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April 18, 2020

CANCELLED: Celebrate Earth Day with Vive NW!

Come celebrate Earth Day with us on April 18th! We will be planting trees to provide habitat and shade the Salmon River. This is an opportunity for our LatinX community to come together, make an impact and connect with the great outdoors.  

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Columbia Land Trust site logjam
August 2, 2019

History Repeats For Salmon Habitat

Three years ago, our first Sandy River levee removal project took place on Columbia Land Trust (CLT) property near Brightwood.  […]

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SummerConstruction01
July 31, 2019

Sandy-Salmon Construction Update

Construction has begun adjacent Clackamas County’s Barlow Wayside Park to restore salmon habitat while reducing downstream flooding risk.  The project […]

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Oregon slender salamander found in Gresham
July 9, 2019

Slimy Salamander Story

A lot of amazing wildlife calls Beaver Creek home. Some of these animals are expected to live in or near this urban and agricultural creek, like crayfish, great blue herons, treefrogs, and beavers. Others have surprised some of us a bit over the years by living so close to a city, like salmon, eagles, otters, and mountain lions. One rare animal amazed us when we discovered that it was living here right alongside us: the Oregon slender salamander.

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White-tailed Deer scat
May 19, 2019

Let’s talk seriously about poop for a minute….

Yes, poop. That’s what I said. Turds, droppings, feces, or the “dookie”, by another name. I’m not trying to shame, but the dookie might not be quite high enough in our minds sometimes. Whether it’s your dookie, your pet’s dookie, your other animal’s dookie, we need to respect where that dookie goes. That sounds pretty obvious, but it’s something I wanted to mention for the sake of the water quality in Beaver Creek. Here’s why.

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Confluence of Beaver and Kelly Creeks on MHCC Campus
May 11, 2019

Stories of Water

On our tour of the salmon projects on April 15, 2019, our writing class at Mt Hood Community College, WR122:01, encountered the concept of a “story of water.” The class decided to share its stories of water.

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