Saturday, February 1st, Johnson Creek Watershed Council (JCWC) Speak Creek intern, Melanie, hosted “Oh Deer!” a bilingual event at Leach Botanical Garden. Read below about Melanie’s experience at Johnson Creek Watershed Council Speak Creek as a Russian language intern, and continue scrolling for pictures and the Russian text of this blog piece Melanie wrote as […]
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Written by: Katie Holzer, Watershed Scientist for the City of Gresham. Bugs can tell us a lot about a creek. Which species live there, what they eat, and how sensitive they are to pollution can give us a lot of information about the health of the creek. We have been studying macroinvertebrate communities (i.e., the […]
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Every September we host several fun-filled educational events. For 2019, we have three. All events are free, but registration is required. Please follow the links below to register. Saturday, September 7, Noon, Science in the Park Please join us to hear stories and learn about our crawly creek friends from master storyteller, Ed Edmo, and […]
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“You get a line, I’ll get a pole, honey You get a line, I’ll get a pole, babe You get a line, I’ll get a pole We’ll go down to the crawdad hole Honey, babe of mine” -Woodie Guthrie’s Crawdad Song on his album Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Envision a park scene, buzzing with […]
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