Several kids and their parents got their hands dirty, planting a soon to be mighty tree at COCC. It was the all ages Pop-Up Pondo Planting Party. The event was a hands-on educational celebration of Ponderosa pine trees with COCC, Project Ponderosa and musician Ian Carrick. It was put on in honor of Arbor Day, where people learned
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Zoo is home to many critically endangered species, but perhaps none as rare as its newest arrivals: a trio of sihek (SEE-heck) kingfishers. Once native to the island of Guam, these tiny, brightly colored birds have been extinct in the wild for decades. Only 110 are left in the
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SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out. Plans announced this week by the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service call for releasing three to seven bears a year for five to 10 years to
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SEATTLE (KTVZ) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that the Oregon Department of Energy has been selected to receive $86.6 million through the Solar for All grant competition to develop long-lasting solar programs that enable low-income and disadvantaged communities to deploy and benefit from distributed residential solar. This award is part of the
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Conservation and public access are on equal footing with other considerations for U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands under a recently announced rule.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson announced last week that Bend’s Hayden Homes Amphitheater was chosen to receive the artist’s All At Once Sustainability Award for his 2022-2024 Meet The Moonlight World Tour. The award program acknowledges only a handful of outstanding venues, festivals and promoters around the world who excel in waste reduction
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Green Team student groups at Bend-La Pine Schools are working to reduce food waste throughout the district. and the efforts are showing success, officials said in an Earth Day update Monday. Student leaders, with the help of the sustainability department, have implemented waste audits, started and maintained composting programs, and promoted
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) —As part of Fred Meyer and QFC’s efforts aimed at ending hunger in the communities it serves, the grocer has donated 1,640,000 meals to local food banks in Oregon during 2023. Fred Meyer/QFC stores diverted almost 32,000 tons of product from the landfill during 2023 through the grocery rescue program. The program prevents
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SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) – Sunriver Resort, the Pacific Northwest’s treasured resort destination managed by CoralTree Hospitality, will plant more than 400 Ponderosa Pines around the Woodlands Golf Course on Arbor Day, Friday, April 26. For the second year running, a Ponderosa bare root seedling will be planted in honor of every guest who stays at
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University researchers have teamed with the Karuk Tribe of Northern California to create a novel computer simulation model that showcases Indigenous fire stewardship’s role in forest ecosystem health. Western scientists and land managers have become increasingly cognizant of cultural burning but its extent and purpose are generally absent from
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – World governments and other leadership bodies are taking vital steps to protect the ocean, but more progress is urgently needed, Oregon State University scientists reported Wednesday at the eighth Our Ocean Conference in Athens. “Highly protected areas can safeguard against destructive activities such as high-impact fishing, mining and drilling, allowing marine
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NEWPORT, Ore (KTVZ). – Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness. The finding, based on data collected over 13 years, is encouraging for Chinook salmon recovery efforts, said Kathleen O’Malley, an associate professor at Oregon State University
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COCC’s annual Earth Day Fashion Show on Friday featured students and faculty hitting the runway in outfits made from donations to the Clothing Connection. Our Bola Gbadebo served as emcee for the event.
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Climate action groups took to the streets of downtown Bend on Friday to demand climate action from local leaders and policymakers as part of the Global Day of Action — this year, focusing on the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels.
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In a sweeping win for climate and environmental advocates, the Biden administration on Friday finalized a rule to ban fossil fuel drilling on nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, alongside other major conservation actions. The Interior Department will block oil drilling on over 13 million acres
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A Bend animal rehabilitation center is seeing an uptick in calls this spring. Think Wild provides medical care for injured wildlife from Central and parts of Eastern Oregon. This time of year, squirrels and owls are the most common patients.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The latest Smoke Trends report from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality underscores the continuation of the trend of more summertime smoke due to wildfires, with Bend and Central Oregon one of the worst-hit regions. The report includes the addition of Air Quality Index, or AQI, data from the 2023 wildfire season,
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Students and staff of Central Oregon Community College and Oregon State University-Cascades are taking to the runway in honor of Earth Day during the annual Clothing Connection Fashion Show, with more than 40 models in donated clothing and accessories expected to walk at two shows, 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., on Friday, April 19, at the Bend campus’s Wille Hall.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Environmental Center is thrilled to host their family-friendly Earth Day Fair and Parade on Saturday, April 20th, from 11:30 am to 3 pm. This outdoor event features and celebrates our community through music and dance performances, local food vendors, businesses and nonprofits from across the region, electric car/bike demonstrations, an
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After two years of in-depth analysis, projections and input from government agencies, organizations and the public, Deschutes County’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee unanimously recommended to commissioners Tuesday that the “Moon Pit,” an aggregate mine east of Bend, become the county’s next landfill when Knott Landfill is full and closes in coming years.
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