Your source for stories, insights, and updates about the Oswego Lake Watershed and the work of the Oswego Lake Watershed Council. Here you’ll find many of our newsletter articles, event highlights, project updates, and information to help you learn about and protect our local environment.
Making the Most of the Rain: Our Journey to a Thriving Urban Habitat
Rain, rain, go away... is that how you feel during the long Pacific Northwest rainy season? If so, I encourage you to see that rain not as an inconvenience but as an opportunity. With the right approach, you can harness rainfall to support your landscape through water features, rain barrels, and rain gardens.
Beavers: Nature’s Engineers at Work
Beavers may be best known for their dams, but these remarkable animals are increasingly recognized as powerful partners in restoring ecosystems. Learn how beavers shape resilient landscapes—without machines, chemicals, or blueprints.
Seed Libraries: The Contents are Growing
Libraries, long known for sowing ideas, are now helping the community sow seeds and build a community around seed sharing. Lake Oswego now has at least two seed libraries, one run by the Lake Oswego Public Library and the other by Friends of Tryon Creek.
Getting to Know a Soil Creature – The Nematode
Healthy soil supports a myriad of creatures and they in turn help support healthy soil. To name a few: nematodes, ...
Pollinator Partners Assemble!
You might remember these striking photographs showing the impact of pollinators on our food choices – these photos ...
Thinking Beyond Lawn Towards Living Landscapes
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.
The Living Soil, Part 1
For the smallest creatures, soil provides not only shelter but food. Everything they need: food, air and water, is there.
Wildfire Resilience
What is Lake Oswego Forest Resiliency?
The idea of land resilience and community involvement requires a coupling ...
Watershed Health
Characteristics of a Healthy Watershed
A healthy watershed is vital to maintaining a balanced and thriving ...
Can a lawn be a thriving natural habitat?
By Sharon Hawley
Yes, if the soil beneath it is healthy. One might then ask, is that likely to be the case?
There ...
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, ...
A Brief Geologic Journey Back in Time in Lake Oswego
Like everywhere on earth, today’s varied landscapes in Lake Oswego can be traced back to the rocks and earth forces of the past.
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