Fueled by hot coffee and Voodoo doughnuts, nearly 50 volunteers braved a rain-soaked Saturday morning to help install over 1,400 native trees and shrubs along the Trolley Trail in Oak Grove. Friends of […]
Archive | Working together
Developing and nurturing key partnerships to help achieve our conservation mission is what we mean by Working Together. Captured here are the activities that help us build and maintain important conservation relationships.
District Employee Honored by Special Districts Association of Oregon
Jenne Reische, riparian specialist for Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District, was presented with the Special District Service award by the Special Districts Association of Oregon. This award recognizes individuals who have […]
Bumble Bee Watch is Live!
We are pleased to share this exciting announcement from our friends at the Xerces Society. Big news! Xerces Society has launched a new web site: BumbleBeeWatch.org. This site allows you to be directly […]
Students Help Habitat in Lake Oswego!
Third grade students in Lake Oswego are helping to transform a rarely used patch of schoolyard into a new native plant garden at Forest Hills Elementary School. Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation […]
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 […]
Conservation District Awards Partnership Grants
Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District is excited to announce that partnership support grants totaling over $94,000 will be distributed to farmers markets and watershed councils within the District boundaries. Partner organizations […]
Johnson Creek Edible Weed Walk
Did you know that many weeds are used for agricultural and medicinal purposes?Join the Johnson Creek Watershed Council for an information Weed Walk along Johnson Creek. Sunday, September 22, at Pleasant Valley Elementary (17625 SE […]
Partnership Pays, Pesticides Removed
Partnership paid off big time for area agricultural producers who needed to dispose of old, unused pesticides. On June 1, 2013, twenty-five producers took advantage of an opportunity to get rid of their […]
District Awards Support Funds to Watershed Councils
We have a fairly unique situation in the Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District: we have all or part of ten watershed councils within our boundary! The District is more successful because […]
