Spreading the Word

(Photo Package)

By: Pablo Hernandez

 

Here in the Western Cascade region and throughout Oregon, many environmental organizations work to reach out to the public in order to get their messages across. This year, non-profit organization Cascadia Wildlands took part in the Mushroom Festival hosted by the Mount Pisgah Arboretum to spread awareness on many concerning environmental affairs, with the primary being the issue of clear cutting here in Oregon.

 

The Mount Pisgah Arboretum hosted the 2017 Mushroom Festival on October 28th, where many people as well as non-profit organizations gathered to promote the protection for Oregon’s wild mushrooms. The festival included a wide variety of mushrooms on display and even provided hikes through the forest that surrounds the Mount Pisgah Arboretum.

 

 

The 2017 Mushroom Festival, hosted on October 28 by the Mount Pisgah Arboretum, sought to call for the conservation of Oregon’s wild mushrooms. This species, called lactarius controversus, are very common in Oregon’s cascade region and are well known because of their pinkish white “gills”.

 

 

Samantha Krop, teacher and environmental activist, represented Cascadia Wildlands at this year’s Mushroom Festival at Mount Pisgah Arboretum on October 28th. She gave insight to many people about the organization’s work and activism, including their preservation of not only mushrooms but native forests and precious watersheds as well.

 

 

Cascadia Wildlands was represented by Samantha Krop this year at the Mushroom Festival, an event that took place on October 28th. Not only did she provide useful information about Cascadia Wildland’s environmental work, but she also developed playful relationships with children who stopped by the booth, allowing them to take pictures with props and even attend nature hikes.

 

 

 

Samantha Krop represented Cascadia Wildlands at Mount Pisgah Arboretum on October 28th for this year’s Mushroom festival. Here, she gazes intently as she listens to an individual speak about Cascadia Wildland’s work towards stopping the construction of a pipeline that would ultimately cause clear-cutting and pollution.