Re: Interested in getting ideas for an env club-Outdoor Program trip to promote conservation of wild areas...

[Hanna Davis]

Amanda and Amy,

Thanks for including me on this!  This sounds like a great activity.  As Eclub gets busier and busier as the year progresses, I'm unsure of our availability as a collective group.  What I can do right now, even though I hate to just bounce you around from person to person, is put you in contact with the leader of our Outreach Taskforce.  Two Saturdays a month, members of the Eclub attend an activity together, something off campus that is service related or outdoorsy.  So, your idea fits perfectly into this category.  As far as savvy naturalists, Keith Nevison comes to mind.  I'm going to CC both Kenzie Eiden, leader of the Outreach Taskforce, and Keith in this email.

I hope this helps.  Have a restful weekend,

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Amanda Leece <amand...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Amy,

Sorry it has taken me a week to get back to you, I am sure you can relate the craziness of midterms. Any way, I think that your idea is very interesting and I would love to talk to you more about it. I am actually not affiliated with the Environmental Club but I work for the Sustainability Leadership Center and coordinator the Sustainability Volunteer Program. We are always looking for new projects and ways of engaging students in Sustainability. Would you like to meet sometime to talk more about your ideas. I have time available for next week if you are free. Shoot me a couple ideal times and we can plan a half hour to an hour meeting. Also I sending this email to Hanna Davis who is the coordinator of the Environmental Club.

Take care,
Amanda Leece

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From: Amy Goodwin <amy.go...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:21 PM
Subject: Interested in getting ideas for an env club-Outdoor Program trip to promote conservation of wild areas...
To: amand...@gmail.com


Hi Amanda,

I work with the Outdoor Program as an assistant trip leader and am interested in proposing a trip that will either teach or just inform PSU students about some issues involving Oregon's wild areas. I got the idea from BARK's program, where they take a group of folks out to forested areas that are in the process of being either sold or cut for lumber.. But these trips can also have a more broader perspective, say, taking students out to the Sandy River, doing a hike, and incorporating a talk about salmon. I am an environmental systems undergrad and have some sense of environmental issues going on, but am not too educated on it. I would also be interested if there were any folks within the env club that are knowledgeable in these issues and could be sort of a naturalist, talking about the issue as we hike. Unfortunately, our trips include a fee which provides the transportation, but we have had service trips in the past where the fees have been reduced because a service was provided. If we can encompass some sort of service with this trip it may be beneficial for students... I know this is a lot, pretty big idea, but I am interested in getting something like this together to benefit the env club as well as PSU students who may be interested in these issues but don't have a means of getting out to these wild areas to actually see what's happening.

Take your time and think about it,

Amy Goodwin
PSU Outdoor Program
Assistant Trip Leader

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Hanna Davis
Portland State University
Environmental Club Coordinator
503.505.2410

[Keith Nevison]

     I'd be very interested in contributing to this project.  As Hanna mentioned, I have naturalist experience and know quite a bit about local environmental issues, being a member of both BARK and Oregon Wild.  Also, I know Trackers NW runs a number of outdoor summer programs for students, teaching them primitive skills and giving them the opportunity to reconnect with nature.  They might have some useful information about how to lead a successful and informative trip in nature.
     Do you have any specific dates in mind or your trips?  I'd love to sit down and have a meeting with you to discuss your plans.  I love the Sandy River and can speak about dam removal and river restoration as these are issues near to my heart.  In fact, I am hoping to teach a Chiron Studies course on salmon issues in the PNW for Fall 2011.
     Please let me know where you'd like to go from here.

-Sincerely,
Keith Nevison

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Keith Nevison
Student Garden Liaison
Portland State University
503.725.5598
knev...@pdx.edu