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Defensible Space This month, the South Santiam Watershed Council and partners with Wildfire Ready Linn County visited a project site where the Linn County Juvenile Department (LCJD) is putting wildfire…
Wildfire Ready Linn County The South Santiam Watershed Council is proud to be a partner of Wildfire Ready Linn County, a collaborative effort that brings together local fire districts, watershed…
Pacific Lamprey hold a place of significance and provide an important source offood, culture, and medicine for Columbia River Basin Tribes. Along with this,Lamprey is an important ecologic indicator of…
Hello Watershed Enthusiasts! KLCC radio’s Tiffany Eckert (Lane Community College) joined our Restoration Project Manager, Ty Styhl, and Bonneville Environmental Foundation’s Senior Program Manager, Jean-Paul Zagarola, out at Mint Creek…
The City of Sweet Home and the South Santiam Watershed Council (SSWC) are partnering to restore approximately three acres of floodplain and wet meadow habitat along the east side of…
Today marks the launch of the Mid-Willamette Beaver Partnership (MWBP) website: mwbeaverpartnership.org. This new resource provides practical tools for community members and natural resource professionals interested in beaver-related restoration and…
Hello Watershed Supporters, The South Santiam Watershed Council (SSWC) is excited to announce that our organization has been awarded $25,000 from the Oregon Community Foundation! Through their partnership with…
Thirty years ago, a group of people became aware that there was great ecological work happening in the South Santiam basin. They thought that having an organization to help…
I am honored to be writing my fifth end of the year update, sharing our annual report with you, along with a few collected thoughts. This year certainly looked different for the South Santiam Watershed…
The second year of the deep drawdown at Green Peter Dam came to an unplanned halt late last month. Zach Urness, with Salem’s Statesman Journal, published a piece…