The Us Tree
Back in early May of this year, at the height of our quarantine from nearly everything, I sat at my computer and wrote a small …
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Hold the land dear
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Where do we even start with 2020? As I began writing this letter, the sky was filled with smoke from …
Site Stewards: NCLC’s eyes and ears on the land
Hope Stanton has seen a lot of wildlife in the 20 years she’s lived on the North Fork Nehalem River, but monitoring Coal Creek Habitat …
A Connection to the Ancient Past at Butterfield Fen
A visit to the Gearhart Fen is “just like walking into a museum,” ecologist and botanist Kathleen Sayce says. She would know. Kathleen has spent …
Land conservancy expands in Warrenton
Acquisition of what North Coast Land Conservancy is calling the 9th Street Wetland in October 2020 doubled the length of an existing wildlife corridor, wrote …
9th Street Wetland to help mitigate flooding in Warrenton
North Coast Land Conservancy’s conservation of 42 acres of Sitka spruce wetland on either side of 9th Street in Warrenton will help prevent flooding and …
The volunteers who pluck parrot’s feather
Parrot’s feather is an invasive weed that doesn’t belong in Clatsop County, but it’s not uncommon here. You can find it in several of …
Life in the gutter
What some might perceive as a homeowner’s maintenance nightmare, others—such as biologist, photographer, and NCLC co-founder Neal Maine—see as the opportunism of wild nature, asserting …
Now you see it … purple loosestrife
Every August NCLC stewardship staff and volunteers spend one day a week—or more—pulling a weed called purple loosestrife out of the mud at Wolf Bay …