Citizens Lead the Way as Communities Prepare for Climate Change Impacts
The Takeaway: Tools help local leaders face environmental and economic challenges, thanks to the South Slough Research Reserve and other partners.
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Population of State Living in Coastal Areas
Coastal Employment
Annual Wages
Climate and Weather Disasters
(Affecting Oregon 2010 to 2018)*
Of the total population of approximately 3.9 million in Oregon, almost 659,000 people live in coastal portions of the state.
Coastal Oregon employs almost 268,000 people annually, earning a total of almost $11 billion. This equates to over $26 billion in gross domestic product.
Two billion-dollar weather disasters affected Oregon in 2018—and a total of 10 affected the state between 2010 and 2018. Wildfires and drought accounted for the vast majority of costs and destruction.*
Sources:
American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates (NOAA Data)
*Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (NOAA Website)
(All economic and demographic facts represent the latest data available [2015] and are regularly updated as new data become available)
The Takeaway: Tools help local leaders face environmental and economic challenges, thanks to the South Slough Research Reserve and other partners.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Collaboration between Oregon’s South Slough Research Reserve and local tribal groups ensures a maximum use of forest resources and plentiful opportunities for environmental education.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Research reserves determine methodology for calculating sea level rise impact on the marsh and test it in 16 locations. Methodology standardizes the effort and creates a national approach.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Newly standardized performance measures make it easier and more economical to evaluate wetland restoration projects.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Local partners are working together to restore and preserve natural habitats.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: NOAA initiatives and state partnership programs are making a difference throughout the nation’s coastal zone.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: The Oregon Coastal Management Program will help ensure that ocean uses and natural resources are considered in wave energy plans.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Already, 10 jurisdictions have incorporated tsunami considerations for safer land-use plans. Now, all of Oregon’s coastal communities have “disaster cache” guidance to increase local survival odds in the wake of tsunamis and earthquakes.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: The South Slough Research Reserve’s water trail system, tours, and outreach contribute to a growing South Coast market for canoeing, kayaking, and stand-up paddling adventures.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: While specific crab species can cause local damage, rising seas appear to be a bigger threat to salt marshes nationwide.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Early detection and action (more than 192 traps at 83-plus sites) stops this predator from wrecking the shellfish industry.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Oregonians can more easily spot vulnerable resources, thanks to tool from the state’s coastal management program.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Participants, led by Digital Coast and South Slough Research Reserve trainers, identified 90-plus community assets at risk from climate change and tsunamis.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Data and imagery of dikes and levees will help Oregon size up future flooding risks and prioritize wetland restoration projects.
Learn MoreThe Takeaway: Paddling azure waterways. Casting a line for that delectable campsite dinner. Spying an elusive warbler in a birder’s paradise. These adventures and many more await.
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