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Fall Backyard Planting Tips
Backyard Habitat Certification Manager Gaylen Beatty offers four tips for the fall planting season. It's a great time of year to build valuable wildlife habitat in your own backyard.
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Wild Splendor 2015
A celebration of our favorite Northwest places.
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Deep River 30
With Columbia Land Trust's latest 30-acre acquisition, we're expanding our conservation and restoration efforts at the mouth of the Deep River.
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Devil’s Elbow Marshes On
Tidal Wetland Restoration Work Pays Off.
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Tualatin Two-Step
Two new properties along the Tualatin River totaling 286 acres will be conserved and restored, offering prime habitat within the Portland metropolitan area.
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[Project Update] Levees out, logs in along the Hood River
With the pipeline removed from the Lower Hood River's Powerdale corridor, the Land Trust is restoring the area's historic floodplain
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The lasting gift of land
A landowner's generous gift leads to 80 acres of forest conserved in the Grays Bay watershed.
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Picnic in the Park
Our 2015 annual meeting highlights and slideshow.
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