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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.

Come celebrate signs of spring while helping to restore Spring Park. Enjoy a morning of planting native trees and shrubs and removing litter from the banks of the Willamette River. Project partners for this event include: Willamette Riverkeeper, North Clackamas Parks and Recreation Department, and the North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council. Please arrive dressed for the weather, wearing sturdy shoes, and be ready to get dirty. We'll provide gloves, tools, and snacks. To register please email marci@willametteriverkeeper.org.

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.

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.