The Oregon Health & Outdoors Initiative is spearheading a statewide effort to legislate a pathway to licensure for outdoor…

We are excited to announce the partnership between Sustainable Northwest Wood and the Oak Accord. To combat the accelerated…

This Imagine a Day Without Water, learn more about Oregon’s 100-year Water Vision. Read about the current water challenges…

Barton Robison has been with Willamette Partnership since 2018. As we welcome him back, we want to (re)introduce him…

Bobby Cochran is back at Willamette Partnership after a year-long fellowship. Read his two reasons for taking his fellowship…

The City of John Day is working to revitalize and convert the former Oregon Pine mill site and surrounding…

Jade Greening is a collaboration of partners working towards a shared vision of a more breathable, accessible, livable, and…

Relive our annual partnership celebration, Honoring Our Roots, where we recognized the leaders and partners who have helped shape…

We are pleased to announce that Sara O’Brien has been named Willamette Partnership’s Executive Director. Bobby Cochran will return…

Oregon’s natural resource agency leaders have begun a conversation about constructing a 100-Year Water Vision for the state, the…

Watch the video about the Oak Accord, a voluntary grassroots initiative started by landowners to protect and restore what…

Infrastructure Week 2019 highlights the needs to repair and modernize America’s infrastructure while focusing on the proposed plan to…

Happy World Water Day 2019! Willamette Partnership strives towards clean water and this March 22 we want to share…

This Valentine’s Day, we asked just a few of Oregon’s water leaders to express their appreciation of water through…

We are proud to announce our newest members of Willamette Partnership’s Board of Directors for 2019; Mark Buckley, John…

Our 2018 Annual Report celebrates the leadership of our staff, board, partners, and colleagues. The role our past leaders…

This Friday, November 23, 2018, join Willamette Partnership staff, our friends at REI, and many others in participating in…

This #GivingTuesday, we’re asking you to help us by making a contribution to our organization as part of your…

The National Network on Water Quality Trading’s new report investigates what’s keeping water quality trading on the sidelines and…

The network of Oregon nonprofits working to improve health equity throughout the state by increasing access to the outdoors…

Willamette Partnership’s statewide student art and poetry project, known as Honoring Our Rivers, is celebrating an 18th birthday, and…

Understanding how water utilities attract and retain employees today can help shape the water workforce needed for tomorrow. In…

When we look at a river through the lens of a scientist, we can see there’s more than what…

Preserving and creating spaces for people to be outdoors in nature can be a part of the solution to…

Clean Water Fellow, Austin Melcher, shares his perspectives on the challenges of water management today, including the cost, the…

Beginning Aug. 1, 2018, Willamette Partnership’s Executive Director, Bobby Cochran, will be pursuing a one-year research fellowship with the…

He came with only a resume and a passion for equity in the field of natural resources but left…

More than 150 people from over 60 organizations, agencies, and businesses joined Willamette Partnership and the Confederated Tribes of…

The recent ruling means that the Washington state government must remove barriers to salmon migration in rivers to uphold…

It was only a little over a year ago that locals of the Willamette Valley came together and launched…

Growing out of a workshop hosted by the National Network on Water Quality Trading, the “Handbook for Conservation Districts…

Celebrate some of Oregon’s youngest published authors and artists who draw their inspiration from the state’s freshwater ecosystems at…

In light of recent bipartisan support urging the federal government to help U.S. cities become more resilient to flooding,…

March 22, 2018, is World Water Day, a day to focusing on the importance of water. Our Clean Water…

A recent tree planting event in Portland’s Jade District with Friends of Trees volunteers kicks off Willamette Partnership’s effort to…

As Willamette Partnerships launches a new project surveying the Northwest’s water utility sector to learn how we can recruit…

Tuesday’s State of the Union speech called for $1.5 trillion in new infrastructure investment but was short on details….

A new version of the national Nutrient Tracking Tool is released. The tool helps measure water quality improvements from conservation…

The National Network on Water Quality Trading is working on identifying and addressing the barriers to the widespread use of…

Drive meaningful investment toward achieving clean water goals with water quality trading. These new videos introduce templates that states…

Floodplains and stormwater are hydrologically connected but managed separately under environmental laws. Our new report offers nine ways managers…

Willamette Partnership’s 2017 Annual Report highlights the significant outcomes of our work over the fiscal year with an emphasis…

Here are three organizations you might not know that have good people doing courageous work to make our world…

This Friday, following Thanksgiving, we join our friends at REI and the millions of others who are choosing to…

In this blog post, Nicole Maness share how this new plan maps priorities for conservation investments and actions needed…

