Tsuga Community Commission began as a network of environmental educators immersed in Oregon's statewide military community to help develop the community capacity of youth from military families. We recruited each other from Outdoor Schools and summer camp programs into a coalition of residential camp program professionals. We completed our educations, drew on our vocational backgrounds, and grew into a community development project together.

This group of colleagues believes camp is more than a place to have fun, but also a venue where new and existing communities can form their shared identity, create tradition, and build social capital. Residential camp facilities provide an ideal venue for families, neighborhoods, and emerging concept communities to meet, participate in open discourse, and build a set of community goals. While existing camp facilities and community centers across the Pacific Northwest provide an adequate venue for these functions, residential camps provide a special element of intimacy in a natural space to associate with on a personal level and within a new community.

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Roger Binschus Treasurer

Kyle Bunch President

Sherry Carter Secretary

Auggie Ford

Tomomi Ioffe

Marc Mintz

Melissa Robinson