This is our fifth year planting at Portland Parks & Recreation’s Columbia Slough Natural Area. We’ll be planting native shrubs and herbaceous perennials in hopes to reestablish this area as an open woodland oak savannah. It has been amazing to experience this site slowly transform into a little oasis. In conjunction with the planting efforts of this 2 acre parcel, PP&R will be building a trail to connect to the Columbia Slough Trail which will span 40 miles.

This project is a partnership with Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center (POIC), Portland Parks & Recreation, the Columbia Slough Watershed Council, Metro, and East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District. The POIC Leadership Corps is made up of students from Rosemary Anderson High School who assist in all aspects of the CSNA project, including plant selection, outreach, and providing leadership expertise on planting day.

Gateway Green is a 25-acre natural area nestled between I-205 and I-84 just east of Rocky Butte. It is a short ten-minute walk from the Gateway Transit Center and there are a number of trails for off-road cycling, walking, and trail running. The park opened to the public in the summer of 2017 and has recently finished the second phase of construction to provide Portland with its premier off-road cycling destination. 

The trail connects parks along the Columbia, Sandy, and Willamette Rivers and Johnson Creek in an almost continuous loop, known as the 40-mile loop. There is something somewhere along the route for everyone, whether it is hiking or biking, you’re in a stroller or a wheelchair, you are skating or boarding, or even horseback riding or canoeing.

This project aims to restore native species to the wetland that runs through the park to help improve water quality and increase habitat for wildlife. Historically this site was dominated by Reed Canary Grass and had no trees to shade the stream channel of Clagget Creek. Past plantings have added add Red-Oiser Dogwoods, White Alders, and a few willow species to the stream bank.

This project is on the traditional homelands of the Ahantchuyuk Indians who are a tribe of Kalapuya Indians. Like many other Indian tribes of Oregon, they were relocated to the Siletz and Grand Ronde Reservation in the 1800s.  This project is made possible by our partnership with the City of Salem and is part of their Clean Streams, Clear Choices initiative.

The Tualatin River Greenway runs through Brown's Ferry Park, which is located on the banks of the Tualatin River. The 28-acre park is named after Zenas J. Brown, who started the first ferry in the Tualatin area.

This park has a variety of hiking trails and passive recreational opportunities. The city of Tualatin burns the meadow surrounding the pond at the park to kill invasive grass and forb species and to give the native grasses and forbes a chance to recolonize the area.  The burning takes place every 3 to 5 years and is open to the public to watch.