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Residents of Tillamook County, OR should have some serious empathy for those in the flood-ravaged Midwest. After all, we’ve had two record floods two years in a row. But there are some lessons to be learned from the case of Iowa as the following story from Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post (June [...]
As readers of H2ONC know, stormwater is a persistent interest of mine as well as OSU which collaborated on the document discussed below. I hope that the report is part of an opening salvo for more engagement on stormwater. Despite our largely rural nature, stormwater is an important issue for the North Coast so check [...]
Hoquarton Slough is a lovely but much neglected piece of the Tillamook Bay Estuary. It runs into the heart of downtown Tillamook and until the 1931 construction of Highway 101, it was the major entryway to the city. Killamook Indians gave the area its name (meaning landing) and from 1951-1911 the city grew along it. [...]
Oregon Sea Grant Extension's Rob Emanuel serves the North Coast of Oregon from the offices of the Tillamook and Clatsop county Extension offices. He provides water- and watershed-related education, training, and technical assistance to citizens, property owners, businesses, community leaders, and organizations.