Rogue Valley Independent Media Center

NEST BENEFIT SATURDAY AUGUST 11TH!!!

justin, 06.08.2007 11:53

EVENT WILL PRESENT A RARE GLIMPSE INTO THE CANOPY OF ANCIENT FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, ENDANGERED BY A BLM PLAN TO FRAGMENT THESE LAST REMAINING OLD GROWTH ISLANDS WITHIN THE ILLINOIS RIVER VALLEY.

August 11th at the Takilma Community Building
6:00 pm Dinner & Social
7:00 Slideshow presentation by NEST
8:30 Music by the One Love Family Band

NEST

Large Cedar in BLM unit

This is a benefit for the Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team (NEST), Saturday August, 11th, 6pm at the Takilma Community Building (9367 Takilma Rd, Cave Junction OR). The suggested donation is $7-$20. Gurmet Organic dinner and deserts by Kate Dwyer will be available for purchase. Following dinner there will be a multi media presentation by NEST, an art auction and dancing. Music will be performed by The Takelma One Love Family Band. All proceeds go to funding NEST's important work surveying timber sales in our area!

NEST NEEDS YOUR HELP TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE ITS IMPORTANT WORK!

In the old growth forests of the Illinois and Rogue Valleys, researchers with the Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team, climb high up into the canopy to locate nests of the elusive Oregon red tree vole. The Oregon red tree vole is an important indicator species for forest health that provides food for a host of old-growth dependent species. Through their efforts the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is required to protect all-known locations with a 10 acre buffer, designed under the survey & manage protocol to protect some of the last remaining old growth habitat. Less than 5 % of native old growth forests still exists. The BLM plans to log much of this last remaining old growth habitat within the Rogue & Illinois Valleys, despite public opposition. Learn about recent changes to the Northwest Forest Plan, court challenges, and updates on local logging sales.

Listen to a recent MP3 interview on JPR with NEST organizer Laura Beaton.
http://www.ijpr.org/audio/Red Tree Vole 7-16-07.mp3

Contact Mary Camp - Deer Creek Assoc. 541-597-4313 or Lisa Rohde - Siskiyou Project 541-592-4459 or lisa@siskiyou.org - for more information.