2018 ANNUAL REPORT Inspiring and nurturing relationships with nature in our unique urban forest FROM the Executive DIRECTOR

In April 2020, Friends of Tryon Creek (FOTC) celebrates 50 years as an organization! Founded in 1970 to preserve Tryon Creek, FOTC and Oregon State Parks forged a public-private partnership that preserved Tryon Creek State Natural Area and continues today because of your support and dedication. Looking ahead to the next fifty years, we want to protect the organization we’ve built by investing in its long-term financial health. For nearly fifty years FOTC has supported Oregon State Parks to enhance visitor experiences by supporting engagement with the forest through camps, hikes, classes, ecological stewardship activities, and more. Together, with your support, we have accomplished a great deal towards improving access, ecological health and educating the next generation of care takers for the Tryon Forest. FOTC is planning a series of Planned Giving information sessions with the Oregon Community Foundation. Some Planned Gifts provide life- long benefits to donors, while others use estate planning. Donors that commit to a Planned Gift are acknowledged through the NEW Trillium Society, an exclusive donor community. To celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary, we are documenting your stories of preserving Tryon Creek. If you or your family member went door-to-door collecting donations with the League of Women Voters, marched from Jackson or Lake Oswego High Schools, sold buttons, we want to hear from you. Tryon Creek State Natural Area exists because people in our community, like you cared enough to engage to preserve it. Your participation is needed to ensure Friends of Tryon Creek is sustained for future generations. Thank you for your ongoing support! — Monica Smiley Executive Director

FROM the BOARD PRESIDENT

Our Friends of Tryon Creek Board of Directors has been working diligently on many important projects. A winter retreat with the Board of Directors and Friends of Tryon Creek staff identified goals for our focus this year and we have been revisiting our progress on a regular basis. Our primary challenge is – most park visitors do not know that Friends of Tryon Creek partners with Oregon State Parks to deliver the wide variety of robust programing delivered at Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Without Friends of Tryon Creek, fewer programs would be possible. All of our programs are funded by community donations. Did you know that more than 500,000 people visit Tryon Creek State Natural Area every year, but less than 1,000 people are donating to Friends of Tryon Creek? I want to change that. You can help by inviting your friends to join you here as a member of the Tryon community. The Board’s responsibility is to ensure a strong, sustainable organization. We have made investments to attract and retain an excellent, professional staff who have a great track record obtaining grants and listening to donors. Building a culture of philanthropy, where everyone in our organization, staff, volunteers, donors and Board members alike promote philanthropy and can articulate a case for giving, is key to our sustainable financial future. One way to ensure a more robust financial future is by giving as deeply as you can, and that means something different to each donor. Donors give at a level that resonates with them, between $30 - $25,000 each year. Every dollar adds up to have a big impact on this community. Your support is so critical, thank you! I hope you enjoy reading the stories of our shared work last year presented in the annual report. Tryon Creek State Natural Area is a treasure. I hope you come often and invite a friend to share a walk. — Ellen Steel Meet the NEW Board MEMBERS They share your passion for Tryon Creek

Gerardo RodriGuez

Tryon Creek has held many relationships since time immemorial as an intertribal use area that many came to fish, to gather, to hunt, and to spend time. I am very grateful that this place has remained intact and thriving for generations, so that we can continue to live that connection. For many who visit Tryon Creek State Natural Area today this is a space that is special in the peace that it brings, the clean air, and the sounds of the forest community. To me and to many others, this serves as a reminder of the gift of how much we have, and our responsibility to all our relations in this ecosystem, as well as the future generations yet to come. We also practice giving back. It has been incredible to have Friends of Tryon Creek’s work bring youth to learn alongside nature, to bring volunteers to pull the ivy and heal the landscape, to reconnect the original people to this land, and to broaden our community to include the diverse communities of our growing city. All of this is made possible by every community member, volunteer, staff and supporter of Friends of Tryon Creek. Today, Tryon Creek continues to be that gathering place for people from all walks of life, and where so many come to take part in a practice of healing our ever-present relationship to the Earth.

