stewardship

Join us for Soil School, 2013 and get your hands dirty!  Two workshop tracks, Get to Know Your Soil and Improving Your Soil, will cover soil basics, structure and texture as you examine your soil under a microscope and see everything living there!  Learn how to do a soil test, interpret the results and examine different ways of improving your soil's health.

Sunday July 21st from 1 to 5pm
$25 / $5 for members of Cascadia wild.
Come learn the basics of making cordage from natural materials. Topics covered will include material selection, processing fibers and reverse wrap cordage. 
Location: Cascadia wild office 1912 NE Killingsworth St. Portland, OR  97211.
To register: Visit here http://cordage.eventbrite.com/ to register and pay online.  Or contact us at info@cascadiawild.org or 503-235-9533 to register and pay by check or cash. Include your name / contact information (email and phone), and the class(es) you are signing up for. 

Sunday, April 21st, Noon to 4pm. 
Cost: $25/ $20 for Cascadia Wild members. 
Identifying plants is easy once you know what to look for. This class will teach you to recognize the patterns that will help you easily identify the common plants of this area, both in flower and when not flowering. We will cover botany terminology, common plant families, and parts of a flower. Common uses of various plants will also be covered, because really knowing plants is a participatory skill, not just an intellectual one.
Location: 3-Creeks Natural Area (also called North Clackamas District Park or Harmony Road Neighborhood Park). We will meet at the adjacentNorth Clackamas Aquatic Park, located at 7300 SE Harmony Road.
To register:  visit  here http://plantid.eventbrite.com/ to register and pay online.   Or contact us at info@cascadiawild.org or 503-235-9533 to register and pay by cash or check.  Include your name / contact information (email and phone), and the class(es) you are signing up for. 

 Be a part of the largest Earth Day event in Oregon! SOLVE's annual statewide event, SOLVE IT, presented by Portland General Electric, will take place on Saturday, April 20th from 9 am - 1 pm at over 200 volunteer projects across the state. Additional projects take place the week before and week after the Saturday event. Join thousands of Oregonians as we dig in to help take care of our parks, waterways and neighborhoods by picking up litter, pulling invasive weeds, planting trees and enhancing habitat.  Learn more here: http://solv.org/what-we-do/solve-it
 
Portland events that still need volunteers:

• HEART's Butt Ugly Initiative
• Vermont Creek Stewardship Day
• South Waterfront Cleanup
• Baltimore Woods Stewardship Day
• Tryon Creek Lewis & Clark Stewardship Day
• Errol Heights Natural Area Earth Day
• Wilkes Creek Headwater Park Invasive Species Pull
• Sylvan-Highlands Neighborhood Cleanup
• Gateway Green Cleanup
• NO MORE BUTTS
• Pier Park Pick-Up
• Oaks Crossing Restoration
• Division/Midway Neighborhood Cleanup
• Wapato Greenway Weed Pull
• Cully Neighborhood Earth Day Cleanup
• Swan Island Beach Cleanup and Fishing Line Recycling

View our calendar of events for a list of projects. 
http://solv.org/get-involved/event-registration
Search for your favorite place by filtering by city and clicking apply.

 
For more information or to register, visit: www.solveoregon.org , email morgan@solv.org, or
call 503-844-9571 ext. 332. 
 
We hope you'll do your part to help Oregon receive its spring cleaning!

Clark Public Utilities StreamTeam is putting on our 14th Annual Earth Day Celebration for community members in conjunction with Clark County Environmental Services.

Afterwards, enjoy family-friendly entertainment at our EcoFair. Volunteers who attend the full 4-hr weeding event receive a FREE commemorative t-shirt and lunch!

Come enjoy a local green space while pulling garlic mustard to improve salmon habitat! **Planting volunteers must pre-register to pull garlic mustard** Space is limited!

For more information, visit the StreamTeam's webpage at www.StreamTeam.net. To register, contact the StreamTeam Program Coordinator at StreamTeam@clarkpud.com.