Contacts & Highlights

 24 Events  11 Educational workshops  5 Large festivals  8 Small to mid-size events  10 Canoeing events  13 Science-based events  1676 Event participants  12 Average # of volunteers per event

Explorando festival participants at registration  12 Community outreach opportunities Aquifer Adventure participants go for a bimaran ride  2 Interns Learning about our aquifer at Groundwater 101  20 Newsletters sent  2011 Social media followers Outreach and Event Sponsors Highlights  AAA Oregon  ESA Virgil-Agrimis  Peninsula Drainage District #2  Explorando had a new, culturally- specific education curriculum and  Alder Creek Kayak and Canoe  Fairview Lake Property Owners Associa-  Port of Portland the festival experienced the highest tion Latinx participation in its history  Aloft Portland at Cascade Station  Portland Parks and Recreation  Grand Central Bakery  A new partnership with Next  Audobon Society of Portland  Portland Timbers Adventure has allowed us to serve  Leatherman Tool Group more people at our events by  Barry Brigham  Portland Water Bureau providing more boats and expert  Maul Foster Alongi staff  Casa Bruno  Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel  Metro  Record number of private paddle  Cha, Cha, Cha Taqueria tours were given  Stand Family Farm  Multnomah County Drainage District  City of Gresham Water Management  Paddle Team had a record number Division  Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office  The Boeing Company of volunteer members this year. Evening Canoers paddle off into the sunset Our way of thanking them was to  City of Portland Bureau of Environ-  New Seasons Market  Trust for Public Land offer a new set of enrichment mental Services opportunities and events for them  Next Adventure  Tualatin Riverkeepers  We are proud to have offered our  David Biggs first two paid internship positions  Oregon Screen Impressions  Verde  East Multnomah Soil and Water Con-  Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board servation District Numbers & Highlights Projects

 1058 volunteer hours at program events Project Fiscal Year 2016-17 Activities

 222 volunteer hours in the education program Hundreds of volunteers support the council in providing free events for the communities within  850 volunteer hours in the stewardship Events the watershed. Volunteers ensure council events program are a success by filling a variety of roles including assistance with set up and break down of events.  23 Paddle Team members guiding our public paddles Slough School volunteers support field trips across  2221 total volunteer hours contributed the watershed - working with youth to interpret Education urban natural spaces, test water quality and canoe on the Slough.

Partners Through Stewardship Saturdays, the Great Slough Clean Up and other events, individuals and groups volunteer throughout the year to plant native Apex Consulting Stewardship plants, remove invasive species, protect trees from beaver damage, and clean up the Grand Central Bakery slough. Stewardship volunteers are essential to the ecological enhancement of the watershed . New Seasons

Next Adventure All major CSWC events utilize the Paddle Team to support staff in providing a fun and safe experience And all the organizations that partnered with us to Paddle Team for participants while canoeing on the Slough. In make our stewardship events a success addition, they support Slough School's canoe weeks and private paddles as birmaran captains.

Meaningful Work Want to Get Involved?

“This is the third year I've led the Edible Aquifer Would you, your business or organization like to volunteer with station, and I want to highlight again this year how us for an event? We are always looking for new collaborations. great it is to have the students from Central Catholic Please contact us to learn more! as volunteers. The students bring a great energy, and I was again impressed with how quickly they absorb Kirk Fatland the groundwater lesson, and how well they are able Volunteer Coordinator to convey that and interact with the kids who come [email protected] through the station.” 503-281-1132 Numbers & Highlights Projects

 25 community stewardship events Project FY 2016-17 Activities

 14 Stewardship Saturdays We are working with Heron Lakes and Heron Lakes MEChA to convert the rough areas of  282 volunteers contributed 850 hours to perform Golf Course the course to native vegetation, provid- stewardship and monitoring activities ing habitat and other benefits.  6,800+ native plants were planted, a 38% We contracted Northwest Youth Corps increase from 15-16 FY’s planting record to remove over 200 cubic feet of yellow Main flag iris along a 1/2 mile of the main Partners Channel channel of the slough. The Oregon Zoo’s Benches Eco-Team helped to plant 550 native  Apex Consulting ance (NAYA) shrubs, ferns and sedges by boat on the channel benches to provide aquatic hab-  Nature Conservancy  Boeing itat.

