New quilt showcases McKenzie River Watershed
“My family and I have been boating on the McKenzie River since 1981 and we love this place,” says Mary Nyquist Koons, a member of the McKenzie River Trust with her husband, James, since 2009. “As members of the Trust we discovered we could help protect this beautiful, sacred river and land with a financial…
Double Your Gift
Join or Renew: Donate Now! Every gift in March will go twice as far thanks to our friends at Mountain Rose Herbs who are offering a $10,000 Match Gift Challenge. Update, March 28: We met the match! Now help us reach our stretch goal of $15,000. Our Goal: 1,000 Members in 2017 In 2017 we’re…
Coyote Creek Meadows Protected
With your generous support, 38 acres of wetlands and camas-filled meadows are now permanently protected for conservation.
Beers Made By Walking returns to Eugene
Drink up the land when Beers Made By Walking returns this winter. The
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Regain Salmon-Bearing Wetlands in Ancestral Homeland
The purchase of the Fivemile Creek property restores Tribe’s ancestral homeland while protecting critical coho salmon habitat.
Press Release: McKenzie Camp acquisition
The McKenzie River Trust protects clean water and salmon habitat near Blue River following a land acquisition from Rosboro.
It’s the trees
Thanks to you, an oak woodland and working forest is protected.
‘Safe Harbors’ for native fish
This is part of a series about the MRT members who have played a part in the incredible comeback of Oregon chub. In the coming days and weeks, we’ll share more stories of MRT members who aided the recovery. Gail and Eric Haws “The chub seems like such an insignificant little creature,” MRT member Gail…
The importance of healthy floodplains
Because of members like Art and Anita Johnson, we’ve helped Oregon chub recover.
The little fish that we’d never noticed
George Grier and Cynthia Pappas protected their land in 1992. They didn’t know then that they would play a critical part in the recovery of Oregon chub.