College hosts Wildlife Federation clinic
JENNIFER EGAN
Contributing Writer
Nineteen Northwest community
colleges were represented by 70
students and faculty members who
came together on April 5 to receive
hands-on training to create
environmental change on campuses.
This event was co-sponsored by the
National Wildlife Federation’s Campus
Ecology Program, Clackamas'
environmental
club
Helping
Everyone’s Environment Live (HEEL)
and the Environmental Learning
Center.
The event was held at the ELC and
the Lakeside Education Hall. The ELC
was transformed from a sludge pond
for Smuckers cannery. It provides an
example of campus enhancement
through natural wildlife habitat.
“I would love to have the ELC
actively involved to continue working
with HEEL, students, faculty,
administrators and the entire
community, bringing people together
to look at creative practices and
programs that increase biodiversity
and decrease the impact of human
activities,” said John LeCavalier,
director of the ELC.
College President John Keyser
opened the conference stressing the
importance of “linking arms to move
ahead as effectively as possible.
“Community colleges are ideally
suited to carry forward the agenda of
the conference because of our strong
ties to the community,” Keyser said.
Jim Lyons, director of community
based programs for the National
Wildlife Federation, called Clackamas
a “leading institution”.
Over the past eight years the NWF
has been involved in one-third of all
the colleges and universities in the
ELC offers
erosion
control
workshop
A three-session
workshop
on
“Erosion Control
Design for Profes
sionals” is being
offered at the John
Inskeep Environ
mental Learning
. Center beginning
Monday, April 28
from 6 to 9 p.m.
The second and
third
sessions
will be held on
Wednesday, April
30 from 6 to 9 p.m.
and Friday, May 2
from 3 to 6 p.m.
There is a $25 fee
for the course.
More information
is available by call
ing ext. 2351.
Early
Fall
Scheduling
Sessions will be
held during
the week of
May 19 - 23.
Call ext. 2213
Wednesday, April 16, 1997
United States with different
environmental programs. This special
focus on community colleges is an
important change as it is community
based.
Clare Bastable, campus ecology
organizer for the NWF, was the
organizer and facilitator of the
conference. She led the “Ecological
Advancement on the Community
College Campus” workshop.
“Clackamas is a model campus in
terms of the amount of active people
who are tuned into the environment
and that the structure (HEEL) is
already in place for great things to
continue happening,” said Bastable,
when asked why the conference was
held at Clackamas.
Bastable was able to accomplish one
of her main goals in establishing a
permanent network to share
information between the 19
community colleges attending.
Jessica Hamilton, Oregon organizer
for the Western Ancient Forest
Campaign and Columbia Basin
Institute, presented a workshop on
“Organizing for Environmental
Change”stressed the importance of
planning for specific environmental
events and setting goals. Student
feedback during this workshop named
apathetic students and lack of faculty
involvement on environmental issues
as the hardest challenge facing the
Environmental
movement
at
community colleges today.
Amy Carlson, campus organizer for
Student PIRG chapter at Lane
Community College, gave the workshop
“Fundraising for Environmental
Projects”. This workshop gave different
fundraising ideas and emphasized trying
to find alternatives to needing money.
Workshop topics included creating
a wildlife habitat on campuses,
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James Allison, an associate with the National Wildlife Federation, provided a
workshop on how to conduct successful environmental audits.
performing environmental audits,
waste reduction and recycling and
planning a successful Earth Day/Week.
Ken Eshelman, student coordinator
for HEEL, attributes the honor of
Clackamas hosting the event to the
success of HEEL’s environmental
efforts during the 1995-1996 school
year.
Plans are to make the environmental
conference an annual eVent for
northwest community colleges.
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