About Us

Scott joined the Tualatin River Watershed Council in 2018. For the past decade and a half Scott has been a conservation leader in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to his work with the Council, Scott served for nine years as the Conservation Director for Columbia Land Trust where he and his team permanently protected over 15,000 acres of threatened habitats in both Oregon and Washington. He also served for three years as the Director of Technical Programs overseeing habitat restoration and ecosystem monitoring programs for the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership.

Scott is passionate about understanding, conserving and restoring the diverse habitats of the northwest. His background in the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and species recovery programs in combination with his technical knowledge have resulted in the development of effective and enduring programs. When he is not at work, you can find Scott white water rafting with his family or plying the area’s estuaries and rivers with his kayak or canoe.

Bethany grew up in the Willamette Valley and has been interested in ecology since Elementary School, when she helped her parents as a water quality monitoring volunteer and confounded adults by saying she wanted to be a herpetologist when she grew up. She earned a BS in Biology and Environmental Policy from the University of Puget Sound, where she studied the ecology of birds in urban green spaces and spent as much time in the field as possible.

After graduating, she spent three years working on community-centric wildfire mitigation in rural Northern California. Upon returning to Oregon in 2024, she developed a love for the Tualatin River watershed as the Habitat Restoration Specialist with the Friends of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. Bethany joined the Tualatin River Watershed Council in 2026 and is excited to be immersed in the complexities of instream restoration. In her free time, Bethany can be found running, cooking, or playing Ultimate Frisbee.

After graduating from college in New York, Colleen moved to Northern Washington, where she quickly fell in love with the Pacific Northwest’s lush forests and rich ecology. Inspired by her new surroundings, she returned to school to study Biology and Sustainable Landscapes.

Colleen has since gained experience monitoring Oregon’s estuaries, streams, and high deserts. She has worked on farms, led garden-based education programming, and, more recently, worked with homeowners in the Portland Metro area to install and maintain gardens that focused on water-wise and native plantings. In her free time, she can be found identifying plants on hikes, incubating moth pupae each spring, and looking for another excuse to hand-build a piece of furniture. Colleen is very grateful for the opportunity to bring her experience to the residents of the Tualatin River Watershed and excited to continue learning from our community as the Watershed Navigator Program Coordinator.