Milk Creek Project: Making the Turn

More logs were placed today and we started to make the turn to follow the course of the stream.  In the photos below, you’ll find a few that show the...

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Milk Creek Project: Base Log Layer

Today the crew made great strides toward installing the base layer of logs in the large engineered log jam.  Trunks with roots attached were placed so the...

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Milk Creek Project: First Logs Placed!

Today (Monday, August 27, 2012) the contractor placed the first logs on the mudstone stream bottom.  As we build the engineered log jam, logs with roots still...

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Milk Creek Project: Mobilization (gallery)

Our contractor — Aquatic Contracting, LLC — arrived on Thursday, August 23, 2012 to begin mobilizing equipment, hauling wood, and establishing...

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DIY Rain Garden Series: Two New Videos!

The first two videos in our new DIY Rain Gardens series are now available!  These brief videos are designed to be modular so that you can access just the...

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Reducing the Risk of Pesticides in Our Streams

The topic of pesticides in local streams is rising to the surface! Folks in the conservation community anticipate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will...

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New Rain Garden Fact Sheet Available

Looking for a quick overview of rain gardens? We have a new fact sheet that highlights many aspects of rain gardens! Rainfall Imagine your entire property...

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Parking Lot Island Out, Rain Garden In

The Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District recently assisted a local church in replacing a parking lot island with a new rain garden. Rain...

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Waterlogged: Unwanted Water!

It’s springtime. Can water be too much of a good thing? Sometimes yes! Join Clair Klock as he describes the flood control dike in the Three Creeks...

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Jumpstart Your Spring Pasture

It’s officially spring, and if you haven’t already done so, it’s time to get your pasture ready.  After the continual rain of winter, grazed...

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Six Minutes on Currin Creek Restoration

Six minutes about the Currin Creek Restoration work in Estacada…with sound and pictures! It’s our newest video! This stream restoration project on...

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Horse in background, pile of manure in foreground

Ten Simple Ways to Keep Manure Out of Water

It’s springtime and the Willamette Valley is greening up. We’ll certainly receive more rain before summertime, and some of that rain will run off...

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Possible project on Mt. Scott and Camas creeks

Clackamas County SWCD staff visited a potential project site today at North Clackamas Park. Two streams pass through the park: Mt. Scott Creek and Camas Creek....

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