Dear Friends of Johnson Creek Watershed Council, As you’ve probably guessed, we will not be holding our 25th Anniversary Celebration in late May, our usual time for the Annual Celebration. Our new date is Tuesday, October 13, again at Kaul Auditorium at Reed College. We’ll touch base with you in mid-summer to to confirm that […]
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 season!), our volunteer restoration program kicks into gear (special shout-out to our newly-trained Creek Crew leaders!)…and, for the seventh time in the past nine years, […]
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 they are to pollution can give us a lot of information about the health of the creek. We have been studying macroinvertebrate communities (i.e., the […]
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 […]
Every September we host several fun-filled educational events. For 2019, we have three. All events are free, but registration is required. Please follow the links below to register. Saturday, September 7, Noon, Science in the Park Please join us to hear stories and learn about our crawly creek friends from master storyteller, Ed Edmo, and […]
