family friendly

Join Columbia Land Trust's Habitap event at the family-friendly Oregon Public House, where a small portion of the day's sales total (from noon to 10 PM) will go to support Columbia Land Trust. (Even takeout counts.) Every $15 you spend that day earns you a raffle ticket--and a chance to win a Columbia Sportswear backpack or slots on our 2014 tours, among other great prizes. 

PLUS: Portland-based Tanner Goods has generously donated 150 custom-made leather coasters to us. We'll be giving these away after 5:00. Thank you Tanner Goods!

But the real point of Habitap? To gather like minded Portlanders and friends together for a casual evening of fun. Come out and meet our staff, sign up for upcoming volunteer events (amphibian-egg-mass counters and tree-planters wanted), or test your earthly knowledge in our BioQuiz.

Portland is teeming with owl activity in the springtime months. If you love owls, come out to Tryon Creek State Natural Area for an evening of Owl Celebration! Activities for the entire family including owl pellet dissection, owl crafts, owl presentations, guided hikes, snacks by Clif Bar, and close-up encounters with the Audubon Education Owls- Hazel and Julio! Parking is limited, please consider carpooling.  (This is a free event but preregistration is required for the guided hikes.)

Join the Greater Yamhill Watershed Council, McMinnville Noon Rotary, the Leadership Cohort from the Ford Institute for Community Building, and Linfield College to pull ivy in beautiful Tice Park. The park is a nature preserve along Baker Creek with great walking trails. Help make this community resource even better! We will be working to clear invasives so native plants have room to thrive! Hope to see you for a morning of fun work! Activities include: Invasive Plant Removal.

Interested in planting native trees and shrubs? Meeting some neat people? Or obtaining a few service learning hours? Then join us at Pendarvis Farm in Damascus on Saturday, March 15th!

Join the Rock Creek Partnership on Saturday, March 15th in Happy Valley for its third annual Watershed Wide Event! We’ll be removing invasive vegetation, mulching, and planting native trees and shrubs at three streamside sites to help improve the water quality in the Rock Creek basin -- and we’d love your help! No experience is necessary and we welcome families, neighbors, and friends!

This is a popular event and space is limited. Please save your space by filling out this online form: Rock Creek Watershed Wide Event 2014

There will be live music, a delicious variety of breakfast and lunch provided to volunteers, and raffle prizes! The staging site will once again be the Galaxy Barn at Pendarvis Farm - site of the renowned Pickathon Music Festival. The event will begin promptly at 9:00am, so we ask for everyone to arrive by 8:45am to the staging site to get registered and assigned to a crew, as well as to enjoy hot coffee and breakfast treats. The event will wrap-up around 1:00pm.

Rock Creek is an important tributary of the Clackamas River, which provides high quality drinking water to more than 300,000 people and provides critical habitat for many sensitive species of plants, fish and wildlife.

The Rock Creek Partnership works with landowners to revitalize streamside habitats by removing invasive species, such as blackberry and ivy, and replanting the areas with native vegetation. Restoring native plant communities grows a canopy over our creeks, which filters drinking water, provides wildlife habitat, and increases property value. 

Twig out with us! Join the Clackamas River Basin Council and Boring/Damascus Grange for a morning filled with fun activities, valuable knowledge, and a warm winter meal.

Get a firsthand look at why we LOVE mulch at a Shade Our Streams Work Party. Then, take advantage of our Winter Plant ID Workshop. With insider secrets, learn how to identify leafless twigs and leave with a free ID guide to use in the field. A delicious homemade lunch will be provided by the our friends at the Boring/Damascus Grange.

A Valentine for Deep Creek

When: Saturday, February 1st

Where: Deep Creek Annex along Richey Road in Boring

Schedule of Activities:

• Restoration Work Party, 9 - 11 am 
• Winter Plant ID Workshop, 11 am - 12 pm www
• Lunch, 12 pm - 1 pm (at Boring/Damascus Grange, across the street from Deep Creek Annex)

Note: Clackamas County Parks and Friends of Boring Station Trailhead Park are hosting a Springwater Trail Grand Opening event at Boring Station Trailhead Park at 1:30 pm. Everyone is invited.

For more information and to RSVP for the Work Party and/or Winter Plant ID Workshop, contact Morgan Parks at morgan@clackamasriver.org or 503-303-4372 x 101

Address/Directions to Deep Creek Annex -

From the east: Travel eastbound on Highway 212 into Boring, turn right onto Richey Road at the stoplight at the Shell Station. Proceed approximately 1/10th of a mile down the road, and turn right into the gated parking lot.

From the west: Travel westbound on Highway 212 and pass through downtown Boring. Turn left at the second stoplight at the Shell Station. Proceed approximately 1/10th of a mile down the road, and turn right into the gated parking lot.

Boring Grange: Located on Grange Street, one block off Hwy 212.