Milk Creek, in the Molalla River basin, is home to a number of fish species: Chinook and Coho salmon, winter steelhead, cutthroat trout, and Pacific lamprey. So when the Clackamas Soil and Water […]
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The Monthly Plan-it: Updates from the Conservation Planning Program – January 2018
Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) has a variety of tools, information, and resources to help folks who believe that conservation and good stewardship of our lands is a critical function to […]
The Monthly Plan-it: Updates from the Conservation Planning Program – November 2017
Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) has a variety of tools, information, and resources to help folks who believe that conservation and good stewardship of our lands is a critical function to […]
Weir Removal…a dam good idea!
Weirs are barriers built in a stream to pool water for irrigation, recreation, and sometimes to generate power. They are found in many of our local streams, even though most are no longer […]
A Rare Chance to Learn About Streams
Is the area next to your river (known as the riparian area) eroding and falling off into the water each winter? Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District is happy to host a […]
Is Your Stream Bank Heading Downstream?
Stream bank erosion is a natural process and, in an undisturbed stream, it usually happens slowly over time. However, once a stream is disturbed and plants along stream banks are removed, this process […]
Community, Conservation, and Hot Cider
Neighbors along Corral Creek were treated to a fun morning of greeting old friends and meeting new ones, while learning about the dam removal on their creek and the 2.5 miles of fish […]
Obstruction Removed — Fish Jumping for Joy!
Exciting things have been happening in Corral Creek. Last month an in-stream dam was removed from the creek and constructed log jams were installed. The project restored natural stream processes and re-established 2.5 […]
What Are the Bugs Telling Us?
Got bugs? If you live in the Clackamas River watershed, you may have noticed folks in orange vests looking under rocks and kicking the sediment in Doane and North Fork Deep creeks in […]
A Teachable Moment…
When you grow up the son of a grade school teacher you learn a lot of valuable life skills. You learn how to properly clean a blackboard, how to make homemade play dough, […]
