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mypubliclands: From Skyscrapers to Forests:  Introducing Inner City Youth to NatureOregon State University recently recognized the BLM-Oregon for its work with the Inner City Youth Institute or ICYI to introduce young people to fields of study and careers in natural resources. The BLM received the OSU Extension Service Cooperator Award for its work that began back in 1995 as a partnership between the BLM and ICYI in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, the Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Urban League of Portland and Portland Public Schools. The BLM provided access to laboratories and facilities on public lands to help inner city youth study nature first-hand. In addition, the BLM provided critical financial assistance through OSU to support on-the-ground, outdoor educational activities as well as job-shadowing and career mentoring with BLM professionals.  Also, the BLM supported the annual Natural Resources Camp hosted by OSU that is designed to give inner city youth a college experience and create a safe atmosphere where the students can develop leadership skills, gain confidence, and hone teamwork abilities. Since 1998, the BLM supported the programs and outreach that have successfully provided natural resources education and experience to youths from the Portland metro area. Thank you to everyone who helped make this program a great success – and who knows, we may very well have provided the spark that launches the career of a future BLM State Director!  For more photos and info about the BLM/ICYI Partnership, visit the BLM-Oregon’s Flickr Photoset, From Skyscrapers to Forests. Story by: Mike Mottice, Associate State Director, BLM-Oregon; photos by Matt Christenson, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM-Oregon
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mypubliclands: From Skyscrapers to Forests:  Introducing Inner City Youth to NatureOregon State University recently recognized the BLM-Oregon for its work with the Inner City Youth Institute or ICYI to introduce young people to fields of study and careers in natural resources. The BLM received the OSU Extension Service Cooperator Award for its work that began back in 1995 as a partnership between the BLM and ICYI in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, the Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Urban League of Portland and Portland Public Schools. The BLM provided access to laboratories and facilities on public lands to help inner city youth study nature first-hand. In addition, the BLM provided critical financial assistance through OSU to support on-the-ground, outdoor educational activities as well as job-shadowing and career mentoring with BLM professionals.  Also, the BLM supported the annual Natural Resources Camp hosted by OSU that is designed to give inner city youth a college experience and create a safe atmosphere where the students can develop leadership skills, gain confidence, and hone teamwork abilities. Since 1998, the BLM supported the programs and outreach that have successfully provided natural resources education and experience to youths from the Portland metro area. Thank you to everyone who helped make this program a great success – and who knows, we may very well have provided the spark that launches the career of a future BLM State Director!  For more photos and info about the BLM/ICYI Partnership, visit the BLM-Oregon’s Flickr Photoset, From Skyscrapers to Forests. Story by: Mike Mottice, Associate State Director, BLM-Oregon; photos by Matt Christenson, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM-Oregon
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mypubliclands: From Skyscrapers to Forests:  Introducing Inner City Youth to NatureOregon State University recently recognized the BLM-Oregon for its work with the Inner City Youth Institute or ICYI to introduce young people to fields of study and careers in natural resources. The BLM received the OSU Extension Service Cooperator Award for its work that began back in 1995 as a partnership between the BLM and ICYI in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, the Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Urban League of Portland and Portland Public Schools. The BLM provided access to laboratories and facilities on public lands to help inner city youth study nature first-hand. In addition, the BLM provided critical financial assistance through OSU to support on-the-ground, outdoor educational activities as well as job-shadowing and career mentoring with BLM professionals.  Also, the BLM supported the annual Natural Resources Camp hosted by OSU that is designed to give inner city youth a college experience and create a safe atmosphere where the students can develop leadership skills, gain confidence, and hone teamwork abilities. Since 1998, the BLM supported the programs and outreach that have successfully provided natural resources education and experience to youths from the Portland metro area. Thank you to everyone who helped make this program a great success – and who knows, we may very well have provided the spark that launches the career of a future BLM State Director!  For more photos and info about the BLM/ICYI Partnership, visit the BLM-Oregon’s Flickr Photoset, From Skyscrapers to Forests. Story by: Mike Mottice, Associate State Director, BLM-Oregon; photos by Matt Christenson, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM-Oregon
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From Skyscrapers to Forests:  Introducing Inner City Youth to Nature

Oregon State University recently recognized the BLM-Oregon for its work with the Inner City Youth Institute or ICYI to introduce young people to fields of study and careers in natural resources.

