PLACE: People, Lamprey, & Cultural Ecology

A short film highlighting Friends of Tryon Creek’s Cultural Ecology programming that represents the authentic narratives of the landscape through the connections between people, Pacific lamprey and local waterways.

Follow Friends of Tryon Creek Executive Director Gabe Sheoships, an Indigenous - Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and Cayuse - practitioner, biologist, and educator who has reimagined the Friends of Tryon Creek organization through an Indigenous worldview. Created in partnership with Freshwaters Illustrated.

Every year, over 20,000 young learners from all communities connect to forests, water, and cultural ecology through the Friends Of Tryon Creek

Pacific lamprey are still blocked from Tryon Creek by an impassable manmade barrier under a highway crossing

Help the Friends Of Tryon Creek bring Indigenous cultural values, inclusive community, and native biodiversity back to Tryon Creek.