Author: Alexis Barton

One of our favorite spring events has become an annual tradition between Tryon Creek Watershed Council and Oregon Refugee Children’s Assistance Services (ORCAS), where we welcome a multilingual group of students to the Tryon Creek State Natural Area. For many of these students it’s their first time visiting a Pacific Northwest forest! Students who joined…
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Our mid-March 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event went really well! This is always an all-hands-on-deck, partnership-filled event and this year was no different. It was forecasted to be entirely rainy… but things cleared up during the first part of our work parties! Across nine sites, we had 121 volunteers who planted 431 native plants, removed…
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Tryon Creek Watershed Council’s 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event Join us in supporting the unique urban Tryon Creek watershed by volunteering to remove invasive plant species and plant native plants for Tryon Creek Watershed Council’s 16th Annual Watershed Wide Event on Saturday, March 15, 2025 from 9:00am – 12pm! This is TCWC’s largest annual volunteer event! Join…
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Celebrating Fish in Tryon Creek: Fintastic Film Screening was hosted by Tryon Creek Watershed Council and SEED at Lewis and Clark College, and was well-attended by community members as well as Lewis & Clark College students. This celebratory and educational event showcased a few special films to highlight efforts to honor and support native migratory…
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This week, Tryon Creek Watershed Council wrapped the first term of our Watershed Conservation Activities P.E. Course at Lewis & Clark College. Our Lewis & Clark College Student Representative and Board alum, Jack Fiocco, worked his senior year to set something up to support Lewis & Clark’s on-campus habitat maintenance: He successfully created a new P.E. course,…
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Celebrating Fish in Tryon Creek: Fintastic Film Screening Join us to enjoy short films and a panel in celebration of fish in Tryon Creek! RSVP here This celebratory and educational event will showcase a few special films to highlight efforts to honor and support native migratory fish.  Learn about Pacific Lamprey and Cultural Ecology through…
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Alexis and Seth (Westside Watershed Resource Center) teamed up again this spring to deliver a two-part Watershed 101 workshop to Prof. April Ann Fong’s students at PCC Sylvania, and spent the weekly lab session outside weeding and planting along a campus pathway! It was exciting to put 150 native plants in the ground in a…
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Thank You to the City of Portland Office of Community & Civic Life for sponsoring our 15th Annual Watershed Wide Event! We had rain, wind, sunshine and got a lot accomplished: Across eight simultaneous work parties, 163 volunteers including 41 youth removed ivy vines from 157 native trees & shrubs, removed invasive plants from 1.1…
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Each Spring Break, Tryon Creek Watershed Council partners with the Oregon Refugee Children’s Assistance Services (ORCAS) program, to welcome new Oregonian youth to the Tryon Creek State Natural Area. For many of these students it’s their first time visiting a Pacific Northwest forest, and it’s a special part of each spring!  This program supports multiple…
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This spring, Tryon Creek Watershed Council teamed up with the Westside Watershed Resource Center to provide watershed science education and facilitate stewardship for all of Jackson Middle School’s 7th graders. Each classroom was visited twice. On the first day, after an overview about watersheds and brief exploration of the on-campus creek connections and discussion about…
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