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Family Nature Explorers: River exploration at Oxbow

Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Metro
Address: 
3010 SE Oxbow Parkway
gresham, OR 97080
United States
Park/Trail: 

Cool your toes in the clear and clean, wild and scenic Sandy River at Oxbow Regional Park. Spend time catching and releasing bugs in the water and looking for animal tracks in the sand with Metro naturalist Deb Scrivens. $5 per vehicle parking fee.

Family Nature Explorers brings kids and adults together for open-ended nature exploration in Metro natural areas. Families meet other families with the same interests in nature and the outdoors. Kids meet other kids who love to touch, smell and study all things natural. Led by Metro naturalists and volunteers, each adventure explores a special theme – but trip leaders seize the moment when nature presents any unexpected learning opportunity. Bring a sack lunch. Children 4 and older are welcome with a parent, grandparent or guardian. $11 per family per program. Register for each program separately; come to one or come to all. Register online or call 503-797-1650 option 2.

Contact Name: 
Metro Parks
Contact Phone: 
503-797-1650 option 2
Contact Email: 
metroparks@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Oxbow Regional Park
Venue Details: 
Discover Oxbow Regional Park, a 1,000-acre natural area park nestled in the wild and scenic Sandy River Gorge. Located within the wild and scenic Sandy River Gorge, Metro's Oxbow Regional Park offers rare access to many of the region’s natural wonders while providing a variety of unique recreational opportunities. The river draws swimmers, rafters, kayakers and drift boats carrying anglers. Twelve miles of trails invite you to explore an ancient forest with centuries-old trees and ridges and ravines carved by volcanic and glacial flows. Oxbow is a great place to see wildlife and animal tracks. The area’s natural habitat makes an ideal home for wildlife such as mink, beaver, raccoon, fox, deer, osprey, songbirds, salmon, elk, black bear, cougar and many others.
Cost: 
$11 per family, $5 parking fee

Family Nature Explorers: Stayin' alive - fire by friction

Saturday, July 7, 2012 - 10:00am to 2:00pm
Metro
Address: 
3010 SE Oxbow Parkway
gresham, OR 97080
United States
Park/Trail: 

Join Metro naturalist Dan Daly at Oxbow Regional Park to learn how to make fire without matches by carving your own bow drill friction fire kit to take home with you. Learn about fire safety, construction and fuel selection. Participants use knives; the safe conduct of young children is the responsibility of their guardians.

Family Nature Explorers brings kids and adults together for open-ended nature exploration in Metro natural areas. Families meet other families with the same interests in nature and the outdoors. Kids meet other kids who love to touch, smell and study all things natural. Led by Metro naturalists and volunteers, each adventure explores a special theme – but trip leaders seize the moment when nature presents any unexpected learning opportunity. Bring a sack lunch. Children 4 and older are welcome with a parent, grandparent or guardian. $11 per family per program. Register for each program separately; come to one or come to all. Register online or call 503-797-1650 option 2.

Contact Name: 
Metro Parks
Contact Phone: 
503-797-1650 option 2
Contact Email: 
metroparks@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Oxbow Regional Park
Venue Details: 
Discover Oxbow Regional Park, a 1,000-acre natural area park nestled in the wild and scenic Sandy River Gorge. Located within the wild and scenic Sandy River Gorge, Metro's Oxbow Regional Park offers rare access to many of the region’s natural wonders while providing a variety of unique recreational opportunities. The river draws swimmers, rafters, kayakers and drift boats carrying anglers. Twelve miles of trails invite you to explore an ancient forest with centuries-old trees and ridges and ravines carved by volcanic and glacial flows. Oxbow is a great place to see wildlife and animal tracks. The area’s natural habitat makes an ideal home for wildlife such as mink, beaver, raccoon, fox, deer, osprey, songbirds, salmon, elk, black bear, cougar and many others.
Cost: 
$11 per family, $5 parking fee

Twilight Tuesday at Smith and Bybee Wetlands

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Metro
Address: 
5300 N. Marine Drive
portland, OR 97203
United States

Take a relaxing walk at Smith and Bybee Wetlands on a long summer evening. Dusk is one of the best times to view wildlife, especially during summer. It’s about the only time mammals such as beaver, muskrat, otter, raccoon, deer and bats can be seen. A Metro naturalist teaches basic techniques of wildlife watching and identification. Bring binoculars or borrow a pair onsite. Suitable for ages 10 and older; participants must be able to be quiet, sneaky and patient. Meet in the parking area on North Marine Drive. Registration and payment of $6 per adult or $11 per family required in advance. Register online or call 503-797-1650 option 2.

