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District expands outreach: native-plant grants, podcast, prescribed burns and wildfire preparedness
Summary
Polk Soil and Water Conservation District highlighted outreach programs including a podcast, a fall native-plant sale, a native-plant grant (applications due Aug. 20), a Connected Wildlife Habitat program, prescribed-burn association work, and coordination on wildfire preparedness using limited OSFM funds.
Morgan Neal, the district outreach coordinator, outlined a multi-pronged outreach strategy: a new website and resource hub, a bi-monthly 'Conservation Spotlight' podcast produced with KMUZ, a printed 'Cultivating' newsletter distributed to about 9,000 rural homes, and volunteer-supported native-plant sales. She said the fall native-plant sale moves about 5,000 plants and that a native-plant grant funded by sale proceeds has applications due "August 20."
Neal also described the Connected Wildlife Habitat program (funded by the Oregon Wildlife Foundation), the district’s involvement with the Mid-Valley Prescribed Burn Association, and coordination with the Willamette Valley Wildfire Coalition. She noted an OSFM allocation of roughly $14,000 under discussion to support community events and resources for defensible-space work in the wildland-urban interface.
