The Ladd Marsh Bird Festival is scheduled for May 15 – 17, 2020. Information about Friday Night’s featured speaker, field trips and more will be posted here soon. Registration will open April 15. We know that is tax day and figure you need something positive to brighten the day.
Stay tuned! We will get more information up here as soon as we can.
Join us Thursday, November 7, 2019 for the Annual Membership Meeting of the Friends of Ladd Marsh at 7:00 PM, in the Community Room at the La Grande Library. Learn what your Friends have been up this this year, reconnect with friends, and make new acquaintances. The agenda includes a slide show of 2019 activities, an update on the MAPS songbird banding station, nominations and voting for Board members and a brief report on the organization’s finances. This is the perfect time to renew your membership for 2020. Also, FOLM merchandise will be available including shirts, hats, binocular cleaning cloths and the 2020 Ladd Marsh Calendar – hot off the presses. The holidays will be here before you know it. Get ready to stuff some stockings with Ladd Marsh swag! Oh, and there will be cookies.
REMINDER! Ladd Marsh Cleanup Day is this Saturday beginning at 9:00AM. Friends of Ladd Marsh will be joined by members of Oregon Hunter’s Association (OHA) and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers to clean up trash on the wildlife area. Participants must check in at Ladd Marsh HQ to fill out volunteer forms and get a permit to be in closed areas. Thanks to OHA, we now have several grabbers and a large supply of trash bags.
Participants should dress appropriately for the weather, recognizing the potential for wet ground and strong wind. Please leave pets at home or make other arrangements.
Directions to Ladd Marsh HQ: From La Grande, take the Union Highway (203) to Pierce Rd (B&K Auto Salvage). Turn right (south) on Pierce. Continue for approximately 1 ¼ mile to HQ on the right.
From Union, turn left on Pierce Rd and follow above directions.
HQ can be reached from I-84: Take exit 268 (Foothill Rd) then turn east. At the “T” with Pierce Rd, turn left (north). Continue about 1 1/2 mile to HQ on the left.
