Winter volunteer schedule - canoe season recap - welcome new baord members - and more!
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The Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership needs your support this season – your gift large or small helps us in our year-round efforts to restore and care for the waters and ecosystems of the lower Columbia River.
We’ve hung up our PFDs and put away the paddles for the Big Canoe season. We are grateful to have had another successful season ofcreating memorable, fun, and safe
The Columbia River Estuary Conference has been held since 1999. Proceedings from conferences through 2014 are linked below. Presentations from 2008 and beyond can be seen here. 2014: Presentations and abstracts of the Columbia River Estuary Conference 2014: Forging Links in the Columbia River Estuary 2012: Proceedings of Columbia River Conference, 2012: New Scientific Findings and their Management Implications (no proceedings) 2010: Proceedings of the Columbia River Estuary Conference, 2010. (.pdf, 537kb) 2008: Proceedings of the Columbia River Estuary Conference on Ecosystem Restoration
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Congressional staffers tour new project sites in the watershed above Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge
After the successful completion of the Steigerwald Reconnection Project, involving the natural reconnection of Gibbons Creek to its alluvial fan and the Columbia River, the Estuary Partnership is looking upstream for more ways to benefit water quality, reduce flood risk, and improve conditions for salmon, lamprey, and other species. Two projects, the Campen Creek
Toxics Reduction: Successes and Challenges Summit agenda Final Report Toxics Fact Sheets On November 19, 2015, the Estuary Partnership held our 9th annual Science to Policy Summit in Vancouver, Washington. The summit built on our previous year's successful summit on toxics in the Columbia Basin with two focused peer-to-peer discussions. The morning session focused on farmers, growers, and foresters. The goal of this workshop was to help farmers protect water quality, improve farm yields, reduce health risks, and increase economic viability. Farmers on the panel represented a diversity of
