LWC's Executive Director Kristen Larson recently chatted with the folks at the Placemaking in Polk County podcast about the ways our watershed contributes to our sense of place, past and future restoration work, and the importance of community for watershed health.

Click here to listen to the half-hour Willamette Wake Up segment on KMUZ Community Radio

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Link your Community Rewards card here, using our unique nonprofit number: Q1717.

Sign into smile.amazon.com, with your Amazon account info and choose the Luckiamute Watershed Council as your designated charity!

​Check out our Amazon Wish List for another way to Love Your Watershed!

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The Luckiamute Watershed Council (LWC) is a volunteer group of neighbors from diverse perspectives working together to learn about the watershed and doing what they can to improve local water quality and habitat conditions.

Our mission is "to engage and assist landowners and communities in the voluntary protection, restoration and enhancement of the Luckiamute and Ash Creek watersheds." We seek to foster good stewardship of natural resources and to develop an improved understanding of the area’s biological diversity. 

 Read more about us here.

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Project Spotlight: LSNA Phase V

Thanks to the support of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) and our funding partners, we are about to start planting 158,000 native trees and shrubs within a 60-acre, formerly leased farm field within Luckiamute State Natural Area (LSNA). These plantings are part of an ongoing, multi-year transformation of this iconic landscape back to floodplain forest, and an expansion of the largest remnant of gallery forest left in the Willamette Valley. 

​​Read more here.

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Use the slider below to explore the change in vegetation along the Luckiamute River at Luckiamute State Natural Area! Click here for more details.

July, 2010

July, 2018

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Next Regular LWC Meeting

Date:    Thursday, September 8, 2022 *No August meeting
Time:    6:00 - 8:00 pm
Place:  J2E Tree Farm, Hoskins

 Click here for details!

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Discover our NEW Data Visualization website!

Click to learn more!

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Click here to read our Summer 2022 issue!

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Got native plants? Or getting them soon? Check out our new Native Plant Resources Page! It has all the info you need to prepare your planting site, choose which natives will grow and look great, and give your plants the best start to a long, healthy life! 

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Contact Us

Kristen Larson
Executive Director

Maya Cook
Operations Coordinator

Suzanne Teller
Outreach Coordinator

Aubrey Cloud
Assistant Project Manager

​Amanda Brackett
Monitoring Coordinator

Jean-Paul Zagarola
Project Manager

​George Grosch​
President/Treasurer

Karin Stutzman
Secretary

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Knotweed in the Luckiamute

Click here to find out what we are doing to eradicate invasive Japanese knotweed in our watershed, and how you can get involved. Help us knock out knotweed!

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Volunteers Needed!

Do you have a special skill that you would like to contribute? Would you like to earn college credits while putting your talents to work in your community? Or are you just itching to get outdoors and help restore streambank habitat? Joining our awesome team of LWC Volunteers might be the perfect answer for you!