Raise a Glass and Celebrate World Water Day
Clean water makes for great beer. Join us to celebrate the McKenzie along with Ninkasi Brewing and The Bier Stein.
Planting Trees for a Healthy Future
Restoring the floodplain on Green Island means planting hundreds of thousands of trees.
Finn Rock Boat Landing Closed for Toilet Facility Remodel March 26 & 27
Improvements are coming to Finn Rock Boat Landing!
Invisible Rivers
Protecting floodplain lands means the important zones around rivers are conserved, too.
Cerro Gordo Protected
“Do what’s right for the land.” It’s an ethos that the people who have lived at Cerro Gordo have taken to heart. Today, thanks to their foresight and dedication, glimmering Willamette Valley prairie, healthy oak and conifer forest, and a prominent rocky butte near Cottage Grove are all protected for conservation. However, it hasn’t been…
Sharing Finn Rock Reach
Exploring New Opportunities for Recreation In addition to rare species like turtles and salmon, Finn Rock Reach includes the popular Finn Rock Boat Landing. Throughout our first year of ownership and management of this unique place, resplendent with enormous cottonwoods and maples, spawning Chinook salmon, and habitat restoration opportunities galore, we’ve heard the question many…
Green Island: A Floodplain In Restoration
Learn about the restoration work that took place this summer where the Willamette and McKenzie Rivers come together.
Surprises in the Ponds
Before you can even see them, the turtles know you’re there. As you walk towards the ponds, you hear soft plops and see rings in the water. Western pond and western painted turtles escape quickly into the water from their sunbathing perches. Once they realize you are not a predator, they cautiously stick their heads…
A Message From Joe Moll
Last night, we hosted another sell-out crowd of over 500 people for a particularly special McKenzie Memories event. In addition to looking back over the last century, to remind ourselves of the vision and hard work and sacrifice of the people who came before us, we very much looked forward, with a shared vision…
McKenzie Homewaters Campaign News Release
Announcing our $6 million effort to protect, restore, and steward the McKenzie River.