Background
GRMW ProjectsMeetings, Activities, Events
- GRMW Board Meetings & Minutes
- Other Meetings, Activities & Events
- GRMW Public Outreach Events
GRMW Board Meetings
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Board of Director meetings take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. and alternate between Elgin and Wallowa. The next Board meeting is scheduled for July 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 p.m., at the Wallowa Community Center in Wallowa. If you need more information about this meeting, contact the GRMW office. |
GRMW Board Meeting Minutes
Select a meeting date to view the GRMW Board of Director meeting notes (in PDF document format):
Other Meetings, Activities and Events
Check here for upcoming meetings, activities and events.
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GRMW Public Outreach Events
Listed below are some of the public outreach activities the GRMW has been involved with.
2007 Oregon State University Class Tour of Grande Ronde Basin
From June 18–22, nine Oregon State University (OSU) graduate students and faculty members were hosted by the Grande Ronde Model Watershed and Wallowa Resources for a field course in water governance. OSU students and faculty met with the GRMW staff, board members, and partners and followed up with a four day tour of restoration projects in the Grande Ronde Basin. The Summer 2007 issue of the Ripples has an article about the OSU tour.
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OSU students and faculty meet GRMWP staff, board members and partners. |
Tour at Catherine Creek State Park. Photo courtesy OSU. |
Tour at Wallowa River McDaniels Project. Photo courtesy OSU. |
2007 Outreach Activities
The Grande Ronde Model Watershed celebrated Arbor Day throughout the month of April with various activities that resulted in the planting of 1,000 Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine tree seedlings. Other educational activities this spring included the La Grande Middle School Sixth Grade Outdoor School with the 130 students. The students were shown wildlife replicas and learned about animal tracks, scat, teeth and skulls. Wallowa Resources hosted its annual Watershed Festival at the Enterprise Fairgrounds. The GRMW helped visitors make fish prints. The various materials used during these educational activities were purchased with funds through an Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board educational grant. The Summer 2007 issue of the Ripples has an article about GRMW outreach activities.
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Planting trees at "Arts for All". |
Fish Prints at Wallowa Resource's Watershed Festival. |
La Grande Middle School Sixth Grade Outdoor |
2006 Wallowa County Tour
The GRMW and Wallowa Resources sponsored a tour highlighting a variety of water uses in the Wallowa Valley. Tour stops included the Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries Program adult weir on the Lower Lostine River, the site of a potential wetland creation and enhancement project, the Wallowa Lake Dam, and the 2005 Oregon Department of State Lands Statewide Stream Restoration Award winning McDaniel/Wallowa River Channel Relocation Project.
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Tour at Wallowa R. McDaniel's project. Photo courtesy Ted Taylor. |
Tour at Wallowa R. McDaniel's project. Photo courtesy Ted Taylor. |
Tour at Wallowa Lake Dam. |
2006 Sixth Grade Outdoor School at Spring Creek
Approximately 100 sixth graders from Union County schools headed up to Spring Creek Campground for a day of exploring the outdoors. There were several outdoor stations that included GRMW ’s Wildlife Station, a Compass Station, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s Fish Habitat Station, and La Grande Middle School Eighth Grader’s Tree Planting and Insect Stations.
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GRMW Wildlife Identification Station |
CTUIR Fish Habitat Station |
LMS Tree Planting Station |
2006 Free Fishing Day
The Fifth Annual Free Fishing Day was sponsored by the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, GRMW and Wal Mart. There were 125 children from the ages of 14 and younger fishing. Congratulations goes out to Kaleb Giese for bringing in the biggest fish for the day, measuring in at 19 5/8”.
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Union County Graffiti Removal at Riverside Park
On May 20 2006, Eastern Oregon University’s Cornerstones Program partnered with AmeriCorp, the Grande Ronde Model Watershed, Union County Public Works, and SOLV to sponsor a graffiti removal project at Riverside Park in La Grande. The 43 volunteers removed more than 30 bags of weeds and litter from the park and from the adjacent landowner’s property. Besides the sponsors, volunteers included EOU students and staff, La Grande Head Start, La Grande Middle and High School students, Training and Employment Consortium’s Work Crews, and local citizens.
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Graffiti on bridge over Grande Ronde River. |
Picking up trash. |
Volunteers for cleanup. |
Wallowa County Community Cleanup
In previous years the GRMW had helped to clean up a single location in Wallowa County. In 2006 the GRMW subsidized coupons for a single free use of the Ant Flat Landfill during the month of May. This was a great accomplishment for 22 volunteers and 311 families that filled the Ant Flat Landfill with 183,950 pounds of garbage/debris.
Wallowa Resources Watershed Festival
The GRMW participated in Wallowa Resources' Second Annual Watershed Festival for families in celebration of Wallowa County’s natural resources and their importance to the community. The event took place at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds in Enterprise. There were interactive educational booths from various local agencies that included Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), Farm Services Administration (FSA), Nez Perce Tribe (NPT), and Wallowa County Weed Control: non-profits including the Grande Ronde Model Watershed (GRMW), Wallowa Resources (WR), Blue Mountain Wildlife, International Center for the Advancement of Pastoral Systems (ICAPS) also featured educational booths.
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Union and Wallowa Co. River Clean-ups
2000 Union Co. stream crossing clean-up. |
Starting in 2000, the GRMW helped to organize and sponsor volunteer events to remove debris from streams/rivers and the riparian zone. Union County locations included Haywire Creek and the Grande Ronde at Riverside Park. Wallowa County locations were at Troy on the Lower Grande Ronde River, Wallowa River above Wallowa Lake, and near the confluence with the Minam River. |
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