We all agree the Registry works great and looks good—but what does it do for conservation? In Notes from the Field, users report connections and opportunities that have occurred because of their Registry participation.

For our first Notes from the Field, here’s Jeffrey Kee, Oregon Water Trust:

“I received a call from the Monument Soil and Water Conservation District manager who told me somebody from NRG, an environmental engineering company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had asked about the Bologna Place project. So I called them and they mentioned having a client who had since found what they were looking for, but they wanted to keep my project in their file if they had additional needs in the future. The client may have been looking for some place to mitigate for adverse impacts they were having on a project someplace else…..I was quite pleased that the Conservation Registry had gotten some of the needs I have for conservation at the Bologna Place out there and onto somebody’s radar….I sure would love it if somebody could help me turn our part time steelhead creek into full time rearing habitat with help from the best water engineers with the lowest workers comp insurance rates….beavers.

You can print that.”
– Jeffrey Kee, Project Manager, Oregon Water Trust -a program of The Freshwater Trust

If you have a story about how the Conservation Registry has helped your project, please tell your story by comment on this blog. You can also e-mail me.