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Living Downstream is a program for people who'd like to learn about environmental topics of interest in the Umpqua Watershed of southern Oregon and the larger Pacific Northwest region. It is coordinated by the AmeriCorps member serving as the Environmental Education & Outreach Leader for the Umpqua Watershed organization in an effort to bring awareness of environmental issues to a wider audience.
Living Downstream is a program for people who'd like to learn about environmental topics of interest in the Umpqua Watershed of southern Oregon and the larger Pacific Northwest region. It is coordinated by the AmeriCorps member serving as the Environmental Education & Outreach Leader for the Umpqua Watershed organization in an effort to bring awareness of environmental issues to a wider audience.
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Monday Aug 25, 2025
Pollinators!
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Roughly three-quarters of flowering plants and a third of food crops rely on animals like bees, butterflies, bats, and birds to move pollen from one bloom to another. Without them, the abundance and variety of fruits, vegetables, and seeds humans depend on would collapse into something dull and unstable. Their value isn’t only economic but ecological, since they maintain biodiversity and keep habitats resilient. In short, pollinators are the overlooked infrastructure of both nature and human survival.

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