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Lost Valley Nature Center Photo-Letter
September 16, 2009
"Bird in the Hand" Edition

black-capped chickadee MacGillivray's warbler
 Pacific-slope and willow flycatchers
Hammond's flycatcher pileated woodpecker
red-breasted sapsucker Pacific-slope flycatcher
black-headed grosbeak spotted towhee
western tanager western tanager
chestnut-backed chickadee pileated woodpecker
dark-eyed junco Swainson's thrush
yellow warbler wrentit
black-capped chickadee Wilson's warbler
common yellowthroat willow flycatcher
black-throated gray warbler red-breasted nuthatch
black-headed grosbeak

Above: Participants in Dave Bontrager's Bird Banding class (just two and a half miles up Lost Creek
from us at Lost Valley) stop in to examine the humans (August 16 through September 2, 2009).
More visits are anticipated in late September and early October.

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Upcoming Events at Lost Valley Educational Center (Fall 2009):

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Saturday-Sunday, September 19-20: Lost Valley 20th Anniversary Celebration
(2 pm-4 pm Sat. tour; see www.lostvalley.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=19)
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Thursday-Sunday, September 24-27: Permaculture Food Skills Intensive
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Sunday, September 27, 10 am-5 pm: Permaculture Food Preservation
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 Sunday, September 27, 2 pm: Lost Valley Tour
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Tuesday-Tuesday, October 6-November 3: Permaculture and Community:
Permaculture Design Course and Ecovillage Living Practicum
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Wednesday-Thursday, October 14-15: Lost Valley Visitor Days
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Sunday, October 18, 10 am-5 pm: Cheese, Kefir, and Yogurt Making from Home
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Sunday, October 25, 2 pm: Lost Valley Tour
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Thursday-Tuesday, November 5-10: Creating Community: Designing Ecovillages
and Retrofit Neighborhoods
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Wednesday-Thursday, November 18-19: Lost Valley Visitor Days
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Sunday, November 22, 2 pm: Lost Valley Tour
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Tuesday-Tuesday, December 1-15: Permaculture Design Course
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Sunday, December 13, 2 pm: Lost Valley Tour

Lodging available for overnight guests.
Please visit www.lostvalley.org for more information and to register, or call 541-937-3351 ext. 112.

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Sneak peak at 2010: The Camassia Institute will offer sustainability education programs in four course tracks:
Permaculture Design Certification, Ecovillage Design Education, Green Building, and Eco-Agriculture,
running throughout most of the year. Please visit www.lostvalley.org/2010 for more details.

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News flash: Lost Valley appears on the cover of Communities magazine, Fall 2009, Issue #144,
which also features additional Nature Center photos (see http://communities.ic.org).

 Communities #144 


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Chris Roth
Coordinator, Lost Valley Nature Center
81868 Lost Valley Lane
Dexter, OR 97431

nature at lostvalley.org
541-937-2567 ext. 116
www.lostvalley.org/nature