Cristina Watson
The latest on how residents of the Willamette watershed are connecting with their river.
Honoring Our Rivers: A Student Anthology (HOR) is celebrating its eleventh year of publication with...
The Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District publishes the Rural Living Handbook which is a nice resource for current or prospective landowners that addresses a variety of natural resource regulations with plenty of solid conservation ideas. The handbook has sections on: Buying Property, Water, Property Management, Agriculture, Soil, Forestry, and Getting Involved.
The twists and turns of the historical channels carved by the Willamette River on a relatively flat landscape show up suitable for framing in a poster released by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Primarily in shades of blue and white, the poster was created with lidar data.
TriMet is starting a process to name the new transit bridge over the Willamette River that is being built as part of the Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail Line project. The bridge is the first span over the Willamette River in over 40 years.
A new website being launched this week will help Oregonians get the most out of one of the state's most accessible, yet easily overlooked, recreational resources: the Willamette River. Set to go live today, willamettewatertrail.org is the online home of the Willamette River Water Trail, a designation bestowed on the river last August by the Interior Department as part of a new federal program to encourage recreation on the nation's waterways.
"Had all of the talking and writing about a third Salem bridge been stored up, traffic could probably be floated across the river for the rest of this year on cushions of brain waves and hot air." Although that excerpt may sound like its part of a current debate, it's actually the lead to an article in the Aug.
