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Honoring Dave Hatch

Remembering Dave Hatch, a longtime friend, partner, and advocate for Native communities.

Carolyn Holland
September 27, 2016 27 September 2016

Ecotrust Reading on the Roof with Wallace J. Nichols: Blue Mind

“This is your brain on water.”That’s the message of acclaimed marine biologist and conservationist Wallace J. Nichols’s new book Blue Mind, a look at how water makes us happier at home, more successful at work, healthier in body and soul, more …

Oakley Brooks
July 30, 2014 18 July 2014

RS28_30 Rialto Beach Sunset, 7-21-2006

A sea change in leadership at Ecotrust

There will be something of a sea change in our senior leadership when Ed Backus leaves.

Spencer B. Beebe
January 8, 2014 01 October 2014

West Coast tribes taking lead on marine planning

West coast tribes are working with new data collection systems to protect marine resources.

Shaunna McCovey
December 4, 2013 01 October 2014

Side of fishing boat named Helen

Diving out of the ivory tower, fisherman organizes on the docks

Stephanie Mutz was on track to becoming a professor. She earned a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree in tropical marine biology from James Cook University in Australia. But while …

Emma Deans
May 3, 2013 01 October 2014

The MARCO Portal and other data visualization tools are key piece of implementing the national ocean plan.

National ocean plan finalized — now time to act

Yesterday, the Obama Administration released the final ocean action plan to help coordinate the federal government’s efforts to tackle some of the biggest threats facing oceans, coasts and Great Lakes. This advances the National Ocean Policy’s goal of creating healthier …

Megan Mackey
April 17, 2013 19 September 2015

Working waterfronts provide valuable economic and environmental resources to coastal communities. |Photo: Ecotrust|

National Working Waterfronts gathering: seeking innovation in coastal communities

Across the United States, shorelines are getting squeezed. Expanding populations, industries, and potential uses for coastal areas add up to increasing conflicts over access to waterfronts. Communities both large and small are seeking creative solutions to address evolving waterfront challenges. …

Emma Deans
February 21, 2013 01 October 2014

Rialto Beach Sunset

Do you love the ocean? Take the Ecotrust Ocean Day Challenge!

Friday June 8th is World Oceans Day, and the salty homes to 90% of the planet’s living biomass are in peril. Destructive coastal development, industrial agricultural practices, and exploitative fishing practices degrade the fisheries that currently feed millions of people globally …

Astrid Scholz
June 6, 2012 01 October 2014

Ilwaco Fishing Community

How Washington can support fishing communities

Lately, national fisheries policy makers have left local fishing communities hanging. At issue is how to ensure responsible community-based fishermen — without huge financial backing — remain fishing, as the nation downsizes the number of boats on the water to …

Megan Mackey
May 11, 2012 01 October 2014

Yaquina Bay mouth, Newport, OR Photo: Sam Beebe

Rally behind national ocean plan

From the Oregonian, 2/19/2012 From Astor’s fur trade to the heyday of salmon canneries, from container terminals to futuristic wave energy buoys, saltwater has always knitted the Northwest economy together. In the Pacific Northwest, ocean-related activities contributed nearly $1.8 billion …

Edward Backus
February 19, 2012 01 October 2014