Starting September 2019, dedicated students from David Douglas High School have been engaging in hands-on environmental field trips at Leach Botanical Garden in partnership with the Johnson Creek Watershed Council, City […]
Machetes, vegetation transects, blackberry grubbing, O my! Read More »
City Mayor, Ted Wheeler, proclaimed second week of January 2020 to be Slavic and Eastern European Heritage Week. Melanie Yudin, Johnson Creek Watershed Council Speak Creek Russian language intern, and Tiffany
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Winter is always an exciting time of year at JCWC. Apart from the sometimes dicey weather, it’s “go time” for a lot of our field work (hello, bare root planting
Weed of the Month: Herb-Robert (Geranium robertianum) Characteristics: Herb-Robert—also called Robert’s geranium, or, colloquially, “stinky Bob”—is both a winter and spring annual with light-green, deeply dissected leaves. In late fall
Written by: Katie Holzer, Watershed Scientist for the City of Gresham. Bugs can tell us a lot about a creek. Which species live there, what they eat, and how sensitive
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