Oregon

Purple and yellow wildflowers overlooking the Columbia River. — Dawn at Rowena Crest Just before sunrise at Rowena Crest in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge. This is adjacent to TNC's Tom McCall Preserve. © Gary Grossman/TNC Photo Contest 2019

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Stand Up for Nature in Oregon

The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends. For more than 60 years, we’ve been working in Oregon to do just that. We’re bringing people together to solve the biggest conservation challenges of our time by transforming policy, inspiring communities to take action, protecting vital habitats and natural resources and improving livelihoods.

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A closeup view of wildflowers on a cliff over the Columbia River. — Arrowloeaf Balsamroot Arrowloeaf Balsamroot in bloom over the Lower Snake River in spring. © Ben Herndon

Oregon Stories

How Rivers Connect Us

The Nature Conservancy is taking action alongside communities to support rivers in need, finding new ways to build bridges and come together.

Impacts of the Bootleg Fire at Sycan Marsh Preserv varied widely between those areas previously treated with prescribed fire (left) and those without treatment (right).

How the West Fights Fire with Fire

Discover TNC’s multifaceted approach to restoring dry forests.

Oregon Water Strategy Director Zach Freed studying a body of fresh water.

Six Things to Know about Water in Oregon

Finding Solutions to the Increasing Imbalance Between Supply and Demand

(ALL RIGHTS) April 2015. An aerial view of Clayoquot Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Conservancy is conserving over 250,000 acres of old-growth forest in partnership with local Indigenous communities – doubling the area’s current protection. Clayoquot Sound is a critical part of the 100M acre Emerald Edge, the largest and last intact coastal rainforest on earth, whose majestic lands, waters and wildlife are a global treasure of epic biodiversity now struggling from threats to the environment in coastal Washington, Alaska and British Columbia. Photo credit: © Bryan Evans

How North America’s Emerald Edge Could Help Change the World

Indigenous Peoples are leading conservation and climate action in this critical rainforest.

Our Conservation Priorities Across the West

Discover how we're collaborating with our TNC colleagues and partners across the western U.S. and Canada to advance conservation on a transformative scale.

Western Dry Forests and Fire Program

The Nature Conservancy is working across the western U.S. to catalyze forest restoration on a transformative scale.

Sagebrush Sea

The Nature Conservancy is working across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon to protect this iconic western landscape, one of the largest natural systems in North America.

Climate and Renewable Energy

To accelerate a conservation-minded transition away from fossil fuels, TNC envisions the development of a more flexible and responsive western energy grid based on renewable energy sources shared across state boundaries and deployed to avoid impacts to biodiversity-rich landscapes.

Emerald Edge

The Nature Conservancy is supporting conservation across 100 million acres from Alaska through British Columbia and to Washington.

Columbia River Basin

The Nature Conservancy is working in the Columbia River Basin to help restore salmon populations and improve management of rivers to improve livelihoods for all who depend on the basin.

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Sunlight beams through trees in a forest with moss covering rocks in the foreground. — Sunlight beams through trees The sun's rays pierce through a thick forest in Oregon's Coast Range. © Joan Martelli

Plume of Smoke An October 2015 prescribed burn at the Baskett Butte Preserve in northwest Oregon concluded with a spectacular plume of smoke. © Jason Houston

Rx: Fire

Due to climate change and a century of fire suppression, wildfires are becoming more intense. Science tells us that the best way to reduce the risk is fire itself.

Learn Why

The Places We Protect in Oregon

For more than 60 years, TNC has worked to protect forest and grasslands across Oregon—and since 2007 has also helped manage marine reserves and marine protected areas off the coast.

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Cascade Head Trail Golden light drenches the prairie grasses found along the Upper Trail at Cascade Head Preserve, Oregon. July 2017. Cascade Head is home to one of the few remaining native prairie grasslands along the Oregon Coast, protected by the Nature Conservancy since 1966. © Jennifer Emerling

Two people looking at marine formations. — Citizen science volunteering: Volunteers monitor sea stars at Cascade Head Marine Reserve. © Mitch Maxson/TNC

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