ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Biodiversity Partnership

The Biodiversity Partnership website is a Defenders of Wildlife initiative dedicated to promoting and supporting regional and statewide strategies to conserve biodiversity. The initiative has its roots in the Oregon Biodiversity Project, a collaborative effort begun in the mid-1990s that resulted in one of the nation's first statewide biodiversity assessments.

Conserve Online

ConserveOnline is a meeting place for the conservation community, open to anyone who wants to find or share information relevant to conservation science and practice.

EBM Tools Network

The EBM Tools Network is an alliance of EBM tool developers, practitioners, and training providers to develop and support software tools for ecosystem-based management (EBM) in coastal and marine environments, including coastal watersheds and the Great Lakes region.

Ecotrope. Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Oregon Public Broadcasting’s news and insight on the most pressing environmental issues.

EPA Surf Your Watershed

The EPA's Surf Your Watershed service can help you locate, use, and share environmental information about your state and watershed

FishXing – Software and Learning Systems for fish passage through culverts

Pronounced “Fish Crossing”, this software is intended to assist engineers, hydrologists, and fish biologists in the evaluation and design of culverts for fish passage. It is free and available for download.

Greenbelt Land Trust

The Greenbelt Land Trust is a non-profit organization whose goal is to enhance and protect the open space amenities essential to preserving quality of life in the mid-Willamette Valley.

Institute for Natural Resources

Created by the Oregon Legislature with the Oregon Sustainability Act of 2001, the Institute works to provide Oregon leaders with ready access to current, science-based information and methods for better understanding our resource management challenges and developing solutions. The Institute coordinated development of the North Coast Basin prototype web portal

Mark V. Wilson OSU Prairie website

This site focuses on research on Willamette Valley prairie plants and vegetation conducted by scientists from the prairie research group at Oregon State University.

McKenzie River Trust

In 1989, the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) was formed in the public interest for the protection and enhancement of the natural qualities of the McKenzie River Basin. Since that time, MRT has expanded its service area to include all the river basins in Lane and Douglas Counties. The Trust emphasizes cooperation with private landowners in a non-regulatory, voluntary approach that effectively protects "special lands.

Northwest Forest Plan

The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) is an overall vision for the Pacific Northwest that would produce timber products while protecting and managing impacted species.

Oregon Association of Conservation Districts

OACD supports Oregon's Conservation Districts through member services, program development, training, leadership development, public education, and government relations.

Oregon Biodiversity Information Center

The Oregon Biodiversity Information Center is part of the Institute for Natural Resources, based at Oregon State University. Our mission is to identify the plant, animal, and ecological community resources of Oregon. As part of the Natural Heritage Network and NatureServe, the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center contributes to a better understanding of global biodiversity and provides tools for managers and the public to better protect our vanishing species and communities.

Oregon Department of Administrative Services

The Department of Administrative Services (DAS) is the central administrative agency of state government. DAS works to effectively implement policy and financial decisions made by the Governor and the Oregon Legislature. DAS’s Information Resources Management Division maintains the Oregon Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (link at http://www.gis.state.or.us/data/index.html), which includes statewide geospatial data for the State of Oregon.

Oregon Department of Foresty - Urban and Community Forestry

The Oregon Department of Forestry's Urban and Community Forestry Program provides leadership and technical services necessary to support the stewardship of Oregon's urban and community forests, and to foster public awareness of the contributions urban forest ecosystems make to the quality of life and the environmental and economic well being of Oregon cities.

Oregon Habitat Joint Venture

The Oregon Habitat Joint Venture is a loose coalition of private conservation organizations working with government agencies to protect and restore important habitats for birds and wildlife.

Oregon Natural Heritage Program

The Oregon Natural Heritage Program (ORNHP) is a cooperative, interagency effort to identify the plant, animal, and plant community resources of Oregon.

Oregon Oak Communities Working Group

The Oregon Oak Communities Working Group is a voluntary organization whose aim is to foster constervation and restoration of oak ecosystems.

Oregon Ocean-Coastal Management Program

The mission of the Ocean-Coastal Management Program is to provide the public with sustainable coastal natural resources. This means our resources will be vital, accessible, plentiful, free of pollution, and where appropriate developable. Sustaining our resources is an essential element to creating livable communities on the coast.

Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds website

In 1997, with the support and participation of a wide spectrum of stakeholders from all sectors and regions of the state, the Oregon Legislature and Governor established the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. Motivated at first by the conviction that Oregon must devise its own homegrown response to listings of coho and other salmon species under the federal Endangered Species Act, the plan quickly evolved and expanded into an unprecedented statewide program to preserve and profit from Oregon's natural legacy.

Oregon's Forest Atlas 2010

The Oregon Forest Atlas project was developed in 2010 to provide public members with a broader understanding of Oregon's forests using contemporary technology. Maps developed for the Forest Atlas use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data obtained by the U.S. Forest Service PNW Research Station, data from Oregon State University and data gathered and maintained by the Oregon Department of Forestry.

Oregon State University Libraries

OSU Libraries provide support to meet the informational, reference, and research needs of the faculty, staff, and students at Oregon State University and citizens around the state. This support is provided through the libraries' collection of more than 1.4 million volumes, 14,000 serials, and more than 500,000 maps and government documents, which comprises materials in all subject areas. OSU Libraries assisted with development of the North Coast Basin prototype web portal.

Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board listing of locally organized watershed councils in Oregon

Watershed councils are locally organized, voluntary, non-regulatory groups established to improve the condition of watersheds in their local area. Watershed councils are required to represent the interests in the basin and be balanced in their makeup. Watershed councils offer local residents the opportunity to independently evaluate watershed conditions and identify opportunities to restore or enhance the conditions.

OSU Extension Watershed Stewards Program

Watershed Extension is an Oregon State University Extension Service effort that combines human and financial resources from Sea Grant, Forestry, Agriculture, 4-H, Family and Community Development, and partnerships both inside and outside of OSU. Watershed Extension faculty deliver watershed stewardship education and materials both on the OSU campus and statewide to a variety of audiences and experience levels.”

The Native Plant Society

For over 40 years, members of the Native Plant Society of Oregon have been visiting the wild places of Oregon to enjoy, conserve, and study its natural vegetation.

The Oregon Encyclopedia: McKenzie River

Descriptive overview of the history of the McKenzie River area.

The Oregon Encyclopedia: Willamette River

A detailed historical and geographic description of the Willamette River and watershed.

The Wetlands Conservancy

The Wetlands Conservancy (TWC), founded in 1981, is the leading organization in Oregon dedicated to protecting Oregon's greatest wetlands. Working throughout the state, the Conservancy protects and restores these key lands by promoting private and community stewardship, supporting conservation, and working in partnership in local communities. TWC owns and manages many wetlands preserves in the Portland metropolitan area and along the Oregon coast.

Willamette River Initiative

The purpose of Meyer Memorial Trust's Willamette River Initiative is to achieve meaningful, measurable improvements in the health of the river and selected tributaries by 2015, and to create a national model for effective philanthropic involvement in restoration of large, complex ecological systems.

Willamette Special Investment Partnership

The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board created the Willamette Special Investment Partnerships (SIP) to re-establish channel complexity and length and re-connect floodplains in the historic meander corridor of the Willamette River mainstem and major tributaries. These objectives will restore aquatic and riparian habitats for a wide variety of species and improve water quality.