Harmony George

My family has lived close to Tryon Creek State Natural Area for over 25 years. It is a bit of a miracle that this natural area exists in an urban environment. My boys attended classes at the park in the summers; we have attended festivals and events, hiked, and wandered in the park. I now have the privilege of serving on the board of directors of Friends of Tryon Creek, a truly special group of volunteers who enhance the value of the visitor experience in many ways. The work that Friends of Tryon Creek does is amazing— from volunteering to care for the land to caring for the people, inspiring and nurturing relationships with the Tryon forest for future generations. That’s our legacy, how we are making a difference. The park provides a quiet refuge from our hectic lives, a learning space to discover the natural world, experience other cultures and provides us an opportunity to become members of the community of volunteers, staff donors and visitors. 3 Nature through a cultural lens By Anthony Macuk for Lake Oswego Review

Native American youth help kick Sheoships says the idea for the Tryon Creek “I did it last year by just kind of piecing things program grew out of that long-term goal, as well together,” Sheoships says. “This (school) year, we’re off a Tryon Creek environmental as the existing summer camps already hosted by shooting for around 175 students, between the education program grounded in FOTC. Sheoships was able to design the curriculum high schools and several different camps.” based in part on a class he teaches at Portland FOTC applied earlier this year for a grant from State University called Indigenous Sciences and the traditions of local tribes. Metro to fund a full-scale implementation of the Environment. the curriculum. The three-year, $100,000 grant A class of roughly 50 Native American students He began collaborating with NAYA for a series of was awarded in full as part of Metro’s Nature in gathered at the Tryon Creek State Natural Area guest classes and invited students for field visits last week for a day of hiking, outdoor exploration to Tryon Creek, where they could compare the and learning. Sheoships says public plants they saw on each visit and learn how the It was the first visit in a new Cultural Ecology creek and school environmental program hosted by the Friends of Tryon Creek its ecosystem changed with the seasons. The well- (FOTC) in collaboration with the Native American preserved status of the Tryon Creek area presents education tends to be Youth And (NAYA) Family Center and the Grand a unique opportunity for both outdoor education rooted in a purely Western Ronde Cultural Lifeways Community. The Oregon and cultural ecology within the Portland metro Parks and Recreation Department and the State area, Sheoships says. conception of the natural Parks Foundation are also partners on the project. “As far as our urban forests go, I think Tryon is in world and what wilderness FOTC Education Director Gabe Sheoships says the really good condition,” he says. “This is a place to goal of the program is to “build environmental kind of ground it, and provide support.” is, but the Tryon Creek education through a cultural lens,” with a FOTC and NAYA envisioned last summer’s events program will be grounded particular emphasis on making the lessons as a pilot for a larger version of the program, and rooted in the Tryon Creek State Natural Area they began developing a full curriculum with input in the traditions of local and its cultural history. from Native American elders and multiple youth tribes from the Northwest. “It’s that area where culture meets science and summer camps. how the two intertwine,” he says. “This will be a cultural education that’s missing in public schools, that’s really place-based and focused on the natural world.” Sheoships and other volunteers began developing the program last summer and testing it with a mix of field visits and classroom lectures, providing learning opportunities for 110 students from NAYA’s Early College Academy and other schools in the Portland area. “We did it on kind of a bare-bones budget,” Sheoships says. “We brought in some tribal volunteers to help teach.” Sheoships is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla and has worked for 17 years as a fisheries ecologist. He says he’s made a consistent effort to try to include a cultural aspect in his research and teaching, and he’s had a long- term career goal of providing new cultural and educational opportunities for Indigenous youth. Tryon Creek Education Director Gabe Sheoships took the lead in planning the Cultural Ecology curriculum, which is funded by a Metro grant and hosted by Friends of Tryon Creek in partnership with NAYA and the Grand Ronde Cultural Lifeways Community. 4 Photo Courtesy of Tim Labarge Neighborhoods program, allowing Sheoships to Friends of Tryon Creek Education Director Gabe Sheoships leads a group of students from the Native American Youth and Family begin hosting the first classes in the grant cycle Center on an outdoor exploration portion of a new Cultural Ecology curriculum. Photo Courtesy of Tim Labarge earlier this month. “(The grant) gives us a little more space to focus on it,” Sheoships says. “Metro support will really allow us to build this program up the right way, with the attention it deserves. It’s amazing to be able to do it.” The grant will be used to fund transportation, insurance costs, staff support and intern stipends, Sheoships says. The program’s instructors also include FOTC Camp Director Bobby Gutierrez, NAYA Youth and Education Services Department Director Tamara Henderson and Greg Archuleta, Cultural Education Leader with the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde. Sheoships says public school environmental education tends to be rooted in a purely Western conception of the natural world and what classes such as cooking traditional native fish over More broadly, Sheoships describes the Cultural wilderness is, but the Tryon Creek program will a fire or making cedar cordage. Ecology program as the culmination of a multi- be grounded in the traditions of local tribes from year effort among the Friends of Tryon Creek to The program will include the ongoing development the Northwest. Recalling his own public school connect Indigenous youth with the Tryon area of an Indigenous Ethnobotany Encyclopedia, education, he says that Indigenous history tends to focusing on the native species of the Tryon Creek be left out or is heavily abridged. area and their cultural uses, such as the basket “It’ll be just a little blurb in social studies about the weaving, carving and engraving that can be “It’s that area where culture Plains tribes,” he says. “There’s not much focus on performed with cedar. meets science and how Northwest tribes and the culture that we have.” And for high school-age participants, Sheoships the two intertwine,” he The curriculum will almost entirely be conducted says the program is also intended to serve as a outside, with a heavy focus on hiking, observation launching platform for students who are interested says. “This will be a cultural and interacting with elements of the natural world. in pursuing careers in ecology and natural resource The participants will typically visit two or three fields, with networking to provide connections to education that’s missing in times per summer, Sheoships says, for all- day internships and fellowships. public schools, that’s really events that include both exploration and hands-on place-based and focused on the natural world.”