 City of Portland  Northwest Youth Corp. (NYC) Bureau of Environmental An acre of riparian PacifiCorp property  Oregon Watershed Services on Buffalo Slough was overgrown with Enhancement Board blackberry on the banks and yellow flag  Conifer Park HOA Buffalo  Oregon Zoo Eco Team Slough iris. With volunteer and Verde crews, we  Dig In planted over 2100+ native trees, shrubs,  PacifiCorp ferns and forbs. The project will be fin-  East Multnomah SWCD  Port of Portland ished in the Winter of 2017.  Friends of Baltimore Woods  Portland Parks & Sites: Columbia Children’s Arboretum,  Friends of Trees Recreation Baltimore Woods, Smith and Bybee  George Middle School  Portland Parks Stewardship Wetlands, Kelley Point Park, Wilkes Foundation Headwaters Natural Area, & Johnson  Grand Central Bakery Saturdays Lake. Activities: native plantings, inva-  Portland State sive removals, litter pick-up, beaver cage  Heron Lakes Golf Course University installation  Jackson Family Vines  Portland Youth Builders This wetland amidst cul-de-sacs was  Key Bank  Salish Ponds overgrown by reed canary grass (RCG)  MEChA Elementary that crowds out other species. In part- nership with Boeing, Dig In, Multnomah  Metro  SOLVE Heron Pointe wetland Youth Cooperative (MYC) and Salish  Multnomah Youth  Verde Ponds Elementary, we planted native Cooperative (MYC) shrubs and trees to shade out the RCG  Wilkes Community Group and provide attractive habitat. MYC  Native American Youth Alli- youth mentored the younger students. Slough School:

Authentic learning from the Columbia Slough and its Watershed

Slough School Contacts

 6,851 Student Contacts

 918 Teacher & Adult Contacts

 322 programs for 49 Schools/Orgs

 4 School Districts

 943.5 Volunteer Hours

 79% of students that participated are low income; 65% are students of color Sitton 5th grade at the Slough’s mouth at Kelley Point Park 5th grader post planting at Salish Ponds Highlights

Fairview 5th graders restore Wilkes Creek Headwaters and  Slough School brought 527 students & Slough School serves K-college students with free field, classroom, investigate what lives in the water and canoe programs about the natural and cultural history of the 80 adults on the water in canoes, in- Columbia Slough Watershed. cluding 99 George 7th graders  New afterschool partnership at NAYA

Slough School Participants 2016-17  15 5th grade classes from Salish 10000 Ponds, Shaver, Fairview, Sitton, Woodland, and Boise-Eliot Humboldt 8000 1087 1026 984 918 schools restored habitat 6000 827  Field learning at: Whitaker Ponds Na- 4000 Adult 7085 6993 6059 6593 6851 ture Park, Kelley Point Park, Columbia 2000 Youth Children’s Arboretum, Salish Ponds 0 Wetlands Park, Wilkes Headwaters, 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - and Nadaka Nature Park. 13 14 15 16 17  Helped Creek Colleges take place at Woodland 3rd graders illustrate plants behind their school Rigler 2nd grade studies Habitats at Kelley Point Park Whitaker Ponds during Assembly 2017 in Fairview Creek’s riparian zone  Partnered with Living Cully, Verde, Community Partners : City of Portland’s Clean Rivers Education :: Portland Parks & Recreation :: Portland Water Bureau :: City of Gresham :: City of Fairview Clean Rivers Education, and more to Partners Student Mentors : Multnomah Youth Cooperative / Reynolds Learning Academy :: Project YESS / Mt Hood Community College help Scott 5th & 6th graders learn in Funding Sources : Metro, Gray Family Foundation, Boeing, City of Gresham, City of Fairview, OWEB, Portland Water Bureau, Jubitz Family Foundation depth about the new Cully Park