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• Local Preserve Expansion Helps Nature and People

  YAMHILL COUNTY, OR
  May 06, 2013 2013 05 06

  Acreage further protects critical habitat for federally endangered Fender's blue butterfly and other at-risk species. Learn More

• Celebrating A Comeback!

  Netarts Bay, Oregon
  April 29, 2013 2013 04 29

  After eight years, native oyster restoration project seeing results in Netarts Bay Learn More

• Nation Recognizes Local Treasure

  ENTERPRISE, OR
  April 09, 2013 2013 04 09

  The Department of the Interior has designated 4,400 acres of The Nature Conservancy’s Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in Wallowa County, Oregon, as a National Natural Landmark. Learn More

• Celebrate Earth Day with a Work Party and Picnic

  PORTLAND, OR
  April 09, 2013 2013 04 09

  The Nature Conservancy invites you to get your hands dirty at one of four preserve work parties on Saturday, April 20. After the work is done, we’ll enjoy a Picnic for Earth. Learn More

• Paying Tribute to Volunteers who Protect Important Places across State

  PORTLAND, OREGON
  March 09, 2013 2013 03 09

  The Nature Conservancy honors two stellar volunteers at awards ceremony Learn More

• Senator Wyden Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Renew and Improve Landmark Conservation Program

  WASHINGTON, DC
  February 14, 2013 2013 02 14

  Legislation proposed to conserve parks, open spaces, and wildlife habitat for the benefit of hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. Learn More

• Nature Conservancy Honors Stellar Volunteers

  PORTLAND, OR
  April 06, 2011 2011 04 06

  Three volunteers receive Ray C. Davis Volunteer of the Year Award Learn More

• Nature Conservancy Confers Eleventh Annual Conservation Leadership Awards

  PORTLAND, OR
  October 20, 2011 2011 10 20

  Event concludes 50th anniversary celebration in Oregon. Learn More

• Coastal Grassland Restoration Work Set to Begin at Big Creek

  Central Oregon Coast
  June 16, 2011 2011 06 16

  Work will benefit the imperiled Oregon silverspot butterfly. Learn More

• The Nature Conservancy Purchases Hells Canyon Inholdings for Forest Service

  ENTERPRISE, OR
  December 18, 2008 2008 12 18

  27 properties destined for public ownership within national forest Learn More

• Nature Conservancy Confers Tenth Annual Conservation Leadership Awards

  PORTLAND, OR
  October 21, 2010 2010 10 21

  Celebration of 50th anniversary in Oregon begins Learn More

• Nature Conservancy Unveils Plans for Willamette Confluence

  SPRINGFIELD, OR
  November 19, 2010 2010 11 19

  Property is an ecological crossroad where water and wildlife come together in tremendous diversity Learn More

Olympia oysters thrive again on Oregon Coast

KGW

May 16, 2013

It was such a delicacy, Oregon's only native oyster was harvested to near extinction more than a century ago. Watch video

Native oyster restoration sees results in Netarts Bay

The Daily Astorian

May 07, 2013

A native oyster that cleans the water and provides habitat for marine plants and fish is making a comeback at Netarts Bay southwest of Tillamook. Read more

Remote prairie grasslands named national natural landmark

Los Angeles Times

April 17, 2013

The lonely Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in the northeast corner of Oregon features thousands of acres of native grasslands. Read more

Zumwalt Prairie in northeast Oregon designated National Natural Landmark

OregonLive

April 16, 2013

Oregon's Zumwalt Prairie has been added to the National Natural Landmark system by the National Park Service. Read more

Advisory Approach For Protecting Vernal Pools Suggested

OPB

March 25, 2013

Uncle Sam won't be coming down with a regulatory heavy hand to protect the imperiled vernal pool fairy shrimp and two rare plant populations in Jackson and Josephine counties. Read more

Northeast Oregon's Zumwalt Prairie: one of the last best places to see a native grassland (and its wildlife)

OregonLive

March 22, 2013

I'm on my way to the Zumwalt Prairie with my brother. Read more

Nature Conservancy of Oregon honors volunteers of the year

OregonLive

March 11, 2013

The Nature Conservancy's North Portland-based chapter honored more than 100 statewide volunteers Friday for their outstanding work protecting natural areas. Read more

Wildflowers in the West

VIA (March/April issue)

March 01, 2013

Springtime in the West means warmer days, green grasses, and in special places bountiful blooms. Here’s where you can feast your eyes. Read more

Volunteers plant trees to cover reclaimed junkyard

East Portland News

February 18, 2013

Even though the thick clouds overhead threatened rain at any moment, volunteers were out working to restore an area of the Beggars Tick Wildlife Refuge in the Lents neighborhood. Read more

Group touring Williamson River area sees rare flying western grebe

Herald and News

November 04, 2012

There was a beaver, a swimming muskrat and even a slowly moving garter snake. Read more

Innovative Oak Habitat Restoration Project in Oregon and California Receives National Award

YubaNet.com

October 19, 2012

In recognition of its outstanding contributions to habitat restoration, the Central Umpqua-Mid-Klamath Oak Habitat Conservation Project on Thursday received a Partners in Conservation award from the U.S. Department of the Interior. Read more

