Spring 2019
Stanley Petrowski
UW resources are devoted to so many restoration issues that the field seems to be a bubbling cauldron. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. As issues come to [...]
Winter 2018
Stanley Petrowski
Umpqua Watersheds has participated in numerous forest collaboratives over the last decade and a half that have served several purposes. Our fundamental purpose is to “restore the rest.” [...]
Fall 2018
Stanley Petrowski
A River Dying?
It’s been a difficult summer for the anadromous fish of the Umpqua Rivers. The river was so hot that the Oregon Dept. of Fish and [...]
Summer 2018
Stanley Petrowski
Restoration in the Age of Ecological Chaos
I am often challenged during agency and non-agency interactions regarding the efficacy of restoration work. Anyone even remotely aware of what [...]
Spring 2018
Stanley Petrowski
No Water – No Life
It is obvious that water is one of the most critically important elements of creation. It is not so obvious that it [...]
Winter 2017
Stanley Petrowski
Something Fishy Going on Here
This is the first time I have written two restoration committee articles in one of the 100 Valleys newsletters. This topic is [...]
Winter 2017
Stanley Petrowski
Regaining Some of What Has Been Lost
Beginning in 2012 (I know, that seems like a long time ago), the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) [...]
Fall 2017
Stanley Petrowski
Restoring Vital Signs
As a young man newly 20 years of age and just home from the war in Vietnam, I hit bottom. It wasn’t a pleasant [...]
Fall 2017
Stanley Petrowski
Restoring Vital Signs
As a young man newly 20 years of age and just home from the war in Vietnam, I hit bottom. It wasn’t a pleasant [...]
Spring 2017
Stanley Petrowski
SUCTION DREDGE MINING BILL PASSED!
Thank you to everyone who spoke out to stop environmentally damaging suction dredge mining! After receiving bipartisan support, Senate Bill 3A was recently [...]
