Help the North Coast Land Conservancy plant more willows at Circle Creek. The group will be working in the floodplain that was reconnected in summer 2013. Come see how the site is recovering, and help plant hundreds of willow stakes along the bank of the Necanicum River. Contact Stewardship Director Melissa Reich at melissar@nclctrust.org inFind OUT MORE

Rain plus trees equals rainforest, right? Not really wrong, says naturalist Neal Maine, but that equation doesn’t begin to capture the complex interactions among air and water and leaf and soil and microorganisms and all the other elements required to create a functioning temperate rainforest. Join Maine for a conversation in words and images aboutFind OUT MORE

The North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC)  is continuing its ambitious restoration project at Clear Lake, tucked deep in the dunes near Warrenton, where the group is restoring existing wetlands as well as creating new ones. They will be planting willows and bare-root shrubs in a continuing effort to get these new and recovering wetlands onto aFind OUT MORE

The unusual mix of plants found in Gearhart’s Butterfield Fen is no accident. It begins with water: falling from clouds and ultimately percolating up through layers of sediment. It took hundreds of years to create the fen. And like everything else in the coastal landscape, it is in constant, slow flux. Join field ecologist KathleenFind OUT MORE

Help the North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) get the trails at Circle Creek ready for the summer hiking season and for The Forest Remembers event the following weekend. They will be brushing out and mulching the nature trail and the new boardwalk trail and repairing or replacing footbridges and anything else disturbed by winter flooding. ContactFind OUT MORE