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Education and involvement: Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership celebrates 30 years

‘We exist to protect and restore the habitat of the Lower Columbia Estuary for fish, wildlife and people’

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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Julie Grobelny, right, places a lamprey larvae in a bucket June 18 at the East Fork Lewis River in Battle Ground. Removing lamprey and other aquatic species is one part of Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s habitat restoration project there. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian files)

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Julie Grobelny, right, places a lamprey larvae in a bucket June 18 at the East Fork Lewis River in Battle Ground. Removing lamprey and other aquatic species is one part of Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s habitat restoration project there. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian files)

Tony Tommasini, from left, Doug Kreuzer and Kari Dupler of the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership conduct an amphibian study as part of the fish habitat restoration efforts at the East Fork Lewis River on March 18, 2024. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

Tony Tommasini, from left, Doug Kreuzer and Kari Dupler of the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership conduct an amphibian study as part of the fish habitat restoration efforts at the East Fork Lewis River on March 18, 2024. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

James Sterrett with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership grabs buckets with elderberry and snowberry as volunteers plant native species at Hidden Glen Park in Battle Ground as part of the Woodin Creek restoration project on Feb. 26, 2022. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files photos)

James Sterrett with the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership grabs buckets with elderberry and snowberry as volunteers plant native species at Hidden Glen Park in Battle Ground as part of the Woodin Creek restoration project on Feb. 26, 2022. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files photos)

An excavator sits behind placed trees along the future braided path of the East Fork Lewis River on Sept. 11 in Battle Ground as part of Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s major habitat restoration project on the East Fork Lewis River.

An excavator sits behind placed trees along the future braided path of the East Fork Lewis River on Sept. 11 in Battle Ground as part of Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership’s major habitat restoration project on the East Fork Lewis River.

Talk to any agency that works with Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership and it’s clear the Portland-based nonprofit, founded 30 years ago, takes the partnership element of its name seriously.

“It’s been great to collaborate with their restoration practitioners, great scientists. They’re good partners to work with,” said Ian Sinks, stewardship director for Columbia Land Trust. “And we learn from what they’re doing and the science that they’re developing and leading.”

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