2018 Review
In 2018, we had record attendance for our one-week watershed Exploration Camp!
Fifty students, ranging from fourth grade through high school, traveled throughout the Siuslaw Watershed engaging in a wide range of outdoor learning and recreational activities. While most of the students came from the Siuslaw and Mapleton School Districts, we were also joined by students from as far away as Portland.
As part of our 2018 programming, campers traveled to various sites throughout the Siuslaw Watershed and Coastal Lakes. This year the sites were on the Coastal Dunes, at Siltcoos Trail, Honeyman State Park, Sutton Lake, Camp Lane, and the Florence beaches. Activities included a scotch broom pull, a transect at Tree Island, sandboarding, Snowy Plover biology and habitat, bird-watching, hiking, boating, field games, a canoe pull, water quality monitoring, a traditional tribal tea, removing Japanese knotweed, making fish prints, freshwater ecology, orienteering, volleyball, forestry, a scavenger hunt, and horseback riding.
Watershed camp is made possible by the generosity of many organizations and watershed council members and donors. The Siuslaw Watershed Council and Camp staff would like to extend a sincere thank you to the following for their contribution to this year’s camp: The Ford Family Foundation, Siuslaw School District, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, Western Lane Community Foundation, Mapleton Community Foundation, the Rotary Club of Florence, Fred Meyer, Sand Dunes Frontier, C&M Stables, Sandmaster Park, Honeyman State Park, Florence area Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program, the US Forest Service, Camp Lane, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Roseburg Forest Products, Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors (ECO), Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and many local volunteers. Also a special thank you to those SWC members who donated to our annual Sponsor-A-Camper for scholarships offered to several campers this year.
Thank you for making this valuable opportunity for our youth possible.
