Did you know that your cans and bottles can fund habitat restoration in the Necanicum Basin?

Anything with a $0.10 return symbol can be used to raise funds for our organization in partnership with the Oregon Bottle Drop program.

From 10am-12pm drop off your cans and bottles with our volunteers at our offices in downtown Seaside.

NWC Presents | Watershed Wonders

Join us on April 10th at 6:00pm (PST) as we welcome Carl Hendrickson to our Watershed Wonders Speaker Series to give his talk:

"Using Community Engagement Practices to Prepare for Sea Level Rise Impacts on the Oregon Coast"

Carl Hendrickson is a NOAA Coastal Management fellow with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development. As part of the Oregon Coastal Management Program, Carl works with communities in Clatsop County to help support sea level rise adaptation planning. Before this fellowship, he received a Masters from San Francisco State University working on restoration projects of native oysters and eelgrass. In his free time, Carl enjoys working in the garden and spending time in the mountains and the ocean, often with his partner and dog.

Location:

Clatsop Community College South County Campus

Room 203

1455 N. Roosevelt Dr.

Seaside, Oregon

97138

$5 SUGGESTED ENTRY DONATION

$4 BEERS COURTESY OF FORT GEORGE BREWERY

Note: The NWC works hard to provide options for individuals that cannot attend in person. This event will be recorded and uploaded to our website's Watershed Wonders page shortly after the presentation.

Interested in becoming a Board Director? Want to learn about current and future projects the Watershed Council is leading?

Attend our next board meeting, on March 27th, 2024.

To register as a guest attendee, fill out the registration link here:

NWC Board Meeting Registration

Did you know that your cans and bottles can fund habitat restoration in the Necanicum Basin?

Anything with a $0.10 return symbol can be used to raise funds for our organization in partnership with the Oregon Bottle Drop program.

From 10am-12pm drop off your cans and bottles with our volunteers at our offices in downtown Seaside.

Interested in becoming a Board Director? Want to learn about current and future projects the Watershed Council is leading?

Attend our next board meeting, on January 24th, 2024.

To register as a guest attendee, fill out the registration link here:

NWC Board Meeting Registration

Whether you notice it or not, the bees are buzzing on the north coast and Dr. Andony Melathopoulos, an Associate Professor at Oregon State University and leader of the Oregon Bee Project, is here to tell us all about the pollinators that call our region home.

Andony Melathopoulos is an Associate Professor in Pollinator Health Extension in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University, which was the first such position in the US. He chairs the statewide bee protection initiative, the Oregon Bee Project, is the Extension Educator for the Master Melittologist program and hosts a weekly podcast called PolliNation.

Join us for $4 beers donated courtesy of Fort George Brewery on January 22nd, 2024. and learn about the wonders of our watershed. To register for the event, click here!

The Astoria Sunday Market is bigger and better than ever in 2023, and we’ll be hanging out on October 8th celebrating the season, providing watershed education to the public and most of all, with a super cool raffle as always!

Come out to the Seaside Farmer’s Market and hang out with us!

We’ll have fun games, info and merchandise. Plus, learn about volunteer opportunities, ways to get involved with the watershed council and more!

The Astoria Sunday Market is bigger and better than ever in 2023, and we’ll be hanging out on October 8th celebrating the season, providing watershed education to the public and most of all, with a super cool raffle as always!

Did you know that your cans and bottles can fund habitat restoration in the Necanicum Basin?

Anything with a $0.10 return symbol can be used to raise funds for our organization in partnership with the Oregon Bottle Drop program.

From 11am-1pm drop off your cans and bottles with our volunteers at our offices in downtown Seaside.

We’ll be sitting courtside with our good friends and conservation partners at the North Coast Land Conservancy. Come on down to the Seaside Farmer’s Market to learn about all things watershed conservation in the Necanicum Basin and explore ways to get involved with two of our region’s conservation specialists.

Although many North Coast residents and visitors believe wildfire is not a risk, fire has always played a role here. By examining the ecological role of fire and fire history of the Coast Range, as well as current trends, we can gain a better understanding of what the future of fire may look like in our area. Indigenous people used fire as a land management tool for millennia, as seen in the presence of the open habitats of the Clatsop Plains and other prairies and headland grasslands of the Coast, now in decline. Stand-replacing crown fires, have a long and well documented history. These are a hazard for all our communities and residents. Our larger coastal population, along with changes to land use and our climate are increasing the risk and impacts of future fires in the region. With this background, we will discuss how individuals and communities can prepare for wildfire and lessen wildfire risks on the North Coast. Additionally, we will discuss potential priority landscapes, in terms of fire and ecological restoration.

Join us for $4 beers on July 12th, 2023 and learn about the wonders of our watershed.

Speaker: Aaron Groth

Aaron is the Coastal Oregon regional fire specialist in the OSU Forestry and Natural Resources Extension Fire Program. Aaron works with communities as well as local, state, federal, private, and nonprofit partners at different scales across the Coast to provide education and foster fire resilient communities and landscapes. He has worked for city, state, and federal agencies, international cooperation, nonprofits, and served as an Environmental Peace Corps Volunteer in Peru. He hopes to serve as a Public Information Officer (PIO) Trainee during wildfires with Oregon Department of Forestry this summer.

