GP Camas supports Eagle Scouting, such as this project to restore hiking trails along Lacamas Lake. The Camas Mill joined with the City of Camas, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Marine Fisheries Service, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership to construct a spawning channel for endangered chum salmon. This spawning bed is located on the lower end of Lacamas Creek where it flows through the center of the City of Camas. This project is being used as a hands-on learning experience for students who are helping by removing invasive plant species, restoring native vegetation, and monitoring water quality. The native plant starts were collected from Georgia-Pacific lands and propagated in a nursery on mill property.
Washougal River - We are working in partnership with the City of Camas, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, and the Lower Columbia River Fish Enhancement Group to return a portion of the Washougal River to its traditional channel. This project will benefit salmon and steelhead passage through an area degraded by past gravel mining activities and restore river flow to historic salmon spawning beds. Shorelines will be revegetated with native plant species. The defunct gravel operation ponds will be recontoured and connected to the river to create off-channel rearing habitat for juvenile salmon and steelhead. This is a project where both the natural environment and business benefit through the cooperation of environmental groups and industry.
GP Camas Union Environmental Representative works on a nature project with students from the Lower Columbia River Estuary Program.
Several years ago the Environmental and Technical Departments of the Camas Mill adopted a mile of State Route 14 that crosses mill property on Lady Island. The Washington Department of Transportation provided equipment and safety training. They determine the timing of 
the events (based on need) and handle the disposal of collected material. The program has generated considerable enthusiasm and the Consumer Products Converting Department joined the team. During a recent litter pick up event, mill volunteers collected more than 250 large garbage bags of debris from a three mile stretch of highway between Camas and Washougal.
In 2004, the Camas Mill received the Environmental Education Award from the Association of Washington Business and the Northwest Environmental Business Council. Wilson Cady, mill union environmental representative, accepted the award on behalf of the company. The award recognizes our extensive community involvement effort and the creation of a unique environmental position in cooperation with the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Local 5. Some program examples are as follows:
- Community Advisory Panel and neighborhood association meetings.
- Presentations to local schools and civic groups on the natural history of the area, mill operations, and environmental efforts.
- Environmental Excellence TeamMill tours for educational groups and the general public.
- "Walk and Knock" campaigns in sensitive neighborhoods to announce mill activities (construction, demolition, property surveys, shutdowns, etc.) and surface public concerns.
- Eagle Scout mentoring program.
- A natural history column for the City of Washougal's website. The column is also printed and distributed to residents monthly.
- The development and distribution of bird checklists for Clark and Skamania Counties.
The mill has an active wildlife habitat restoration and enhancement program. Special emphasis has been placed on company land that contains critical habitat such as the Camas Slough, Lady Island, and Fallen Leaf Lake. These areas are home to more than 125 species of animals and birds including coyote, deer, ducks, geese, heron, osprey, and songbirds. A sampling of our wildlife improvement activities is as follows:
- Seeded disturbed areas (dredge spoils landfill, demolition, etc.) on Lady Island with nutritional grasses for wildlife (wildlife health enhancing).
- Provided native plant starts (ex. dogwood, willow, etc.) for restoration of the Ridgefield and Stiegerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuges.
- Coordinated mandatory mosquito control efforts with the migrating bird nesting schedule to satisfy both needs.
- Posted Lady Island as "No Hunting."
- Established a nursery for native plant starts on Lady Island.
- Established swallow nest boxes (insect consuming birds) on Lady Island.
- Employed biological rip rap (nutritional grasses, willows, etc.) in place of rock ballast on disturbed mill shoreline.
- Conducted native plant rescue missions ahead of development on public and private land to provide species for habitat restoration.
- Surveyed property boundaries and removed snags that posed a threat to our neighbors. These dangerous trees were felled away from neighboring property and left for habitat enhancement.
Projects are in development for osprey and purple martin habitat restoration.