and reclaim the land by putting the focus back on its original inhabitants. The Metro grant application notes that the project is developed and lead entirely by Indigenous people in order to create a space for the community to tell its own story. “It’s restructuring that narrative around the lands and their original stewards, the tribes in this place,” Sheoships says. “These areas didn’t just appear in the 1800s.”

Greg Archuleta, cultural education leader with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, leads a lesson with a group of students from the Native American Youth and Family Center. Photo Courtesy of Tim Labarge 5 DeVonntae Amundson : Leading By Tim LaBarge the way to his future for Friends of Tryon Creek

presentation at NAYA and he told him the organization, but he really wanted to about his time as a student leader at be more connected to the campers and Outdoor School and that he’d spent a instructors. That chance arrived early this summer gathering native seeds for a past summer when an instructor had a project coordinated by Portland’s Bureau change of plans and left a vacancy on the of Environmental Science. Gabe arranged staff roster. for him to have an internship at FOTC and helped him focus on graduating from “There needs to high school so he could pursue a career in environmental education. be more kids ready

“DeVonntae's maturity, wisdom and to take care of this genuine good nature stood out from the planet,” he says. “If we first time I met him,” Gabe says. He has On a recent visit to Tryon Creek State now served as a mentor to DeVonntae for don’t start making a Natural Area, campers from Native the past two years. “His positive nature American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) change, we won’t have and dedication has continued throughout were relaxing in the Jackson Shelter eating our work together.” places like Tryon.” lunch and listening to speakers talk about careers and the outdoors. DeVonntae DeVonntae finished high school in June DeVonntae jumped at the chance to Amundson, 19, an instructor at Friends and for the past two summers while be an instructor and spent the summer of Tryon Creek’s Nature Day Camp, got a working under Gabe’s guidance, has taking campers on ecological hikes, chance to stand up and speak of his great worked with the nature day camp at teaching about the natural area, singing plans for the future and at the same time, Tryon. His first duty, writing stories and songs and having fun. thank NAYA for helping get him to where taking pictures, was an exciting entry to he is now.

