June 2014 | The Wetlands Conservancy

Featured Oregon Greatest Wetland

June 9, 2014 Category: Conservation, Stories Tag: Collaboration, Conservation, Oregon Greatest Wetlands

The Darlingtonia State Natural Site, situated just north of Florence, Oregon, is the “smallest” of our greatest wetlands but definitely memorable. In fact, John Bauer, TWC GIS Specialist, remembers this tiny spectacle as his first experience with a wetland as a young child on family coastal vacation 30 some years ago! The rare piece of

The Volunteer Effect

June 9, 2014 Category: Stories Tag: coast preserves, Collaboration, volunteer

12 Oregon State University students spent a day working at The Wetlands Conservancy Starr Creek Oxbow in Alsea Bay Preserve. It was sobering to see the amount of trash littered throughout the forest and Alsea Bay shores. After finding a lone flip flop about every 100 feet as well as Styrofoam bits even more