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[…]
Habitat Restoration Updates Riverbank Lupine, seeded 2018 This spring, the Habitat Restoration Program has been busy making site visits to many of our projects to monitor the health of newly planted native tree and shrubs. The program is actively restoring native vegetation communities and controlling noxious weeds on 105 acres of riparian and 147 of[…]
We are very proud and excited to announce that our very own Kristen Daly has been awarded TWO United States Forest Service Rise to the Future Awards for Public Awareness for the Calapooia Watershed Council’s Snorkeling Program! 2019 Regional USFS Rise to the Future Award Winner 2020 National USFS Rise to the Future Award Winner[…]
Adaptation and flexibility; the ingredients of success.. and this year has required more than a just little of both from all of us. When pandemic measures first began here in March, even with so many unknowns, few of us expected to find ourselves in the ongoing challenges and devastations for the rest of 2020. On[…]
The CWC staff are now in week ten of working from home. Although this is not how we are used to working “together”, we have started to settle into this new arrangement with the acceptance that for now, this is the new “normal”. No, not business as usual… but definitely business, as you will see[…]
Our Education Program working with local elementary schools and Benton Soil and Water Conservation District (our partners in Salmon Watch) organized this community event for Spanish speaking first students! “Last night the Calapooia Watershed Council participated in a STEAM (Science, Technology, Arts, Mathematics) Bilingual Family night hosted by Lincoln Elementary School in Corvallis. As a[…]
We’re in the middle of Salmon Watch Season! This Youth Education Program is a collaborative effort between the Calapooia Watershed Council, South Santiam Watershed Council, Albany & Corvallis-area elementary schools, and a team of volunteers. We’re always in need of volunteers if this is something you’d like to be a part of, no experience necessary! […]
