About

Jason Clinch is the owner and senior project manager for Three Creeks Consulting LLC. He has a biology degree from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon with post-graduate work at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Jason has over twenty years of experience in environmental consulting and field biology across a multitude of natural resource-related projects. His education and experience give him utmost confidence on projects related to wetlands and waterways, wildlife and botanical surveys and inventories, and habitat restoration.

Besides operating Three Creeks Consulting LLC, Jason is an active member and volunteer with the Native Plant Society of Oregon (Director-at-Large, Rare & Endangered Committee Chair) who leads botanical walks and hikes, organizes and leads volunteers in a community/citizen-science rare plant monitoring program (Citizen’s Rare Plant Watch), assists with writing petitions for listing plants as threatened and/or endangered, organizes and assists on fundraising campaigns for Native Plant Society of Oregon, Oregon Flora, and Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Plant Conservation Program, and serves as an active voice for plant and habitat conservation. His longtime commitment to the organization was recently rewarded in 2024 when he was nominated to be a Fellow, one of only 36 people in the 60+ years of the organization. He also volunteers with the University of Washington’s Rare Plant Care and Conservation program as a plant monitor for rare plant populations in Washington.

In his “spare” time, Jason coaches high jump and basketball and loves spending time with his wife, daughter, and friends camping, hiking, biking, rafting, and backcountry skiing. He’s also a native plant gardener, home-brewer, and craft-beer enthusiast.