PONDERosa: Nature Talks in the Trees Weekly Talks Given By Forest Service Specialists
Beginning Thursday, July 6, the Deschutes National Forest’s Cascade Lakes Welcome Station will be hosting an eight week speaker series, PONDERosa: Nature Talks in the Trees at 10am every Thursday through August 24.
Each week a different Deschutes National Forest specialist will give a 30 minute talk about a different aspect of Central Oregon’s unique landscape. Talks will be held on the Welcome Station’s patio and may include short hikes into the nearby forest to examine specimens. The PONDERosa talks are free and audiences of all ages are welcome to attend.
The following talks are scheduled for the PONDERosa series:
⦁ July 6, “Volcanoes of the Cascade Lakes Highway,” Deschutes & Ochoco National Forest Geologist
⦁ July 13, “Making Your Home Defensible in a Fire-Adapted Ecosystem,” Central Oregon Fire Management Service Fire Prevention, Education & Mitigation Technician
⦁ July 20, “Hydrology and Fisheries of the Upper Deschutes River Basin,” Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District Fish Biologist and Hydrologist
⦁ July 27, “What Am I Walking On?: Soil Diversity Across the Deschutes National Forest,” Bend-Fort Rock & Crescent Ranger Districts Soil Scientist
⦁ August 3, “Fire in the Central Oregon Landscape,” Central Oregon Fire Management Service Fire Ecologist
⦁ August 10, “What’s Bugging Our Forest: An Introduction to Insects in Central Oregon,” Deschutes National Forest Etymologist
⦁ August 17, “What is White-Nose Syndrome?: Protecting Central Oregon’s Bats,” Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District Wildlife Biologists
⦁ August 24, “Archeology on the Deschutes National Forest,” Deschutes National Forest Archeologist
The Cascade Lakes Welcome Station is located west of Bend just past mile marker eight on the Cascade Lakes Highway (Forest Road 46) at 18390 Century Drive, Bend, Oregon.
For more information, please contact Jaimie Olle, Cascade Lakes Welcome Station lead ranger: jaimiemolle@fs.fed.us or (541)383-5453.
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Jean Nelson-Dean
Public Affairs Officer
Forest Service
Deschutes National Forest
p: 541-383-5561
c: 541-280-3469
jnelsondean@fs.fed.us
63095 Deschutes Market Road
Bend, OR 97701
www.fs.usda.gov/main/deschutes/home
www.fs.fed.us
