Tryon Creek Watershed Council’s 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event Join us in supporting the unique urban Tryon Creek watershed by volunteering to remove invasive plant species and plant native plants for Tryon Creek Watershed Council’s 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event on Saturday, March 15, 2025 from 9:00am – 12pm! This is TCWC’s largest annual volunteer event! Join…
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One of our favorite spring events has become an annual tradition between Tryon Creek Watershed Council and Oregon Refugee Children’s Assistance Services (ORCAS), where we welcome a multilingual group of students to the Tryon Creek State Natural Area. For many of these students it’s their first time visiting a Pacific Northwest forest! Students who joined…
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Our mid-March 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event went really well! This is always an all-hands-on-deck, partnership-filled event and this year was no different. It was forecasted to be entirely rainy… but things cleared up during the first part of our work parties! Across nine sites, we had 121 volunteers who planted 431 native plants, removed…
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Celebrating Fish in Tryon Creek: Fintastic Film Screening was hosted by Tryon Creek Watershed Council and SEED at Lewis and Clark College, and was well-attended by community members as well as Lewis & Clark College students. This celebratory and educational event showcased a few special films to highlight efforts to honor and support native migratory…
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This week, Tryon Creek Watershed Council wrapped the first term of our Watershed Conservation Activities P.E. Course at Lewis & Clark College. Our Lewis & Clark College Student Representative and Board alum, Jack Fiocco, worked his senior year to set something up to support Lewis & Clark’s on-campus habitat maintenance: He successfully created a new P.E. course,…
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Celebrating Fish in Tryon Creek: Fintastic Film Screening Join us to enjoy short films and a panel in celebration of fish in Tryon Creek! RSVP here This celebratory and educational event will showcase a few special films to highlight efforts to honor and support native migratory fish. Learn about Pacific Lamprey and Cultural Ecology through…
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We’re very excited to announce that Nhan Han will be joining the TCWC Board as one of the Lewis & Clark College Student Representatives. Get to know Nhan and Sylvia here! Nhan is an active member of Lewis & Clark College’s SEED (Students Engaged in Eco Defense) on campus, along with our current Board member…
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Hello Watershed Neighbors! My name is Jess Gustafson and I’m the new Sustainability Intern at TCWC this summer. I’m an undergrad at Lewis & Clark College, majoring in Environmental Studies and minoring in Gender Studies. I started my internship last month in June and will continue until the end of August! I’m super excited to…
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Lucky Lab and on Zoom last month for the June 2024 Science Talk, it was a blast! Here is the recording link (Alexis’s Fish & Fish Passage Updates presentation starts at 1:35, Nora Boylan’s Stream Power presentation starts at 34:28). Photo credit: Tryon Creek Watershed Council…
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The Westside Watershed Resource Center hosted a rain garden painting on the corner of SW 26th Ave and Barbur Ct in early June 2024. This event helped raise awareness about watershed health, mitigate graffiti, and build community. Thank you to all the volunteers that came out to help bring awareness about watershed health, mitigate graffiti,…
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