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.
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.
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.
Riparian
restoration efforts are well underway on the North Coast. The NCWA
is planting this winter on three Lower Columbia tributaries - Big
Creek, North Fork Klaskanine River, and the Lewis & Clark River
- and on one direct-to-ocean tributary - Arch Cape Creek. Invasive
plants, such as Japanese knotweed, have been eradicated by a partnering
organization, Clatsop Soil & Water Conservation District.
Several organizations have assisted in planting efforts - Americorps,
MTC Works, and watershed council volunteers. Funding for this year's
plantings was secured from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board,
The Nature Conservancy's Salmon Habitat Enhancement Fund, and the
US Fish & Wildlife Service.
Riparian restoration has several ecological benefits, including stream
temperature reduction; in-stream large woody debris recruitment; provision
of food sources, such as macroinvertebrates, for salmon; nutrient
interception; soil stabilization; and more.
Contact the NCWA for more information or to have your stream-side
area planted.
