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Project
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Mount St. Helens Vision Realized
Columbia Land Trust and a timber company Pope Resources find common ground, complete decade-long, 20,000-acre plan benefitting local forestry and wildlife.
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[Guest Story] Watching the Backyard
A backyard habitat member shares his joy of restoring habitat as a retired ecologist struggling with a recent illness, and the power gardens can have on young minds.
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Planting Zen Volunteer Day
Roll up your sleeves alongside the Land Trust's Emerging Leaders Council at NE Portland's Dharma Rain Zen Center for a day of backyard habitat restoration.
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Backyard Continued
The Backyard Habitat Certification Program announces its expansion into more area of Clackamas County.
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Backyard Confidential
Notes from inside the backyard habitat certification process
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Fieldbook Crawls Out for Spring
Our first edition of our 2018 Fieldbook magazine is now out!
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Hear the Cranes Come
A farming experiment is benefiting endangered sandhill cranes and could establish new research for crane conservation in the Northwest.
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Weathering the Storm
Climate resilience guides the Land Trust’s conservation agenda.
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