The BLM received the OSU Extension Service Cooperator Award for its work that began back in 1995 as a partnership between the BLM and ICYI in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, the Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Urban League of Portland and Portland Public Schools.

The BLM provided access to laboratories and facilities on public lands to help inner city youth study nature first-hand. In addition, the BLM provided critical financial assistance through OSU to support on-the-ground, outdoor educational activities as well as job-shadowing and career mentoring with BLM professionals. 

Also, the BLM supported the annual Natural Resources Camp hosted by OSU that is designed to give inner city youth a college experience and create a safe atmosphere where the students can develop leadership skills, gain confidence, and hone teamwork abilities.

Since 1998, the BLM supported the programs and outreach that have successfully provided natural resources education and experience to youths from the Portland metro area.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this program a great success – and who knows, we may very well have provided the spark that launches the career of a future BLM State Director! 

For more photos and info about the BLM/ICYI Partnership, visit the BLM-Oregon’s Flickr Photoset, From Skyscrapers to Forests.

Story by: Mike Mottice, Associate State Director, BLM-Oregon; photos by Matt Christenson, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM-Oregon

sciencesoup: Ginkgo Trees Stand Test of Time “Living fossil” is an informal term used by biologists to describe species that lack living relatives.  While you might not personally think being called a fossil is a compliment, these organisms are actually quite impressive survivors.  The Ginkgo biloba tree, for example, is strange and unique amongst contemporary plants but incredibly similar to fossils dating back to the Permian, almost 270 million years! This means that even though every single other lineage of the Ginkgo’s relatives changed and adapted beyond recognition or died out, there are still Ginkgo trees growing today that would be indistinguishable from trees from hundreds of millions of years ago. If that fails to impress you, consider this: in Hiroshima, Japan there are still a handful of Ginkgo trees that survived the dropping of the atom bomb in 1945 living to the present day! If these hardy trees can withstand a disturbance of an A-bomb’s magnitude, it is no wonder they have managed to remain viable when so many other ancient plants could not. Guest post written by Reggie Henke
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Ginkgo Trees Stand Test of Time

“Living fossil” is an informal term used by biologists to describe species that lack living relatives.  While you might not personally think being called a fossil is a compliment, these organisms are actually quite impressive survivors.  The Ginkgo biloba tree, for example, is strange and unique amongst contemporary plants but incredibly similar to fossils dating back to the Permian, almost 270 million years! This means that even though every single other lineage of the Ginkgo’s relatives changed and adapted beyond recognition or died out, there are still Ginkgo trees growing today that would be indistinguishable from trees from hundreds of millions of years ago. If that fails to impress you, consider this: in Hiroshima, Japan there are still a handful of Ginkgo trees that survived the dropping of the atom bomb in 1945 living to the present day! If these hardy trees can withstand a disturbance of an A-bomb’s magnitude, it is no wonder they have managed to remain viable when so many other ancient plants could not.

Guest post written by Reggie Henke

I would say that I am deeply spiritual but not religious, and that I arrived at my spirituality through science. Science is a mechanism by which we discover the nature of the universe, and what we have revealed is tremendously beautiful in it’s order, complexity, and scale. How could one not be spiritual about living in a universe with (at least) ten thousand billion billion stars? A universe where the ash of stars can form patterns which grow, change, experience and think about themselves? Through science I have also discovered that all things are interconnected. For example, a single sodium atom moving in the axon of a neuron experiences a small gravitational and electromagnetic force from every other particle in the universe. The origin of these forces are distributed over time at the speed of light, so in this moment that atom is simultaneously experiencing the moon from 2 seconds ago, and the big-bang from 13.7 billion years ago. The nature of our existence is dependent on every past event that has ever occurred within our light-cone, and our every action creates the future of universe for trillions of years. All boundaries or separations are illusions created by time. To me this is the most wonderful implication of science; We are the universe, creating and experiencing itself.
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