On a warm “June-uary” day last week, several hard-working volunteers turned out for a pleasant late morning of collecting and planting willow stakes at NCLC’s Thompson Creek and Stanley Marsh Habitat Reserve in Seaside. Willow stakes were planted along Thompson
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Coho and the Culverts of Thompson Creek
Posted on February 2, 2015Our story starts here, in the Neawanna Estuary. (The whole story starts hundreds or thousands of miles away, probably in the far Northeast Pacific, when coho salmon that hatched from eggs deposited in Thompson Creek two and a half years earlier
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Wintering Waterfowl
Posted on December 9, 2014A recent photography trip to the Arctic may have enhanced Neal Maine’s appreciation–if that’s possible–for the place he calls paradise: his home ground in and around Seaside and Gearhart. He arrived back in Clatsop County about when the wintering waterfowl began showing up
...read moreThe Adventures of Trees
Posted on October 31, 2014When Gearhart nature photographer Neal Maine looks at a tree, what he sees isn’t just a static object but a story—an adventure story, one full of unexpected plot twists and plenty of character development. Take this crabapple tree growing in NCLC’s
...read moreA Wet Fall Stewardship Success
Posted on October 16, 2014Thank you to the 9 hardy volunteers who ventured out on a wet Wednesday morning yesterday to clear invasives and pick up trash at our Salt Grass Meadow Habitat Reserve! Salt Grass Meadow is a small but significant property that contributes
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