As we approach the end of a very strange school year, we’d like to share some stories and reflections from our Education Director, Jennifer Starkey. Jennifer has been leading the Council’s Education program, Slough School, for the past five years, but none has been like this past one!
Read MoreAre you ready to step up your Slough stewardship? Adopt a section of the Slough through SOLVE’s Adopt-a-River program!
Read MoreIn this post, we talk with Max Samuelson, the Council’s Stewardship Director, about restoration in the watershed and an exciting habitat corridor the Council is helping build in northeast Portland’s Concordia neighborhood.
Read MoreTrees offer a wide range of benefits to people, and the fact that some Portland neighborhoods have far fewer trees than others has important implications for racial justice and community health and wellbeing. Let’s dig more into these issues and how the Environmental Services Tree Program is addressing them!
Read MoreThere’s a lot to learn about trees and tree-planting here in Portland. Who plants Portland’s trees? Which species are best, and how does climate change factor in? How can you get involved? To answer these questions and more, we talked with experts at the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES), which runs two important programs aimed at planting and caring for trees and expanding Portland’s urban canopy.
Read MoreRead more about the Columbia Slough Watershed Council’s 3-part lecture series on the history, culture, and ecology of flooding in the Columbia Slough watershed this spring!
Read MoreThe Columbia Slough Watershed Council is seeking a qualified consultant to provide process design, facilitation, and technical support for development of an equity-centered, five-year organizational strategic plan, as well as tailored training around EDI concepts for staff and board members.
Read MoreTake action on an important environmental justice issue in our watershed!
Read MoreCheck out the amazing wildlife camera videos captured this fall at Whitaker Ponds by the Alliance High School at Meek Natural Resources Program! Watch beavers, coyotes, raccoons, river otters, herons and more in their natural habitat at Whitaker Ponds!
Read MoreOur interns, Khan Tung and Keagan Moore, both bring unique, valuable experiences and perspectives to their work with the watershed council. Since they began their internships in August, they’ve been key helpers in nearly all our paddle and stewardship events, helped build our events database, and restored habitat at many sites across the watershed. As a fellow staff member, I’ve been inspired by Khan and Keagan’s stories and perspectives, and would like to share some of their words directly in this interview.
Read MoreThis September and October, the Columbia Slough Watershed Council started a new program to host free bilingual paddle events in languages commonly spoken in our watershed.
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again! The air is getting chilly, the rains are beginning…it’s planting season! We’re announcing our first four stewardship events that will take place this October through November, and we’ll be adding more for late winter and early spring, so stay tuned!
Read MoreResources for celebrating, recognizing and supporting our region’s indigenous communities.
Today—Monday, October 12—we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. The rich cultures, histories and lives of indigenous people deserve celebration every day. On this day in particular, however, instead of honoring Columbus, a man who colonized, killed, and enslaved indigenous people, we want to recognize instead the outstanding contribution the many indigenous tribes have made and continue to make in our region, and the extraordinary injustices and violence perpetrated against them by the U.S. government and settler colonial society.
Read MoreWhile 2020 has been a challenging year on many levels, this year also highlighted the leaders, visionaries, activists and community educators that continue to provide hope for our future. We’re proud to recognize two of those individuals as our 2020 Henrietta Award Winners: Nestor Campos and Reed Wagner!
Read MoreGuest Post by Pamela Slaughter, Founder of People of Color Outdoors
Read MoreLearn about Eurasian watermilfoil, a feathery plant that’s taking over sections of the Slough, and how habitat restoration along the Slough’s banks can help fight this aquatic invader.
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