NCWA Mission
To improve watershed health through community-based efforts.
The North Coast Watershed Association (NCWA) is a non-profit organization made up of diverse stakeholders from the community who coordinate, fund, and link watershed councils to community-based efforts to improve watershed health on the north coast of Oregon and in the Columbia River estuary. The North Coast Watershed Association knows healthy watersheds sustain healthy communities.
The NCWA envisions healthy watersheds that support optimally functioning ecological processes and sustainable populations of naturally spawning fish, wildlife and human communities. We recognize that salmon are a keystone species in Pacific Northwest ecosystems and the NCWA will continue much of its focus, its attention and resources on improving salmon habitat. We believe that by bringing back the social, economic and ecological role of salmon, the overall health of the watershed and our communities will improve.
We are Connectors
Connectors of our local communities to the breathtaking wonder of the wild places surrounding us. Connectors of Nature’s needs to restorative transformations that remedy the past. Connectors of the past’s nostalgia to the future’s potential. Whether we’re joining project partners to necessary funding, matching landowners with stream improvement teams, reinvigorating river health through barrier removal or securing the potential for a child to build a deep relationship with nature — each of these examples are massive, life-changing experiences on a personal, community and environmental level. So in that, our work does far more than connect our communities to healthy ecosystems. From people and places to flora and fauna, we are achieving something much greater: