The Johnson Creek Watershed Council is deeply saddened to share the loss of long-time advocate and founding member, Walt Mintkeski, who passed away on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. Walt’s passing […]
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This month’s featured native: grand fir (Abies grandis) Grand fir earns its common name by its tall, stately growth habit, reaching up to 80 m (250 ft). Its needles grow in two
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This month’s featured native: kinnickinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) Kinnickinnick, also known as bearberry (more on that later), is a low-growing evergreen shrub in the heather family (Ericaceae). Generally growing no more than about
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Although it has been a tough year we have felt the love, joy, and commitment of our volunteers, partners, and funders all year long. This year 1,071 volunteers committed over
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Over the log and through the creek to Beaver’s house we went. During this year’s beaver surveys, some sites had surveyors scrambling over brush and logs, giggling as they slipped
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