Contact Name: 
Metro Parks
Contact Phone: 
503-797-1650 option 2
Contact Email: 
metroparks@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area
Venue Details: 
At nearly 2,000 acres, Metro’s Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area is the largest protected wetlands within an American city. This beautiful natural area is one of the region’s best-kept secrets, hiding in a part of Portland surrounded by port terminals, warehouses and other commercial developments. Most visitors to the natural area are surprised to find beaver, river otter, black-tailed deer, osprey, bald eagles and Western painted turtles living only minutes from downtown Portland.
Cost: 
$6 per adult or $11 per family

Twilight Tuesday at Smith and Bybee Wetlands

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Metro
Address: 
5300 N. Marine Drive
portland, OR 97203
United States

Take a relaxing walk at Smith and Bybee Wetlands on a long summer evening. Dusk is one of the best times to view wildlife, especially during summer. It’s about the only time mammals such as beaver, muskrat, otter, raccoon, deer and bats can be seen. A Metro naturalist teaches basic techniques of wildlife watching and identification. Bring binoculars or borrow a pair onsite. Suitable for ages 10 and older; participants must be able to be quiet, sneaky and patient. Meet in the parking area on North Marine Drive. Registration and payment of $6 per adult or $11 per family required in advance. Register online or call 503-797-1650 option 2.

Contact Name: 
Metro Parks
Contact Phone: 
503-797-1650 option 2
Contact Email: 
metroparks@oregonmetro.gov
Venue: 
Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area
Venue Details: 
At nearly 2,000 acres, Metro’s Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area is the largest protected wetlands within an American city. This beautiful natural area is one of the region’s best-kept secrets, hiding in a part of Portland surrounded by port terminals, warehouses and other commercial developments. Most visitors to the natural area are surprised to find beaver, river otter, black-tailed deer, osprey, bald eagles and Western painted turtles living only minutes from downtown Portland.
Cost: 
$6 per adult or $11 per family

Slough Tour: Water Bugs

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Columbia Slough Watershed Council
Address: 
1234 x lane
Portland, OR 97213
United States

Bring your family with kids ages 3+ for water bug discovery! Join Education Director Sheilagh Diez for an hour of games and water bug hunting with nets and buckets. Learn how damselfly larvae breathe underwater and how water boatmen swim. 

Contact Name: 
Melissa Sandoz
Contact Phone: 
503-281-1132
Contact Email: 
melissa.sandoz@columbiaslough.org
Cost: 
$5 suggested donation; limited to 25 people; pre-registration required.

Down the River Cleanup on the Clackamas River

Sunday, September 9, 2012 - 10:30am
We Love Clean Rivers & the Clackamas River Basin Council
Address: 
Boring, OR
United States

If you have ever fallen in love with this or any river, we invite you to join us for this spectacular day of organized chaos where 400+ river-lovers jump in their rafts, kayaks, inter tubes, canoes, drift boats – or maybe even dawn a snorkel mask – uniting to scour the banks and bottom of 15 miles of riverway from Barton Park to Clackamette Park where the Clackamas empties into the Willamette.

Get wet, do the Truffle Shuffle, race your neighboring POD to extract the biggest hulking piece of rusted dilapidated detritus you’ve ever seen and help restore the Clackamas back to its pristine state! We will thank you. The salmon will thank you. And you might just find yourself looking at the world through new eyes after the day ends.

The annual Down the River Clean Up is an on-the-river, 15-mile clean up made possible by a rich network of river recreationalists, outdoor companies, environmental organizations, government entities, local community leaders, and hopefully you!

An upwards of 2,200 community members and volunteers have joined together each year for the past nine years to remove over 42,800 pounds of trash from the Clackamas River. Our dream is to create a community where everyone loves their rivers as much as we do and that some day, we can throw a party on the river without having to clean it up.

The Clackamas River is home to old-growth forests, bird species, steelhead, and is one of the last remaining wild salmon runs in the lower Columbia basin. While the river provides healthy habitat for wildlife, it also supplies the Portland metropolitan area with fresh drinking water. Due to the bounty, beauty and close proximity to urban areas, the Clackamas River has become known for attracting recreationalists of all kinds, including kayakers, rafters, tubers, anglers, and more. The high-use of the river and its nearness to cities, unfortunately, brings in pollutants and unwarranted litter.

