VIDEOS

Explores the importance of water, the pressures our cities are placing on this precious resource, and ways that individuals can protect local drinking water supplies. 30 minute streaming video.

Instream Restoration viewers explore the critical role streams play in our watersheds and see what landowners from the coast range to the high deserts are doing to help improve Oregon's precious streams. 15 minute streaming video.

The video "Inquiry at Hinkle Creek: Doing Science in Our Forests" explores real world science in Oregon’s local forests, and tells a unique tale about paired watersheds, highlighting the work of local scientists using a 5,000 acre outdoor laboratory in Southern Oregon. The teacher resource materials facilitate use of the video with background science research projects and interactive inquiry based learning activities all organized by topic and aligned to state curricular standards.

Explores the pivotal role riparian areas play in the health of our watersheds, how land uses impact this sensitive strip along water's edge, and the techniques used to improve and protect riparian function. 12 minute streaming video. Transcript at: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/transcripts/riparian/

This 1968 videorecording, Pass Creek, provides a penetrating account of a once-rich steelhead trout stream threatened by careless logging practices. Focusing on Oregon's North Umpqua River Basin, the film portrays the impact of clearcut logging on the small tributary streams where most of the river's steelhead are spawned and reared. The subtle interdependence of land and water and the disruption of the aquatic environment caused by stream-clogging debris and warming water are dramatically presented. Hal Riney and Dick Snider, advertising executives and fishermen, produced the film and donated it to Oregon State University. It was widely distributed and viewed in Oregon and throughout the United States through the 1970s and was influential in changing logging practices in the Northwest.

Spotlight on Science, the monthly seminar series at the Federal Regional Office in Portland, Oregon, can be viewed via streaming video from this website. This is an excellent opportunity to access the interesting and cutting edge research information. Spotlight on Science is a cooperative effort between FWS, USGS, BLM, and the USFS to offer monthly presentations in the Portland area on current scientific research and its applications to natural resource management.

Water pollution affects us all--and we're all part of the solution. Learn how runoff from our farms, forests, and neighborhood streets has become the greatest threat to our supplies of fresh drinking water. 29 minute streaming video.