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REI Gives: 2009 Eugene Grant Recipients

2009 - 2010

Annually, REI dedicates a portion of its operating profits to help protect and restore the environment, increase access to outdoor activities, and encourage involvement in responsible outdoor recreation. REI employees nominate organizations, projects, and programs in which they are personally involved to receive funding or gear donations. For more information on REI grants, see http://www.rei.com/aboutrei/gives02.html.

Friends Of Buford Park & Mt Pisgah:
Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah will involve Eugene REI members, youth and adult volunteers, and an Eagle Scout to build a .25-mile interpretive trail segment with wetland overlook, wildlife blind and interpretive signage. The trail is located along a restored backwater in the innovative 200-acre South Meadow Floodplain Restoration Project, within the 2,300-acre Howard Buford Recreation Area (aka Mt. Pisgah). This new interpretive trail segment will boost efforts to complete the entire 4.2-mile South Meadow Trail network, which links to another 20 miles of trails on Lane County's Buford Park. Two joint work parties with REI staff and members are planned. REI funds will support project coordination and leadership and will be used to purchase building materials for the trail, wetland overlook bench and fence, wildlife blind, and interpretive signage.

Iceaxemen, Inc.:
Iceaxemen, Inc., an outdoor teen mentoring program, will offer 25 wilderness trips for high school students in Lane County, Oregon this year. The Iceaxemen will use REI's grant in support of their efforts to expand their equipment resources and replace worn out gear in order to outfit students for climbing, hiking, and snowshoeing adventures. The organization's programs seek to increase youth participation in the outdoors by minimizing financial obstacles and providing the equipment needed for survival in the backcountry. REI's grant will specifically provide backpacks, sleeping bags, tarps, bivy sacks, and snowshoes for teen mountaineering, alpine, and wilderness trips.

Northwest Youth Corps
Northwest Youth Corps (NYC) engages youth and young adults in environmental stewardship and outdoor recreation activities across the Northwest. During 2009-2010, NYC will carry out 30 weeks of volunteer work on the Timberline Trail and its network of access trails. REI's grant will provide backpacks that will carry youth clothes, food, kitchen gear, tents, tarps, and tools needed as crews camp out in twelve-member teams for up to five weeks at a time to complete tread restoration, stabilization, and new trail construction. During the evening, teens will have an opportunity to earn high school credit from participation in SEED (Something Educational Every Day), which explores topics ranging from map reading, weather and ecosystems, to forestry, leave-no-trace ethics and minimizing impacts on the natural world.

  • Cost: Free

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