The Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit brings together Oregon’s outdoor community to learn, build relationships, and find solutions to the challenges we face in developing and elevating outdoor recreation opportunities to best serve Oregon communities and celebrate and protect our natural, cultural, and historic wonders.

The 2021 summit is a statewide, virtual event supplemented by regional, in-person outdoor stewardship events, in-field learning opportunities, and outdoor networking happy hours (as public health guidance allows).

Continuing education credits will be available where applicable through a partnership with American Trails.

Land Acknowledgement:

Over sixty tribes and bands of Indigenous Peoples have lived in the northwest region since time immemorial. Despite the treaties of the 1800s, termination, restoration, and other barriers, nine tribes are currently federally-recognized in what is now Oregon. Other federally-recognized tribes outside of Oregon have interests in the state and still others are working toward this recognition.

Today, tribes work extensively to manage resources throughout their original territories playing active roles in their regions, counties, states, and communities, leveraging their extensive knowledge and history of the area. In Oregon, outdoor recreation occurs on the ancestral lands of these original peoples and current caretakers. We are called to seek out the history of the places where we recreate and continue to learn how to best participate in their caretaking.

OSU Resources for Land Acknowledgements: Here
Native Land Map: Here

Oregon Legislative Commission on Indian Services: Here