Oregon Parks Forever was pleased to once again be able to provide scholarship support for students to attend this year’s Cottonwood Crossing Summer Institute. This is a week-long residential field studies program for high school students in grades 9-12. Students studied Macroinvertebrates in the River, learned about Visual Storytelling, some learned how to design and build solar solutions to charge personal devices or collect data with electronics off the grid, and a fourth group learned about Fisheries and Riparian Habitats. In this picture, students from the “fish heads team” are shown presenting a model of how different riparian habitats affect fish life in a river.