habitat restoration

The Columbia Slough Watershed Council is happy to be celebrating Earth Day with Portland Parks and Recreation and SOLVE! Celebrate with us by helping remove invasive English Ivy from the Wilkes Creek headwaters. English Ivy out competes native plant species for resources like light and water, but once it is under control we can start to actively restore this valuable headwater ecosystem. No experience is necessary, just a desire to get your hands dirty!

This event runs rain or shine. Be sure to dress for the weather and bring water, rain gear and sturdy shoes. Snacks, tools, training and gloves will be provided.This is a great event for groups and individuals. Registration requested.

You can help us plant natives along the Peninsula Crossing Trail in north Portland! The Peninsula Crossing Trail is the only north-south recreational trail along the north Portland peninsula. With your help, we can increase the cover of native plants and help keep the trail clean and welcoming for our north Portland neighbors. Native plants along the trail help to filter polluted stormwater runoff from nearby roads and parking lots. This in turn keeps both the Slough and our groundwater in healthier condition.

Tools, training, gloves and snacks will be provided. Volunteers will want to dress for the weather and bring a water bottle. Registration requested.

This is the second in our Plantapalooza 2014 series! By the end of the Plantapalooza series, community volunteers will have helped plant nearly 2,000 natives plants along Fairview Creek in Gresham. We're offering this mid-week planting to community members who aren't available for our usual Saturday plantings. Come and help us put live-stake natives into the ground! You'll want to dress for the weather, bring a water bottle and a snack. We'll provide gloves and tools. When you arrive at the work party, follow the blue Columbia Slough Event signs to the work site. We hope to see you there!

Join Friends of Overlook Bluff to help restore oak habitat along the Willamette Bluff in North Portland.  We are adding two more hand-managed 20'-diameter plots to the field that is home to a 200-year-old Heritage Oregon white oak tree.  This project includes mulching new areas with cardboard and burlap, spreading compost, seeding native bunch grasses, planting native bare root stock, and weeding established plots.  Food and drinks provided.  Dress for weather and outdoor work.  We have some tools and gloves, but bringing yours will be helpful too.  Our ongoing efforts are part of a larger vision to conserve a corridor of natural area in North Portland that has ecological importance for the wildlife, watershed, and community.  There are also opportunities for you or your group to adopt a plot!  For more information contact friendsofoverlookbluff@gmail.com or go to www.overlookbluff.org