In 1985, a group of people from communities throughout Oregon’s North Coast assembled to consider a new way to approach conservation. They wanted to approach conservation cooperatively rather than confrontationally, to engage the whole community to do what was best for people, plants, and wildlife. By 1986, North Coast Land Conservancy had a name, an eight-member board of directors, and a perky logo featuring a favorite wetland bird, the marsh wren. Since then, NCLC has conserved thousands of acres of land in Clatsop, Tillamook, and Lincoln counties—including the 3,500-acre Rainforest Reserve—mainly by acquiring land outright or by acquiring conservation easements on private land. We also have helped transfer hundreds of acres of land to public and tribal ownership.
