Conservation/Restoration/Urban Forestry

We Are Too! Join SOLVE this year at a local Spring Planting Season event and help jump start the Spring season. Planting Days are set to happen across the Portland Metro Area every Saturday from February through April.

We have over 20 planting events scheduled from now through April - view the full calendar and register today at:  http://solveoregon.org/sites/default/files/documents/tuspring15feb.pdf

SOLVE is committed to bringing Oregonians together to enhance our environment and build a legacy of stewardship and that mission starts with YOU! Join SOLVE for a few hours on a Saturday to help enhance and protect Oregon's environment.

Questions? Contact SOLVE at 503-844-9571 ext. 332 or info@solveoregon.org

Have fun, learn, and help out at Columbia Springs! This family-friendly event is a great opportunity for community members to participate in environmental restoration and projects that improve Columbia Springs' 100-acre natural area and the historic Vancouver Trout Hatchery. Projects may include gardening, painting, trail maintenance, and more. Every Stewardship Saturday includes a lesson about local ecology to start the day and concludes with a fun activity like a craft or nature hike. Volunteers of all ages and abilities are welcome! Children under 14 are welcome with parent or guardian supervision and teens under 16 with parent or guardian permission. Snacks and tools provided. Please bring sturdy shoes, appropriate outdoor work clothing, a water bottle, and your enthusiasm for helping the community! To sign-up or for more information, email volunteer@columbiasprings.org. 

Join us for the 40th Annual Fruit Propagation Fair!

This event will be held at the main pavilion at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds. In a few short hours, we'll sell hundreds of rootstocks, give away thousands of scions, graft untold numbers of trees, complete our Make-A-Tree orders, and help lots of folks launch into the pleasure of growing good fruit at home!
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Free with entry - hundreds of varieties of apple & pear scions!
Arrive early for the limited selection of cherry, plum, persimmon, and peach scions!
Free cuttings: grapes, kiwis, and several varieties of berry bushes!
 Rootstocks & plants for sale!
HOS expert table to answer your fruit growing questions!
Plus ... custom grafting, mason bee supplies, fruit tree growing publications, door prizes, & more!

Admission:

- $4 for members (family $8)

- $6 for non-members (family $10)

- Free if you join HOS at this show!

If you would like to volunteer for the show, please contact the HOS Volunteer Coordinator Jacqueline Freeman at friendlyhaven@gmail.com. If you volunteer, your admission fee will be waived. You can choose your shift or come for the day! 

Ocean Blue Project, presents Mill Race "Let's Save The Wood Ducks" Stream Clean-Up & Restoration!! This event is part of a continuous effort to restore habitat along the banks of Mill Race with mycofiltration. We will set the stage by clearing the area of noxious invasive weeds like blackberry and English ivy. Burlap sacks of mushroom mycelia will be placed over the cleared banks. We will plant native wetland vegetation to enhance habitat and erosion control we plant will along the site. Our main goal and focus of the event will be environmental education. Activities include: Invasive Plant Removal, Litter Cleanup, Native Planting, Maintenance & Monitoring, Erosion control. Activities include: Invasive Plant Removal, Litter Cleanup, Native Planting, Maintenance & Monitoring.

Venue Details: From I-5 Take Exit 228 towards Corvallis. Follow for 10 miles, then take a Left onto 99W N/NW 3rd St about just past Fireworks, Lilly Ave will be on your left. Mill Race runs along 4th street and corner of Lilly Ave. RVSP: News Links:

Saturday, February 28, 2015
Hart Wetland Planting
Tigard, OR
10:00 AM-1:00 PM

We are kicking off our planting season and we hope you will join us!  World Wetlands Day is February 2 and we will be celebrating all month with native planting parties!  Snacks and tools provided.  

Also during the month of February, we will be co-hosting a worldwide wetlands photo contest for 15-24 year olds with the Ramsar Convention (an international treaty to ensure the conservation and wise use of wetlands everywhere).  Submit your wetland photo during World Wetlands Month and win a trip to a wetland of your choice, anywhere in the world!  Bring a friend, plant a tree, and take a picture to submit to the photo contest with us!  

To sign up, ask questions about the event, or if you are under 18, contact our volunteer coordinator Courtney at courtneywilson@wetlandsconservancy.org.

Hope to see you there!