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Water wonders at Blue Lake

Friday, August 3, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Explore how precious water helps plants and creatures thrive, and how to protect it from pollution. Discover exciting activities such as lake creature explorations, water critter origami, water cycle card making or fishy potato stamp printing. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

Soil superheroes at Blue Lake

Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Discover how worms help plants, beetles beat bad bugs, fungi fertilize soil and how other wild creatures can help your garden grow. Dig in to an active worm bin, find “fossils” in the ground, make clay beads or create other cool soil crafts. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

Soil superheroes at Blue Lake

Friday, July 20, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Discover how worms help plants, beetles beat bad bugs, fungi fertilize soil and how other wild creatures can help your garden grow. Dig in to an active worm bin, find “fossils” in the ground, make clay beads or create other cool soil crafts. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

Soil superheroes at Blue Lake

Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Discover how worms help plants, beetles beat bad bugs, fungi fertilize soil and how other wild creatures can help your garden grow. Dig in to an active worm bin, find “fossils” in the ground, make clay beads or create other cool soil crafts. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

Soil superheroes at Blue Lake

Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Discover how worms help plants, beetles beat bad bugs, fungi fertilize soil and how other wild creatures can help your garden grow. Dig in to an active worm bin, find “fossils” in the ground, make clay beads or create other cool soil crafts. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

Soil superheroes at Blue Lake

Saturday, August 18, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Discover how worms help plants, beetles beat bad bugs, fungi fertilize soil and how other wild creatures can help your garden grow. Dig in to an active worm bin, find “fossils” in the ground, make clay beads or create other cool soil crafts. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

Soil superheroes at Blue Lake

Friday, August 17, 2012 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Metro
Address: 
20500 NE Marine Drive
Fairview, OR 97024
United States

Discover how worms help plants, beetles beat bad bugs, fungi fertilize soil and how other wild creatures can help your garden grow. Dig in to an active worm bin, find “fossils” in the ground, make clay beads or create other cool soil crafts. Ages three and up. Adult supervision required.

 

 

Contact Name: 
Recycling Information Hotline
Contact Phone: 
503-234-3000
Contact Email: 
Sabrina.gogol@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Blue Lake Regional Park
Cost: 
Free program. Parking $5 for cars, $7 for busses and free for bicycles and pedestrians.

A City’s Center: Rethinking Downtown

Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Address: 
United States

Nan Laurence, a senior planner for Eugene, explores how downtowns can represent a community’s ideals and aspirations. Join her at Milwaukie’s Riverfront Park – where a Metro nature grant is helping launch a major transformation – to talk about the changing character of downtown activities, urban forms and public spaces. This program kicks off a special series of The Conversation Project, with Oregon Humanities and Metro unplugging this summer to bring some of Oregon’s most fascinating thinkers to voter-protected natural areas. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy; Metro will bring the pie. Conversation is free, no registration required. Co-hosted by the City of Milwaukie. 

Venue: 
Milwaukee Riverfront Park
Venue Details: 
Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard and Jefferson Street, Milwaukie

Protect Native Plants with SOLVE this Summer!

SOLVE
Address: 
OR
United States

Volunteer with SOLVE to help native trees survive summer’s hot sun! SOLVE and its partners are working to enhance sites throughout the Portland-metro area. Volunteers will be assisting with site maintenance by removing invasive plants, mulching, and watering native plants. Over time, this work will improve water quality, create wildlife habitat, and store carbon to slow climate change. SOLVE will provide all tools and gloves for this project. 

Contact Name: 
Morgan
Contact Phone: 
503-844-9571 ext. 332
Contact Email: 
morgan@solv.org

Your Land, My Land: Using and Preserving Oregon's Natural Resources

Saturday, September 22, 2012 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Metro
Address: 
SW Wilsonville Road
Wilsonville, OR
United States

Oregonians are known for fierce independence and rugged individuality, as well as progressive environmental policies – a dynamic combination. Veronica Dujon, sociology professor at Portland State University, invites you to consider how attachments to places shape our desire to both use and preserve natural resources. There’s much to discuss at Graham Oaks, an important Native American site and historic farm that was once considered for a landfill or women’s prison. This discussion continues a special series of The Conversation Project, with Oregon Humanities and Metro unplugging this summer to bring some of Oregon’s most fascinating thinkers to voter-protected natural areas. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy; Metro will bring the pie. Conversation is free, no registration required.

Contact Name: 
Metro parks
Contact Phone: 
503-797-1850
Contact Email: 
metroparks@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Graham Oaks Nature Park
Venue Details: 
Explore trails, restored oak woodlands, a conifer forest and rich wildlife at Metro's new Graham Oaks Nature Park in Wilsonville. Ride your bike on the Tonquin Trail, stroll through a conifer forest or spot birds from a wetland overlook at Metro's Graham Oaks Nature Park in Wilsonville. This 250-acre destination is a playground not just for people, but also for wildlife. With restored oak woodlands growing bigger every year, Graham Oaks provides important habitat for native birds and mammals. Bring your family, bring your camera, bring a picnic to the sustainable new picnic shelter. Bring your curiosity, and learn how voters helped renew this special landscape. Park highlights Three miles of trails traverse Graham Oaks, allowing visitors to explore several habitats in a single park. Cyclists and joggers can take the paved Tonquin Trail, which eventually will connect Wilsonville, Tualatin and Sherwood. A spur trail leads to a wetland overlook, perfect for bird-watchers; Coyote Way meanders through young oak woodlands. For a bit of shade, follow the Legacy Creek Trail through a rich conifer forest where thousands of species thrive. Be sure to visit Graham Oaks’ five plazas – perfect spots to rest, reflect and learn about the park. Be on the lookout for native wildlife such as white-breasted nuthatch, Western bluebird, orange-crowned warbler and Western gray squirrels. A historical landscape Graham Oaks has a long and storied history, from the Kalapuyan tribes who gathered food here to the family that farmed the land – and the voters who helped purchase the site, restore its habitat and open it as a nature park. Learn more Greening Graham Oaks Did you know Graham Oaks is one of the region’s greenest parks? At Graham Oaks, pervious pavement in the parking lot manages stormwater and removes pollutants. Solar panels on the restroom feed into the City of Wilsonville’s electric grid, and the beautiful stonework at the plazas and overlooks is Columbia River Gorge basalt stone. Find out about sustainable strategies used in the design, materials and construction. Learn more A living laboratory Graham Oaks serves as an outdoor classroom for Inza Wood Middle School, Boones Ferry Primary School and CREST, the environmental education center operated by the West Linn-Wilsonville School District. Students study the rich wildlife, habitat and cultural history of Graham Oaks – an undertaking that helped create artwork and books showcased at the grand opening. Access Graham Oaks Nature Park is free and open from 6:30 a.m. to legal sunset. Many of the park features are wheelchair accessible, although some trails offer a higher level of challenge. There is limited parking at the park entrance. Parking is not allowed at any of the schools. There is a permanent bike parking structure at the entrance of the park, accommodating a total of six bikes. Bikes are permitted only on the Tonquin Trail.
Cost: 
Free

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