JCWC News
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What’s That Plant?
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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Thank you, JCWC Volunteers and Community!
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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Beavers in the Watershed
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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Land Tending Event Recap with the City of Gresham
On November 1st, Johnson Creek Watershed Council and the City of Gresham joined forces to host a land tending event on the Springwater Trail between Walters Drive and 7th ave […]
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What’s That Plant?
You rise in thickets From dunes, under Sitka spruce Glossy, evergreen. Or you blanket duff, Sheltering Douglas squirrels, Drinking wet fir stumps. Leather leaves, staggered On zig-zagging, hirsute stems You […]