Oregon Beach Bill 50th Anniversary Bioblitz
Hey there everyone!
This is the 50th anniversary year of the Oregon Beach Bill, mandating that all of Oregon's beaches be left in ownership of the public. To celebrate this, we have organized one heck of Bioblitz weekend for all you fans of the project.
To find out more about the event, check the link below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9j2pZEf5DQlNkVJb2hFa3JQLVE/view?usp=sharing
We will be hosting a presentation on the Sea star wasting disease at the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center, Friday at 4pm on the 26th of May.
The following day we will be taking advantage of the -2.5ft low tide by starting our bioblitz work at 8am, meeting again at the Visitor Center. This bioblitz will focus mostly on inter-tidal species, with an added emphasis on Ochre Sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus). Participants will go through a short training talk before splitting up and starting their surveys.
On Sunday we will be carrying out another bioblitz, focusing more on the beach areas of the Cape Perpetua region. This event will finish up with a little group picnic at Neptune state park at Noon.
With only a couple weeks till this next event kicks off, we hope you all can squirrel away the time to meet us out there for this celebratory bioblitz weekend!
