VOLUNTEER!!

Christmas For Coho

TREE COLLECTION

January 4th and 11th, 2020

9am-4 pm

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: Looking for willing participants to help us with the 2020 edition of C4C! Thanks to all of you who have volunteered in the past - we hope you found it rewarding. For a shift on our tree collection Saturdays, January 4 and 11, we are in need of volunteers to fill slots each day at each location. For those of you who have not yet volunteered and can do so, please let us know your interest by sending an email with preferred location (West Linn or NWFFO), date and shift (a.m. – 9:00 to 12:30 or p.m. – 12:30 to 4:00). We will do our best to accommodate you; if you can, you might include a back-up choice just in case.

Thank you to all our all our great TVTU volunteers for helping out! If you want to lend a hand contact TVTUrestoration@gmail.com and let us know!

Thanks for volunteering!

 

Christmas for Coho day 3

Text and Photos by Michael Ellis
except where noted

TVTU volunteers transfer trees collected at The Royal Treatment Fly Shop into  the drop box at Northwest Fly Fishing Outfitters. From left: Erle Norman, Peter Gray, Mark Rogers, Erin Conway, and Jeff Price.

Tree Collection Wraps Up

 

THANK YOU!!!

to the people from the Portland Metro area who made the effort to drop off their Christmas trees and help fund the 2013 TVTU Ecocycle Project!! Some trees arrived from Tualatin and Wilsonville - even a 

few visitors from other states contributed!

Just One More Saturday to Ecocycle Your Christmas Tree, and a Brief Update

Frosty but less windy at Northwest Fly Fishing Outfitters

Photos and text by Michael Ellis

Saturday, January 12th, Volunteers Alan Moore, John Arnold, Jon Pampush, Mike Gentry and myself, Michael Ellis, manned the drop site at Northwest Fly Fishing Outfitters. It was cold and a lot of the trees came with ice. It was not as windy as last week however, so, in all it was more pleasant. We met a lot of new people, got to talk to the public about our projects, and, while we all thought it would be a lot slower than last week, we still collected over 100 trees.

Here, Mike and Jon stand in front of the pile of trees that wouldn't fit in the truck. The pile in my yard grew by about 40 trees!

On Sunday, Mike and I took the truck to the Thompson property to unload.  The roads looked a bit iffy around Hillsboro, but when we got up in the Coast Range a little we broke through the clouds and it was a beautiful day! The silver frost on the bare tree branches and weeds along the road, lit by sunlight, was a sight to behold.

The tree pile is growing

Here is the pile of trees, next to the rental truck, at the Thompson property.

At the Royal Treatment Fly Fishing drop site, Peter Gray returned for a second weekend of duty where he and Andy Andrews helped collect just under half the number of trees from the first weekend - enough for just over a trailer load to go to the Coho! With the left over space for a second trailer run on Sunday, we were able to collect some leftover trees from Kordell's in Lake Oswego - what a benefit! An additional 45+ trees! We may be able to do the same this final weekend - especially if there is some willingness to have another volunteer add a second trailer to the mix on Sunday. If you have a truck and some time - contact Michael about wrangling a second trailer to the coast on Sunday and we can coordinate the convoy effort.

Well, we still need help next weekend, both staffing the drop sites on Saturday and possibly loading trees Sunday morning. If you would like to help out e mail me at tvturestoration@gmail.com .