Work - Ecotrust

We partner with local communities across the Northwest to put bold, transformative ideas into action.

Check out some of our recent projects here.

A legacy of restoration in the Siuslaw

20 years of partnership, connected by salmon, people, and place.

Fishing for resilience in Garibaldi

A multi-year study of the challenges and opportunities for building economic resilience for fishermen the Port of Garibaldi.

Woman dip net fishing in a river

Rural Reporting Fellowship

Supporting local storytelling in rural communities.

Illustration of trees on a geometric shape, with a blue background

Taking climate-smart forestry to the bank

We explore how community-centered management, operationalized by a unique financial model, can lead the way toward climate resilience.

The Redd on Salmon Street

A working hub for the regional food economy

Portland Green Workforce Collaborative

Advancing economic justice through green jobs training.

Two white lambs look toward the camera, in a grassy field with trees in the background

Ag of the Middle Accelerator

Our accelerator program designed for small to mid-size food producers.

Growing the tribal forestry workforce

Creating a path for tribal youth interested in forestry careers.

About 20 or so piles of lumber, some stacked at least a couple stories high, are in an outdoor dirt lot, with a glimpse of snowy mountains and trees in the background.

New Markets Tax Credits

New Markets Tax Credits support public-private investments, with a focus on our triple-bottom-line goals.

Middle school age girl hugs freshly harvested kohlrabi

Farm to School Advocacy

Working with partners across Oregon to champion farm to school legislation.

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Local Link

An annual event that connects wholesale food buyers with local producers.

A man pours grain feed into a blue bucket

Ag of the Middle

Local food at scale

Climate-Smart Forestry

Linking forest to frame

Community fisheries

Supporting resilient, working waterfronts

Portrait of 2014 ILA awardee

Indigenous
Leadership Award

Celebrating Indigenous leaders since 2001.

aerial view of forests and rivers. stunning greens and blues. wild. british columbia

Forest Planner

Our online tool supports smart, long-range planning for forest landowners

Farm to School Counts

Measuring the impact of providing local food to Oregon students

old, stained piece of paper that advertises the "Portland Truck Terminal". From the 1930's.

Natural Capital Center

Rebuilding a 100-year-old warehouse

A pig grazing in a pasture

Local proteins

Changing the way we think about center-of-the-plate proteins

Aerial view of a small wooded island in the midst of still blue water with wisps of clouds. Northern British Columbia.

Maps that matter

20 years of connecting people and place

illustrations of six agricultural products in bright blue circles

Cascadia Foodshed Financing Project

Investing in the Pacific Northwest food economy

Tumble weed reflected in a puddle of water, resting inside a concrete irrigation channel in the Klamath.

Climate-smart planning tools

Spatial information to help decision makers

Single salmon swimming along the shore of a still green lake

Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative

Supporting watershed restoration for salmon and communities.

Children at New Day School in SE Portland are laughing and eating lunch at a wooden table.

Farm to School

For more than 10 years, we've worked with schools to provide healthy, local food to students.

Restoring the Siuslaw River estuary

Restoring Waite Ranch as a tidally-influenced wetland habitat on the lower Siuslaw River

Keystone XL: An alternative jobs strategy

Creating jobs & protecting the climate

Sand Lake estuary. A yellow grassy hill in front of a beach. In the background are hills and cliffs.

Protecting Sand Lake

Permanent conservation for one of Oregon's last intact coastal estuaries

Aerial view of a building, the Bullitt Center, with solar panels on the roof. A city skyline, Seattle, is in the background.

The Bullitt Center

Cities are central to ecosystem health and the Bullitt Center demonstrates why.

Satellite map of the mid-Atlantic coastline with a heavy distribution of colored dots, representing coldwater coral distribution.

Blue Tools: Ocean health and inclusive mapping

Meeting the challenges of ocean planning

Portland viewed across the Willamette River.

Partnering with nature

Identifying the living city of the future

Redd Reveal!

Thank you for joining us for the Redd on Salmon Street's grand opening celebration

Creek at the edge of green valley.

Priorities

A foundation for custom-built, rapidly deployable decision making and data visualization tools

a pile of bright red and orange beets at a farmers market

Food Forums: Engaging in Our Food System

An event series designed to engage leaders in digging deeply into the challenges of our regional food system

Underground Airwaves

A podcast archiving the voices of our food community

a mix of colorful vegetables on a yellow background: bok choy, watermelon radish, red cabbage, kale, a turnip, brussel sprouts, broccoli

FoodHub helped set the stage for connections

Our online platform that connected farmers, ranchers, and fishermen with wholesale food buyers.

Illustration of Vicky Hertel and her son, Chris, receiving the 2014 Local Hero Award for farm

Local Hero Awards

Meet six local food heroes who are changing the way we eat — one seed, fruit, and supper at a time.