During his freshman and sophomore years of high school, DeVonntae was homeless and bounced between shelters and couches at friends’ homes. He dropped out of school and searched for a change and a community. He found both at the NAYA Early College Academy program, which helped reinvigorate his desire to understand his Indigenous heritage and to study environmental education.

Gabe Sheoships, Education Director for FOTC, met DeVonntae after giving a 6 “I prefer being out there having these experiences with the campers,” he says. “I love hearing about what makes them happy.”

Gabe agrees that the move up to instructor was a good fit for DeVonntae. “He brings an authentic passion for working with youth and has a positive outlook toward each camp-related situation. Nature Day Camp staff have long days and need to be very flexible and capable in their positions. He has been able to grow a lot during these past two seasons.”

This is all part of DeVonntae’s great plan that he spoke to the NAYA campers about. him to describe what a lemon tastes like Whether pondering the shape and taste He is studying wilderness leadership and they crack each other up for several of a lemon with a six-year-old or discussing at Mount Hood Community College minutes with silly answers. the outdoor camp of his dreams with an and plans to attend Southern Oregon adult, DeVonntae maintains focus and a After the camper departs, he shifts into a University to continue his outdoor positive attitude. leadership role and discusses goals for education studies. the final week of summer camp with While on an Outward Bound backpacking another instructor. He then joins in with “I prefer being out course in the North Cascades this past other counselors and instructors and summer, he became convinced he was listens to more thoughts and ideas about there having these pursuing the right path. “Indoors is not how the day went and how to make each experiences with the for me,” he says. “I enjoy being outdoors day at camp better. listening to the trees and the birds.” campers,” he says. “I Gabe is proud of what DeVonntae has His big dream is to start a camp where he accomplished in such a short period of love hearing about what can help troubled youth understand the time. “He’s one of the most popular staff makes them happy.” natural world in a way that his ancestors members amongst other instructors did. “There needs to be more kids ready and campers. He’s humble, but also He expresses a bit of surprise that he’s to take care of this planet,” he says. “If carries himself with a level of emotional been through so much and yet remains so we don’t start making a change, we won’t intelligence that sets him apart from his optimistic and determined to accomplish have places like Tryon.” peers,” he says. his goals. “This is what I’m supposed to be After several weeks of hour-long bus “He is grounded in his Indigenous culture, doing,” he says. “Everything has led me to commutes, warm days and energetic meaning that he carries himself in a good this point now and it’s just going to keep youth, DeVonntae maintains an energy way, setting a strong example for others. getting better.” that suggests the coffee, the wacky I firmly believe that he could do anything As for maintaining that child-like energy clothes and crazy hairdos are working as that he puts his mind to. He has lived and for the summer’s last session of day he hoped. overcome a life that many in the Tryon camp? “I’ll be 20 next year, but I’m still community couldn’t fathom. He’s much He’s quick to provide entertainment for a a kid. I’ll always be a kid,” he says with a stronger for it now and is able to hold a camper lingering at a picnic table, waiting giant smile. positive outlook on life and his future.” for his ride home. DeVonntae challenges 7 Educating the Educators Environmental Literacy at Tryon & Beyond By Tim LaBarge for Friends of Tryon Creek

