Forests & Ales: Protecting Forests, Fish, and Drinking Water on the North Coast

On Wednesday, November 6th, Wild Salmon Center, North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, and Coast Range Association present Forests & Ales: Protecting Forests, Fish, and Drinking Water on the North Coast. Doors to the Lovell Showroom open at 5pm for social hour, presentations, and panel Q&A from 6pm – 8pm — Wild Salmon Center is hosting the first round of beverages (Beer, wine, N.A.) for the first 50 attendees!

Featured speakers include Michael Lang, senior policy manager at Wild Salmon Center; Nancy Webster, president of North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection; and Chuck Willer, executive director of Coast Range Association. Following the presentations, the three speakers will participate in a Q&A panel.

The mission of Wild Salmon Center is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim. Working across the entire range of Pacific salmon, from California to the Western Pacific, they lead the protection of strongholds, the North Pacific’s last, best salmon rivers. Over 30 years, they have worked alongside local partners to protect nearly eight million acres around salmon stronghold rivers and prioritize 89 of those rivers for wild fish. More at wildsalmoncenter.org

North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection is a grassroots group that advocates for the protection of drinking water on the Oregon Coast. The non-profit aims to end logging and pesticide spray within and surrounding forested drinking watersheds in the state, regardless of land ownership. The group started in 2012 by Nancy Webster, a Rockaway citizen concerned about the clearcutting of forestland and aerial pesticide spraying in the Jetty Creek Watershed—the sole source of her community’s drinking water. More at healthywatershed.org

Coast Range Association is a 501c(3) nonprofit that has been working since 1991 to find just protections for Western Oregon’s forests while supporting a vibrant rural economy. The CRA’s work looks to address the underlying causes of social and environmental problems and seeks to instill common understanding, foster social unity, and provide practical solutions. They make every effort to speak directly to the connecting interests of people, communities and long-term sustainability. More at coastrange.org

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