The Oregon Education Project included the design, production and installation of large interpretive panels at eleven ports along the Oregon coast with eleven additional panels placed in storage to serve as future replacements for damaged panels. The panels provided information to boaters about the sensitivity of coastal wildlife to disturbance and asked boaters to stay more than 500 feet away from rocks, islands and cliffs. The same interpretive message was reproduced and displayed on posters for distribution throughout the coastal region and in other locations. The panels and posters were completed at a cost of $80,000 and the poster distribution began on March 14, 2002.

The final component of the Oregon Education Project called for the production of a poster to warn pilots not to conduct low-level flights over seabird use areas along the Oregon coast. The colorful poster asks pilots to remain 2,000' AGL over or 1/2 mile lateral distance from all refuge rocks, reefs, islands and headlands along the Oregon coast to protect nesting seabirds from disturbance. The Tenyo Maru Pilot Poster was recently completed at a cost of $8500. The print run of 5,000 posters was received by the refuge complex on January 21, 2005 and distribution began immediately. A final report and financial documents were submitted to the trustees on March 1, 2005. This completed 12 years of refuge involvement in this long-running Natural Resources Damage Assessment program, one of the first in the nation to fund Education as a restoration project. Copies of both posters may be downloaded from the Oregon Coast NWR Complex website at http://oregoncoast.fws.gov.