We’re connectors, acting as the North Coast’s non-regulatory, trusted conduit, joining private and public landowners to the resources, expertise and funding required to accomplish projects that improve local watersheds for the long-term benefit of our environment and our community.

For over 20 years we’ve approached projects holistically, learning what issues landowners need addressed, bringing in appropriate organizations, contractors and funding, then stewarding well-planned restoration projects through completion — with long-term monitoring to ensure continued success. As we work, we bring education of our local watersheds to the public via one-on-one opportunities during projects, with volunteers and through school science programs to help our community understand the connective nature of our shared ecosystem. 

Our projects range from small to large, working with private landowners as well as public entities. Regardless of whether you have a creek that floods regularly on private land or if there’s a culvert on a public logging road that’s blocking fish passage, our small, hardworking, passionate staff can pull the right team together to address the problem.

Projects like the Wallooskee Fish Passage and Large Wood Placement are great examples of our connective role. We were able to connect Nuveen Natural Capital, a private timber company with grants from the Oregon Water Enhancement Board (OWEB) and contractors from the local area needed to excavate and install a large culvert allowing safe passage for native fish. Then, with landowner-donated materials (i.e., timber), we also were able to help install 34 log complexes for juvenile fish habitat along two miles of streambed while our volunteer network simultaneously replanted the riparian zones with native vegetation. In a similar fish passage project on the North North Fork of the Klaskanine River, we acted as the local conduit between project managers, contractors and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. That’s private and public entities coming together for the common good of their community. It’s volunteers working alongside contractors. It’s about connecting our North Coast community with our natural world in ways that make positive, lasting impacts to our local ecosystems. And the North Coast Watershed Association is the hub that joins it all.