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Join The Forest Park Conservancy for our biggest volunteer event of the season on Saturday, October 20th from 9 am - 12:30 pm. We will be hosting habitat restoration projects at multiple sites in and around Forest Park. In keeping with tradition, the work will be followed by a rousing volunteer appreciation party, complete with a raffle, food and beverages for all. Registration is required. Click here to reserve your spot today!

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 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.

Spicy scents of autumn trees, giant golden leaves on maples and the silvery chatter of American dippers in the river. These are the smells, sights and sounds of Oxbow Regional Park in the autumn. Witness the return of wild salmon to one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier rivers – the glacier-fed Sandy – just 45 minutes from downtown Portland.

Naturalists are on hand at the river’s edge to help spot spawning salmon and interpret their behavior and life cycle. Special salmon-viewing glasses are available on loan. Salmon viewing proceeds rain or shine. The trail is unpaved and fairly level; wear good walking shoes. Inquire at the entry booth for starting location of the salmon viewing then follow the signs to the salmon! Suitable for all ages.  Free with a $5 parking fee per vehicle and registration is not required. Leave pets at home. For more information, call 503-797-1650 option 2.

Saturday, October 6, 2012, Willamette Riverkeeper Hosts the Annual Great Willamette Clean Up! Take part in this 187-mile effort to clean up the Willamette: A river that is essential to life in Oregon. Bring your family & friends... Earn enough river-karma to last a year! Meet other river-loving enthusiasts, have fun and get an awesome, FREE EVENT T-SHIRT!

Register online at: http://welovecleanrivers.org/the-great-willamette-clean-up-oct/.