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In mid-July, the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, U.S. Forest Service, and partners begin construction of fish passage and salmon habitat improvements within the historic Columbia River floodplain. Travelers in the Columbia River Gorge may notice construction crews, heavy equipment, and helicopters working in the vicinity of Horsetail and Oneonta Creeks, five miles west of the Bonneville Dam, for up to two months. 

The Horsetail Creek Floodplain Restoration Project improves connectivity between the Columbia River and a 180 acre tract of its floodplain, as well as improving habitat and water

The Estuary Partnership environmental educators take schoolchildren to local natural areas to bring lessons about the environment to life. Every year the Partnership brings hundreds of students to Oxbow Park, east of Gresham, Oregon. William Doran, has been park ranger at Oxbow Park since 1976, and is retiring at the end of the year. Doran has been an outstanding partner to our Education Program always pointing out highlights like where the salmon are spawning, the bobcat dens or osprey nests. The Estuary Partnership educators and school children will miss him.

Link to the Oregonian story here.

Today the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, U.S. Forest Service, and partners began construction of fish passage and salmon habitat improvements at a 190-acre site near Horsetail and Oneonta creeks in the Columbia River Gorge. Read the Oregonian story about the project here.

Link here for more photos and information about the project: Horsetail Creek Floodplain Restoration Project

April is Earth Month and the 51st anniversary of Earth Day! For more than 50 years, the world has recognized Earth Day as a day of action. This year the Estuary Partnership is teaming up with nonprofits across the state for the Earth Day Oregon* campaign. And together we are working to Amplify Earth Day!

As a nonprofit that supports several of the UN's 17 sustainable development goals, we are simultaneously addressing Quality Education, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life On Land, and other SDGs to create a more sustainable planet. You can help!

Our goal is to raise $3,000 this Earth

POSTPONED to 2022. Please register for our Picnic at Vancouver Lake on September 25!

The event will be held at Rossi Farms (3839 NE 122nd Avenue), a working farm in Portland's Parkrose Neighborhood. We will begin outdoors with music, a roaming photo booth and raffles with great art and packages to win. Dinner from Calabash Authentic will be served in an airy barn with large open doors, followed by honoring our Steward of the Year and finally, a live auction with fabulous experiences and other items to win. And all the funds raised at the event go to support our work to restore the