During the summer of 2025, a team of restoration practitioners working together completed a project that has been over a decade in development. The Greater Oregon City Watershed Council, working in partnership with landowner Port Blakely, and funders including the Read more…
Andrew completed his first restoration project when he was 15 helping fence off a wetland in Tualatin. Since then, his love for plants and local ecology has only grown. After studying terrestrial and freshwater ecology at Western Washington University, he Read more…
Celebration Event Details Our celebration event will start with a volunteer work party, followed by a complimentary lunch and discussion of past and present watershed projects, new challenges, and recent scientific work in the watersheds. We encourage attendees to bring Read more…
This February the Greater Oregon City Watershed Council in collaboration with Oregon City Parks is hosting 4 opportunities for volunteers to help plant new native plantings along the shores of Singer Creek. From 10am – 1pm volunteers will be instructed Read more…
Join us Saturday mornings for a few hours of community and stewardship! All of the volunteer effort in Singer Creek Park is helping towards greater goals of restoring the riparian quality of Singer Creek and also connecting Oregon City residents Read more…
The Greater Oregon City Watershed Council and Metro partner to complete another phase in the North Newell Creek Restoration Process. Beginning July 13, helicopters will be transporting logs into the middle reaches of Newell Creek to restore structure that is Read more…
Join the Greater Oregon City Watershed Council and the Environmental Learning Center (ELC) for a morning or two of battling invasive plant species with some sheet mulching. Sheet mulching has been used throughout the world for generations to regenerate soil Read more…
Oregon City, Ore. – The Greater Oregon City Watershed Council (GOCWC) is working with local, state, and federal funders to improve habitat for native salmon, trout, and lamprey in the upper reaches of Abernethy creek this week. Working for over Read more…
Check out this amazing footage of lamprey in Holcomb Creek from our partner’s at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Aquatic Inventories Program!
Join Greater Oregon City Watershed Council, Clackamas River Basin Council, and City of Oregon City Parks and Recreation for a spring time ivy removal work party at Atkinson Park in Oregon City Tools & refreshments provided, bring your own H20 Read more…
These past few weeks we’ve been bracing the cold and getting in the stream to conduct eDNA surveys to detect for the presence of Chum Salmon in Abernethy Creek! Fish shed DNA particles into the water through skin, waste and Read more…
