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Corps of Discovery

OSU Master Naturalist Mary Crow, OSU Master Naturalist, leads nature tour in central Oregon. EMBARGO FOR TERRA. DO NOT USE THIS PHOTO!

Just as some babies are born with special gifts for music or math, Harvard’s Howard Gardner argues, others come into the world with an exceptional sensitivity to nature. The Oregon Master Naturalist program was designed to tap into this devotion to the land and build a statewide corps of expert volunteers.

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South Slough

Oregon State University master naturalist volunteers Anne Marie Farell-Matthews and Philip Matthews cut open sacks of native Olympic oysters and spread them on a muddy flat during low tide at Oregon's South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve near Charleston. EMBARGO FOR TERRA. DO NOT USE THIS PHOTO!

Anne and Philip Matthews have explored every twist and tangle of the South Slough, which became the nation’s first national estuarine research reserve in the 1970s.