Local actions meet global challenge
Spring 2020 Dear Friend of NCLC, Back in mid-March I attended a meeting of the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts. It was a virtual meeting: …
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The Little Neawannas: Walking to Salmonberry Knoll
Jeff Roehm is one of NCLC’s most active volunteers. He splits his time among Portland, where he has lived most of his life; Manzanita, where …
Supporting our supporters
At NCLC we’re all about community conservation—and right now our community of business supporters needs your support. Some businesses are temporarily closed; others are operating …
Pulling together, we stomped it out
We’ve never had such an ambitious assault on a single weed species. Beginning in 2017, North Coast Land Conservancy partnered with Necanicum Watershed Council to …
The green leaves that make the world run
When naturalist Neal Maine looks at a tree—or a single leaf, as in the photo above—he doesn’t just see the tree, or the shrub. …
Enjoying nature in your own backyard
Spotted towhees can be seen year-round on the North Coast of Oregon. Photo by Neal Maine/PacificLight Images In response to the COVID-19 crisis, North …
The Forest Remembers 2020
(Images, clockwise from upper left: Kit Ketcham reads from “A Litany of Remembrance” in her neighbors’ backyard; neighbors from one household listen at a safe …
Seven years later, it’s beavertopia
Back in 2013 North Coast Land Conservancy undertook a wetlands restoration project at its Thompson Creek and Stanley Marsh Habitat Reserve in Seaside. Developer Casey …
We’re still at work—virtually
March 17, 2020 At NCLC we’re committed to helping “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus. So we have closed our office, and the staff is …