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Alumni & Friends

The Cross-Disciplinary Future of Land Stewardship?

For the past three years, alumna Sarah Klain has been collaborating with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation to create a land stewardship plan for Boa Ogoi, a 585-acre parcel in southeastern Idaho where the US Army Cavalry and settlers massacred over 400 tribe members in 1863. But, how does one begin to “restore” land in a climate-changed future?

December 6, 2021

Alumni & Friends

Our Sheep Pelt Giveaway Winners

We had a landslide 932 entries to our sheep pelt giveaway. WOW! Congratulations to these eleven lucky winners:

December 3, 2021

Foundation

Join Our live Sheep Pelt Drawing at 3pm!

Join us today at 3pm (ET) for our LIVE sheep pelt drawing from Salt Marsh Farm with Farm and Woodlot Manager Megan Phillips, and Chewonki

November 30, 2021

Foundation

Lost in Translation?

Hola, прывітанне, नमस्ते, bonjour, 你好, Merhaba, שלום, and hello Chewonki!

You might not know this, be we have been lucky to welcome participants from more than 21 different countries over the past five years, and in an effort to make our program information more accessible (and fun), we recently enabled language translation services offered by Google Translate on all of our webpages. You can try out this new service by selecting the language of your choice from the drop-down menu at the top right of each page.

But what does it say?

October 20, 2021

Camp Chewonki for Boys

He’s Built 91 Kayaks at Chewonki and Counting

“Kids these days,” says boatbuilding instructor Bill Thomas, referring to the oft-used lament about youth. “Adults wouldn’t say that if they got to work with

September 17, 2021

Chewonki's Big Eddy Campground

Big Eddy’s Prized Pizza Tradition

Photos and Story by Julie Pulieo, Big Eddy Site Assistant Put together a wood-fired pizza oven, your favorite toppings, and fat salmon jumping in nearby

September 2, 2021

Alumni & Friends

3,100 Miles in 35 Days

Alumni Takes on Epic Challenge to Raise Money for Cancer Research

August 19, 2021

Chewonki Waypoint

Waypointer Wins Prestigious Citizenship Award

We are pleased to announce that Declan Wright, a member of Chewonki Waypoint Cohort 3, has been awarded a prestigious Eighth Grade Citizenship Award by

July 22, 2021

Alumni & Friends

Watch: Art, Ecology, Equity; A Conversation with Sue West

Art, Ecology, Equity: Celebrating Sue West’s Four Decades at Chewonki Sue West in Conversation with Amy Rogers Watch Now Sue West started working at Chewonki

July 15, 2021

Chewonki's Big Eddy Campground

Update from Up-River

It’s shaping up to be quite a summer at Big Eddy, with the “No Vacancy” board hanging on the hooks below our open sign almost

July 14, 2021

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