You won’t find the name “Orca Point” on any map: it’s the name photographer Neal Maine chose on a whim for a viewpoint just above Arch Cape in the proposed Rainforest Reserve. Not that he has seen any orcas in
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People+Plants+Wildlife
Third CoastWalk Oregon’s a charm
Posted on September 21, 2018Back in 2016, staff at North Coast Land Conservancy decided to mark the conservancy’s 30th anniversary by spending three days walking the Oregon Coast Trail south from the Columbia River, and we invited 50 hikers to join us. In
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The Beavers of Wahanna Marsh
Posted on August 17, 2018The Nature of Change Since 2012 Jeff Roehm has volunteered as a site steward for North Coast Land Conservancy, monitoring five NCLC properties in the Neawanna estuary in Seaside. His “Love Letter to a Tidal Marsh,” about Wahanna Marsh, ran
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New kids on the block
Posted on July 26, 2018It’s that time of year: baby (and, by now, adolescent) birds everywhere, including this duckling that naturalist Neal Maine spotted standing on a lily pad in a Clatsop Plains dune swale lake in May. Over the years lots of young
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Getting the shot
Posted on June 5, 2018Ethan Whitecotton, NCLC’s summer photo archive intern, is spending most of his time with us at the computer, cleaning up and adding to our extensive photo archive (read more about him and our other summer interns here). He is also
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