This month’s Executive Director’s Corner highlights the benefits that nature provides us everyday–often without our recognition! Earth Economics, a non-profit based out of Tacoma, worked with the Nisqually River Council to calculate all of these benefits, called ecosystem services, and show how much a healthy ecosystem is worth. Between $280 […]
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The Nisqually River Foundation works on behalf of the Nisqually River Council to implement the Nisqually Watershed Stewardship Plan. The plan is very broad with 11 major categories under the three parts of sustainability, Environmental, Community, and Economic. The Nisqually River Foundation helps coordinate the actions of the member agencies […]
Here is a list of the local non-profits working in the Nisqually Watershed on natural resources protection and education: Nisqually River Foundation – The mission of the Nisqually River Foundation is to provide financial and staffing support to the Nisqually River Council as it implements the Nisqually Watershed Stewardship Plan. […]
Social Sustainability: A community that is healthy, wealthy, resilient, and wise Social sustainability is a new area for the Nisqually River Council and it has been a challenge to figure out where the Council can have the most impact. However, the Council has developed the following sub-goals and indicators for […]
Environmental Sustainability: A viable, healthy natural resource base The Nisqually River Council has been working on environmental sustainability since it’s inception in 1987. Most of it’s successes have been in this realm and the membership of the Council has always had a natural resources management bent. In order to track […]
Upon completion of the analysis of the accomplishments of the original 1987 Nisqually River Management Plan, the Council decided that it was time to update the plan. Instead of an update, what came out of that process was a whole new plan: The Nisqually Watershed Stewardship Plan. Where the original […]
The greatest success of the Nisqually River Council has been that it is a forum where citizens and representatives from government agencies can meet together and learn from each other. The original Nisqually River Management Plan (NRMP) of 1987 called for 160 specific actions. Of these 44 have no measurable […]
The Nisqually River Council has been working to provide stewardship of the economic, cultural and natural resources of the river watershed since 1987. However it’s history goes back much further than that. The Nisqually people have called this watershed home since time immemorial, and the first non-native settlement in Puget […]
Please join the Nisqually Stream Stewards and the Nisqually Land Trust for an important restoration planting event along Ohop Creek near Eatonville, WA. We will be restoring native vegetation to an important salmon spawning and rearing area. Date: Saturday, November 1 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Place: Ohop Creek […]