Enjoy and learn to respectfully explore Netarts from the water while appreciating the abundance of life living deeper in the bay. Our popular kayak trips are back! We are offering a tour…
Category: Nature & Outdoors
Nehalem Bay Garden Club Readies for Sale this Weekend – May 7th & 8th; New Additions to Plant Sale
There are some new additions to the annual Nehalem Bay Garden Club’s plant sale. A raffle for a iRobot Vacuum Model 805 Roomba, complete with all the paperwork in the cardboard tray it…
Netarts Bay Area Clean Up with SOLVE and Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS Saturday, April 23, 2022
Let’s clean up for the future! Join SOLVE and Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS for the Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup on Saturday, April 23, 2022, from 10 am to 1 pm. Meet…
LNCT Organizes Two Activities for Earth Day Weekend
Manzanita, OR, April 18, 2022 – Lower Nehalem Community Trust invites the community to observe Earth Day by volunteering in one or both of two events. The first is a roadside cleanup…
BEAVER RESCUE ON GEARHART BEACH; HEADS FOR REHAB AT WILDLIFE CENTER OF NORTH COAST
On Friday April 15, 2022, the Seaside Aquarium had the pleasure of rescuing this feisty beaver. First reported as a sea otter, it took us a few trips up and down the…
Friends of Netarts Bay Request for Proposals for Design Project
Friends of Netarts Bay Watershed, Estuary, Beach, and Sea – WEBS (@netartsbaywebs) is looking for a creative team to help get their next project off the ground. WEBS is working with local…
Facilities and Trails Listening Sessions
Dan Haag, Trails & Outdoor Recreation Coordinator for Tillamook County Visitors Association, is hosting four listening and engagement sessions throughout Tillamook County in late April and early May. These sessions seek to gather community…
A Yearly Cycle: Native Plants – Skunk Cabbage and Oregon Grape
By Barbara McLaughlin Skunk Cabbage It seems to me that in some years certain plants are more abundant than in other years. Last summer for example seemed to be a bustin’ berry…
It’s Seal Pupping Season: Important reminder – Leave pups (or any marine mammal) found on the beach alone; contact their local marine mammal stranding network.
Who: Seaside Aquarium What: Seal Pup Season When: April through September Where: Oregon and Washington Coasts Fuzzy, plump and cute enough to squeeze, newborn harbor seal season is in full swing. While their big…
A yearly cycle: What’s going on outside? Spring and Frogs
EDITOR’S NOTE: Join me in welcoming another wonderful guest columnist to the Pioneer, Barbara McLaughlin! A local gardener and community organizer, and wife of another Pioneer story-teller, Charles “Chuck” McLaughlin, Barbara will…