Welcome!
The Necanicum Watershed Council is a non-profit organization made up of community volunteers who are working to help ensure that our watershed is a healthy and functioning ecosystem. Through community outreach and education, landowner partnerships and on-the-ground habitat development projects, we work to further understanding about the Necanicum Watershed and to make sure it has a sustainable future for all who live here.
A COHO-HO CHRISTMAS FOR SALMON
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The Necanicum Watershed Council is teaming up with Trout Unlimited, local Boy Scout Troop 642, and the North Coast Land Conservancy in a fundraiser to serve multiple purposes: the Boy Scouts will be earning money for Summer Camp while collecting Christmas trees to be used as salmon habitat.
If you have a Christmas tree you’d like to dispose of, the scouts will be at the Seaside Outlet Mall on January 7th and 8th from 10 am until 4 pm each day collecting trees for a $4 donation per tree dropped off, or $5 per tree picked up. To arrange a tree pick up, please call 503-717-9563. All Christmas trees must be bare and free of ornaments, decorations, tinsel, and cannot be flocked.
Once collected, the Necanicum Watershed Council and the North Coast Land Conservancy will place the trees within some of their projects, where appropriate, and let nature take its course. Within a few days of being placed in the water, the branches should become covered with algae, which attract aquatic insects, and ultimately salmon. The trees should provide food and also cover from predators for about five years. Other projects just like this one happen each winter, all over the country, from New York to New Orleans to California.
LISTENING TO THE LAND
Join the Necanicum Watershed Council and the North Coast Land Conservancy for our monthly Listening to the Land speaker series. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of each month (Oct – April, no speaker in Dec.) at the Seaside Public Library at 6pm. Click below to download the calendar.
