Education Program

The mission of the TEP Education Program is to provide opportunities for Tillamook County's citizens and visitors to develop a stewardship ethic. A major goal of the program is to help policy makers and the general public better understand the impact of their activities on the natural resources around them. Toward this end, the TEP is currently working with natural resource educators and community stakeholders to develop a Community Education Plan. This plan will recognize behaviors that impact natural resources both positively and negatively and identify the audiences which should be targeted.

During development of this plan, TEP's Education Committee continues to undertake its ongoing and annual projects. Some of these include:

• Tillamook County Water Trail
• Tillamook County Children's Clean Water Festival
• Watershed Education Kits
• Hoquarton Interpretive Trail Project
• Estuary Live! Internet Broadcast
• TEP's Speaker Series
• Bounty on the Bay

TEP's Annual Jim Mundell Citizen Stewardship Award

Several years ago, the TEP Education Committee decided that they wanted to publicly honor some of the many people in our community whose everyday lives epitomize the natural resource stewardship ethic. The citizen or community group is chosen each year out of an impressive array of nominees whose efforts are vital to sustaining the quality of life we all cherish in Tillamook County. Read about the award recipients from 2002-2007.

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