You may have noticed folks in orange vests looking under rocks and kicking the sediment in Doane and North Fork Deep Creeks in early October. The Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District ...

The Little Forks Conservancy will host its twelfth annual Cedar River stream sampling event on Saturday, May 16, 2026, to ...

Little Fork's Conservancy is seeking volunteers to help in there water sampling efforts for the Cedar River stream.

The long-running project, now in its 11th year, uses aquatic macroinvertebrates—small animals without backbones that can be seen with the naked eye—to help assess the river’s water quality.

A tiny, vibrant world thrives along the rocky bottom of most streams. As sunlight filters through the water, mayfly nymphs, no larger than your fingernail, cling to algae-coated cobbles. Their ...

Teams will meet at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 16, at the Gladwin Conservation District's Community Garden and collect data at ...

Fourth and fifth graders learned about flood risks by getting doused in an outdoor shower, about water quality by identifying macroinvertebrates from local creeks and about water conservation by ...