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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Alexis and Seth (Westside Watershed Resource Center) teamed up again this spring to deliver a two-part Watershed 101 workshop to Prof. April Ann Fong’s students at PCC Sylvania, and spent the weekly lab session outside weeding and planting along a campus pathway! It was exciting to put 150 native plants in the ground in a…
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Thank You to the City of Portland Office of Community & Civic Life for sponsoring our 15th Annual Watershed Wide Event! We had rain, wind, sunshine and got a lot accomplished: Across eight simultaneous work parties, 163 volunteers including 41 youth removed ivy vines from 157 native trees & shrubs, removed invasive plants from 1.1…
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Each Spring Break, Tryon Creek Watershed Council partners with the Oregon Refugee Children’s Assistance Services (ORCAS) program, to welcome new Oregonian youth to the Tryon Creek State Natural Area. For many of these students it’s their first time visiting a Pacific Northwest forest, and it’s a special part of each spring! This program supports multiple…
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This spring, Tryon Creek Watershed Council teamed up with the Westside Watershed Resource Center to provide watershed science education and facilitate stewardship for all of Jackson Middle School’s 7th graders. Each classroom was visited twice. On the first day, after an overview about watersheds and brief exploration of the on-campus creek connections and discussion about…
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