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Volunteering at the Richmond Folk Festival
Jack and I screamed and yelled and sang. It was a wet Friday evening, and standing together in our matching neon orange shirts, we chanted over and over… “Keep the festival free! Every donation counts!” The Richmond Folk Festival is … Continue reading
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Synthetic blog 1: A Case Against Damming
As the Willamette River gushes through the pine-covered Willamette watershed, one cannot help but notice its hastiness and desire to do what it does best- reshaping the channel morphology and sustaining a plethora of aquatic life. This hastiness could … Continue reading
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Killing for life
Belmead was 50 or 100 years past its prime. The parking lot could hold hundreds of cars, but it looked like ours were the only ones it had seen in years. The mansion was proud, but showed its age through … Continue reading
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Huguenot Flatwater Adventures
A lone cormorant waddled through the towering maze of concrete corridors. He looked a little confused and hungry, maybe a little sad. He reminded me of myself waiting in line for the cook-to-order station at dhall. He had come to … Continue reading
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Every Drop in the Bucket Counts: How Does Richmond Define Itself?
With our traffic-cone-colored t-shirts adorned and Home Depot buckets in hand, we were released from the cramped volunteer’s tent, free to roam Brown’s Island at last. The group of Bucket Brigadiers fanned out across the festival grounds in pairs, collecting … Continue reading
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A Wildlife Haven and Industrial Wasteland: Confusion at Dutch Gap
Our entourage of delicate kayaks dot the surface of the water, like gerridae, as we slide around the lagoon. The view of the Dominion coal plant that looms ominously on the horizon is broken only by the flash of our … Continue reading
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community-based service learning activity
I volunteered at the folk festival this weekend with Jack, Quinn, and Eugene. Quinn and Jack collected donations while Eugene and I picked up stray trash and made sure people put their waste in appropriate bins, which included compost, trash, … Continue reading
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Forest Understory
HJA #1 There are numerous things I am excited to observe when we visit the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. To start off, I am just eager to be in an environment so different from the one I’ve grown up in—in … Continue reading
Portlandness
Portland 1 The concept of “place” refers to the ideas, characteristics and perceptions people associate with certain geographical areas or people in these geographical areas. These can be physical, in terms of landmarks and features of the earth, or human, … Continue reading
Portlandness Reflections
Portland 1 Place is an area of land distinguished from surrounding land in some way. Sometimes that defining factor causes the definition of a place, other times the definition of the place gives rise to the defining factors. For example, … Continue reading