Annual Board Retreat & Tour
The last Sunday of March was the annual Board Member retreat that we held for the first time at the Albany Regional Museum. Council staff along with nine of our eleven board members were able to attend this jam-packed day of discussion and presentations. One of the day’s highlights was the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion[…]
2019 Fall Updates
The start of a new school year offers a chance to look back over the summer events as well as launching our Youth Education team into a new season of action and fun! Canoe Raffle Winner After more than a year, we successfully completed the special fundraiser! We sold all 300 tickets, which supports our[…]
Autumn 2021 Updates!
Spring and Summer News – General Quote from ED Resto News DONATE Education News ODS Snorkeling Watching and Upcoming Above – September Board Meeting Float! (L-R: Sarah Norton, Cris Salazar Fiona Julian Collin McCandless John Joiner, Jim Merzenich, Mark Running, Matt Mellenthin, Jim Wagner. Photo by Kristen Larsen of Luckiamute Watershed Council)
Planting Native Trees and Shrubs
Bowers Rock Impromptu Planting! Habitat Restoration Program Manager, Cris Salazar & Executive Director, Collin McCandless have been planting at Bowers Rock State Park.Thanks to last minute plants that were available, they planted 300 Black Cottonwood, 50 Twinberry, and 50 Red Flowering Currants!Thanks to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and One Tree Planted!
High School Environmental Clubs
Our Education Program Manager Kristen has been planting native shrubs with the South Albany HS Environmental Club along Periwinkle Creek at Periwinkle Park.West Albany HS Environmental Club recently commenced the planting at Bowman with the two groups working upstream towards each other, enhancing the habitat of the creek along the way!Periwinkle Creek runs through the[…]
eDNA Sampling
Cris, our Habitat Restoration Program Manager has been finishing up the Environmental DNA Monitoring report from our specimen collection data results and findings.The project aimed to determine the presence of Upper Willamette River Chinook in the mainstem Calapooia River through environmental DNA sampling.This population of Chinook salmon was listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species[…]
Upper Calapooia 2022
Visit the project page One of the CWC’s biggest projects of 2022 was the Upper Calapooia Steelhead Habitat Enhancement. After a couple of years’ delay, in July 2022 several full sized trees with rootwads attached were successfully placed into the upper Calapooia River to improve habitat conditions for ESA-listed winter steelhead. The added instream complexity[…]
Post-Fire Logging (article)
Post-fire logging and reforestation can make things worse. Read the original article at Forest Fire Facts “Logging following disturbances, such as wildfire, windstorm, volcanic eruption, and flood, is a multi-faceted topic that has many environmental, economic, and social consequences. The case for logging after wildfires may appear to many to be straightforward but, like many[…]