Marilyn Ellis stands by the front door of the Nature “We talk about working with groups, group support each other with a larger goal of achieving Center on a misty, spring morning encouraging management, teaching technical ways to facilitate environmental literacy both in the classroom and visitors to pet the soft fur of the coyote pelt draped conversations and learning,” Cathcart says. “We’re outside,” she says. over her arm. She speaks to them calmly about not just teaching: Here’s a pileated woodpecker, In 2009, House Bill 2544 was passed and signed into habitat, survival and coexistence. The pelt, is one of but instead, how does that woodpecker fit into the action by Governor Ted Kulongoski. Along with the her favorite teaching tools made available to her as programming as a whole.” so-called “No Oregon Child Left Inside Act” came a volunteer for Friends of Tryon Creek. This kind of approach is not just useful at Tryon, the Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan. Though Ellis is already a Oregon Master Naturalist but for volunteers at any of the region’s parks, Outside of the education circles, it’s not often and a Certified Interpretive Guide and has river groups and green spaces where children and seen or referred to, but it’s nearly 50 pages long volunteered as a wildlife rehabilitator, docent and teachers spend valuable time on field trips. and to put it briefly, states that kids need to spend taxidermist for a half dozen organizations, she has sat Cathcart sees that her volunteers crave more time outside. through the 20-hour volunteer training class at Tryon information, more resources and more teaching twice now and expects to do so again in the fall. The act, according to the document, is an effort experience. She knows that Tryon’s superstar to “further understand the interrelationship “It’s required the first time. But there’s always more volunteers might be in the park one day and between our environment, society, and economy” to learn, no matter how much you think you know,” leading trips down the Tualatin the next. As this by ensuring “every student in Oregon becomes Ellis says. “I took it the second time because it was broader approach to training and education a lifelong steward of the environment and a great way to go get the juices flowing, to see my evolves, each of the partner organizations will community, willing and able to exercise the rights fellow naturalists again and to refresh my familiarity take a turn hosting classes. Content would change and responsibilities of environmental citizenship, with the programs.” depending on the group’s focus, experiences and choosing to interact frequently with the outdoor expertise, she says. This is exactly the energy and attitude that Erin environment, equipped with multifaceted Cathcart hopes will continue to emerge from the By strengthening environmental education in the knowledge of our relationship to the environment training classes she puts on for adult volunteers region and creating a universal training program, and its resources, and prepared to address at Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Cathcart hopes visitors will walk away from their experiences challenges with sound decisions for the future.” her classroom at Tryon can be a hub of outdoor with good, consistent, positive information. Whether she’s holding a coyote pelt, the skull education that reaches to other organizations and “All of us educators and organizations can then of a woodpecker or a stack of photographs, agencies throughout the region. encouraging an understanding about relationships and connections between humans and natural systems is Marilyn Ellis’s main goal when she’s volunteering at the park.

She doesn’t mind reviewing those ideas each year in Cathcart’s class. She loves connecting with other naturalists and being part of a community that is truly appreciated. And just like the young students who arrive on schools buses each fall and spring, she learns by repetition. “It doesn’t hurt to hear something again,” she says.

“Every time you’re in nature, it is new and wonderful and unexpected,” Ellis says. “There may be a goal for the program, but within that framework we can stop and talk about discovery. Everything is interconnected. It’s a sense of wonder and discovery and joy of observation that students can take with them everywhere.”