Did you know that your cans and bottles can fund habitat restoration in the Necanicum Basin?

Anything with a $0.10 return symbol can be used to raise funds for our organization in partnership with the Oregon Bottle Drop program.

From 11am-1pm drop off your cans and bottles with our volunteers at our offices in downtown Seaside.

The Necanicum Watershed Council is proud to partner with Corgi Beach Takeover party in Seaside this year as the event’s can and bottle deposit team!

We’ll have a booth on the beach with information about our organization, projects and events, fun games for everyone to play and a system to sell our merchandise and accept direct donations.

We’ll need volunteers to walk the beach with our blue bags collecting cans and bottles as keep our beaches clean for years of Corgis to come!

Join us on June 24th from 10am-4pm at the beach just in front of the Seaside Turnaround.

Did you know that your cans and bottles can fund habitat restoration in the Necanicum Basin?

Anything with a $0.10 return symbol can be used to raise funds for our organization in partnership with the Oregon Bottle Drop program.

From 11am-1pm drop off your cans and bottles with our volunteers at our offices in downtown Seaside.

Join us at the McMenamin’s Gearhart Hotel for our annual Friends and Family Night. McMenamin’s Sandtrap and Pot Bunker Pubs will donate 50% of proceeds from 5pm until close on Monday, May 22nd, 2023.

We will have an informational table and a raffle that will be called at 8:30pm, so come early and come ready to eat, drink and celebrate the watershed!

Did you know that your cans and bottles can fund habitat restoration in the Necanicum Basin?

Anything with a $0.10 return symbol can be used to raise funds for our organization in partnership with the Oregon Bottle Drop program.

From 11am-1pm drop off your cans and bottles with our volunteers at our offices in downtown Seaside.

Jesse is the CoastWatch Program Manager for Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition. CoastWatch is a mile-by-mile beach adoption program with a mission to encourage care and knowledge of Oregon coast. She joined OSCC in 2019 as the volunteer coordinator and has grown the CoastWatch program into a citizen and community science hub for the Oregon coast. She also started CoastWatch in Schools, which recruits teachers to enroll their classrooms in on the beach monitoring and surveys. Jesse is a lifelong Oregonian who has worked alongside hundreds of others in the last two decades to restore, educate and inspire. Jesse is a previous watershed council coordinator and has also worked for Clatsop Soil & Water Conservation District, Surfrider, Haystack Rock Awareness Program, Mercy Corps International and an environmental puppet troupe in Ireland called Artastic. She was also a consultant working as a mediator, grant manager and educational program designer. She lives in Astoria.

The Talk: Jesse will take a deep dive into the power of people when it comes to coastal science here in Oregon. CoastWatch is a program operated by the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, monitoring and stewarding beaches along Oregon’s 362-mile coastline. How can people power science? What kind of science are they powering? And what does it mean for the future of stewarding the Oregon coast? These are questions that Jesse plans to answer while telling the story of the CoastWatch program.

While this talk is in person, and we encourage you to come out, we do plan to provide a live feed via zoom for this talk, to register, please click this link: Zoom Registration

Our river is the lifeline for not just our wildlife, but us too! Meet us at Quatat Park in downtown Seaside on Sunday morning to honor Earth Day Weekend by walking the banks of the Necanicum River and picking up trash as we go.

This will be a kid-friendly event, so bring the kiddos!

(The Necanicum River’s banks through downtown Seaside can be steep and rocky, so make sure you wear sturdy shoes with good grip and some water-resistant clothing at a minimum.)

Ever thought to yourself, “what in the world is a Watershed Council?”…

Then come on down to Burly and the Bean in Seaside to join us for drinks, courtesy of our friends Fort George Brewery, and sold as a fundraiser for the Council. From 5:00pm-6:00pm we’ll be hanging around the shop and answering questions, shaking hands and making friends with the community.

But wait! That’s not all. At 6:00pm, Burly and the Bean presents Kent M. Smith, a Portland musician, playing soft, soulful sounds. A cover charge of $5 minimum will be required to stick around for the show… but we’ll be there and so should you!

Any donations over the $5 cover charge will support our organization’s work to restore vital coastal habitats.

Graham Waugh is a water resources engineer from Eastern Canada. His background has involved studying rivers and managing the inevitable conflict between people and rivers. Whether that is managing water supply and ecological flow rates, riverbank restoration, or floodplain management. He’s spent much of the past 15 years at a desk analyzing maps and hydrology data but the highlights have always been the days in the field wading in rivers and on boats. Through his Instagram page @WaterResourcesGuy, Graham is trying to spread awareness and respect for rivers with the general public.

The Talk:

Fluvial Geomorphology for Dummies digs into the age old question, “why do rivers looks the way they do?” Rivers, despite all their unique and wild nature, follow some basic principles that govern how gravity, water, rocks and plants work together. This talk will help answer questions about how rivers form, move, and adapt to changes. The goal is to impart more awareness and respect for these wild natural spaces that we live with and benefit from.

To register for this event, use this link: Watershed Wonders Registration