The NCWA Has Completed Their Strategic Plan
Posted September 16, 2008


The Plan is the culmination of 10 months of hard work by the NCWA Board of Directors and will be the organization's guiding document for the coming years.


You can view the Plan by clicking here.


NCWA Donates Logs to Habitat Restoration
Posted September 7, 2008


The North Coast Watershed Association collected over 60 logs after the December, 2007 storm. Forty-five of the logs were donated to the Columbia Land Trust, who used the logs on a restoration project in the summer, 2008.

To read more and view the video, click here.

The NCWA will likely be receiving additional grant funds this winter to collect blowdown and use the trees to provide beneficial habitat for multiple species, including juvenile salmon.





The Big Creek Enhancement project in the Nicolai-Wickiup Watershed is complete! This restoration project involved replacing 2 culverts with rail car bridges and raising the logging mainline in order to divert the creek back to its historic channel. Restoring the channel eliminated a velocity barrier that was blocking fish passage to upstream spawning and rearing habitat. This project has reopened at least 3 miles of high quality coho habitat, and approximately 8 miles of steelhead and cutthroat habitat on Big Creek.










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