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Oregon’s newest state park was almost a golf course

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  • Just a few minutes of walking onto the 357-acre Beltz Property brings you into one of the largest intact estuaries on the Oregon Coast
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Tonight in music: Tycho, Alela Diane, the Doubleclicks

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  • For the past few Thursdays, Ecotrust has been celebrating summer with their Sundown events, which offer free live music
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Tillamook County’s Sand Lake site of new 357-acre state park natural area

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  • Oregon will add a significant piece of Tillamook County to its state park system when 357 acres, including one mile of Pacific Ocean shoreline, comes into public ownership next week
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Tillamook County’s Sand Lake becomes state natural area

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  • The 900-acre Sand Lake is a gorgeous, mysterious, wild-salmon laden and relatively undeveloped natural area
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Water at Sundown

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  • A Portland environmental organization is helping restore crucial watersheds by investing in projects that have the greatest chance of success
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Tonight at Ecotrust’s free Sundown concert: the Builders and the Butchers

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  • The third installation in Ecotrust’s free Sundown Concert Series takes place this evening in the courtyard of the organization’s Pearl District headquarters
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Preschoolers taste summer

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  • Whether fresh berries or snappy green beans, children at Oregon preschools are tasting more local food bounty this summer than ever before
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A good leap forward

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  • Can local be global?
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Spencer Beebe on the moment in history he wishes he’d witnessed

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  • The Ecotrust founder was the recipient of the National Audubon Society’s Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership.
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An estuary preserved: 6 things to know about Oregon’s next park

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  • The deal helps the state meet its goal of securing sites that offer a unique glimpse into Oregon’s environmental culture
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‘Pristine’ Oregon property sale could lead to the coast’s next state park

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  • The 357 acres, at the county’s south end, is billed as “an unparalleled stretch of coastal open space.”
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Oregon Parks and Recreation moves to purchase new coastal parklands in Tillamook County

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  • Classified as a relatively pristine estuary, Sand Lake is the only remaining estuary of its size on the Oregon coast that is dominated by a diverse set of native plant associations, due to very little agricultural or commercial development.
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Oregon groups land $90M to spur rural investment

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  • Ecotrust CDE, a division of Ecotrust, received a $35 million allocation, bringing its total since 2005 to more than $200 million
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Two Portland organizations reap $90 million in New Markets tax credits

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  • A subsidiary of Ecotrust this month was awarded $90 million in New Markets Tax Credits, which it will use to invest in redevelopment projects
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Timber town

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  • What’s happening at the Illinois Valley mill signals a shift in timber management in Oregon
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Ecotrust continues impressive charity rating streak

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  • Ecotrust’s streak earned praise from Ken Berger, Charity Navigator’s president and CEO
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Vote for standouts in Portland food scene

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  • Ecotrust’s seventh annual Local Hero Awards is once again asking the public to vote for their favorite food and beverage entrepreneurs
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Calling out the climate delayers

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  • With the impacts of climate change all too real, delay and denial are indistinguishable.
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Celebrate socially responsible food with BBQ (and beer!)

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  • Edible Portland and Ecotrust will host their 7th annual Local Hero Awards
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Sandy River project hopes to hook salmon

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  • The Upper Sandy River Basin Habitat Restoration Project’s goal is to recover the salmon and steelhead populations that have diminished since a 1964 flood