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Fall Recap + Wild and Scenic Film Fest

10/30/2025

Hello Community Science Friends!

Our community scientists have been busy exploring and learning from our watershed. Check out highlights below.

The Grande Ronde Model Watershed (GRMW) is hosting the Wild and Scenic Film Festival again this year. Y'all should come, watch some great films, and raise some funds for both GRMW and the Community Science Project via a silent and dessert auction. Details below.

Sending well wishes to each of your for a wonderful fall season.

□ Autumnal regards,
Carrie Caselton Lowe
Community Science Coordinator
Grande Ronde Community Science Project

Get your Wild and Scenic Film Festival tickets here.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is coming to La Grande on Nov. 7!
Enjoy a thoughtful lineup of short films that celebrate nature, science, and the landscapes we depend on. The program features Against the Herd, Aldo’s Bug Extravaganza, and Forestfire—a mix of creativity, curiosity, and real-world environmental stories. It’s about ninety minutes of films that inform, inspire, and even make you laugh.

While you watch,

Bid on unique local items and experiences through a silent auction—every dollar raised supports the Grande Ronde Model Watershed and their work restoring fish habitat and healthy rivers in our watershed.
Bid on delicious goodies via a dessert auction to support the Grande Ronde Community Science Project.

It’s a great night out and a wonderful way to help protect the places we love. Mark your calendar and join us for an evening that’s entertaining, meaningful, and full of good community spirit.

Community Science Fall Recap

This fall, our Community of Scientists investigated 16 sites in the Qapqápnim Weéle - Grande Ronde Watershed and included:

410 youth
19 watershed professionals, and
18 teachers
26 volunteers.

Click here to see some video highlights. If you are not on Instagram, click the X on the top right corner when prompted to sign in, then click the video to watch. Sound on for some extra love : )

We'll let you know when the data is available this winter!

Want to get involved? Have questions, comments, or ideas?
Reach out anytime!

email: [email protected]
www.granderondecommunityscience.org

Thank You to our
AWESOME Partners!

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Fall Kick Off

9/5/2025

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Grande Ronde Public Lands Day is Saturday, September 27!

To celebrate and support the gifts of our watershed, join us Saturday, September 27 from 9a-1p for the Grande Ronde Public Lands Day at Ladd Marsh Nature Area.

The public is invited to engage in hands-on projects like: Watershed Monitoring, Birding, Plant Walk, Site Clean Up, and Art activities

Free lunch for volunteers who RSVP.

Need help with transportation? Please let us know in the registration form.

This event is part of National Public Lands Day (NPLD) - an effort that started over 30 years ago and has inspired hundreds of thousands of volunteers to give back to our nation's public lands in all 50 states and US territories.

Find more info here.
Be sure to RSVP!

Fall events are underway, and youth are investigating the watershed!

Here are Cove 8th graders investigating Catherine Creek State Park's side channel project!

We're working with new platforms - GLOBE Program + iNaturalist.

Wish us luck!

To help us better visualize our data, we are working with the GLOBE Program - a worldwide science and education program. Expect to see our water quality data showing up on this site throughout the season.

Now, teachers (and anyone) will be able to compare and visualze data from all over the world, including our very own data collected by our local youth.

To help us record biodiversity across the watershed, we created our very own iNaturalist project. The biodiversity data here is and will be collected by youth at our our events!