Join us in turning restoration into recreation….

Venue Details: 
Info on the event shuttle: http://www.welovecleanrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2011-Shuttle-RAZ-Schedule-v31.pdf
Cost: 
free!

Terwilliger Centennial Festival Hike

Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 9:30am to 1:00pm
Southwest Trails PDX
Address: 
1151 SW Vermont St.
Portland, OR 97219
United States

Southwest Trails PDX will lead a 6 1/2 mile hike on trails and through the city. The trip will start at Wilson High School behind the bleachers (Sunset Blvd. and Capitol Highway) and will proceed down Terwilliger where we will join the Terwilliger Parkway ivy removal work party for drinks and snacks around noon. Come share your passion for Portland's trails!  

Contact Email: 
fekety@hevanet.com
Venue: 
Participants should meet behind the bleachers at the high school

My Hood is Your Hood

Friday, July 13, 2012 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Bark
Address: 
SE 18th and Pine
Portland, OR 97214
United States

 

 As a part of the Bark Summer School Series, a crew of Portland dancers pays homage to Mt. Hood with original pieces, followed by the samba-reggae bloco ensemble, Skintight.  Come and learn more about Bark and how you can collaborate with them to protect clean water and wild ecosystems on Mt. Hood!  

Contact Name: 
Meredith Cocks
Contact Phone: 
503-331-0374
Contact Email: 
info@bark-out.org
Venue: 
Buckman Elementary School
Venue Details: 
blacktop space
Cost: 
$0

Rewild Camp - Shoes & Leatherworking

Saturday, June 30, 2012 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Rewild Portland
Address: 
7040 NE 47th Ave
PORTLAND, OR
United States

We would love to invite you to this Saturday's Rewild Camp, our afternoon rewilding social networking picnic where people make new friends and hang out with friends and family while sharing skills, ideas and strategies for creating new cultures based on our hunters-gatherer ancestral heritage. We welcome all levels of experience. This month's theme is Shoes & Leather-working! Below are some examples and tutorials of different shoes we will be making. Feell free to come with your own style ideas!http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/14813/t/Moccasins-101-How-to-make-one-piece-moccasins.html#.T-qEc7VtqSqhttp://earthandliving.blogspot.com/2008/08/viking-shoes-tutorial-sort-of.htmlMaterials to bring:• Leather (whatever scraps you can find)• Sinew (artificial or real is fine), durable thread• Needles• Awls• Scissors, hammer and nails, exacto knife, other leatherworking tools• Laces, cordage, cordage-making materialOther stuff to bring is your family & friends, water, healthy paleo snacks to share, a carving knife, a blanket or chair to sit on, materials for your project, a musical instrument to play and a $5 suggested donation to support our efforts. Remember: “dress to impress”. This is a social event after all!See you there!www.rewildportland.com

Contact Name: 
Kelila Eichstadt
Contact Phone: 
5033138864
Contact Email: 
kelilaeichstadt@gmail.com
Venue: 
Whitaker Ponds Natural Area
Cost: 
Free!

August 2012 West Linn Art in the Forest Festival

Saturday, August 11, 2012 - 10:00am to Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 5:00pm
West Linn Art in the Forest Festival
Address: 
Mary S. Young Park
Hwy 43
West Linn, OR 97068
United States
Categories: 

The 10th annual West Linn Art in the Forest Festival is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, August 11 and 12th at  Mary S. Young Park.  The park is located on highway 43 in West Linn, Oregon and hours are 10 am to 5pm each day. Parking and admission are free.  Shopping for fine art and food will be available both days at reasonable prices.  A silent auction runs from 10-4 daily. Free family friendly entertainment includes live music, children's art activities, tree dancing, stiltwalking, juggling, and comedy.  Trails through sylvan woods and along the Willamette River await your exploration.    

Contact Name: 
Dianne Froode
Contact Phone: 
503-928-1225
Contact Email: 
diannefroode@comcast.net
Venue: 
Forest habitat with Willamette River view
Venue Details: 
Asphalt and bark dust trails throughout park. Hospitality booth and restrooms available.
Cost: 
Free

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