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Natalie Bennon 10/22/26 Natalie Bennon 10/22/26

Mapping Upper Klamath Basin Restoration

SNW intern Kate Corsaro built an interactive map of 120+ restoration projects in Oregon's Upper Klamath Basin. Here's what she learned this summer.

Natalie Bennon 10/21/26 Natalie Bennon 10/21/26

Water Quality Monitoring on the Free-Flowing Klamath River

New sediment and water quality monitoring shows the free-flowing Klamath River is recovering after dam removal. Algal blooms are nearly gone and natural temperature cycles have returned.

Sustainable Northwest 10/14/26 Sustainable Northwest 10/14/26

Staff Spotlight: Cindi Venters

Meet Cindi Venters, Sustainable Northwest’s new Community Forest Program Associate, who brings community-centered conservation experience from the Peace Corps and the U.S. Forest Service to our community forests work.

Natalie Bennon 10/12/26 Natalie Bennon 10/12/26

Northwest Douglas-fir Beams Get an Environmental “Nutrition Label”

Sustainable Northwest now owns an Environmental Product Declaration for Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir timbers, giving builders verified data for LEED and embodied carbon calculations.

M. Alex Clingman 10/7/26 M. Alex Clingman 10/7/26

Celebrating Over a Decade of Making Energy Work

Five takeaways from Sustainable Northwest's 11th annual Fall Energy Symposium in Astoria, Oregon, where more than 100 rural energy leaders explored community resilience, the future of the grid, and how to turn clean energy plans into local projects.