About Us

We at Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District have a vision.  Our District is a place where communities, environments and the economy thrive together.

Our mission is to provide technical and practical services designed to conserve and use resources sustainably today and for future generations.

To that end, we have an unwavering commitment to these values.

We strive to maximize community, environmental and economic benefits simultaneously through our projects and programs.

• We reduce, reuse, recycle and restore our natural resources.
• We are accountable to our voters, taxpayers and residents.
• Our technical assistance to landowners is science-based.
• We form strategic partnerships with others to accomplish our work.
• We measure the impacts of our work.
• We leverage District resources through outside funding.
• We work as members of a flexible and responsive team.
• We treat everyone with respect.
• We support continuous learning and professional development.

The District is a unit of local government with an elected board of directors.  On a day to day basis, we provide services to landowners, organizations, agencies and local communities within Clackamas County.  These services take the form of: technical assistance to individual landowners; projects involving multiple landowners and partners; income generating enterprises; and research and development activities that are replicable by other individuals and organizations at varying geographic scales.

Our history is long and our future is bright!  With the passage of a permanent rate levy in 2007, the District initiated a process to develop a framework of interconnected systems, the Master Plan (PDF 6.65MB), that allows the district to envision, initiate, organize, plan, budget, manage, account and report our work.