AUGUST NEWSLETTER  2008

Midsummer Greetings from Oregon!

Newsletter features:

• New designs, new work
• Summer Sale!   20% off plain Bronze animal heads
• An Oregon Crafted Sampler: a group show at the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene
• Easier ordering for our non-US customers
• Encountering wildlife by canoe: a trip to Coyote Creek Wildlife Area
• Animals in the News: Return of the Gray Wolf / Oregon’s first breeding wolf pack

“….for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing is come,

and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.”

                                                                  The Song of Solomon   2:11

Note:  The turtle the author refers to is actually a turtle dove! But what if Turtle could speak?  What would she say?

New Designs, new work:

Silver Snow Leopard in Mountains w/ Detachable Bail   2 ¼ inch length    $510.00	Silver River otter w/ Fossil Ivoryand Turquoise 2 inch length     $545.00
	Mountain Lion Storm w/ Bruneau Jasper   3 inch length      $510.00

Summer Sale!    20% off all the plain bronze animal heads!

Have fun looking through the different animal categories in our Art Gallery to find these totem-treasures!  Hurry, since we have only one of each item in stock at a time!

Sale starts August 1^st  and ends September 30^{th .}

(Sale applies to items in stock only, not to special orders.)

An Oregon Crafted Sampler:  a group show at the prestigious Jacobs Gallery in Eugene, Oregon.

Oregon Crafted is an organization dedicated to helping Oregon artists develop markets for their work.  Its original mission focused on outreach to rural artists, but it now encompasses urban areas as well.

An Oregon Crafted Sampler is a curated, beautifully-displayed and colorful exhibit of members’ artwork, including Brooke Stone Jewelry. 

The show runs through August 23.

Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center

Gallery hours:  Tues. – Fri. noon to 4 PM and Sat. 11 AM to 3 PM.

www.jacobsgallery.org

See the Oregon Crafted website at:   www.oregoncrafted.org

EASIER ORDERING for our non-US customers!

We have a new shopping cart system in place which makes ordering from outside the US much easier.  Customers in the UK, Canada, Australia, France and Germany will be automatically linked to Paypal to complete their transactions.

Customers from outside those 5 countries will be able to use Paypal’s “Send Money” feature to complete transactions.

We value our customers from all over the world!   Thank you for your support and patience!

A summer canoe trip on Coyote Creek: a riparian habitat photo gallery, just for the fun of it! 

If you have a canoe or kayak, this is a great way to spot all sorts of wildlife!

The Coyote Creek canoe trail, in between Eugene and Veneta, meanders for miles along the creek through varied riparian habitats, including marsh land rich with bird-life and bird-song, eventually emptying into Fern Ridge Lake.

We regularly spot beaver, turtles, great-horned owls, eagles, osprey, egrets, pelicans and countless other small marsh birds, reptiles and amphibians. Our friends have spotted river otters early in the morning.

Animals in the News:  Return of the Gray Wolf

Oregon has its first wolf pack since the predator was wiped out by bounty hunting a century ago.

ODFW coordinator Russ Morgan heard at least two adults and two pups answer his howls under a bright moon in the pre-dawn hours July 18, on the Umatilla National Forest in Northern Union County.

“After searching and monitoring and surveying for 2 years, doing this-- to actually confirm multiple wolves-- was a bit of a surprise,” Morgan said. “We are talking about a very rare animal in the state of Oregon. That makes locating them difficult. It is satisfying to see part of that effort pay off.”

Biologists have long expected that wolves would spread to Oregon after they were reintroduced to Central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1995. The Idaho population numbers more than 500, and young wolves leave the pack and strike out for new territories rather than overcrowd an old one.

To get to Northeastern Oregon, they can swim the Snake River or walk across a bridge or dam. At least 5 wolves are known to have reached Oregon since 1999.”

“Wildlife biologists-- and, increasingly, the general public-- now understand the balancing effects that wolves have on ecosystems. Among other things, they are predators that play a critical role in the food chain by suppressing coyote and cougar populations; by benefiting grizzlies and other animals that feed on wolf kills, and by culling the sick and dying from deer and elk herds and restoring their natural foraging patterns.”

--from an Associated Press article by Jeff Barnard on Tuesday, July 22, 2008; and from an editorial in the Eugene Register Guard on Wednesday, July 23, 2008

WELCOME BACK, GRAY WOLF!

Looking down the valley:  The land is a mother that never dies…..

Thank you for looking at our Newsletter!  Have a great summer!