GREAT NEWS!
​Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Love Your Watershed fundraising campaign, we raised $1000 MORE than the total goal amount, and Pedee reached healthy habitat at the finish line! 

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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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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, 2018

July, 2010

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Next Regular LWC Meeting

Date:        Thursday, August 26, 2021
Time:        5:00 - 6:00 pm**
Place:      To be determined

**Please note that our August meeting time has shifted to a different date, and an earlier and shorter time due to a scheduled Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) training to follow our meeting. The LWC Board meeting will be open to the public as always, however the EDI training will be open only to LWC Board members.**

 Click here for more information!

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2020 Integrated Weed Maintenance Calendar

The 4-County Cooperative Weed Management Area has just released its 2020 Integrated Weed Maintenance Calendar! ​This calendar is intended to provide land managers and weed practitioners with the best treatment and timing options when controlling invasive plants in the Portland metropolitan region. ​Click here to download it to your device and keep it handy for those remote field adventures!

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Project Spotlight: South Fork Pedee Creek

Thanks to the support of our donors, we are partnering with Starker Forests, Hancock Forest Management, Forests Forever, Inc., Western Oregon University, and the Bureau of Land Management to restore prime salmon and trout habitat in South Fork Pedee Creek in the upper Luckiamute watershed! ​Read more here.

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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Discover our NEW Data Visualization website!

Click to learn more!

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Click to watch our Native Plant ID video!

Click here to read our Summer 2021 issue!

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Contact Us

Kristen Larson
Executive Director

Suzanne Teller
Outreach Coordinator

Jean-Paul Zagarola
Project Manager

​Aubrey Cloud
Assistant Project Manager

​Wendy Hudson
President

George Grosch​
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!