celebration

What's with all the disc golf hype? One sunny day at a disc golf course and you'll understand. All you need is a disc and a disc course to enjoy the latest sport sweeping the nation. At Let's Go Disc Golfing!, we'll teach you all you need to know to get started on your own. Learn about the different sizes and types of discs, different throws, and then try out your new skills with others!  Discs and course are provided.  Bring personal footwear, water, sunscreen, and dress for the weather!  Ages 8 years old and above welcome (children 8-14 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian).

What's with all the disc golf hype? One sunny day at a disc golf course and you'll understand. All you need is a disc and a disc course to enjoy the latest sport sweeping the nation. At Let's Go Disc Golfing!, we'll teach you all you need to know to get started on your own. Learn about the different sizes and types of discs, different throws, and then try out your new skills with others!  Discs and course are provided.  Bring personal footwear, water, sunscreen, and dress for the weather!  Ages 8 years old and above welcome (children 8-14 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian).

Sponsor a table or bring your picnic blanket and join us on the farm for an evening of unforgettable summer fun.

- Search for signs of wildlife on the farm, a leaf you can eat and more on the Whole Foods Market Scavenger Hunt. Everyone gets a loaf of Dave's Killer Bread* and one lucky hunter will win a $100 Whole Foods Market gift certificate.
- Caroline Oakley of Pickathon fame will be supported by banjo and fiddle as she calls the square dance
- Killer barbecue with all the fixins' courtesy of Bon Appetite
- We've saved the best for last with dessert from Organic Valley
- Silent auction featuring art, outdoor gear, great kid stuff and premium wine
- Cold Widmer beer and Oregon wines will  be available for purchase

Adults - $25

Kids under 12 - $5

Table for 6 - $375.  Skip the buffet line and grab your seat at the table. We'll serve your meal family style at a picnic table set with wildflowers, beer and wine.  The cost, just $375, is the same as a full class scholarship including transportation.  Sponsor names and/or logos will also be listed on our website and on event signage.

The Sauvie Island Center educates kids about food, farming and the land through field trips, camps and other farm-based events. Please help us make farms a part of more kids' lives and purchase your tickets today.

On June 9th the Cathlapotle Plankhouse will be hosting a Summer Celebration and Salmon Bake in partnership with OMSI. 12pm- 2pm: Special presentations in the Plankhouse will focus on NW Tribal Canoe Journeys and the Pacific Lamprey, a mysterious eel-like fish important to Native People of the Columbia River. 2pm: Free Chinookan-style salmon bake and seafood stew tastings until supplies last. Docent led Plankhouse tours, live lamprey encounters, and children's activities will be available from 12pm-4pm.

This event will highlight the relationship of Native people of the Columbia River to fish such as Pacific Lamprey, a little known eel like fish that migrates from fresh water, to the ocean, and back again. It will also serve to educate the public about the upcoming Tribal Canoe Journeys. There will be presentations focused on current efforts of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and area Tribes to protect and restore Pacific Lamprey and other important fish of the Columbia River ecosystem, and the role that Canoe Journeys play in NW Tribal cultures today. There will also be opportunities to meet live live Lamprey up close and personal, guided Plankhouse tours, and children's activities from 12-4pm. Special presentations on Lamprey conservation efforts and their importance to local Tribes, and Canoe Journeys will be from 12pm-2pm, with a FREE Chinookan style salmon bake and tasting at 2pm while supplies last.

The Cathlapotle Plankhouse is a modern Chinookan Plankhouse built to interpret the Chinookan village of Cathlapotle that once existed on what is today Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge property. At the time Lewis and Clark visited Cathlapotle, it had 14 large plankhouses and over 900 people living there. The modern Cathlapotle Plankhouse is used to provide educational programs to youth and the general public through our Lifeways, Landscapes, and Wildlife Interpretive Program. To learn more about the plankhouse visit www.ridgefieldfriends.org or contact Sarah Hill at Sarah_Hill@fws.gov or (360) 887-4106.

On Saturday, June 8th, 2013, celebrate healthy, active, outdoor fun in your urban national park! Experience all kinds of outdoor activities at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site - your Gateway to the Great Outdoors. Partners from federal, state, and local agencies, nonprofit organizations and the recreation industry are again teaming up to host the fifth annual National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day) to encourage outdoor fun at sites across the nation.

GO Day at Fort Vancouver includes the annual free Brigade Encampment, where costumed interpreters re-enact the springtime return of Hudson's Bay Company fur brigades to Fort Vancouver.

Prime goals of GO Day are reaching currently underserved populations and first-time visitors to public lands, and reconnecting youth to the great outdoors.