stewardship

Join us October 13, 2012 from 9am to noon at Gateway Green for No Ivy Day. Gateway Green’s 12 wooded acres are currently dominated by English ivy, an aggressive and invasive specie. Help build on previous volunteers efforts by saving trees in immediate danger of being killed by ivy. Volunteers will focus on “Girdling”, cutting a solid ring of the ivy at both knee height and chest height, and pulling ivy away from the base of trees.

Directions

• If you take MAX, the red, blue and green lines run directly to the Gateway transit stop.
• Pedestrian and bicycle access is available from the northern and southern edges via the I-205 multi-use path.
• From downtown Portland - take I-84 east to exit 7 Halsey St., keep left on ramp, take slight right onto NE Halsey St., 1st right onto NE 102nd Ave., right onto NE Pacific St. to park and ride parking lot.
• I-205 south toward I-84/Portland/Salem, take Glisan St. exit 21A, left onto NE Glisan St., left onto NE 102nd Ave., left onto NE Pacific to park and ridge parking lot.

Meeting Location

Convene at Gateway Green, near the south end. (Walk north from Gateway MAX Station toward Rocky Butte); follow the Gateway Green signs.

The Friends of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge would like to invite you to these years BirdFest celebration. Birdfest is an annual celebration of birds, nature, and Native American culture. This free event offers your friends and family to explore a gem of a wildlife refuge, learn about Chinookan culture, and attend talks, presentations, interpretive hikes, a salmon bake, and more all just 20 minutes north of Portland off of I-5. You can check out the schedule of events here: http://ridgefieldfriends.org/birdfest/schedule-of-events/. We hope to see you out and about during this wonder-filled weekend!

The Columbia Slough Watershed Council is looking for some Sloughper Heroes like yourself to help us out in the Columbia Slough Watershed! We have several volunteer opportunities: removing invasive weeds, picking up litter, maintaining plantings, flag new plants for visibility and plant native species within the Watershed.

A few Saturdays each month, staff from the Watershed and wonderful volunteers, get together, get their hands dirty and really make serious improvements on the Watershed. If you care about your environment, and want to have an awesome time volunteering, think about coming out! These Stewardship Saturdays, are a great time to learn more about the watershed that contains 170,000 people, 175 different species of birds, 26 species of fish and 28 different species of mammals!

Our Next stewardship Saturday is coming up soon! on October, 13th, from 9am to 12pm at 2420 Fairview Avenue, Fairview, OR 97024

Join Smith Memorial Presbyterian Church community members and Columbia Slough Watershed Council staff as they maintain a beautiful two-acre natural habitat area along Fairview Creek.This site has been under restoration for seven years and has seen dramatic improvements.Volunteer hands are needed to keep the English ivy, Himalayan blackberry, and other weeds at bay, however, so that this site can thrive. We will gather in the church parking lot to brief volunteers and distribute tools. Tools and refreshments will be provided.

We would love to invite you to this Saturday's Rewild Skill-Share, our afternoon rewilding social networking picnic.  Make new friends and hang out with old while sharing skills, ideas and strategies for creating new cultures based on humanities prehistoric past. We welcome all levels of experience.This month's theme is: Fire by Friction! We haven't had a fire-focused rewild skill-share in a while. We'll be playing with bow-drills, hand drills, maybe a fire plow and if anyone sh...

ows up with a bamboo fire saw, you'll get a dozen high-fives!Materials to bring:• Carving Knife• Nylon Cord• Natural Cord• Cedar, Cottonwood or other soft heart wood• Any other wood cutting and carving tools• Jute or other tinder materialOther stuff to bring is your family & friends, water, healthy paleo snacks to share, a carving knife, a blanket or chair to sit on, materials for your project, a musical instrument to play and a $5-10 suggested donation to support our efforts. Remember: “dress to impress”. This is a social event after all!See you there! http://www.rewildportland.com/educational-programs/rewildcamp/ https://www.facebook.com/#!/rewildportland   

Explore the Fanno Creek Trail in Tigard, combining fitness and nature in a fun-filled morning with great views of the creek as it meanders through three city parks and other natural areas. Enjoy the area's beauty and see the habitat that is home to birds, fish and other critters - and learn how Metro and its partners have worked together to bring this vision to life. Local author Laura O. Foster gets you up to speed on the creek's past, as well as efforts to preserve and protect it for decades to come. Meet at the Tigard Public Library at 8:45 a.m. Free, but registration is required. If you have questions, call 503-797-1545. You can now register and pay online for Metro activities. Go to Metro's online calendar (www.oregonmetro.gov/calendar), find your event by searching or browsing, and follow the instructions. To register by phone, call 503-797-1650 option 2.