On May 17, 2014 nine Boy Scouts from Troop 50 and five of their parents volunteered their Saturday afternoon to assist the North Santiam Watershed Council remove English Ivy from the Niagara County Park. The North Santiam Watershed Council would like to thank the following individuals: Sebastian Baker Brady Borman Brent Boyd Ryan Boyd Benjamin…
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Oregon Hunter’s Association Capital Chapter 2014 Detroit Power Line Habitat Restoration Event Thank you to everyone who came out and volunteered for the 2014 Detroit Power Line Habitat Restoration Event. 2014 Power Line Accomplishment Report Restoration Activities Included: Fertilization of natural meadows Re-seeding existing meadows Cleaning up garbage dump sites Meadow brush encroachment maintenance 2014…
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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO HELP PULL IVY!!! Click link below to find out why English Ivy is not good for our Oregon Parks: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/node/948 The North Santiam Watershed Council will be holding future volunteer Ivy Pull events at the Niagara, Packsaddle and Minto Marion County Parks. All three parks have English…
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The North Santiam Watershed Council and the City of Salem Present: The Fourth Annual North Santiam Basin Summit April 18, 2014 (9 am to 3 pm – Lunch Provided) Marion County Public Works Department5155 Silverton Road, NESalem, OR 97305 RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY RSVP Meeting Materials Below: April 18, 2014 NS Summit Agenda North…
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Lance Wyss, Regional Projects Coordinator, represented the North Santiam, South Santiam, and Calapooia Watershed Councils at a Seedling Sale held by the Linn County Chapter of Oregon Small Woodlands Association on Saturday, Februay 15th, 2014. The event took place at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center in Albany, where Wyss hosted a booth with informational…
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The North Santiam, South Santiam and Calapooia Watershed Councils have been awarded Confluence User of the Year. As a participant of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation’s Willamette Model Watershed Program, funded by Meyer Memorial Trust, the councils were provided with a software tool to manage and report on their watershed restoration activities. Their mission — “Thinking and collaborating…
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Eric Anderson, the Regional Monitoring Coordinator for the North Santiam, South Santiam and Calapooia Watershed Councils provided the North Santiam Watershed Council with an annual update on the water quality monitoring efforts taking place in the North Santiam. Since November of 2012, Eric has been sampling ambient water quality conditions in four tributaries to the…
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Sarah Dyrdahl, Regional Projects Coordinator for the North Santiam Watershed Council (NSWC) provided the Salem City Council with a project update on how their donation to the NSWC was leveraged to implement stream side restoration projects above the City of Salem’s water intake facility. Click link to view project update report: CityofSalem_2013Reporting(Final).pub To see the streaming video of the presentation go to the following…
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Cascade Pacific RC&D is the North Santiam Watershed Council’s Fiscal Sponsor and Employer of Record. Click link to view Cascade Pacific RC&D’s 2013 Annual Report: http://www.cascadepacific.org/shop/images/v2annual_report_2013.pdf
Photos of the Evans Creek Slide Site Tour: We had the opportunity to hike from the blocked site on the Evan’s Road down to the top of the most active portion of the slide escarpment. We observed the slide in progress! We would like to thank Patrick Hawe for providing the Council and local landowners a management…
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The North Santiam, South Santiam and Calapooia Watershed Councils’ mission is “Thinking and collaborating regionally to build capacity to work locally. Our Vision: Clean healthy waters with ecological flows, native species recovered and diverse, floodplain connectivity and healthy riparian forests, as well as stable economies with working landscapes that support local populations, and communities that sustain those natural…
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