Vast Oregon plateau nourishes dense ecosystem

The Daily News

August 25, 2012

My husband, Dale, and I hold strong affections for prairies. Read more

Grant's Getaways - Cascade Head, Hebo Lake

KGW

July 26, 2012

Where the ocean meets the Oregon shore, beachcombers wander, kayakers paddle and it’s easy to find a certain rhythm to the summer season. Watch video

Land purchase aids wildlife

The Register-Guard

July 22, 2012

The Nature Conservancy has bought a big tract of farmland and streamside forest southeast of Fern Ridge Lake as part of ongoing efforts to protect wildlife around the lake, including the western meadowlark, which needs extensive grassland for nesting. Read more

Historic Agreement Over Table Rocks

KOBI-TV 5 Medford, KOTI-TV Klamath Falls
Partnerships
May 18, 2012

A historic step, as the Bureau of Land Management, Nature Conservancy, and Cow Creek Tribe reform a treaty signed over 160 years ago regarding the Rogue Valley Table Rocks. Watch video

Restoring a safe haven for endangered species

Mail Tribune

May 04, 2012

In a vast and flat oak savannah outside Central Point lies a panoramic vista with Table Rock in the background. Read more

Drilling fees pay for new national forest lands

Capital Press
Forests
April 06, 2012

Offshore drilling fees are financing the purchase of $41.6 million worth of new national forest lands in 15 states. Read more

Hazing elk on Zumwalt Prairie

The Observer

February 16, 2012

In the past 20 years many of the elk in Wallowa County’s Chesnimnus wildlife unit have shifted their habitat range from the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest to private land on the Zumwalt Prairie. Read more

Forest Warriors

Herald and News
Forests
January 26, 2012

Sawdust flies as Justice Blacksun's chainsaw slices through a young lodgepole pine. He fells the tree and quickly moves on to another. Read more

Organizations collaborate on forest

The Bulletin

December 09, 2011

Determined to stay out of the courtroom, the U.S. Forest Service has involved a variety of environmental and timber groups — and 40 other agencies to boot — in management decisions covering 145,000 acres of forest west of Bend. Read more

Rock on: Obama initiative may give public more of Table Rocks

Mail Tribune

November 15, 2011

The public will ultimately own a bigger piece of the rock, thanks to a recent decree by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Read more

Fields torched for their own good

The Register-Guard

September 21, 2011

As smoke and flames rose Tuesday across the street from his west Eugene home, a gleeful Bill Biggs grabbed his camera, walked outside and began snapping photographs of the scene. Read more

Purchase of parcels along Imnaha River expands Hells Canyon National Rec Area

The Observer

July 22, 2011

Access to premier steelhead and Chinook waters, trails and public lands prompted the U.S. Forest Service to purchase private property adjacent to the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. Read more

Work days on the Zumwalt

The Observer

June 23, 2011

Twice a year volunteers gather at The Nature Conservancy’s Zumwalt Prairie 20 miles northeast of Enterprise. Read more

Wet and wild

The Register-Guard

June 22, 2011

The American grass bug — a little brown critter about the size of your thumbnail — is not the most exciting insect Celeste Mazzacano has gone out tracking, definitely not up there with your damselflies and dragonflies. Read more

In Oregon's Willamette Valley, the race to save the endangered Fender's blue butterfly

The Oregonian

June 17, 2011

Cheryl Schultz stumped through the shoulder-high grass, searching. Then, after a quick swoop and twist of her net, she caught her target, a tiny blur of fluttering blue. Read more and watch video

Climate Controlled Prairie Experiment Gives Window Onto NW Future

OPB

June 16, 2011

Oregon researchers have set up a kind of time machine to test how a warmer climate might affect the region's grasslands and prairies. Read more

NC transfers Imnaha lands to USFS

Wallowa County Chieftain

June 16, 2011

During Senator Ron Wyden’s town hall meeting in Wallowa on Saturday, June 4, Joseph business owner Rob Lamb thanked the senator for his help securing funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund enabling the United States Forest Service to continue a 6,695-acre land purchase from the Nature Conservancy along the Imnaha River in Wallowa County. Read more

Metro awards $25,000 to efforts at Camassia

West Linn Tidings

June 02, 2011

Thanks to the help of a Metro grant, volunteers at West Linn’s Camassia Natural Area will expand their reach and their rehabilitation efforts at the preserve. Read more

Restoration project will benefit refuge

Polk County Itemizer-Observer

May 11, 2011

A Boeing Vertol helicopter isn't normally the kind of bird one looks for at the Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge. Read more

Listening to the forest

Ashland Daily Tidings

May 02, 2011

Instead of listening to the top hits on their iPods, 15 Ashland High School students spent Friday morning tuning in to flying squirrels on a radio in the city's watershed. Read more

Tillamook-area wetlands restoration receives State Land Board Award

Tillamook Headlight-Herald

April 13, 2011

The State Land Board on April 12 recognized the Miami Wetlands Enhancement project in an awards ceremony honoring exemplary efforts to promote responsible stewardship of Oregon's natural resources. Read more

City hopes to land more park property

Sandy Post

April 12, 2011

The city and several partnering organizations are in negotiations to purchase 68 acres adjacent to Sandy River Park. Read more

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