Work-Education Photos

The outdoor work component of the COIC Work-Education program is unique – each student becomes part of a work crew with 5-8 of their classmates. Students earn high school credits and learn more about the natural environment, while working on natural resource and community service projects. They also have a lot of fun! Examples of recent work projects and activities are listed below:

	COIC youth crews, in partnership with ELWD Products and the Crooked River Watershed Council constructed large logs on Mackay Creek to enhance fish habitat and help secure eroding stream banks.

This was a demo project using ELWD concepts to utilize small diameter logs to construct large logs. This is a low-impact alternative to using heavy equipment in sensitive riparian areas.

	Several work-ed crews constructed about 2,100 feet of split rail fence at Smith Rock State Park, and constructed a helipad. Park managers from across the state viewed the work, and two other state parks asked our crews to build split rail fence.

One of several work-ed crews that worked on the split rail fence at Smith Rock project in the above picture.

The Brown's meadow project near Wickiup Reservoir, was one of the most physically demanding and rewarding projects. Many areas of Brown's Meadow are being choked out by lodgepole pine trees. The Bend COIC crew worked on removing all 4-inch diameter and smaller lodgepole from the meadow using pulaskis, loppers and hand saws. All trees were then hand piled behind large trees at the periphery of the meadow.