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Ross Island Vision Team: Envisioning Ross Island
The Institute has produced, with its partners at the Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland, Greenworks landscape architecture, architects, and landscape architects a plan for Ross Island, Envisioning Ross Island (.pdf), which lays out scenarios for how Ross and its sister islands Hardtack, East and Toe, might be managed as a unit with the Holgate Channel and the 160-acre city-owned Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge as an urban wildlife refuge complex, public natural area park, and place to contemplate nature in the heart of downtown Portland.

Bi-State Trail Plan Unveiled The long awaited Bi-State Trail Plan was released at a meeting of The Intertwine Alliance on April 9th in downtown Vancouver, Washington. The plan contains information regarding the values of a regional trail network and displays 37 regional trail elements of the proposed regional system. The plan was created by the Urban Greenspaces Institute, National Park Service's Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance Program, Metro Sustainability Center and Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation. To read the plan click here.

Oregon Public Broadcasting features Portland Memorial Mausoleum mural project. On April 15th OPB's Art Beat Program ran a 10 minute special feature on the 50,000 square foot wetland mural that the Urban Greenspaces Institute collaborated with ArtFX Murals to produce on the Portland Memorial Mausoleum overlooking 160-acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Click here to view OPBs video.

Urban Greenspaces Institute participates in creating an agricultural and natural resources map for Metro's Urban and Rural Reserves planning.

October 2nd and 3rd Dedication of Portland Memorial Mausoleum and Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge Mural, the nation's largest hand painted mural
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UGI National Advisory Board member, Jon Kulser , honored by the Association of Wetland Scientists with Lifetime Achievement Award

Institute Director Mike Houck receives The Garden Club of America Club Conservation Commendation from the Portland Garden Club, Wednesday, June 11, 2009

Memorial Mausoleum Mural Completed!

Quiet, No Wake Zone For Holgate Channel and Ross Island

Wild in the City Field Trips - Exploring Regional Greenspaces by Kayak, Bike and Foot

Urban Green, A Radio Documentary on Green Planning in Portland.

Metro Urban and Rural Reserves planning map

A coalition of nonprofit organizations representing the region's agricultural industry, nurseries, and conservation organizations including the Urban Greenspaces Institute released a consensus map that outlines areas this unique coalition considers appropriate for consideration as future Urban Reserves and areas that should be placed in Rural Reserves where urban expansion would be prohibited for the next forty to fifty years. The coalition met on the steps of Metro, the region's planning agency, on January 11th to release their consensus proposal to the regional planning agency.

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Metro Urban and Rural Reserves planning map

Sue Marshall of the Tualatin Riverkeepers and Larry Duyck, farmer, were among the natural resource and agricultural partners that developed a consensus approach to designating Urban and Rural Reserves.

The Institute has worked with other nonprofit organizations, Metro, and state and federal fish and wildlife agencies to produce a Regional Natural Landscapes map that was used in conjunction with the Oregon Department of Agriculture's high value farm land maps to create the composite agricultural and natural resource map which was used by the coalition to determine where future urbanization would be most appropriate and where urban expansion should be avoided to protect both the working and natural landscapes from urban uses.

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