Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership

10/15/2026

That’s a wrap! After two years, the East Fork Lewis River Reconnection Project is complete. We’re celebrating today on the banks of the river with Clark County WA Public Works and other project partners who made this incredible effort possible. Check out our newest video to see the transformation for yourself.

10/14/2026

Thanks to the volunteers who joined us at Kelley Point Park for the Great Willamette Clean Up last Saturday! We appreciate your dedication to clean riverbanks and we know all the creatures who call the river home do, too. And thanks to Riverkeeper for coordinating the event!

We have lots more volunteer events coming up this month and next - take a look at how you can get involved: https://www.estuarypartnership.org/volunteer

10/13/2026

Happening tomorrow (Tuesday) along Salmon Creek!

On Tuesday, Oct. 13, crews will work on a restoration project along the Salmon Creek Greenway Trail between the Northwest 36th Avenue entrance and the trail’s intersection with the Cougar Creek Trail. The trail will remain OPEN; however, vehicles will be driving between the project site and Northwest 36th Avenue. We ask trail users to stay aware of their surroundings, follow worker instructions and stay out of any roped-off areas.

Work includes machine and hand cutting of reed canary grass.

This work is part of our collaboration with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership to restore tree canopy and native species along the lower Salmon Creek watershed.

Please contact Marci Krass, [email protected] if you have any questions.

10/07/2026

Mayor Keith Wilson declared this week Environmental Education Week in Portland, recognizing the essential role environmental education plays in building thriving communities, an engaged population, and healthy ecosystems. We couldn’t agree more! Our educators are participating in NAAEE 🎓🌎 2026 Annual Conference and Research Symposium this week, learning from educators from across the country and sharing knowledge from our 25+ years of engaging more than 100,000 students in outdoor learning in the Portland area and beyond.

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10/06/2026

Planting season is coming up soon, and our early season events will introduce volunteers to the lesser known Multnomah Channel Marsh Natural Area, situated between Hwy 30 and Sauvie Island northwest of Portland. This natural area, owned by Metro, will be the site of a future reconnection project led by the Estuary Partnership. You can be a part of this habitat restoration effort now! Join us at one of our opportunities October 24 through November 7 to help create and plant willow cuttings to enhance habitat in the floodplain. Sign up now and see our other upcoming volunteer events: https://www.estuarypartnership.org/volunteer

10/01/2026

Our friends at Scappoose Bay Watershed Council are hosting several opportunities to learn and get involved this fall, including a Mason Bee workshop this Saturday and their semi-annual native plant sale next Saturday! Learn more and sign up at their website www.scappoosebay-wc.org/events.

09/25/2026

It’s National Estuaries Week and tomorrow is also National Public Lands Day! We recommend taking a trip to Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where the largest restoration project ever on the lower Columbia River finished construction a few years ago. The redesigned trail system gives visitors fantastic places to view birds and other wildlife in restored wetlands, as well as lots of Columbia River views. Here are some of the many birds we've seen there!

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09/21/2026

Last Thursday, representatives from NOAA Fisheries Service joined our Habitat Restoration Team for a tour of the 3-river mile East Fork Lewis River Reconnection Project. The project, funded in part by NOAA, restores the historic river course and floodplain, reduces flood and erosion risks for public and private landowners, and increases public access and recreation. Construction on the reconnection project will be completed in October of this year with ongoing planting and riparian restoration work continuing.

During National Estuaries Week we celebrate the importance and strength of the nation’s estuaries. While covering only 4% of the land area in the continental US, they contain 40% of the population, 39% of the jobs, and 47% of the economic output of the US. They are also critical ecosystems that provide water filtration, fish habitat, flood control and erosion prevention, and recreation on and near the water. The East Fork Lewis River Reconnection Project is one of the many successful projects that the Estuary Partnership has been able to complete with the support of great partners like NOAA, and we were happy to show off the site and thank them for their partnership.

Learn more about the project at https://www.estuarypartnership.org/our-work/habitat-restoration/east-fork-lewis-river-reconnection-project

09/10/2026

Just 11 days remain until our Celebrate the Columbia fundraiser! Tickets are still available but going fast. Get yours--> https://www.estuarypartnership.org/celebrate

We're excited to share more of the generous donors who've contributed to an exciting event auction:
🐳 whale watching cruise aboard the FRS Clipper
🍷 delectible w**e by Cooper Mountain Vineyards
🎟 dinner + a show at ilani
🏨 a night at Seaview's historic Shelburne Hotel & Pub - the longest continually operating hotel in Washington State!
🏺 beautiful hand-blown glass artwork by Evan Burnette of Local Art Glass
🔥 stained glass mermaids by

Please support these generous businesses, *AND* get your tickets today to join us and get your chance to win these amazing packages with us at Celebrate the Columbia on September 20!

Thanks to sponsors for helping to make the magic happen:
💙Tributary Level💙 Inter-Fluve and Compass Ecospatial; 💚Floodplain Level💚 ERSM, KPFF Portland and Wolf Water Resources ; and 💛Wetland Level💛 Columbia Flow, Matisse Capital, Metro, Parametrix, Robertson Fick Engineering, PC, and Westervelt Ecological Services!