8 Field trips, Stewardship & Relationships: By Tim LaBarge THE COTTONWOOD SCHOOL for Friends of Tryon Creek

“Cottonwood’s Adopt-a-Place approach mirrors By visiting Tryon Creek throughout the school Tryon’s Adopt-A-Plot program. Volunteers pledge year, the students witness not only the change to improve an acre within the Park and they can they’ve helped create in a patch of forest, but see progress throughout the year,” says Amy they get to see the changes in the seasons. Stout, volunteer coordinator for Friends of They see the maple leaves turn shades of yellow Tryon Creek. and fall to the forest floor. They walk the muddy trails through foggy mornings. They see the A match made in Tryon trilliums bloom. The Friend’s mission is “to inspire and nurture relationships with nature in our unique urban “The real pay off,” Anderson forest.” That goal fits in well with The Cottonwood School’s mission: “To provide a creative learning says, “will come after not just environment where students develop a deep one year of visits, but a sense of place and belonging and work to become engaged stewards of the long-term relationship with natural world around them and active citizens within our community.” local lands throughout For most school groups, a visit to Tryon Creek State Natural Area is a one-day affair that includes By connecting students with natural areas and childhood. This is how a hike in the woods and a educational program other places in the community throughout authentic, deep connections that focuses on topics like adaptable insects or the year, Anderson says, they develop positive the trees of Tryon. At The Cottonwood School in habits that they’ll carry into adulthood. “It’s are formed, as well as a Portland, however, students in fourth and fifth empowering for students to physically improve a sense of ownership.” grade have the rare opportunity to return to the place where they live. Even as young people, they park as many as six times throughout the school can have a tangible impact on their place.” year, learning about stream and forest life and Rowman & Littlefield recently released Sarah Friends of Tryon Creek’s Amy Stout enjoys developing a long-term respect for a natural area. Anderson’s book about place-based education seeing the students’ growth throughout the titledBringing School to Life: Place-based Sarah Anderson, the Fieldwork and Place-Based year. Cottonwood’s unique arrangement is really Education across the Curriculum. It can be Education Coordinator for the school, juggles a combination of service days and field trips. purchased on the publisher’s website, Amazon or the students’ schedules and destinations for “It’s important for students to get out of the other online outlets. their various projects outside of the classroom. classroom and work together and over time, “Tryon Creek State Natural Area has served as a see the impact of the service they’re providing,” https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475830613/ perfect place for students to learn more about she says. “Cottonwood’s place-based education Bringing-School-to-Life-Place-Based-Education- the ecology of Oregon forests and watersheds. model allows for this to happen. It’s more than Across-the-Curriculum Equally important, the park offers students just a service day.” a natural area where they can explore, play, and have experiences that they will remember into adulthood. This will help raise the next generations of stewards for our world,” she says.

While several grade levels from Cottonwood will visit Tryon at least once this school year, the fourth and fifth graders will return again and again and again. It’s all part of the school’s Adopt-a-Place Program that every grade level participates in. Visits to natural areas selected include service and restoration as well as curriculum-based activities. 9 Betty Nelson: By Tim LaBarge for Friends of Tryon Creek From Capstone to Career

Betty Nelson has been drawn to the Rican mother moved the family to the U.S. leaders designed to give the students She graduated from Newberg High School, a chance to address important community world of community engagement and now 21, is a senior at Portland State issues. The students develop projects that since first volunteering at a city park. University majoring in Cultural Anthropology reflect their interests, studies and skills, She grew up listening to stories and and minoring in Indigenous Nations Studies. that will ultimately benefit the community at large. engaging in conversation with adults. For her Senior Capstone class project, Betty and two other students planned She’s worked with city parks and day an interpretive hike at Tryon Creek State “Being able to consider campers and has earned the title Natural Area, introducing park visitors to ‘Recreation Leader’. She’s involved with native plants and describing how Indigenous the world as a whole peoples use them. These group projects is important to me. organizations that focus on diversity are just one component of the curriculum and empowerment and is interested in offered through both the Cultural and Relating to people Ecological Education (Fall & Spring terms) the perspectives of others. and Cultural Ecology in the Urban Forest and being able to Now, as she nears completion of her college (Summer term) courses held at the Tryon interpret things degree, she’s thinking about where these Creek State Natural Area. skills and interests will lead her. The PSU Capstone courses offered through and communicate Betty, spent the first year of her life in Costa the Friends of Tryon Creek are collaborations effectively is key.” Rica and then her American father and Costa between students, faculty and community

Designing an interpretive hike and studying the plants and animals of the natural area led Betty to explore a little piece of family history that has added a new layer to her plans for the future.

Betty never met her grandmother. But she’s heard stories about how she used plants from the Costa Rican forest to heal and help members of her village.

“She was a Curandera, which is like a medicine woman, a folk healer.” Betty says. “She was a community healer and had knowledge of plants and their medicinal uses.”

“I never got to meet my grandmother. She died before I was born,” Betty says. 10 “Understanding plants is something I have a longing for.”

Having completed her thesis-like forest journal for the class, and having listened closely to presentations about plants and their uses, Betty felt prepared to deliver stories about native plants to the twenty visitors who joined the hike. “People were really engaged. There was a big age range and it was a diverse group.”

They discussed stinging nettle, salmonberry, Oregon grape, pacific yew and a host of other plants and animals. “It was cool for me on a personal level,” Betty says of learning about plants and their various uses. “I believe in teaching as a way of learning to solidify your knowledge.”

