Conserving Oregon's Wetlands
The
Wetlands
Conservancy (TWC) is the only organization in Oregon dedicated to
promoting community and private partnerships to permanently protect
and conserve Oregon's greatest wetlands - our most biologically
rich and diverse lands. TWC designs and
implements collaborative strategies to sustain the health of
wetlands. TWC works with local communities, land trusts, watershed
councils, individual landowners and resource managers to promote
local stewardship, restoration and acquiring properties. TWC
trains, educates and provides assistance directly to landowners,
citizen groups, and businesses to increase local conservation and
restoration of key wetlands.
Founded in 1981 by Tualatin residents Althea Pratt-Broome and Jack
Broome, TWC was the first organization in Oregon to dedicate itself to
preserving, protecting and promoting the wildlife, clean water, and
open space values of these long neglected open spaces. The dedication,
enthusiasm and vision of Althea and Jack, who remain Tualatin
residents, provided the foundation for one Oregon's most remarkable
stories of community stewardship, bridge building and preservation.
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Work with TWC!
Help TWC and the City of Portland with the planning, implementation and
maintainence of
sustainable landscapes at more than 300 water quality and restoration
sites, natural areas,
constructed ponds and wetlands, and “green-streets”.
Click here for
details.
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Governor Signs HB 2992
This
bill extends to
forest and mixed farm forest zones the same eligibility for division
that is currently allowed in farm zones under ORS
215.263 (10). It will allow for the conservation of ecologically
important salt water marshes including a forested buffer zone,
leaving adjacent uplands available for continued production of
commercial timber.
The
bill allows division of lot or parcel in forest zone or mixed farm
and forest zone into two parcels notwithstanding the minimum lot size
if one parcel is to be sold to provider of public parks or open
space, or not-for-profit land conservation organization, and
remaining parcel is large enough to support dwelling.
Oregon
Watershed
Enhancement Board, in partnership with The Wetlands Conservancy and
Central Coast Land Conservancy, received a U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service grant to acquire high quality estuarine wetlands in Yaquina
Bay estuary. Over 200 acres of the highest quality estuarine wetlands
in McCaffery and Poole Sloughs of Yaquina estuary are owned by Green
Diamond Resources. The Wetlands Conservancy has been working with
Green Diamond Resources for over two years to purchase the estuarine
lands and an adjacent 300-foot forested buffer . The newly passed
amendment will allow for the creation of legal
parcels and conservation in perpetuity of these important estuarine
resources.
Project Partners:
The Wetlands Conservancy
Oregon Forest Industry Council
Green Diamond Resources
Department of Land Conservation and
Development
Lincoln County Commissioners
Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
Special thanks to
Representatives Dingfelder,
Boone, Burley, Cowan, Roblan, and Witt, and Senators Johnson,
Verger for their support and endorsement of the bill.
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Tualatin Heritage Center and Wetlands
Conservancy Bird and Nature
Walks
Join TWC staff & volunteers for a series of 1.5 hour Bird &
Nature walks this spring, as we look for the last of our wintering
ducks and sparrows and begin to find the spring migrants. |
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The
Wetlands
Conservancy 2006/07
Projects and Accomplishments
(pdf). Central Coast projects, protecting the Scappoose
Bottomlands, conservation in our own backyard - Tualitin, Taking our
internet based conservation tools to the next level with the Oregon
Wetland Explorer.
Conservation examples, Oregon's
Greatest Wetlands,
Solarization, and promoting stewardship TWC
Natural
Landscaping and Weed
Control In Your Own Backyard TWC
Living
with West Nile Virus --
Update: By Bob Sallinger of the Audubon Society of Portland.
Alternatives for Control
of Reed Canary Grass in Urban Wetlands: By Marshall
Johnson
TWC
Factsheets Read them online
or get them all now (pdf).
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Last Update 12 - March - 2008 -
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