Conservation/Restoration/Urban Forestry

Please arrive 8:30-8:45am to be registered and assigned to a crew. The planting will start promptly at 9:00am. We provide breakfast snacks and hot chocolate/coffee, as well as gloves, tools and guidance. Please come dressed for the weather and wearing sturdy shoes and get ready to have fun!

Looking to volunteer as a group? RSVPs are kindly requested for groups of more than 5 people - click HERE to do so. RSVPs are not required for groups of 4 or less.

This planting is part of the Tree For All campaign which strives to plant one million native trees and shrubs during the 2014-2015 planting season within the Tualatin River Watershed. Clean Water Services, Friends of Trees, thousands of volunteers, other non-profits, City partners, and private landowners will all be working together to make this happen! Beaverton's Mayor Doyle and other community partners will also be in attendance.

Arrive as early as 8:30am to meet these Tree for All partners, partake of refreshments and enter to win a commemorative Tree for All cap, courtesy of David Evans & Associates. Please contact Jenny or Ian at (503) 595-0213 if you have any questions or need more information. We look forward to seeing you out there!
 

This special Friday event is part of Portland Park Foundation's Parke Diem day of parks service. Help remove invasive ivy and spread mulch to prepare this area for a planting later this season.

Please arrive around 8:45am to be registered and assigned to a crew. The event will start promptly at 9:00am. We provide breakfast snacks and hot chocolate/coffee, as well as gloves, tools and guidance. Please come dressed for the weather and wearing sturdy shoes and get ready to have fun!

Looking to volunteer as a group? RSVPs are kindly requested for groups of more than 5 people - click HERE to do so. RSVPs are not required for groups of 4 or less.

Please contact Jenny or Ian at (503) 595-0213 if you have any questions or need more information. We look forward to seeing you out there!

 This project is in partnership with the Johnson Creek Watershed Council, Portland Parks & Recreation, Portland Parks Foundation and is supported by the East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District and Metro.

Join The Nature Conservancy and Portland Parks & Recreation for a day of conservation work and celebration at Mount Tabor Park! Volunteers will help remove invasive species, maintain native species and perform trail maintenance. After the work, volunteers are invited to stick around for an exclusive celebratory event with lunch from Koi Fusion, Salt & Straw Ice Cream and live, local music!

Registration is required and space is limited, so sign up today: http://support.nature.org/site/Calendar/?view=RSVP&id=5801

Join the Estuary Partnership for Love Your Columbia, Clean up Sand Island volunteer event. Participants will paddle on the Columbia River in the Estuary Partnership's

16 passenger canoe from the St. Helens public dock to Sand Island.  While on the island, volunteers will remove invasive plants and clean up the beach. Estuary Partnership staff will be on the canoe to steer, offer paddling advice, and share information about the Columbia River ecosystem.

Registration required!

Cathlapotle Plankhouse - Traditional Technology Weekend, August 9 & 10, 2014

Where:
Cathlapotle Plankhouse on the Carty Unit of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, 28908 NW Main Ave, Ridgefield, WA 98642

When:       

August 9, 2014: 12pm-4pm: Local artists Greg Robinson (Chinook Indian Nation) and Greg Archuleta (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) will be in the Plankhouse demonstrating and exhibiting Chinookan art, basketry, carving and First Foods. Justin Robinson (Chinook Indian Nation) will be teaching and sharing Chinuk Wawa, the heritage language of Chinookan Peoples.

August 10, 2014:  12pm- 4pm. Discover tools and technology that our human ancestors across the globe have used for thousands of years, such as atlatl throwing, archery, flint knappin, friction fires, Chinookan carving, Basketry, First Foods and Chinuk Wawa, the heritage language of Chinookan Peoples. Participation in these activities is encouraged! Children's activities will also be available from 12pm-4pm.

Cost:         
Refuge admission is $3 per vehicle

Event Summary:
The weekend of August 9th and 10th, experience traditional tools, technologies, language and art of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River. As part of our annual Artist-In-Residence series, on August 9th local artist's Local artists Greg Robinson (Chinook Indian Nation) and Greg Archuleta (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) will be in the Plankhouse demonstrating and exhibiting Chinookan art, basketry, carving and First Foods. Justin Robinson (Chinook Indian Nation) will be teaching and sharing Chinuk Wawa, the heritage language of Chinookan Peoples. On August 10th we will expand our gaze to explore technologies that have been used by Chinookan people and human ancestors around the globe such as archery, atlatl throwing, flintknapping (making arrowheads and other stone tools) and making fire by friction. Greg Robinson, Greg Archuleta, and Justin Robinson will also be in the house showcasing traditional art and language of Chinookan people. There will also be special activities for children all day. Participation in many of these demonstrations is encouraged!

The Cathlapotle Plankhouse is a modern Chinookan Plankhouse built to interpret the Chinookan village of Cathlapotle that once existed on what is today Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge property.  At the time Lewis and Clark visited Cathlapotle, it had 14 large plankhouses and a population of over 900 people.  The modern Cathlapotle Plankhouse is used to provide educational programs to youth and the general public through our Lifeways, Landscapes, and Wildlife Interpretive Program.  To learn more about the Plankhouse visit www.ridgefieldfriends.org or contact Sarah Hill at Sarah_Hill@fws.gov or (360) 887-4106. For wheelchair access to this event, please contact Sarah prior to the event date.