Apr 22, 2025 | Stewardship
While lawn can be a good choice for high traffic play areas, its benefits are limited when it comes to supporting bird, pollinator and wildlife populations. Turf-oriented landscapes, however, can be an invitation to start fresh with a blank slate.
Apr 5, 2025 | Soil Health
For the smallest creatures, soil provides not only shelter but food. Everything they need: food, air and water, is there.
Feb 13, 2025 | Stewardship, Watershed Science and Systems
What is Lake Oswego Forest Resiliency? The idea of land resilience and community involvement requires a coupling of social and ecological resilience in rapidly changing landscapes affected by our warming climate. Land management is strongest when it adopts multiple...
Jan 13, 2024 | Stormwater
Dealing with Winter Storms In light of the most recent storm, our hearts go out to the 30+ residents who have had trees fall on their homes, and hundreds more whose homes have been damaged by tree limbs and freezing pipes. Many of us have endured days without power...
Sep 2, 2022 | Watershed Science and Systems
Like everywhere on earth, today’s varied landscapes in Lake Oswego can be traced back to the rocks and earth forces of the past.
