsWork
By Ryan Robinson, VetsWork Intern serving with the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. Over the past several months, I’ve had the opportunity to serve in a unique and deeply fulfilling role by working in public land surveying and boundary marking on the Mark Twain...
by Mt. Adams Institute | May 9, 2025 | VW 2025
I grew up in South Florida where I took to marketing and media production at a very young age. I workedas an Aviation Electrician upon enlisting in the Navy. While the work was rewarding, I had a particularliking to photography and eventually studied graphic design. I...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Mar 17, 2025 | SOP 15, SOP Display, WRO
A community-centered, multimedia production features original music and storytelling in the Columbia River Gorge. Hood River, OR – Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place series will celebrate 15 years with a landmark event: The Watershed Rock Opera, a multimedia...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 28, 2025 | Field Notes, VetsWork, VW Display
Deonza speaks to the scope of work she’s accomplished as a GIS Specialist at Tongass Misty Fjord’s Kechikan, Alaska Ranger Station. By Deonza Mohamed I have been working as a GIS Specialist for the Tongass Misty Fjord’s Ketchikan AK Ranger Station since...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 21, 2025 | Field Notes, VetsWork, VW Display
VetsWork Intern Joesph Powell speaks to his time as an MAI intern working at the U.S. Forest Service. By Joseph Powell On June 17th 2024, I started my first day as a Vets Work intern with the U.S Forest Service. The internship brought me to Moose Pass, Alaska to serve...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 19, 2025 | SOP 15, SOP Display
Hood River, OR – March 12, 2025 – Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place series continues with “Beyond the Scrub: New Attention on Oregon White Oaks and Why They Matter,” featuring Lindsay Cornelius, East Cascades Oak Partnership Manager at the Columbia Land...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 18, 2025 | Board Member
Board Member Steve retired in 2020 from the City of The Dalles, Oregon as community development director. This position concluded his 40-year career as an urban planner for local governments in Oregon, California and New Mexico. During his career he collaborated with...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 7, 2025 | Field Notes, VetsWork, VW Display
Over the course of his internship Cooper Roberts learned a lot. Like…a lot, a lot. And he also helped to teach his supervisor some things along the way! “We threw him in the deep end of a mid-career GIS analysis process…a lot of times I felt like I was the guy...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 5, 2025 | SOP 15, SOP Display, WRO
Thank you to everyone who has reached out about tickets for The Watershed Rock Opera (WRO). We are excited to announce the dates for our pre-sale and general admission tickets – (and keep reading for more on this unique project…) FEBRUARY...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 31, 2025 | Field Notes, Land Stewards, LS 2024
Sophia Mosbrucker shares a memorable night as a Refuge Technician, where starlit skies, bullfrog calls, and teamwork come together. I’m standing still. There’s water up to my hips but I can feel only the cool tinge through my waders. It’s so dark. I’ve always been...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 29, 2025 | SOP 15, SOP Display
Hood River, OR – Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place series is proud to present “Of Salmon and Basketball: A Conversation with Buck Jones” on Wednesday, February 12, featuring an evening spent in conversation with Buck Jones, an enrolled Cayuse member of...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 24, 2025 | Field Notes, Land Stewards, LS 2024
Meet Nate Jensen, one of our incredible AmeriCorps interns working with the Willamette Resources and Educational Network (WREN) in the beautiful West Eugene Wetlands! Since May, Nate has jumped into environmental education headfirst, teaching K-12 students about local...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 17, 2025 | Field Notes, VetsWork, VW Display
Mt. Adams Institute intern Heriverto “Eddy” Colado takes us on an imaginative dive into the life of a Pacific Lamprey, and it’s encounter with a human researcher in the field. In this unique Field Notes entry, Eddy stages an unforgettable “interview”...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 11, 2025 | SOP Display
What is this Watershed Rock Opera, anyways?! Read about it in, Channeling the Stories of the Local Watershed, an article in the most recent edition of Oregon Humanities magazine in which producer, Sarah Fox, writes about the project’s origin-story and some Sense of...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 10, 2025 | SOP Display
The most recent edition of The Gorge Magazine featured a look back at 15-years of Sense of Place with their article Finding the Common Thread. Local writer, David Hanson, spoke with SOP’s Sarah Fox, program founder, Amanda Lawrence, and even dipped a toe into our...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Dec 30, 2024 | SOP 15, SOP Display
with Doug Thiesies -Hood River County Forester, Gary Paasch – mountain biker & trail-builder, and Arthur Babitz – County Commissioner and mountain biker Hood River, OR – January 15, 2025 – Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place series continues with “More Than...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Dec 20, 2024 | SOP Display
What has pears, wastewater wizards, rare carnivores, and music all wrapped up in one place?! The Watershed Rock Opera! Oregon Humanities headed out to the Gorge to talk with Sense of Place host/curator, Sarah Fox, City Manager Abigail Elder, and Lesley Tamura, 4th...
