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Partnership News Report Volume 5 Issue 1

Our Land, Our Water, and a Season of Big Thoughts – with Spring coming to the Northwest, the Willamette Partnership asks some bloomin’ big questions along with 29 Northwest leaders on ecosystem services. Collaboration for Conservation – It’s no secret that we believe partnerships make for better results. Willamette Partnership announces a new partnership and brings on a new collaborator. When is good, good enough – Private landowners that protect public resources want assurance that they will be in compliance with new environmental regulations and agencies want to encourage best practices, but it isn’t easy. The Partnership’s Incentives Trifecta project takes a new approach to resolving the tension between ecological uncertainty and progress toward conservation goals. Weighing in on Common Guidance - Stakeholders across the country recognize the need for common guidance on water quality trading. Willamette Partnership is bringing on-the-ground success stories to the conversation at both the regional and national levels.

Partnership News Report Volume 4 Issue 4

The Partnership's Board of Directors approves a three-year strategic plan including generating success stories and transferring Counting on the Environment to new places. The plan will be funded by grants from NRCS, USFS, EPA, Meyer Memorial Trust, City of Portland and NFWF. We also welcome two new staff members Carrie Sanneman and Harmony Burright to the team.

Partnership News Report Volume 4 Issue 3

This newsletter describes the strategic planning of the Partnership's Board, what we are wrapping up, and where we are going in the next three years. We also announce that the Ecosystem Crediting Platform is live, post new open positions and accredit third party verifiers.

Partnership News Report Volume 4 Issue 2

Willamette Partnership releases Measuring Up, a national review of biodiversity measurement systems. The report also describes elements that any biodiversity measurement system needs along with the foundation of a standardized approach to measurement. Also in this report, the Partnership welcomes five new Board members.

Partnership News Report Volume 4 Issue 1

This newsletter gives an insight into the next two years of Partnership activities, an overview of the Klamath Tracking and Accounting Program, scaling up efforts with the Northwest Environmental Markets Initiative, an Incentive Trifecta: Markets, Eco-labels and Regulatory Assurances and an update on the Honoring Our Rivers Anthology Project.

Partnership News Report Volume 3 Issue 4

This newsletter focuses on the Willamette Partnership’s verification training program; five training sessions on the business, science, and operations of ecosystem markets. This issue includes experiences from the field, what people can do with this training, and what training opportunities lie ahead.

Partnership News Report Volume 3 Issue 3

Over the next three years in the Willamette, dedicated partners want to make a hard push to: 1) bring new private dollars to restoration, 2) generate verified conservation outcomes from implemented projects , and 3) continue to build new incentives for conservation across Northwest landscapes.

Partnership News Report Volume 3 Issue 1

The Willamette Partnership's Newsletter for January 26, 2010. Following approval to move forward with a first-of-its-kind ecosystem credit accounting system this fall, we haven’t wasted any time launching the next phases of work. With the first version of the Ecosystem Accounting System in place, it’s time to put it to the test– literally. It’s also time to complete the support structure that will ensure the whole system operates credibly. As you’ll see, this involves a lot of moving parts. In this newsletter you’ll get a taste of the breadth of activity the Willamette Partnership and a growing cohort of collaborators is gearing up for. Articles Include: Bobby Cochran on New Currencies, David Primozich on Local Flavor with Regional Infrastructure. Plus: Building Capacity to Operate a Marketplace, Oregon Law on the Ecosystem Services Frontier-Senate Bill 513, and an update on Pilot Projects

Partnership News Report Volume 2 Issue 5

This is the Willamette Partnership's Newsletter dated August 14, 2009. In June, the Willamette Partnership co-sponsored a nationally-significant conference on ecosystem services markets in Portland. In August, Twenty-five Stakeholders Reach Consensus on an Ecosystem Credit Accounting System, and another essential piece of the market: An Electronic Platform for Credit Creation

Partnership News Report Volume 2 Issue 4

This is the Willamette Partnerships Newsletter dated May 13, 2009.