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Welcome to the Oregon Paleo Lands Institute!
Below is a list of programs and events for 2008:
March 23: Family Day Trip: Clarno NPS Backcountry. Meets 10 am OPLI Bookshop & Gallery 690 Main Street, Fossil. Cost: $20.00
March 24: Cycling Trip: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: The historic backcountry: Meets 10 am at Thomas Condon Center, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Cost: $45.00
March 25: Backcountry Tour, and Hike: John Day Fossil Beds Backcountry: Meets 10 am at Thomas Condon Center, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Cost $10.00
March 26: Family Easy Does It Hike: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Sheep Rock Unit: Meets 9 am Thomas Condon Center, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Cost: $20.00
March 27: Family Easy Does It Hike: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Clarno Unit: Meets 10 am at Paleo Lands Adventure Center and Gallery 690 Main Street, Fossil. Cost: $20.00
April 1: Red Cross First Aide Adult/Children: Meets 9 am Family Services Building, Fossil. Cost $50.00
April 4-7: The Crooked River Caldera: Oregon’s Biggest volcano, and it’s story of climate change: Meets April 4, 7 pm at High Desert Museum, Bend. Cost: $75.00
April 6: Family Easy Does It Hike: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Clarno Unit: Meets 10 am Paleo Lands Adventure Center & Gallery, Main St. Fossil. Cost: $20.00
April 12-13: Tropical Oregon: “When banana’s grew in the Ancient Cascades!”: Meets 7 pm High Desert Museum, Bend. Cost: $75.00
April 19 & 20: Community Fossil Beds Cleanup, and photo hike, Voluntourists invited!: FREE
April 19-20: River and Rocks, Two-Day Adventure. FLOAT THE JOHN DAY!: Meets Service Creek Lodge, HWY 19. Cost: $245.00
April 25-26: Spring Breakout Cycling Trips: Meets evening at Painted Hills B&B, Mitchell. Cost: $235
April 28-May 3: Botany in the Painted Hills (class): Meets at Lands Inn.
May 3-4: Flowers and Floats: Two day packaged with Service Creek Lodge: Meets Service Creek Lodge, Hwy 219. Cost $245
May 10: Cycle The John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and Historic backcountry roads: Meet 9 am at the Thomas Condon Center. Cost: $45.00
May 11: Explore the John Day Fossil Beds Backroads: Meets 9 am at Thomas Condon Center. Cost: $35.00
May 17-18: Secrets of the Painten Hills: A Photo Workshop: Cost: $145.00 - $195.00
May 23-25: Ancient Forest, Lost Landscapes: Meets in evening at High Desert Museum. Cost: $295.00
June 3-5: Elderhosel: Return of the Bighorns: Habitat Mapping and Herd Survey Project: SOLD OUT
June 6-8: Rocks and Writing on the John Day River: A 3-day deluxe, fully provisioned raft float with award winning nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore and writer/photographer/geologist Ellen Morris Bishop: Meets 8 am at Twickenham. Cost: $345.00
June 14-15: OPLI Wings Weekend: Located in Wheeler County. Cost: $45.00/day
June 21-22: Wolves, Wildlife, and Wild Rocks, North Fork, John Day River: Cost: $125.00
June 28-29: OPLI History Weekend!: Celebrate regional ranching, logging, mining, and pioneer history: The Dalles Military Road. Cost $20.00/day
July 5-11: Oregon Field Geology: How Oregon Was Born – From the Blues to the Wallowas: A 2-credit graduate teachers geology workshop with Lewis and Clark College. Ellen Morris Bishop, Instructor: Cost $1,154.00
July 11-13: The High Desert, and Steens Mountain: Climate and landscapes in the extreme. (And optimum wildflowers, Steens Mtn. Leader: Ellen Morris Bishop: Meets 8 am at High Desert Museum. Cost: $445.00
July 15-19: The Salmon River Suture: Meets Clarkston, WA. Cost: $1420.00
July 31-Aug 3: Disappearing Glaciers of the Cascades: A 3-day llama trek: Meets in evening at High Desert Museum. Cost: $545.00
Aug 6: The High Wallowa Mountain’s: The Wallowa’s Heritage: Cost $50.00
Aug 7-10: Geology of the High Wallowas: Horseback to Wallowa Lake. Cost $375.00
Aug 14-16: Are you up to it ride? Cycling the Hills: Mitchell to Service Creek. Cost: $225.00-$295.00
Aug 30-31: Nature Journaling in the John Day Fossil Beds: Painted Hill & John Day River. Cost: $75.00
Sept. 6-13: Cycle Oregon!
Sept 6: In The Tracks of the Pioneers (Collaborative with Gilliam County, Fossil, and Spray Museums): Cost $20.00
Sept 13; Family Easy Does It Hike: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Clarno Unit: Meets Paleo Adventure Center & Gallery, Main St. Fossil. Cost: $20.00
Sept 26-28: Bringing Back The Salmon and the Bighorns: Meets 9 am at Service Creek Trading Post, Hwy 19. Cost: $25.00
Oct 4-6: High Desert Lakes in Peril: Meets at High Desert Museum. Cost: $295.00
Oct 11-12: OPLI Voluntourism/Friends of the John day Fossil Beds weekend; Meets 10am at the Thomas Condon Center. No Charge!
Oct 11: In the Tracks of the Pioneers (Collaborative with Gilliam County, Fossil, and Spray Museums): Lone Rock/Kinzua/Richmond/Waterman. Cost: $20.00
Oct 17-19: Paleo Lands Rocking and Rolling, Season Finale Ride: Begins in Spray. Cost: $175.00
Nov 15-16: Fossil Record and Climate Change Today: John day Fossil Beds National Monument: Meets 8 am at the High Desert Museum. Cost: $175.00
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