Gabe Sheoships, Education Director for Friends of Tryon Creek, serves as teacher, mentor, and guide for the students. His pulling stewardship day. Another studied in the southwest along the Caribbean,” goal is for them to gather an understanding groundwater and hydrology and made Betty says. of the relationship between the land and presentations to middle school students. “Because of colonialism, a lot of voices traditional knowledge: the cultural ecology There was a history booklet designed for have been marginalized or silenced. There’s of the natural area. They learn to be critical children and a t-shirt project, both focusing a disconnect between people and it’s thinkers and how to communicate with on the teamwork and the volunteerism created racial tension.” each other and with park visitors who involved at Tryon. Adding technology are there participating in a field trip or an Some communities are trying to reverse and interpretive layers, another team interpretive hike. this tension and Betty would like to help. developed a website that can be accessed This fall, the students who chose to by smartphone so park visitors can learn “I don’t like having to be focused on one take the capstone class at Tryon were more about plants, animals and stories of aspect of the world,” Betty says. “Being completing majors from all corners of the the park. able to consider the world as a whole PSU campus: bio-chemistry, psychology, is important to me. Relating to people The hope is that the materials created film, geology, graphic design and art history and being able to interpret things and and the organization of information to name a few. communicate effectively is key.” accumulated can be used again and Gabe says working with the students is again by volunteers and interpretive Exploring the park, working with her one of his favorite parts of his job at Tryon. guides at the park. classmates and interacting with visitors “This class is multi-layered, but focused on were highlights of the class. “Learning For Betty Nelson, her project was one more teaching,” he says. “It’s a partnership. It’s about different plant species and their step along the path to where she’s heading. community based. Ultimately, it’s for the uses was rewarding. It gives me a good She hopes to use her experience, studies benefit of the natural world.” understanding of our connection to the and her command of English, French and land. I want to honor it and respect it.” At their final presentation one morning Spanish to begin a career that focuses on in the Kraft Room at the Nature Center, community engagement. And like her grandmother, the Curandera, the students took turns presenting their Betty seems destined to be an integral part “After graduation, I plan to move back to work and answering questions. One group of her community, wherever that may be. Costa Rica and work with Indigenous tribes led a team of 50 volunteers on an ivy- 11 Community Impact

8,254 people 5,347 youth Field Trips, Camps & After School Education Volunteers donate 13,383 total hours valued 2,060 adults at over Events, Hikes & Classes $323,000

847 volunteers Stewardship, Education & Outreach

12 2018 Financial Summary

Thanks to you, our wonderful donors, Friends of Tryon Creek made To celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of Friends of significant strides towards achieving its goal of flourishing financial Tryon Creek, we are focusing on organizational sustainability health in 2018. Your investments are strengthening the programs by building our endowment through Planned Giving. Friends of and services at Tryon Creek State Natural Area, the health of the Tryon Creek is planning a series of Planned Giving information forest and of our community. sessions with the Oregon Community Foundation. Some Planned

Donations from individuals and families grew because you, our Gifts provide life-long benefits to donors, while others use estate community of donors, are digging deeper for Tryon Creek planning. Join us to learn about all of the Planned Giving options increasing the amount of your gifts and giving multiple times available through the Oregon community Foundation. Donors that throughout the year. New members have joined due to the commit to a Planned Gift are acknowledged through the NEW focused efforts to connect with park visitors by our Volunteer Trillium Society, an exclusive donor community. Please consider Outreach Ambassadors. Corporations support Friends of Tryon leaving your legacy here in the Tryon forest. Creek through matching gift programs, increasing the capacity of our individual donors, to double their level of support.

2018 Income: $759,834 Education Programs: 38% Individual Donations: 34% Grants: 20% Endowment: 4% Retail Sales: 4%

2018 Expenses: $738,746 Education Programs: 50% Stewardship: 8% Events: 5% Retail: 3% Fundraising: 20% Admin: 14%

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