Horsfall Cleanup

Big props to everyone that came out last week for the impromptu Coos Bay Chapter of Surfrider Foundation beach cleanup at Horsfall. With your support we managed to pull a lot of foam and waste off the beaches.
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Tsunami Surfers engage in NOAA Marine Debris Monitoring

The Tsunami Surfers are collecting baseline data and will be monitoring change on their stretch of beach.  The NOAA Marine Debris Monitoring program and the 4H Surfrider Surf and Stewardship club will be surveying our stretch of beach for two years to see if there is a change in trash from the Japanese tsunami of 2011.  Who knew picking up trash was so much fun?

Lighthouse Beach gets a cleanup!

The Coos Bay Surfrider Chapter sponsored its first beach cleanup this weekend at Lighthouse Beach at 10AM on Sunday, July 8th. 22 volunteers from the community removed two truckloads of debris from the beach, including a large dock that has been sitting on the beach for months. Volunteers used crowbars and hammers to dismantle the dock, taking care to leave the styrofoam core intact. The Coos Bay Chapter is actively seeking new members and volunteers to help keep our beaches and waters clean and safe for our community. Email Carmen Matthews at chair@coosbay.surfrider.org for more information.

State Parks or Golf Courses?

Floras Lake State Park and the Blacklock Point area still need us — Sept. 14 at 5pm, Docia Sweet Hall at the Fairgrounds Event Center in Gold Beach! At a series of recent Town Hall meetings, Curry County Commissioner George Rhodes finally unveiled long-secret plans to develop two golf courses, one on the shores of Floras Lake and another atop bluffs that are now part of Floras Lake State Park. Kalmiopsis Audubon members and friends have been leading the charge presenting impressive, substantive, and inspiring comments at several meetings already, so let’s be sure and give them and the coast we need in this important meeting—which may count the most. There will be a car pool leaving the Langlois Lions Club at 3:30 and from the Port Orford Library at 4:00 pm. And we encourage Brookings members and friends to carpool from the south. If anyone’s up for pizza afterwards, at least a few of us will head for the Panther’s Den, on the east side of 101 toward the center/south end of Gold Beach.

We hope to see you at this very important meeting. At this crucial juncture, the future of our beloved place depends on us. Read more.

Planet Blow Comes to Pistol River

Help support our Surfrider 4H Stewardship Surf Camps this summer and attend this great event! Dates below for more information and to sign up contact Dave Lacey at: davejlacey@yahoo.com

Gold Beach (Rogue River mouth) July 16th & 17th

Brookings-Crescent City (South Beach) August 6th & 7th

Port Orford (Hubbard’s Creek?) August 13th & 14th