Sign Up to Volunteer for Children's Clean Water Festival!
This upcoming Children's Clean Water Festival will mark 25 years of celebrating our watersheds and educating 4th graders about the importance of environmental stewardship! Join us on Tuesday, March 17th 2026 at Twin Rocks Friends Camp in Rockaway Beach for another year of fun as you support TEP in empowering over 200 students to be exemplary caretakers of their ecosystems. Read more about the festival under the 'What We Do' tab on our website and sign up here to volunteer! Please email danielle@tbnep.org with any questions (or ideas!) about the festival. We can't wait to see you there.
End of Season Clean Out - November 3rd
As the field season wraps up, help us store, recycle, and organize our equipment for the rainy season.
We've hung up our waders, cleaned off our muddy boots, and it's time to prepare for the rainy weather. As we look around, we've realized that our storage units need to be reorganized and cleaned out. Join us on Monday, Nov. 3rd, from 1:00-4:00 to help store, recycle, and organize. There are tasks for everyone, from moving boxes to counting and inventorying our merch. We’ll be meeting at the TEP offices in the Port of Garibaldi at 1:00. Our storage units are just south of town in a cellphone blackout zone. If you’re planning to join us, please sign up so we can make sure to stay connected.
You can be an active steward in your community
Streams come together to form bigger things. Hmmm…not a bad idea! Like the many streams flowing down out of the Coast Range, the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership and its business and volunteer partners come together from many industries and viewpoints to form something larger and more important than any one of us. We are all part of a thriving community, and with your support, we strive to keep it that way. We’ve still got work to do. And we would welcome your help.
Let’s grow together! Our Native Plant Nursery grows extremely specialized, locally adapted container plants which are used in coastal restoration projects from the Long Beach Peninsula all the way down to California. Our Tillamook-based nursery holds over 100K plants and relies on volunteer assistance to collect wild-growing cuttings in the winter, thin seedlings in the spring, and collect over 20 species of seed every summer and fall. Let us know whether you’re interested in helping on field excursions, with nursery tasks, or both!
For K-12 grade students in Tillamook County, TEP focuses our environmental education programs on two annual landmark learning events: the Children’s Clean Water Festival and Down by the Creekside. These programs are offered to 4th grade and 3rd grade level students, respectively. Dozens of volunteers and professionals share their skills and expertise to make these events happen. Interested in volunteering the rest of the year? Indicate your interest in becoming a Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) Coach.
Help us monitor the health of our streams, rivers, and bays on one of our longest running monitoring projects. Volunteers collect bi–monthly bacteria samples in their own rivers and bays. The bacteria data is added to our water quality map and helps keep our communities informed.