Habitat Monitoring: Research Natural Areas, Registration Form

Please fill out this form to indicate your interest in monitoring Key Research Natural Areas, one of ONDA's On-the-Ground Advocacy opportunities.

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Project Information & Training:

After filling out this form, you'll receive all of the information you need to get out in the desert and begin monitoring! This includes maps and detailed instructions for data collection, as well as a recording of past trainings. Please reach out to nserio@onda.org if you'd like additional guidanace.

This project requires hiking off trail and navigating using offline maps on the app Gaia GPS. To access some of the project sites, you'll need to navigate on remote dirt roads without cell service. What experience do you have with backcountry travel in the high desert?

What would you like to take away from volunteering with ONDA?

Please read carefully before completing - This is a release of liability and a release of certain legal rights

In consideration for my being permitted by the Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA) to participate in the various activities that take place in the backcountry and wilderness regions of Oregon, I agree to the following waiver and release: I acknowledge that backcountry and wilderness travel, activities and work projects have inherent risks, hazards and dangers that cannot be eliminated, particularly in a wilderness environment. I understand that these risks, hazards and dangers include without limitation:

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Risks arising from any activities in areas where no outside services are available or provided; where rescue and advanced medical care and services are limited and will be slow, if available at all; where trail or road conditions vary, are not maintained or controlled and are unpredictable and changeable; where hazards may not be obvious or visible; where weather is changeable and unpredictable;
Risks involved in decision making and route finding in a wilderness environment; and
Such other risks, hazards and dangers that are integral to wilderness travel and any and all outdoor sports and activities that take place in a wilderness environment such as hiking, climbing, mountaineering, backpacking, working, trail construction and repair.

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Confidentiality: As applicable, any and all work products I may have access to or produce, including but not limited to reports, data, information, resources, and correspondence with ONDA, shall be considered confidential and may only be shared with ONDA unless otherwise authorized by ONDA.

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For myself, my heirs, successors and executors, I hereby knowingly and intentionally waive and release, indemnify and hold harmless ONDA, its directors, officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, actions, causes of action, liabilities, suits, expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) and Negligence of any kind or nature, whether foreseen or unforeseen, arising directly or indirectly out of any damage, loss, injury, paralysis, or death to me or my property as a result of my participation in the activities and projects of the ONDA, the use of its information services and traveling in a wilderness environment from Negligence of ONDA, its directors, officers, agents or employees, or from some other cause. I further agree not to sue ONDA as a result of any injury, paralysis or death that may occur while participating in its activities or projects.

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Photo release: ONDA frequently uses photos of, and by, volunteers in ONDA’s newsletter, web and print publications. I allow ONDA to use any photos I appear in or have provided to ONDA.

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I have carefully read, clearly understand and voluntarily sign this participation, waiver and release agreement.

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I have carefully read, clearly understand and voluntarily sign this statement of understanding and assumption of risk.

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