Partners
The Northwest Discovery Water Trail was developed and is maintained through the work of dozens of partner organizations across federal, state, county, and private sectors.
Funder
- National Park Service — through the Lewis and Clark Challenge Cost Share Program
Manager
- Washington Water Trails Association (WWTA) — the Water Trail's current managing organization
Original partner organizations
The 2005 designation of the Water Trail was made possible by contributions from the following partners:
- Benton County
- Bureau of Land Management
- Citizen Advocates
- Clearwater County Sheriff's Department
- Clearwater Management Council
- Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association
- Columbia Kayak Adventures
- Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science & Technology
- Columbia River Pilots
- Columbia Riverkeeper
- Desert Kayak and Canoe Club
- Fort Vancouver Regional Library
- Friends of the Columbia Gorge
- Hood River Valley Parks & Recreation
- Ice Age Floods Institute
- Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation
- Idaho Governor's Lewis and Clark Trail Committee
- Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership
- Mosier Alliance
- National Park Service
- Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation District
- Oregon Parks & Recreation Department
- Oregon State Marine Board
- ROW Adventures
- Tapteal Greenway Association
- Tidewater Barge Lines
- Tri-Cities Visitor and Convention Bureau
- Umatilla County Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Committee
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Coast Guard
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Forest Service
- Vancouver Lewis and Clark Committee
- Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
- Washington Water Trails Association
Tribal partners
The corridor crosses traditional homelands of many tribal nations. The four Columbia River treaty tribes — coordinated through the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission — are essential partners in stewardship of the corridor's fisheries:
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
- Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
- Nez Perce Tribe
See Tribal Communities for more.
Partner list originally published on ndwt.org; reused with permission from the Washington Water Trails Association — see project NOTICE.