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 […]
This past summer JCWC was able to work with a local artist, Danielle DeMuro, to create a watershed nature scene on the shipping container that holds our restoration tools. When JCWC moved from our old office in Milwaukie into the Woodstock location, we purchased an old shipping container and located it next to Errol Heights […]
The seasons are changing and so are our staff! Tiffany Mancillas is our new Community Outreach Coordinator, she is managing the community science program, bilingual johnson creek program, and coordinates the council’s outreach. She was born in northern California, and started living in Oregon while completing a B.S in Environmental Studies and has called Oregon […]