As Willamette Partnership invests in creating smarter infrastructure, advancing working lands conservation, and supporting community resilience, we’re getting the…

SageCon and Oregon’s efforts to implement its Sage-Grouse Action Plan continue to move forward despite the recent federal move…

How do you measure a “dose” of nature? A multi-sector teams’ newly published research agenda says answers to questions…

Mayor Ted Wheeler takes a celebratory dip at Portland’s new public beach, named Poet’s Beach after the student poem…

View photos from the 2017 Celebration of People and Water hosted by Willamette Partnership and the Confederated Tribes of…

Professionals from both the public health and the science fields must work together to overcome health inequities, says Cameron…

With the last day of school around the corner in Oregon, ’Honoring Our Rivers’ reels in another successful year…

A free webcast for stormwater managers looking to green infrastructure for a cost-effective, multi-benefit alternative to concrete and steel…

National Infrastructure Week has us thinking about our original infrastructure: nature. Beyond bridges and buildings, here’s why we need…

This position will lead Willamette Partnership’s Resilient Habitat Program. Learn more here. Deadline to apply is June 15, 2017….

We see nature as our original infrastructure. This new report helps communities drive implementation and investment in green infrastructure…

(Length: 8:00 min) Bobby Cochran, executive director of Willamette Partnership, tells you why Medicaid should be paying for trees,…

(Length 7:30 min) The executive director of Willamette Partnership, Bobby Cochran, talks about the Oregon Health and Outdoors Initiative,…

We’re hiring a Clean Water Project Manager. Learn more here. Deadline to apply is April 1, 2017.

The Health and Outdoors Initiative that Willamette Partnership helps lead recently released guidelines to help outdoor education providers incorporate…

Willamette Partnership intends to hire a consultant to develop a quantification method that measures floodplain storage and attenuation for…

Giving Tuesday is an international day of giving back to great causes. We think you ought to support our…

Willamette Partnership brought over 50 leaders together in Washington D.C. this month to brainstorm how economic incentives could drive…

In the second part of a series on the value of watersheds, we discuss a growing momentum across the…

This Friday, a diverse partnership of ranchers, environmental groups, and state and federal agencies will meet to discuss how…

Today is Imagine a Day Without Water. In the first of a series, we go one step further, thinking…

Willamette Partnership and the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) are proud to announce the release of five water…

Willamette Partnership’s executive director joins a cohort of 50 leaders working to develop innovative tools that enable people to…

It’s back to school for most, including our summer intern, Laura Wood. She writes about her summer working with…

In part 3 of the Water Quality Trading series, we explain what verification means and present a draft audit…

Despite the clear connection between the natural environment and public health, these fields haven’t evolved together with a shared…

Setting the table for a productive discussion about water quality trading is a struggle. But it’s also a strength….

In this year’s annual report, see how we are achieving balance for great outcomes for people and the environment.

The first of a series of blog posts giving you a crash course in “water quality trading.”

The Willamette River Report Card gave the river an overall passing grade of B-.

When federal policies are clear, work similarly across agencies, and are implemented consistently, private investment in natural resource restoration…

So why should you care about floodplains? There are many reasons, but we’ve narrowed it to 7.

The White House released a memorandum directing Federal agencies to factor the value of ecosystem services into planning and…

This week, the Value of Water Coalition asks us to Imagine a Day Without Water, which is no…

With today’s decision, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has expressed confidence in a new way of doing species…

With the September 30th listing decision deadline approaching, 11 western states, including Oregon, are sharing hope that upfront investments…

Welcome to our first blog post! We are honored to be considered leaders in market- and incentive-based approaches…

A new online guide to water quality trading can help farms, utilities and other businesses cut pollution and restore…

Have a conversation with us on the new reference for water quality trading program design.

We summarize the final session of ACES 2014, which featured Bobby Cochran and other panelists wrapping up final thoughts…

Willamette Partnership with its allies across conservation and health sectors announce an initiative to combat nature deficit disorder.

Two new reports on environmental markets and water quality trading.

A New discussion note looks at state trends on what hospitals expend for charity care and how that might…

We just launched our new website, logo, look, and stories. Find out why.

Idaho, Oregon, and Washington with support from EPA Region 10 have agreed to test a new set of joint…

This year, we received a record-breaking number of submissions for Honoring our Rivers, a statewide student art contest sponsored…

Oak woodlands, oak savanna and upland prairies, once widely distributed across the Willamette Valley, are now the focus of…

Conservation funders are increasingly asking the question, “What did I get for my money?” Join Willamette Partnership on May…

We’re hiring an ecosystem services specialist to join our Resilient Habitats Program in Portland, Oregon.