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Blue Sky Habitat Program Set To Help Oregon Watersheds
Portland Business Journal — July 29, 2013 Pacific Power said its Blue Sky program has steered $128,000-plus toward projects managed by The Freshwater Trust this year. The money will back…
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Reaping the Whirlwind: Water War Along the California-Oregon Border
Huffington Post — June 19, 2013 Not clear how many HuffPosters go Biblical, but this one fits. With a fresh backdrop of unprecedented forest fires in the West, ferocious…
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Earth Day Celebrates U.S. Water Prize Winners
The Freshwater Trust’s president, Joe Whitworth, and David Primozich, ecosystem services director, accepted the U.S. Water Prize from the U.S. Water Alliance, on behalf of The Freshwater Trust. The national…
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2013 U.S. Water Prize Winners Announced
U.S. Water Alliance February 26, 2013 (Washington, D.C.) February 26, Along the Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial,theU.S. Water Alliance announced the 2013 winners of the…
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Preserving Iowa’s Freshwater Ecosystems
Since its beginning, the conservation movement has been focused on preserving the natural places we still have, but Joe Whitworth, president of The Freshwater Trust, says that is not good…
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Fifteenmile Watershed Group recognized for fish efforts
The Fifteenmile Watershed council, a voluntary program in the Fifteenmile Creek watershed, was recognized Sept. 17 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for work to improve fish habitat. In…
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Lessons From Sawdust
As a fourth grader, my first job was as a “step & fetch it” with my dad, a small town carpenter — meaning for a dollar a day, I ran…
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Finding New Wealth for Environmental Gain
Flanked philosophically by harder line ideas of what environmental — and economic — purity ought to mean on both sides, a group of 50 implementation leaders from conservation, finance and…
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Oregon Utilities Launch River Enhancement Projects in McKenzie River Watershed
Oregon Utilities Launch River Enhancement Projects in McKenzie River Watershed Eugene and Springfield municipalities partner with non-profit to improve fish habitat The Eugene Water & Electric Board and the Metropolitan…
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Utilities Launch River Projects
The Eugene Water & Electric Board and the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission of Eugene and Springfield have partnered with a water conservation organization, The Freshwater Trust, on two separate programs…
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Water Quality Experts Convene to Discuss Challenges and Opportunities to Fix Rivers Faster
Water quality trading is reaching a tipping point, expert says A session of water quality trading experts in the Pacific Northwest recounted the successes of programs designed to protect watersheds…
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Earth Day's Fine, but What About Earth Tomorrow?
If April is considered Earth Month and April 22nd is hailed as Earth Day, I want May — and, for that matter, the rest of the year — to be…
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Stream Restoration Work 'Spawns' Project Award
Last August, Greg Wanner, the Supervisory Fish Biologist for the Mount Hood National Forest’s Zigzag Ranger District, revisited a site on Still Creek where earlier in July, a restoration project…
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Conservation Finance is Gearing Up for Wall Street
Welcome to the third phase of conservation finance. Over the last 25 years, we have moved beyond public and philanthropic capital and begun to witness the growth of private sector…
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Nature on the Hunt for Investors
Costs amounting to an estimated 300-400 billion US dollars are incurred every year in the global protection of biodiversity and the ecosystems of our planet. Market-based financing mechanisms from the…
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Scaling up Conservation Finance: Takeaways and Videos from the Practitioners Workshop
The field of conservation finance is at an inflection point. There is a long and distinguished list of conservation finance deals that have delivered important conservation benefits. As the field…
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Conserving Landscapes and Ecosystems With Private Investment
Private investors are finding new opportunities to invest in large-scale conservation efforts intended to protect biodiversity and boost “ecosystem services” such as clean water, clean air and carbon storage. Earlier…
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Pilot Project for Livestock Management Aims to Improve Water Quality in Klamath Basin
A five-year pilot project that will exclude livestock from a Sprague River site aims to keep many pounds of phosphorus and sediment out of the river, announces The Freshwater Trust,…
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Climate Change: Changing Design, Not Minds
Disease: Design of economy & environment interaction. Cure: Change the design (and don’t sweat changing all the minds). The day after the National Climate Assessment came out, so did our…
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Oregon Supports Tool to Estimate Temperature Benefits of Restoring Flow to Rivers
Provides a standardized method to quantify temperature reductions for credits The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality recently voiced its support for the Water Temperature Transaction Tool (W3T), which estimates the…
