Weed of the Month: Clematis (Clematis vitalba) Characteristics Clematis —also called traveler’s joy or old man’s beard—is a deciduous climbing vine, with stringy bark that easily rubs off on older stems. Leaves are compound, made up of 5 leaflets (young plants may have only 3 leaflets), and fall off by early January. Clematis blooms from […]
Were excited to have had our 2019 Volunteer Appreciation Event last Friday with delicious tamale dinner catered by Mixteca, a large selection of raffle prizes, and watershed Trivia. Thanks to everyone who came out! This year marks our 25th year as a watershed council, cheers to that! – Speech by Courtney Beckel Volunteer Manager. Planting […]
An initiative that began in 2015 is now one step closer to being a reality! The North Fork Open Migration project was conceived as a multi-partner collaboration aimed at eliminating all 7 barriers to fish passage in the North Fork of Johnson Creek. In 2016, East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District replaced or removed […]
Next May Johnson Creek Watershed Council will turn 25. As a community, we’ve done a tremendous amount of restoration, and the creek and the people & wildlife that depends on it have benefited. In the past quarter century, we–many thousands of us–have planted between 400,000 & 500,000 trees and shrubs in the watershed, added hundreds […]
Big Welcome to Melanie and Theresa! Were excited to have you on board My name is Theresa (she/hers) and I am the Speak Creek Intern for the Johnson Creek Watershed Council. I spent my childhood in Taiwan and have been in Portland for the past 14 years. I love the city for its natural beauty […]
