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.
Shiny Geranium, a Super Spreader
By Barbara Fisher, OLWC Board MemberA few years ago when my OLWC colleague, Master Naturalist, Mike Buck started ...
Lake Oswego Green Teams: Updates & Goals for 2022
Lakeridge High School Updates & Goals for 2022
By Mia Mickelsen
The Lakeridge Green Team remains hard at work ...
OCRF Grant Protects Lake Oswego Oaks
Our Oregon White Oaks (Quercus garryana) are special trees. They represent strength and continuity and need to be celebrated and protected.
OLWC has just received a grant from the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund (OCRF) to support oak woodland enhancement in the Westlake area. Included in the grant is funding to develop messaging for our community about our native oaks and how they were used and protected by indigenous people prior to colonization. You can learn more about OLWC’s oak enhancement project here.
2021 Project Updates
Springbrook Creek Riparian Buffer ProjectThe Springbrook Creek Riparian Buffer Project began in 2021 and is funded ...
Meet the Lake Oswego School District Green Teams
The LOSD Green Teams are an integral part of the community and play a big role in helping OLWC learn and innovate. ...
Heritage Redwood Tree
By Kathleen Wiens
My family and I moved to Lake Oswego in 2015.
One of the reasons we fell in love with LO is the ...
Gans Site Update
Submitted by Barbara Fisher, OLWC council member and Friends of Hallinan Heights Woods coordinator
You have ...
Soil Aggregates – Where Texture and Organic Matter Meet
“WE NEED SPACE!”
This is the cry from plant roots and all the small and microscopic critters that live in soil. We all know that plants need water but did you know that their root systems also need air? The same goes for all bacteria, protozoa, algae, fungi, insects and spiders, round and segmented worms that live in soil and make up a crucial part of the soil community.
Tree Care During Heat Waves!
The fingerprints of climate change are becoming more pronounced with the record crushing temperatures predicted ...
March 2021: Green Team Updates
Green Team Updates
Lake Oswego High School- Nate Foster
The students of the LOHS Green Team have continued in ...
“The Soil Will Save Us” – Book Review
Book Review: The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet ...
PACIFIC YEW – Lost Treasure in the Forest?
by Denny Barnes, OLWC Board Member
Pacific Yew (Taxus brevifolia) is a small inconspicuous understory tree. From ...
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