Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: After more than a century in existence, what have we learned from local Extension Services? When Ann Harris interviewed for her position at OSU Extension, she had no idea what a “land grant” university was. She also didn’t know how the Extension...
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: If you are interested in learning more, check out these additional resources: Blacks in Oregon – Oregon Encyclopedia Black in Oregon: 1840-1870 online exhibit – Oregon State Archives Hear in the Gorge episode #4, Oregon Trail Written records,...
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: Update! The following resources were shared during the lecture by Bill Weiler: Oregon Master Naturalists Program Friends of the Columbia River Gorge The Columbia River is home to some incredible wildlife species; some are unknown to many, while...
Watch Lecture Recording Here! ¡Mira l grabación de la conferencia aquí! Lecture Description: Below is a link to a community resource that Gladys shared during the lecture: Youth Empowerment Shelter located in the Dalles, OR What’s it like to grow up in the Gorge? Gladys Rivera considers herself...
Watch Lecture Recording Here! Lecture Description: In 1980, Seth Tibbott founded Turtle Island Foods, now the “Tofurky Company”, on $2,500 savings from his 8-year career as a teacher/naturalist. The company’s first product was a tasty fermented Indonesian soy product called Tempeh. Many people,...
Watch Lecture Recording Here! Below are the COVID resource links that speakers Emily & Chuck shared during the lecture: www.ctuircovid.info yellowhawk.org seattlefoundation.smapply.org/prog/tribal_entities_all_in_wa/ Lecture Description: News sources have reported on the disproportionate ways...
An extraordinary time in Oregon history occurred in central Oregon when a religious sect from India set up an experiment on an abused cattle ranch outside Madras. In the 1980s, the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh...
First-person storytelling has a unique power to deepen our understanding of the histories, cultures, and environment that surrounds us. Confluence Story Gatherings are welcoming forums that feature the stories of Native elders, leaders and thinkers, told in their own voices, as a way...
The Hood River Watershed sustains the Hood River Valley in countless ways – we depend on the river for agriculture, drinking water, recreation, industry, supporting native fish populations, and much more. Natural and...
In the early 1900s a Finnish community settled in the Hood River Valley. In particular the Annala, Hukari, and Jakku families. Why did they journey to the United States from Finland and then to the mines of Minnesota, plains of North Dakota, and finally to the West coast and the Columbia...
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: After more than a century in existence, what have we learned from local Extension Services? When Ann Harris interviewed for her position at OSU Extension, she had no idea what a “land grant” university was. She also...
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: If you are interested in learning more, check out these additional resources: Blacks in Oregon – Oregon Encyclopedia Black in Oregon: 1840-1870 online exhibit – Oregon State Archives Hear in the Gorge episode #4,...
Watch lecture recording here! Lecture Description: Update! The following resources were shared during the lecture by Bill Weiler: Oregon Master Naturalists Program Friends of the Columbia River Gorge The Columbia River is home to some incredible wildlife species; some...
Watch Lecture Recording Here! ¡Mira l grabación de la conferencia aquí! Lecture Description: Below is a link to a community resource that Gladys shared during the lecture: Youth Empowerment Shelter located in the Dalles, OR What’s it like to grow up in the Gorge?...
Watch Lecture Recording Here! Lecture Description: In 1980, Seth Tibbott founded Turtle Island Foods, now the “Tofurky Company”, on $2,500 savings from his 8-year career as a teacher/naturalist. The company’s first product was a tasty fermented Indonesian soy product...
Watch Lecture Recording Here! Below are the COVID resource links that speakers Emily & Chuck shared during the lecture: www.ctuircovid.info yellowhawk.org seattlefoundation.smapply.org/prog/tribal_entities_all_in_wa/ Lecture Description: News sources have reported...
An extraordinary time in Oregon history occurred in central Oregon when a religious sect from India set up an experiment on an abused cattle ranch outside Madras. In the 1980s, the Indian...
First-person storytelling has a unique power to deepen our understanding of the histories, cultures, and environment that surrounds us. Confluence Story Gatherings are welcoming forums that feature the stories of Native elders, leaders and thinkers, told...
The Hood River Watershed sustains the Hood River Valley in countless ways – we depend on the river for agriculture, drinking water, recreation, industry, supporting native fish populations,...
In the early 1900s a Finnish community settled in the Hood River Valley. In particular the Annala, Hukari, and Jakku families. Why did they journey to the United States from Finland and then to the mines of Minnesota, plains of North Dakota, and finally to the...